Category: Creative Projects
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Meetups: Plan Your Journey, And A One-Off Opportunity
In the spirit of sharing knowledge and stories and meeting up with like-minded people, I’ll be taking part in plenty of events over the next few months (hence the new calendar you’ll see in the sidebar of the site). Here are details of two during September: Continue reading →
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Film Blog: Janapar Will Premiere At Raindance Film Festival
I hung up the phone, and a primal scream filled the empty house. The signal had been choppy, but I had made out one clear fact: Janapar had been selected for the 20th Raindance Film Festival! Continue reading →
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Writer’s Blog: If You Were A Fly On The Wall
If you were a fly on the wall, you’d be forgiven for thinking me insane. There are three empty bedrooms in the house, but every night I lay down to sleep in the back garden. There are two good showers here, too, but I hang a bag of water up outside and wash beneath it. I could prepare elaborate meals in the fully-featured kitchen, but instead I eat only bread and cheese, or what I can cook in one pot. And I could listen to any piece of music, from any genre, or any point in time, but I listen only… Continue reading →
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About The Major Change Of Plan This Summer
For some months I’ve been hinting at another major journey I was planning for later this year. I haven’t cancelled the trip, but I have put it on hold for a while. I’ll explain why, as the reasons deserve some discussion. Continue reading →
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Uncertainty vs So-Called Predictability: Which Would You Choose?
Entirely unbeknownst to me, a friend of a friend snapped this fantastic image in early 2008. To me, it represents a fascinating collision between the concerns of a wandering cycle-traveller, consulting a street-map to find the right road out of the city, and a grim moment in a nation’s history — the aftermath of an anti-government demonstration gone sour. Continue reading →
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Philosophy Of Travel & The Making Of ‘Janapar’: An Interview With The Sprocket Podcast
Podcasts are to radio stations what blogs are to newspapers, and — as with all things online and unfiltered — good content bubbles to the surface through persistence and collective appreciation. These varied and portable programmes are one of my favourite things to listen to (with one ear, naturally) during long bike rides. I’ve started to consider how the medium might be used for future projects after meeting and being inspired by the couple behind The Sprocket Podcast. Continue reading →
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Writer’s Blog: Exhaustion, Frustration, And Other Unexpected Joys
I had no idea that writing a book would be this difficult. Continue reading →
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Film Blog: Lessons Learnt During Preview Season
I’m coming to the end of a fun and varied series of preview screenings of Janapar, which culminated last weekend with a one-off movie night in London for followers of this blog. The event was a huge amount of fun, and the film went down better than James & I could ever have hoped for. Thanks to everyone who came along. You really made the night! (And my very real apologies to those I didn’t get time to speak to properly afterwards!) Continue reading →
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First London Screening Of ‘Janapar’ Coming In June
I wrote recently about my developing plans for Janapar, and I know that there are lots of people who’ve been waiting to see it. So I’m really chuffed to announce a free ‘movie night’ next month, especially for my blog readers, on a late-June weekend in a central London venue. Continue reading →
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Film Blog: “Janapar” Official Trailer Released Today
[vimeo width=“770” height=“424”]http://vimeo.com/39529035[/vimeo] After a lot of head-scratching, many re-scripts, and two failed editing attempts in November and January, James and I sat down on Thursday last week with a gallon of coffee and spent a rather wired day in front of a few hundred hours of footage and a copy of Final Cut Pro. The video above is the result — the first theatrical trailer for Janapar — and we hope it’ll be the one that does the story justice. Some may be surprised that we haven’t exactly pandered to the adventure film genre. But if you’ve been following my… Continue reading →