Category: My 40th Blog
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40th Challenge complete
For my final challenge I showed all my films that I’ve made over this year and did a talk about my 40 challenges to my old studio mates back in Hove. It was a disastrous night with my dog eating a whole bar of chocolate and puking all evening, manifold technical problems meaning the Powerpoint…
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39th Challenge complete
I’ve written a Christmas song. It’s suitably depressing. I’ll record it and post here as soon as I can. Happy Christmas.
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37th Challenge complete
Throughout November I took at least one black and white film photograph every day. It was great getting my old Nikon out and attempting to master it again. Halfway through the month I started to run out of ideas but then I remembered about my Diana camera and took a roll of film on that…
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36th Challenge complete
For my night time mountain bike race I entered the Mud and Sweat Nightrider event at Haldon Forest in Devon. I’d been a bit ill the week before and hadn’t eaten properly on the day of the race. Then my son was up in the night so I’d had about five hours sleep. By the…
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33rd Challenge complete
Halloween. I had just finished 3 weeks of solid work. I had just had a hectic day. I drove through rush-hour traffic down the M5 to Goodrington Beach, Paignton to meet up with the other Happy Wild Swimming group for a Halloween night swim. I was late. I hadn’t even had time to get a…
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32nd Challenge complete
I have completed an online class. I tried several times. I started on ‘Virology 1: How Viruses Work’ but I didn’t understand it. I started on ‘Introduction to Digital Sound Design’ but I fell behind as there was too much practical work to be done. I started on ‘The American South: Its Stories, Music and…
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