Over two months since my last post. Shame on me.

I have an excuse though, which is that I’ve had a lot going on. It’s always a rubbish excuse, but this time it’s actually true, I swear.

Midway is no more, our studio closed down, I became unemployed, I lived with my brother in Northampton for a while, signed on at the job centre for the first time, interviewed at a few places then ended up landing a job at People Can Fly / Epic Poland… so I’ve left the UK and I live in Warsaw now.

It’s quite bonkers, when I think back to what I assumed could be my next step three months ago. I’m learning Polish, going out a lot and generally having a jolly good time. Which is good.

More on Warsaw later, because there’s a lot to it and I’m lazy. For now, all I have for you is love, rainbows and photography.

Here’s the photography:

(Click the pics for bigger versions on Flickr)

A couple of months ago I posted about a bunch of nice skate photos I took at Exhibition Park here in Newcastle. I said that I’d like to do something similar again sometime, but a little more ambitious, which I’m glad to have gotten round to last weekend.

This time it’s a little skate video (well, if you can discount the fact that there are barely any skateboarders), which you can watch on youtube by clicking on any of these thumbnails below, or the url:

   
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acW6N2ZHQ7A)

Again, I’m pretty pleased with this – this time particularly because of what I used to make the video with. Whereas I should’ve been using a DV camera and some respectable video-editing software like Premiere / Final Cut, I managed to make do with my Canon Powershot S5 IS (a photo camera which happens to do 30fps, 640×480 video), and Windows (bloody) Movie Maker.

On top of that, I came back from the park feeling pretty underwhelmed with what I’d shot – it didn’t seem as most of it would be up to scratch – but after deciding on the Mr. Oizo track (M-Seq), it all (hopefully) came together surprisingly well during the editing process. Which was nice. It’s been a nice experience doing all the video stuff myself for the first time (shooting, editing, colour correction, cutting the soundtrack together), and I’m happy it turned out to be worth sharing on youtube at all. So hopefully, there will be more video to follow in the future.

(Another thing I’ve always wanted to shoot / make is some kind of music video. We’ll see how it goes – I’ve got bigger fish to fry at the moment…)

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