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I want to introduce folks to a concept I’ve been thrashing out in my head while teaching. I call it ‘ground-state’ moves. The Lead-up While playing around with a bunch of new stuff that I had seen in various videos on YouTube – Rastaxel, PoiBoy, Drex, Alien Jon, G, etc – I came across countless moves that looked awesome and appeared to flow very well and were actually very simple at the core. ...

Sean at Gyropulse posted this and it’s frankly amazing! Here’s what he had to say about it: This collaboration is sure to wet your eardrums, and will continue to do so for well over an hour. As described by Dirty South Joe and Flufftronix, Luvstep is the sound of electronic gruv glide inside lazer guided lullabies. It’s a return to innocence through experience, best expressed with headphones or in bedrooms. ...

As an interesting mind/attitude exercise, for the next week, I plan to note down one awesome thing that I saw, heard or experienced that day. You should do the same. It’ll be interesting to see what tickles you and makes you go “yeah that was great!”. To look over a week’s worth of things that made you smile might reveal things about yourself you might not have otherwise found out! ...

What on earth possessed the driver of my coach to London to flip on the air conditioning when it’s -3 outside? Aberdeen was, as usual, lots of fun. Despite our main gig being cancelled last minute, a productive time was had! We made jelly, watched films, caught up with people, entertained some randoms and generally had a good giggle. Now my mouth is missing its lining after the boiling hot tea I had to ingest to get warm at a service station. ...

Kev from Spinning@ kindly donated some more music to my repository of ‘things I listen to when I do stuff’. It’s fairly extensive. The genre in question is Electro Swing. From what I can gather from listening, it’s a delicious fusion of splendid dancy jazzy swing and machines and synth noises. It really is something special and a lot of fun Here’s a sample!

I’ve been turned on to this rather excellent blog on all things fun, exciting and non-traditional by a wonderful friend of mine. One of the articles I came across resonates particularly with me as I’m in the process of exploring communication and how it can be a great force for good in relationships. I mean that in every sense of the word, not just romantic, stars-in-the-eyes, oh-god-my-stomach-is-a-flutter way. Here’s a quick excerpt: ...

As promised, I’ve taken Corinne’s burn clips, performed unholy magics upon them and now we have this! Enjoy!!

After my lovely trip up to the Frozen North to catch up with friends long absent I brought back tunes, videos and stories! So firstly, massive thanks to my perpetually happy friend Corinne, I’ve been introduced to Blogotheque which has lots of delicious, crunchy and smooth music from all manner of artists on. Here’s one that I love especially As well as discovering new music, Corinne, Cat and I got to geek out over poi for about 6 odd hours which was many different kinds of fun. ...

I love Scotland. One of the last bastions standing tall against the black tides of Poltical Correctness.

October’s garden party was magical, crazy and exciting! Also, there was fire and pretty lights and awesome people. Skins shot some pictures – check them out here: Skins’ Blog. Here’s a sampler! Opposite 3-petal antispins!We all wore “Carpe Awesome” tshirts to celebrate Burning Dan’s awesomeness too! Videos will undoubtedly come soon!

Burning Dan, a man of great kindness, boundless optimism and unbridled Awesome joined with the Force on the night of the 4th/5th of October. He was a friend to many around the world, a mentor to many more and an inspiration to still more. Here’s a video of him explaining some things about the world we live in. He also helped found hitRECord.org with his brother, Joe. It’s hit Joe pretty hard, as well as Tea Faerie and Thom who are all very close. ...

Digging through my Flickr archives, I came across this! I’d forgotten I shot this and how impressed I was with it! Shot this with my trusty 30mm f/1.4 lens on the UndergroundRather nifty!

So since I’m supposed to be a photographer and stuff, I guess it would help if I posted some photos instead of unending verbiage. So here are some shots I’ve taken of late, in no particular order or grouping! See more on my flickr  Shot this after finishing work and missing several buses to catch the right moment!