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Cricket. More interesting than terrorism. While reading up on the Osama Bin Laden assassination operation carried out by the US Navy SEALs (or whoever) on BBC News, I came across the “Most Read” column which amused me to no end. Apparently the British public cares more about someone being hit in the face with a cricket ball. It will never cease to amuse me, I feel..  

Flow arts – poi, staff, clubs, juggling, contact, etc – are all arts for the body. Yet, this amazing, flexible, beautiful and vital piece of the puzzles goes ignored for the longest time! This is a recurring trait that I see over and over among new budding flow artists. It most often manifests in the tendency to plant your feet close together and pretend to be a tree while playing. ...

Another awesome tune for your aural pleasure!

Nick finally OK’d Karen’s video that’s been floating around the Facebooks in secret (shh) for the last month or so and I can now officially share it with the world. Honestly, don’t go to Bali. It’s a horrible place and there is no fun to be had there whatsoever. It’s really cold, wet, boring and there are no fun people there at all. Oh wait.

So, the latest DiRT rally game, DiRT3 is coming out in a month or so and one of the trailers I saw had an absolutely stunning soundtrack. So I looked it up on YouTube and it turns out it was used in some rather spectacular videos – like this one!

Hey folks! I’m going to start to play with time-lapse photography and one of the most useful tutorials I’ve found out there is this one on Vimeo.

My friend Kristoff re-introduced me to this tune. It’s been kicking around my hard disk for a while now, but it’s been like a splinter at the back of my mind. You know, when you can think of the melody but for the life of you can’t remember what the tune is called. Anyway, the mystery was solved and I’m glad to share this with you. It’s a beautiful Goa chill track. ...

That dreaded messageI had a very narrow escape with these photos. Midway through my photo walkabout, the camera flashed up this dreaded message. So I promptly shut my camera down, and prayed. Fortunately, I was able to recover the images from the card, for the most part, thanks to PhotoRec, a free piece of SD card recovery software that does block-level scans of the SD card and pieces together your files. ...

A friend linked this to me. It’s a spectacular piece of time-lapse photography. I can only imagine how long this took to shoot.

I’m currently in Aberdeen, catching up with some creative folks I have not seen for a long time and among other things, we’ve been shooting portraits and images of ourselves performing with fire which I would like to share! Enjoy! Spiral Wrap  

My friend Max edited together his videos from Bali and posted them. Contains humour and hilarity and scenes of a fun nature!

Came across this lovely gem in a poi video and it’s a beauty to flow to! https://youtu.be/oc-ZQftx1Jg

As promised in my earlier post, I’ve thrown together a quick video on the subject of ground-state moves. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful!

I came across this talk by Nigel Marsh about work-life balance and how it’s not dramatic change, upheaval and radical re-thinking, but rather the little things in life that help you achieve your ideal work-life balance.

I shot this a good while back – about a year ago, in fact – in Bali but never got around to putting it up. It’s a beautiful tattoo a friend has – what makes it special is that it is done by using individual dots instead of continuous ink through a machine. It’s much more intricate and generally gorgeous. I think you’ll agree!

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. ...

These are the videos that have caught my eye and my heart this week. They’re awesome in many ways and well worth watching! Anis Mojgani is a truly inspirational spoken word poet. Some of his monologues will bring tears to your eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuydRgVxWg4 This tune has been stuck in my head all weekend and it’s incredibly catchy! You should listen to it.

After ages and ages of playing with my camera, getting some great shots and really enjoying them, I realised that all I did was dump them to my hard drive, edit them and then utterly fail to share any of them! So, in order to remedy that, here are a bunch of cool shots that I took at various stages but have forgotten to reveal, until now It’s great to dig through and find shots you’ve forgotten about! ...