My bed, not yours

My bed, not yours, originally uploaded by vapour trail.

My photo of my moggie Nelson, has featured of Flickr's Explore.

Meow...Purr Purr! :)

All Saints Church, Bishops Park, Putney

All Saints Church, Bishops Park, Putney, originally uploaded by vapour trail.

Scout London are writing an article for their next magazine on famous film locations in London, and have asked to use my photo of All Saints church in Bishops Park (where the vicar gets impaled in The Omen).

Coolio creepio! :)

vapour trail's photostream

vapour trail's photostream on Flickr.

Today my Flickr photos reached 100,000 views! 100,000 thanks to all who have viewed, commented, fav'd and shared.

Have a peak and polish your eyes with happy dust! :)

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...and a very Happy New Year to one and all. 2010 is going to be a blinder - I can feel it in me bones!

VT.

(Click on the image for some recent photovideoage).

Riding on the summer wind

One of the loveliest Summers in living memory is flying by and so much has happened (and is yet to occur) before Autumn's hues and temperatures are upon us. Miss L is feeling a bit under the weather at the moment, so in between playing nurse I am grabbing the opportunity to record some bits and bobs we've been up to:

Reiss and Dazed & Confused magazine recently ran an competition to illustrate a ltd. edition of 500 T-Shirt for their new 1971 collection. 600 designs were submitted and 30,000 public votes cast. My design came in the top 5 which put a smile on my face. I won some Reiss vouchers, a pair on ltd edition jeans and an invite to the collection launch at London Fashion Week, so can't grumble. See my submission here.

Old chum Mike came down from Lichfield for a lad's w'end which was a right old laugh, the highlight of which was the Film4/Summer Screen at Somerset House. Another old mucker Mark was DJing beforehand (and very marvellous he was too - cheeky/quirky filmscore mash-up), then we were treated to a dream double bill of Alien/Poltergeist. Great to see two of my fav. films on a big screen, in the open air summer night. Many thanks to Mark for the free entry and VIP treatment.

A few weeks later a very welcome weekend break in Harrogate followed - caught up with lots of old muckers and family, and celebrated the engagement of my bro and Sarah - really happy for you guys...Congratulations. Some de riguer stomps around the Yorkshire countryside blew away some cobwebs too. Then, it was up to Lichfield to stay with Mike and Lou who have some very exciting news - so happy for you both! Lovely relaxing weekend relaxing and BBQing. Took some cool photos too.

Yesterday da Maria and I trekked down to Clapham Common to see the ever brilliant Orbital. Wicked night and great to have a proper jump around to one of my favourite bands, with one of my oldest buds. Shame we missed Roni Size. Here's a bit of footage:



Amazingly, it seems we don't have a free weekend for the next few months, so there will be lots to report next time the blogging urge takes me.

I have discovered loads of excellent new music recently, mainly through the genius that is Spotify. If you don't have this wonderful App. I strongly suggest you download it. If you need an invite let me know and I will be glad to sort you out. Here's some brilliant music I think is worth more than a casual look:

British Sea Power - Man of Aran.
The Horrors - Primary Colours.
Noah and the Whale - The First Days of Spring.
Slut - Still No.1.
Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice born men.
Tindersticks - Waiting for the Moon.
The XX - XX.
John Surman - Brewster's Rooster.

I also 'graduated' from Raindance on their FilmMakers Foundation - what a great course and film festival, and some inspiring people to work with. I have a backlog of footage now which needs crafting into something amazing when I find the time and a load of lovely contacts to make magic with. Highly recommend you check Raindance out if you have even a passing interest in film.

More to come soon. Keep checking back here and Flickr for updates. Beep.

Cool waves

It's been far too long since I blogged, but I'd just like to record that in between the helix of time in VT's world, a warm sparkly glow dances through the peaks and troughs. More to come soon...

PS. If you get the chance you should all go to Iceland...It's a very nice land (don't eat the Whales or Puffins though...or upset the Vikings).

A year in listening

The graph above charts my music listening habits over the past year according to LastGraph...a cool little app. for Last FM.

Quite a lovely shape really.