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Friday night saw me in a pub with friends. I had been intending to get some TTV shots around the city but, y’know, pub, friends… Still, after a few beers I broke out the contraption and blinded a few people … Continue reading →

I’m busy as a bee building my TTV sub-site which will eventually live at ttv.peteashton.com. As part of my Money Where My Mouth Is endeavour it’ll be an online store and blog and, because I’m an idiot, I’m in the … Continue reading →

I haven’t managed to process my photos from the Sunn O))) / OM gig last week to my satisfaction (Katja, on the other hand, got hers up in hours) but this one is ready to share. It’s of a couple … Continue reading →

When I originally built the TTV contraption I fixed the digital camera to the cardboard using electrical tape, as shown in this photo from 2007: This is actually counter to how most TTV-ers work. The common approach is to leave … Continue reading →

The above title is a play on the phrase tipping point, as popularised by best-selling pseudoscience junkie Malcolm Gladwell, and “to sup” as in drink. It indicates that there has been a slow and gradual change related to the drinking … Continue reading →

On to way to the Sunn 0))) gig tonight a certain track by The Destroyers came over my headphones – The Glass Coffin Burial of Professor Zurinak. I remembered someone telling me a story about their wife as a child … Continue reading →

No content with my chorus role in Othello (about which I really must blog soon) I’ve gone and landed myself a role in this years Twitpanto. I think the story is still under wraps so I can’t tell you who … Continue reading →

Never been that sure what “painterly” really means, other than “a bit like a painting” but it’s probably the closest descriptive term for this sort of thing. Another term would be “rescuing an out of focus photo by ramping up … Continue reading →

Sometimes you post a photo onto the Internet and, while you can’t be sure, you have a pretty good feeling it’s going to resonate with a few people out there. This evening I posted this, taken at the Kings Heath … Continue reading →

This morning I went out to the local park and four photos of a tree which I turned into this: And then this evening, cycling back home from Digbeth, I paused on the junction with Birmingham’s Middleway ring road to … Continue reading →

While I am involved with this as a volunteer the following is all my own conjecture, opinion and so on, you know the drill, use your brain, blah, etc… This last few weeks I’ve been involved in rehearsals for Birmingham … Continue reading →

This American Life is probably the best example of speech radio in the world. I’ve been a fan for quite a while now so when one of the producers got in touch to ask if they could use one of … Continue reading →

I think “Big Envy” is the right term. What I mean is the council, by which I mean the elected members of the council, have an obsession with BIG THINGS but lack the ability to see them through. They’re like … Continue reading →

We were planning to go see some fireworks tonight and took along the tripods to do some long exposures, something I hadn’t done since 2006. But we got there late and couldn’t park so came back home a little dejected … Continue reading →

Fantastic gig, as expected. Here’s all my photos:

It’s always nice when someone asks if they can use one of my photos. Sometimes it’s commercial use so I ask for a reasonable fee (usually £50) but often it’s non-commercial or pushes the right button. I might not be … Continue reading →