Often, if I’m out in town, I will catch a whiff of something nice. Some cologne or perfume or something that transports me to a happy warm childhood place or an image of someone or something or just a feeling of rightness, a rightness that isn’t there all the time. And I think wouldn’t it…
I don’t like it. I don’t like writing about blogging, but sometimes it needs to be done to be cleared out of the way. If I write on paper about writing on paper that seems OK because it’s only here on my table and it might just go in the bin or in that file…
I heard recently about a director having the nasty experience of inviting a journalist into rehearsals and then having an unhelpful (I haven’t read it, it’s paywalled) preview article published just before the show opens. Yuk. Reading about it sent me back to look at what I wrote nearly eleven years ago (!) about using blogging in theatre. I was…
Download .mp3 (9.4MB) Oh my, it’s been a while but I did this yesterday. I ended my canal walk at Little Venice and took a phone call and then thought I’d grab this before heading home to “work”. Seconds after I pressed “stop” I saw that there was some interesting pop-up jazz happening at Old…
Download .mp3 (7.9MB) Walked by the canal this morning, nice and slow and easy. Reflective, as canals are and encourage us to be. Not much to do except dodge buggies, joggers and duck poo. And think about something Steve Lawson wrote on Facebook this morning. I started here Walking in the woods Songs in the…
Download .mp3 (4.4MB) I started going for a walk but almost turned back after five minutes or so. Then I saw something on my phone that made me carry on and record this. Some links that might help you understand/remember bits: The thing I did on Saturday – Why So Serious? Rupert Howe Social Media…
This is by no means a canonical list, but I remembered on Saturday that I had it with me and so I shared it with people. It occurred to me that it might be useful to share here too. I could add to it, so could you, but it’s just what came out one day…
Download 5.7MB I recorded this on Waterloo Station shortly after the Devoted & Disgruntled Vaults Festival Open Space on Saturday. The space was opened to discuss “Let’s stop romanticising depression and marginalising other mental illness” and I called a session called “Why So Serious?” about the issue of taking oneself too seriously, dealing with other…
I went to hear Michael Mainelli talk about blockchains (actually Mutual Distributed Ledgers) at Truphone this morning. Michael brought the voice of reason and long-term comprehension to the some of the excitable bubble-watchers in the audience. Over coffee beforehand, the vox populi was excited by the efficiency possibilities inherent in this technology. The ground I…
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We have seen some cultural icons pass in the last month. And whenever we hear of another individual death, we’re tutting on social media and giving January 2016 a bit of a hard stare. It’s had me thinking about death, how it’s always a surprise even though we know it’s coming. How the War Babies…