From my Twitter, 9.40 this morning: “At bus stop on Shepherds Bush Green, waiting for 2nd bus. Someone has written a whole Tennyson poem on the glass in magic marker.”

I wanted to post this video there and then, but I was late for school, and didn’t have time – so instead I cut it in my phone on the bus on the way home and whispered into my phone like a madman to record the audio 🙂

The Eagle.
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls;
And like a thunderbolt, he falls.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

from today

I take this route to the store every day, and of course i never notice any of the things in this video.

It’s great to stop and try to see ordinary things through fresh eyes.

I’d love to see *your* trip to get milk, coffee, whatever… see what I and others would find strange about what you take for granted. Are you game, my friends?

I need to work on my starting and stopping… :-)and Oops – almost forgot to post this after making myself iller by spending too much time on a follow up. Ho hum. Thanks for all your great comments. I am so excited to have a full video response from Beth at http://abovetherug.blogspot.com/ and now I’m all fired up with interactive zeal. To be continued…

…bent on making everybody in the South East sound like Daphne Moon.

I was just answering Trine’s thesis questions about what prompts me to post… and how audience-focussed I am.

for a long time i’ve wanted to post more simple snapshots of things i see and like.

but i’ve been afraid of putting up stuff that’s too inconsequential… and boring you.

anyway, i was thinking all this just as i was passing the corner of our road, with the pillar (post) box lit up bright red in the sun… and i just pressed Record and stayed still.

A car came past with bass thumping so loud it set off another car’s alarm, then a third car raced round the corner. and a man with crutches hobbled past.

Then i pressed stop. It was just 20 seconds of nothing… but it captured something about our neighbourhood. like a flickr snapshot… but moving.

the more i vlog from my phone, the more open i am to the world around me and the more moments i have like this.

And I’ve realised that i’m starting to go out looking for them. so, instead of things happening to me that prompt me to post, i’m actively starting to look for things to post.

it’s helping me enjoy this city… a place I’ve HATED living for the last 10 years. So in a small but significant way, it’s changing my life.

WHY I’M NOT SORRY IF I BORED YOU TODAY:
finally, what I’m also realising is that if I post short pieces everyday, I can put all sorts of things up here that will appeal to all sorts of people at different times. which was my aim in setting it up – to share any and all moments from my life that i felt i wanted to share.

That’s one of the beautiful things about this medium, as opposed to TV. You don’t have a limited timeslot in which you MUST appeal to the maximum number of people.

For those of you who thought today’s video was a bit So What… subscribe in your Google Reader and come back tomorrow or the next day. You might see something you prefer – and it won’t cost you nuffink.

Oh, and if you like or don’t like something… say so here – and i’ll come and do the same at your blog. just remember to leave the URL. Blogger’s profile links are useless.

This is a promo I’ve made for Pixelodeon, shot in Paris yesterday. We went for a couple of days for our 5th wedding anniversary. It was amazing. My phone ran out of battery, so I had to wait to come home to cut and post this.

I’m having a few vids screened at Pixelodeon and, um, now I’m going.

I don’t know if you can tell from this video, but I’m excited.

Pixelodeon web video festival, 9/10 June 2007 at the American Film Institute, Hollywood. Pixelodeonfest.com