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Searching for a new house or flat is not my favourite pastime. It tends to be a long-winded, nerve-racking process that fills your leisure time with a fog of facts, figures and phone numbers. As in so many other areas - how did people operate before the internet? Cold-calling? Pen and paper? (more…)

I watched Current TV for the first time tonight, and it’s been something of a revelation. Mainly, TV has become peripheral in my day-to-day media experience - the web is my number one focus, and anyway, clearly, most TV is rubbish. But Current TV is just gripping: 8-minute segments, created by viewers, pinging around the world and from subject to subject with this slick, perky style, nicely designed graphics, and progress bars to tell you how far you are through a programme. It’s very webby, offering loads of links that you can check out while viewing, but the producers also know to mix laddish content (I just watched something about the next Jackie Chan) with current affairs and documentary-style content (like features on what matters to Buddhists in Nepal). The website is pretty nice too.

My colleague Belinda May dreamt up the idea of creating some installation art in the main theatre of the Rootstein Hopkins Space at London College of Fashion. I borrowed a Canon Ixus and got stuck in.

More on Belinda’s Flickr.

Recently I was invited to have a gallery at Jason Pogo’s website photographii.com. Pogo has long offered his own work via this site - fantastic stuff involving lots of quirky angles, close-ups, textures, black & white, as well as people, actual people (a place I’ve yet to go with my own photography) - but has now decided to make it a community site for photographers he invites to take part. My pics are now live. (more…)