‘Unhappeningness’ – September update

‘Unhappeningness’ is a film being made every day during 2021, this is up to the end of September. Each day I shoot video, mainly using an Olympus OM-D III, then …

Unhappeningness – August 2021 Update

‘Unhappeningness’ is a film being made every day during 2021, this is up to the end of August, so two-thirds through the project. Each day I shoot some video, mainly …

Unhappeningness July Update

‘Unhappeningness’ is a film being made every day during 2021, this is up to the end of July. Each day I shoot video, mainly using an Olympus OM-D III, then …

Unhappeningness – June update, half-way through

I am now half way through my film Unhappeningness which is created each day by using 10 seconds of film of my life, thoughts, weather, Oskar the dog, nature – …

Unhappeningness May Update

I am at the end of the fifth month of making Unhappeningness, a film I create each day of 2021, using 10 seconds of film of something happening or unhappening …

Some self portraits

I did some self-portraits today, here are three of them. Why is it as soon as I get them onto Lightroom I notice my nose hairs look like trees growing …

Unhappeningness April 2021 update

My film ‘Unhappeningness’ has reached one-third the way through. Each day of 2021 I am ‘filming’ something that is happening or unhappening in my life, then edit out 10 seconds …

Magic Mountain Creek out in paperback

Magic Mountain Creek is now out in paperback available from Amazon as a print on demand, at £5.99 UK price (about $7 US). Follow this link https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B091FSPDWT

The blurb….

1934, Depression-era Kentucky, Jo is a packhorse librarian, delivering books to poverty-stricken people out in the mountains and valleys on her horse Ulysees. At the end of one valley, in a cabin beside Magic Mountain Creek, lives Alfred McAdam, a goat farmer supplying skins to the glove trade and his dog Carson. Originally from Belfast he moved there with his Catholic wife to get away from the troubles when partition began. Following tragedy in the Spanish Flu pandemic Alfred lives alone, and Jo becomes fascinated by the books he chooses. Before Jo turns up Alfred gets to know Serah who is on the run from a brothel in fear of being lynched; then his brother turns up with reminders of home and his own troubles following service as a Black n’ Tan.

Unhappeningness March update

The third part of my year-long film project, Unhappeningness, has been added to YouTube. I am using 10 seconds of film shot each day of 2021, of something happening or …

Magic Mountain Creek

Magic Mountain Creek is a novel I began last June during lockdown. It was inspired by an article in The Smithsonian Magazine about the packhorse librarians in Kentucky during the …