Everyday I see some new application, web based or downloadable that I didn't see the day before. I now am fully aware that for me to keep up with all these new cerebral arrivals I would need an army of clones and as many mac book pros.

Today in @sizemore's twitter post (tweet to those in the know) I saw a mini video he had made with a web app entitled Animoto.

Literally 2 minutes later I has sucked 15 music photos out of my flikr account and mixed them with some supplied music to produce this..

It wasn't even a a drag and drop affair, just a few clicks.. Where was all the messy editing.. where was the faffing about with cuts, timelines, titles and syncing?

The future is scary... Scary but very convenient.

p.s. The hairy guy with the camera at the start is not me.. It's 'Badly Drawn Boy' I am sat with Noel Gallagher on the last slide.

Tags: music, video, festivals, web 2.0, animoto, editing, Badly Drawn Boy, Noel Gallagher

I was listening to a podcast from the late great Philosopher Alan Watts and as my twitter stream passed before my eyes, his words just seem to fit.
He had a beard, I have a beard and the tweeting you can hear is that of the Bearded Tit.
(Pun Intended.)

Tags: philosophy, Alan Watts, social networking, twitter, Zen Buddhism, podcast, video

In my guise as a music photographer I occasionally get called apon take photos of bands for promotional purposes. I may snap them reportage style in the recording studio, on a location shoot, or occasionally, if needed, live.

I caught up with the band Farleigh At one gig of their local gigs in Leamington. There was hardly any light and all I had with me was my cheapy mpeg video camera (A Sanyo Xacti H2). Never-the-less in what turned out to be an awesome gig I felt inspired to grab a few minutes of low resolution footage for posterity.

The band have some really good tunes and not wanting the footage to go to waste, I dropped it in, along with a few photos I had from before, to Glen of CV21.co.uk

All I said was.. "Make it look better that a bunch of raw low res clips and he said.. "I'll see what I can do."

We stole the track 'Open Road' for a bit of backing (Sorry Guys.. ) off their myspace page and before you know it.. A video was born.

Please click below to enjoy..

Tags: music, farleigh, sanyo xacti, leamington, pop