Playing for Change

I’m a great Bob Harris fan. I love his Radio 2 show on a Saturday night. Last night he played three tracks from an album entitled Songs Around the World, from a project known as Playing for Change.
Here’s one of the three he played (I could have posted ANY of them!) This music is JOYOUS. [...]

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Fushimi Inari-Taisha Shrine

Today I took a short trip on the train from Kyoto to Inari.
When you get off the train in Inari Station, turn left, then immediately up the first road on your right you’ll see the first two of 10,000 Torii gates winding up the hillside on which the shrine is built.

Once you’ve climbed to the [...]

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More unicorn hunting…more mysteries to unravel

Towards the end of last year I went unicorn hunting. It opened up whole unknown areas for me, not least that of medieval art. I’m still exploring this and learning all the time and, frankly, its awe-inspiring. Well, here’s another part of that adventure. When I read about the unicorn hunt tapestries which are in [...]

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Helicopter movie

When I took a short walk yesterday I came across a helicopter practising taking water up from a lake and dropping it again as it’ll have to do when it fights forest fires.
I gathered the photos together in iphoto, made them into a slideshow, added some music by Max Richter and exported it as a [...]

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John Martyn

John Martyn died today, aged 60. I could choose I don’t know how many songs to share to remember him but here is one of his most famous and best. I love this version. It’s from the Transatlantic Crossing series – so many wonderful performances in those programmes. Here he’s joined by Kathy Mattea, Danny [...]

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Robert Burns – George Square, Glasgow

Glasgow City Council has made a great images and sound display to celebrate Robert Burns. They project images up onto the City Chambers in George Square and have a PA system playing a soundtrack to accompany them. I went along and filmed it with my Flip Ultra. Take a look. I think you’ll enjoy it. [...]

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Angels

I saw this angel overlooking George Square in Glasgow…….got me thinking about angels and one of my favourite films of all time – Wim Wender’s “Wings of Desire”. If you haven’t seen it, you might have seen the US re-make which was called “City of Angels”.
What I love about this movie is how it is [...]

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This will make you smile. A BIG smile!

Oh sometimes somebody just does something simple but original with the internet.
I LOVE this video.
This is one of those videos to watch when you want to smile. It’s heart-warming and just plain JOYOUS

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Movies to teach the importance of story

The TV News each evening doesn’t carry many uplifting stories but tonight on channel 4 news they had a piece that grabbed me and fed my optimistic nature. It was about Filmclub. This is a project started by Director, Beeban Kidron, which introduces movies into schools throughout England. She’s had a trial [...]

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Mind-bending Movies

I love movies. I’m an addict. I think it’s my insatiable thirst for stories which hooks me. I’m not a fan of the blockbuster kind of movie that’s all special effects though. I like a movie which draws me in and absorbs me in the characters and the story. Of course, that fits with my [...]

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