Natural draft wet cooling hyperboloid towers at Ratcliffe-on-Soar, near Long Eaton. Space Cadence A ‘moving stills’ film I made on a train ride form Liverpool to London a long time ago.
The sun and warmth are coming back. The quiet low tide. Fishermen pulling bait worms out of the sand. A lone seagull chills and looks out at the horizon. The vastness of it all. ‘Am I significant?’, it asks itself.
I want to hold the hand inside you I want to take a breath that’s true I look to you and I see nothing I look to you to see the truth You live your life You go in shadows You’ll come apart and you’ll go blind Some kind of night into your darkness Colors […]
Down by the seaside, see the boats go sailin’ A-can the people hear, oh, what the little fish are sayin’? Ah, ah-ah-ah-ah Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh Oh, oh, people turned away, oh, the people turned away Down in the city streets, see all the folk go racin’, racin’ No time left, no, no, to pass the time […]
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn […]
This is straight off the camera, no filter, no adjustment, nothing. Just… sunset.
Continuing my obsession with Hastings Pier. Wrapped like candy in a blue blue neon glow The calm after Storm Angus is startling. From dramatic clouds, roaring winds and the loud soundtrack of water smashing the pebbles, all has slowed into a much smoother looking state. The sky has become cloudless and sharply cold. The sky is […]
Storm Angus batters the South Coast Last night I stood on the seafront leaning hard into the wind. It was foolhardy, an amber weather warning was in force. The sea was pitch black and I was leaning, almost falling into a windy abyss. The wind roared about my head in the darkness. The pebbles were […]
Been playing this on the guitar lately. It’s been a mild autumn, but there’s a storm coming in and the sky betrays it. Here’s my favourite version of the song:
