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Am working on…
Several features which I’m really enjoying. Unusually so. Also, all at nicely oblique angles to the day-to-day stuff which keeps me in toast and butter. Will link to them in due course. Also, birds. They aren’t completely random. I took Tabby to the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Arundel at the weekend. She loved it.
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Sky launches new arts fund
There’s a bit of an exclusive over at Dan’s blog, artistsandmakers.com. Apparently the Sky Arts channel is going to start giving out bursaries to artists and projects. What sort of art will Murdoch sponsor, I wonder.
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Who watches the watchers?
UKUncut march _31-1, originally uploaded by nisuspi. One of my favourite pics from Saturday. There’s a few similar ones on my Tumblr page.
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Community Newswire announcement — Media Trust
Community Newswire, the Press Association backed service that gives charities access to the same press release distribution as commercial clients for free, is suspending its service. I’ve used CN a couple of times as part of my LearnAsOne work, and although I had no idea it was part funded by government money. It’s really sad…
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Is Googling a new journalist’s name fair?
Curiously, I’ve read several articles recently by editors looking to employ journalists full time or freelance who’ve said that the first thing they do is search for the applicant’s name and ‘journalist’, and if they aren’t the first link that Google throws up, they’ll delete the application. It came up in the Guardian’s recent web…
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A day of demos
As part of my ongoing attempt to push myself as a journalist and try new things, yesterday I followed the UK Uncut demonstration with the specific objective of waving my press card around and finding out what photos I could take under pressure. It was interesting, to say the least, and I can see why…
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The power of protest… but
The various protests today were all passionate and, at times, poignant. Most of all, if you were trying to follow the UKUncut feeder marches, they were chaotic. Whatever the BBC is reporting about what happened, though, every incident I saw quickly turned into more of a press pack than a protest. Like the picture above. Indeed, several…
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Riot police protect Apple Store
There’s a longer post with more detail and pics coming about the marches today, but in the meantime here’s one of my favourite pics from a few hours of good shooting. Riot police protecting the Apple Store, which wasn’t attacked by protesters.
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The worst rate of pay yet?
Actually, I’m sure there are content farms that offer even lower rates than this, but I happened across a job ad this morning that just made me angry. A new site launch for some godawful reviews place called hittboss that’s offering $1 for 500 words. If you’re really good, apparently, you might get $2 per…
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Some old shots of a Field
These pics were taken a few years ago just outside Bristol, where the artist Richard Box created the installation ‘Field’ – 1300 flourescent light tubes placed upright beneath a pylon, which light up when the sun goes down. I’ve just got round to uploading them to Flickr. It was an astonishingly beautiful thing…
