The below video was brought to my attention on my brother's site, but I have to admit that I had to view it twice from the beginning to make sure I'd watched correctly. The advert and the point it makes are quite funny, fascinating and chillingly disconcerti...

Some photographs don't need captions. Ironically this one does. "On the day that the death-toll in Iraq for American troops passed the 4,000 mark (one estimate of Iraqi dead, well north of 100,000) President George Bush was said to be mournful..."Seriously. Do the people in the White House PR department work for Jon Stewart, does the left hand not know what the right foot is doing or was this a freeb...

Got the second major sniffles of the year over this last week which filled my head with cotton-wool, made me achey and irritable and just made the winter seem more gloomy, though thankfully the sneezes seem to be fading and I'm not in for the long-haul like early new year. I seem to be rattling through my 'To Do' list though my white-board still has a fair few chores that need wiping off in the next week or so.I've finished typing up the article on LA and the interview with James Kyson Lee and I'll have most of the major news items finished for Impact in the next day or so. Design-wise I'm awaiting...

While having a look through my photographs in search of some suitable shots I took in Los Angeles for an upcoming article, I came across some photos I took on one of my old cameras and saved in a TIFF format that I hadn't been able to read until I downloaded the IrfanView program (very useful, I can tell you!). One of the those images was taken quite a while back when the Lord of the Rings exhibition came to the Science Museum in London.Invited to attend the opening, there were plenty of opportunities...

Well, I'm slowly getting through a ton of work. There's three articles for Impact already finished and later today I'm typing up a piece I've just done with James Kyson Lee (Ando in 'Heroes' and one of the stars of Shutter, the upcoming Hollywood remake of the Thai supernatural thriller). I have some photos of him from a quick shoot I did at an event last year, so that should all come together nicely. Then there's two travel pieces for another magazine (for LA and Biarritz)to get done at the start...

Almost a year ago, Madeline McCann was abducted by persons unknown while her family had a meal at a nearby tavern in Portugal. It's obviously distressing for her family and in the year that has followed the investigation has thrown up more accusations than it has answers. But the more I heard about it, the more that central question at the heart of the case kept coming back... why would ANY parent be more than a few feet away from their young child at ANY time on a holiday. If it were my child...

It seems most of the UK is reeling from the 'biggest storm of the winter' (tm pending). However we've barely been touched here in Leeds and, in fact, it was sunny when I woke up. It's now looking drizzly and overcast but if this is the worst we get then I'm sure my stiff upper lip will see me through. I'm sure there HAS been flooding and wind damage elsewhere (the picture opposite suggests so) and I hope everyone's okay, but those weathermen in the south do panic at the merest sign of a snowflake...

About eighteen months ago I spent a very cold but rewarding week on the set of Highlander: The Source as it filmed in Lithuania. I went out with Carmel Macpherson and basically spent the week behind the camera, recording activities for posterity, filing a few reports and getting the access most people only dream of. The -10 degree, all-night shoots were worth it, even if the resulting film didn't reflect the passion and energy put into the project by some of the people involved.The DVD of The Source...

A fairly busy week. Though I got a lot of Impact articles done early so as to free up time later, there's always some stuff still left to do, so I've found myself with short reviews to finish that and also chasing up some photos for some of our key features. We'll go to press on time. Probably.Away from the typing, I was hired to do some photos for a new prestige coffee-table magazine, highlighting some sleek, fast cars and their dealer. This basically meant I got to breathe on cars (Porsche, Ferrari... you get the idea) that I couldn't normally afford to dream about (or perhaps would want to,...