New photo

So I do take photos...

This photo is one of a few photos that will shortly becoming available to buy as a print. They'll eventually become part of a permanent fixture of the Shop section. Any pre-orders are welcome. Prints will be limited to 23 per size available and signed by the photographer.

James

Nice sounds

I went to see Juana Molina by accident on the Zero Degrees of Separation Tour, which involved: Adem, Juana Molina, Vashti Bunyan and Vetiver. Juana was the only one we (Me & Clare) thought would be a let down seeing as we'd never heard her music, more of a passing thought. VeRy very wrong, total suprise. If you watch the vid it would give you a good intro to her.
I remember her explaining why she wrote songs in Spanish, although she is quite fluent in English, was because of the words meanings and translations not being exact. The whole concept is quite romantic. She has a new album out and previously albums. There are a few beautiful songs from the older albums and the new album, which I don't have, should be amazing, she played a few live and they were great (has a myspace). I'd recommend listening with a good pair of headphones and closing your eyes. The live set have these amazing coloured lights inter-twining, so if you have that set up at home it might add to the emotion of it all.


Apart from that, a live Must SEE. Great stage presence as well, down to earth.

We saw at The Sage Gateshead, brill venue and it was in Hall 1 which was good as well

Hope you have your take on her, comments welcome.


With LoVE

James The Toll (German for GREAT)

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the New Year set in

Cometh is the new year and I'd say it's going quite well. This is
more of a generic post as I've not done one since December.

More work coming in and some new changes to the site will be
happening...

One that's happened already is the change to the 'things' page, that
being the 'we love' slideshow being linked to the page correctly. So
now if you click on the fingers of the hand a small image will
appear, you then click on that and you will go to a bigger image of
the collage which will then go to the films home page.

I will also add a page for me because I need a home for my CV, which
is available on request until then.

with love

James x

Santa baby

My letter to Santa, on behalf of my Dad.



Today is the cut-off point for getting replies from Santa back in time for Christmas.

His address is:

Father Christmas / Santa
Reindeerland
SAN TA1

These will go to Santa's helpers in Belfast, but you can send them to Lapland with a similar address:

Santa
Santa's Grotto
Lapland
North Pole

Remember to put an airmail sticker on!

These one's will go to Finland. I've opted for Reindeerland because I'm more likely to get a response, obviously.

The official cut-off point is the 16th of December, and remember to be nice AND put a return address on.

JayTea x

Clients

I'm in the middle of branding the client page / subdomain at the min:



I'm not spending more than 5 minutes on it though because it's not what's important at the moment!

Jam

So many events

Well, if you didn't know already, I do a few events for Living North Magazine.

And they've been giving me lots to do lately, and they might be of some interest to you if you live up our way.

Tuesday 03.10.06 - The Fi-fie-fo-fum Art gallery, near Hexham but nearer Newton, has a new exhibition on which is great, as well as having Sue Moffitt's lovely work up, of which this one took my fancy:



Sue also owns the gallery (set-up in 2003) along with her husband Roy Sturgeon, so go down there and have a look - there website is www.fifiefofum.com or click on the image.



Back to the exhibition, as it was lovely; the two artist of different media (I can't remember their names, but they'll be on there website) had lovely pieces, I'm a fan of anyone that makes something beautiful really, and they have.
To end that, I like going to do the 'Yi's' at Fifie... because it's a great place inside a great area.

Next to do waited til Friday (06.10.06), where I was covering TWO events, one being a Charity Auction for Marie Curie at the enormous and hard to find Slaley Hall (a few wrong turns), and then 'John's' 40th Birthday at the Angel Inn (Corbridge)


(Slaley)

(Angel)

Slaley Hall is a nice place, it was my first time there and even in the dark the grounds were quite impressive, deer and squirrels going about, that kinda thing. You can tell if a place is half posh if it has a signs up for animals on the half mile driveway. I think they have a nice golf course as well, but I wouldn't know, it was dark...

So, rush rush rush, then back to the car, cigarette, then Corbridge. The Angel Inn, if you didn't already know is a pub / restaurant and they have quite a reputation for being good at food. It was quite a good do to finish on, apart from I wish it hadn't been so packed, John must be quite popular!
I got a job at the Queens Head Inn in Great Whittington from it, which I did the photo's for recently. Brendan Healy was there that night, I don't know if it was by chance, but he's a funny guy, obviously. I asked him if I could take a photo, and he said, "Alright, I'll act natural" then starred right at me and pulled a cheek to cheek. I saw him do a little stand up a while ago at the Centre for Life, I recognised his face but I'd never heard any of his jokes kinda thing, I was laughing like a gooden anyway. It's weird, I think, how when someone makes you laugh like that you think you're mates with them or you feel like you've connected with them in some way. I felt like buying him a drink.



He could've said anything to me that night anyway and I would've laughed, purely because he made me laugh before. I think the reason I'm writing all this is because he seems like a nice guy.

The Queens Head by the way is a lovely place, it's been renovated big-style, no expense spared kinda thing and is owned by Ron Jackman. You should check it out anyway. Their website is www.the-queens-head-inn.co.uk, but it's still in the making. If you find out where great whittington is you'll find the pub basically, they do food now as well. I'll have to try it another time though.

Before I did that event, there was something of interest!!!

Ethnic Style Launch at Bang & Olufsen in Newcastle.
It's a company by this guy (Josh), who looks like his name, if ya get me, and it's a great company that I can see going far.




They sell lots of different things, click on the images to check out there site, www.ethnicstyle.com might be useful for alt christmas stuff, think I'm buying a teddy! I got one in the press pack that I gave to wah chick that I wish I'd kept, it was a quirky Zebra, I had it sat on my desk for a night and it made it look 10x better for some reason?

Reminded me of this book I have, called Foxy Dreamy Yes Indeedy:

click image for link
it's a good book, that I always end up reading in my spare time. Along with The World of Karl Pilkington and In Search Of Lost Time, By Swann's Way (i've just started), which I only started reading after, How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain De Botton.

There you go then, that's the story.

To round this long post off, I hope you find some of it useful. Tell me if it has.

I do all this to help clients out and me, because it's google-able and it makes my website a bit more useful to the masses I suppose, rather than just photography stuff.

Which it will have more of one day soon.

James x