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About Me

My photographs found here, including Background images, and those in my Profile, Blogs, Bulletins, Comments, and Messages, are all copyright. That's Copyright. They are not public domain in any respect at all. So keep your hands off of 'em. Ta. :)
My more creative work is to be found over at my deviantArts site including some you'll have seen here, but in their original size and quality.
OK, um, was born in Bristol, tried Astrophysics, became an actor, trained in Physical Theatre with Desmond Jones, and toured the UK and Europe with various shows, lived in London for years, came back to Bristol to research it's history. I'd love to visit Japan sometime .. I love the zaniness in modern culture out there. Also love Egyptian things, and would love to see the Pyramids of Cheops and take a boat down the nile. I need music as I need air, and I would not survive if it wasn't there. I play acoustic, but not well enough to perform. I read an enormous amount, and I write stuff, too. I spend far too much time in coffee shops. I always get a large latte. I love nosing around St. Nicholas Market, and Park Street, so if you see me wandering about looking aimless, don't be shy - come up and say hello. And buy me another coffee. Milk, no sugar. Ta. I'm coding this page myself. I don't use third party software as it's rubbish. I apply raw code directly. This is of course a very dangerous activity, and should only be attempted by highly-skilled web-practitioners!

My Interests

History, theatre, website design, restoring old records and tapes, art & design, photography, I am researching two encyclopedia's at the moment, and a novel, love walking through beautiful English countryside, books, film, play guitar (but don't ever ask me to play you something or I will decline, and if you press me on the matter, hit you over the head with it), church stuff, tea. Oh, and I adore Owls.

To find out more about where I live : Visit Bristol

I'd like to meet:

I admire the following people :

I also like these people : Goths (I think they're cute, and I want to hug them), Book Worms (if you read books, I'm interested in you), Calm People (chill out, man), Homeless People (they are unpretentious, challenging, and often very friendly), Musicians (even though I am deeply jealous of your abilities), Archaeologists (I love you all), Bishops (they're great, and the C of E rocks!). I dislike these 'people' : Chuggers (a modern pestilance - do you really need 15 of the things in one small area?), Chavs (don't they know how stupid they look? I mean can't someone tell them that they look so bloody stupid?), Shop Assistants who approach me (even though I do it - I am such a hypocrit), White Face Mimes (and I speak as a trained mime, but one who *never* did white face, and who has to fight the urge to punch them on sight). The background image to this page is a manipulated detail from a drawing of the old houses that once to be on Bristol Bridge. They were there from about 1250 to 1750 - some 500 years.. I like photography, usually of landscapes and buildings, and particularly of Bristol. I have taken on a personal task to document changes in the face of Bristol for the rest of my life, for which I have taken literally thousands of images already. Left is a detail from the Saxon carving that was found in the Cathedral during work on lowering the Chapter House floor in the 1830's, and may indicate the existence of an earlier building. It can easily be found on a wall in the South Transcept, and depicts 'The Harrowing of Hell', described in the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus. From the very beginnings of this city, 1000 years ago, art like this was being created. This image is of a medieaval statue found in the entrance lobby of St. Bart's Hospital at the bottom of Christmas Steps. The head is missing, but it is probably of the Madonna. I have digitally manipulated the original image in different ways. This forms one panel of a nine panel piece I am working on.

Music:

Rose Kemp : Violence

• sufjan stevens • over the rhine • lamb • bowie • radiohead • gomez • athlete • ozomatli • technos • sigur ros • herbaliser • iona • larry norman • beatles • muse • 6p • massive attack • clannad • d: • groove armada • ted leo • tangerine dream • kinobe • wire • writz • handel • underdown • sneaker pimps •

• system of a down • a perfect circle • jeff buckley • atf • superhero • coldplay • sparks • mozart • elastica • casual tease • t.rex • tallis • souljah clique • evanescence • orishas • kosheen • joy division • altered images • famous names • yes • devendra banhart • mute math • nitan sawney • sherri youngward • kula shaker •

... old uk ccm stuff, and the whole Bristol sound, whatever that is. My band of the moment is Robots in Disguise. I love the way, whether intentional or not, they take me back to the heyday of fantastic 80's electronica like Technos and Altered Images, etc. Fabulous. I wanna see people in make-up again!

Movies:

2001: A Space Odyssey [trailer]

2001: A Space Odyssey, The Railway Children, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Ghostworld, Big Lebowski, Lost In Translation, Fargo, American Beauty, Empire Records, Matrix, Dark Star, Ealing Comedies, Carry On films, 84 Charing Cross Road, Japanese Anime, Lord of the Rings, Walkabout.

Television:

The Tomorrow People

The totally and completely fabulous Mighty Boosh, Green Wing, Time Team, Black Books, Spooks, My Name is Earl, UFO, Bill Oddie stuff, naff 60's spy stuff, History docs, Topographical things, Plays by Stephen Poliakoff, Rubarb & Custard.

Books:

The Book Of Kells
Arthur C. Clarke, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, The Book of Kells, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Stephen Baxter, I read quite a bit of Sci-Fi basically, The Moonstone, Dickens, Hi-Fidelity (after which I immediately contacted all my ex-girlfriends to find out what they were doing .. an excercise I thoroughly recommend), Reece Winstone, Dario Fo, Bill Bryson, Edward Thomas, St.John's Gospel, Chaucer, Arthur Ransome, Ryu Murakami, Michael Wood, Watership Down, Johnathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Chuck Palahnuik, Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Walter de la Mare, Susan Cooper, Mystery Plays, Shakespeare, Edward Bond, .
Previously Read :
Harry Potter And The
Half-Blood Prince
JK Rowling (2005)
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Learning The World
Ken Macleod (2005)
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Cloud Atlas
David Mitchell (2004)
Labyrinth
Kate Mosse (2005)
Close Range
Annie Proulx (1999)
Currently Reading :
Transcendent
Stephen Baxter (2005)
Next in Queue :
84 Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff(1970)

Heroes:

Eddie Izzard

John Peel (so cool and so missed), Tony Robinson, Michael Palin, Stanley Kubrick (genius), Eddie Izzard (bloody funny), Michael Wood (he made history cool), Rev. Samuel Seyer (first true Bristol Historian), James Burke (come back!), Kenneth Williams ('Infamy! They've all got it in for me!'), Reece Winstone (Bristol's primary photo-historian), Fairnie (Artist, Musician, Hynotizer of Chickens, who turned out to be a Great Human Being in the end), My Aunt Olive.

Rob Lacey : Goodbye chap. You left this world a better place, and I shall miss you.

The Techno Twins, 1981 : Bev and Steve at the height of their powers. Bev is sooo gorgeous, and Fairnie is sooo missed.

I love Becca's photography
- and so should you.

My Blog

[31-12-06] New Year Revolutions

And so, as the old man collecting his pension from the post office that was 2006, is mugged by the hooded chav junkie that is 2007, it is time to look back on the past twelve months and weep. I quit...
Posted by jules on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 05:10:00 PST

[30-12-06] Image Reflection

I've been especially prolific this year, and I've actually got many more that I didn't get a chance to put up, so I have enough to get me through the Winter I think. This is a selction of images from ...
Posted by jules on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 05:33:00 PST

[25-12-06] Jules' Xmas Lecture 2006

I hope you've all had a good Christmas. I went to midnight mass at the Cathedral on Christmas Eve, and that was quite special. I tend to play down my faith on these pages, not wanting to set myself ...
Posted by jules on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 04:11:00 PST

[22-12-06] The True Christmas Atmosphere

It's curious that the prevailing image of Christmas remains that of the Dickensian, with snow and ice and snowmen and sledging and stuff. Yet, this almost never happens here. Right now, England is bla...
Posted by jules on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:30:00 PST

[09-12-06] Fancy A Spin?

Well, this was a surprise. I saw this being assembled yesterday afternoon, and today it was almost finished. Against the cold blue sky, this gigantic wheel towered incongruously over the shell of St. ...
Posted by jules on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:32:00 PST

[08-12-06] Lord Mayor's Chapel Gets A Face Lift

For several weeks now, the Lord Mayor's Chapel on College Green has been hidden by scaffolding as it's West Front was given a good clean. Now the scaffolding is gone, and the stonework is gleaming in ...
Posted by jules on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:34:00 PST

[28-11-06] New Cam Randoms

Having to work meant not much chance of any decent testing of my new cam's capabilities, but I was pleased with these initial results. Some close-ups of budding (!) trees in Castle Park, wit...
Posted by jules on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:32:00 PST

[27-11-06] Red Rain Is Gonna Fall

We're still getting some clear bright sunny days, but more frequently, the rain is falling with the last of the leaves, and the mulch is gathering. But there is still beauty to be found, as some trees...
Posted by jules on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 03:57:00 PST

[26-11-06] Aging Photographs

I have been experimenting with sepia tones. I had some images that I liked to some extent, but with which there were either problems with colour, or weaknesses with the picture. And that this prevente...
Posted by jules on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:50:00 PST

[22-11-06] Poem : Twilight

TWILIGHT When to the inward darkness of my mindI bid your face to come, not one hue repliesOf that curved cheek, no, nor the faint-tinged roseOf lips, nor smile between the mouth and eyes:Only the e...
Posted by jules on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:39:00 PST