The presenter had bright white fluffy hair, a luminous patterned shirt, and pink trousers. During the interviews, he didn’t withhold from making things up. And appeared to have breakdowns which required pills. His name was “Brian Bedonde”.

Alas, what was pitched to us as a serious art slot in a major program was in fact a pilot for a video version of Fonejacker. Needless to say none of those invovled in the exhbition were prepared to sign releases, and we have explicitly withdrawn any consent for the footage of us to be featured. Feeling slightly miffed to have wasted the time.

I’ve got a picture up in an exhibition in Oxford, starting in a few days time. The “press release” details are:

Made In Oxford

Photographic Exhibition by the Oxford Flickr Group
3rd – 31st October 2009 – free entry
(Opening night for press/exhibitors only 2nd October)
The Jam Factory, Holly Bush Row, Oxford, OX1 1HU (near main railway station)

The exhibition is the brainchild of a group of 30 local photographers who live, work and study in the Oxford area, most of whom had only met online before we decided to arrange this exhibition.

We’re here before term starts and we’re here when the tourists have jetted back to their own cities. And whilst it’s an outstandingly beautiful city to live in, it can get awfully boring photographing the Dreaming Spires again and again. So what we’ve set out to do is try and show you our Oxford instead. Every exhibitor has attached a little explanation to their photograph – what it is, why they took it. All the photos are geo-tagged and marked on the exhibition map so you can find out where we took them if you feel like exploring the city yourself.

Garrett Coakley, one of the organizers, said “It’s been an exciting challenge setting up an exhibition when most of the exhibitors have only ever communicated online – it just goes to show that when you have a internet-based community of like-minded individuals you can translate that into a real-world event. We’re looking forward to organising more events like this in the future.”

If you’re visiting Oxford and fancy taking away a slightly more interesting souvenir than the usual set of cheesy postcards and an Oxford University T-shirt then take a card, visit the website link , and purchase yourself a gorgeous shiny new book with all the exhibition photographs in. You can also purchase prints and books at the venue.

Pretty fun stuff. Do go and take a look if you get a chance (like if you happen to be in Oxford for a dedication service…)

I’m generally making the prints I sell at exhibitions as limited editions, but at the moment, that’s pretty much the only way I will sell them. So in the next few weeks (ok, that will probably mean months) I’ll add a new section to my website to make them more widely available – while still being very exclusive.

I’m working on a community art project at the moment called the Oxford Photographic Grid. The aim is to photograph Oxford in a systematic way rather than focusing only on the tourist attractions. The basic idea is that a grid is overlaid on a map of Oxford, and then a single photo is taken at each node location on that grid. If you’re interested in finding out about this project, please visit the project website.

We are currently looking for Oxford-based photographers (both amateur and professional) to take part. If that’s you, please sign up on the project website.

Thanks to Matt Durber for creating the banner & logos for this project.

Thanks for the pictures. I got them from the post office today. They are excellent! – Rhiannon Ward, Corpus Christi & St Hugh’s Ball

Nick and I are thrilled at the photographs you took, they are fantastic. - Nick and Rachel

Thank you very much for the disk of photos you dropped around yesterday. Miranda and I are delighted with them. – Simon and Miranda

The Tate Modern in London is currently having an exhibition contrasting contemporary street and studio photography. As part of the exhibition they are showing work submitted to a moderated group on Flickr. I submitted my signature photo to this group and it was accepted, so it is now being displayed on a monitor in the Tate Modern from time to time. The image above is screen shot of it being displayed on their website. Below is the screenshot when the mouse hovered over my picture.

From the submitted photos, 100 will be chosen by a panel of judges for inclusion an exhibition photobook. I’m quite hopeful I’ll make the final cut. We’ll see…

I’ve seen Wordles in number of places now, and so I thought I’d jump on the bandwagon. Here’s a Wordle of this blog created today – although not including this post – but perhaps iteratively doing it could be interesting… – perhaps not.

This was created at Wordle.net. The size of words depends on the frequency of their occurence. Consequently it shows what I post about most, or at least the words I use most when posting. It’s not surprising to see photos, wedding and Oxford coming up quite large. Perhaps the colour scheme I choose is not the best as ball comes up quite large, but it took me a while to find because it is in a light colour. Another factor affecting it’s size is that I use it slightly interchangably with event, meaning both come out a little smaller than wedding.

I may resort to creating one of these each month, I may not. We’ll see.

I lent one of my cameras to a friend – Mark Porter – for his trip to Chelsea flower show. He got some nice shots and I had difficulty chosing something to put up here. I’m sure Mark will post some more on his blog once I get around to burning them to a DVD and giving him the photos. Whilst I’m happy to lend my kit to friends, next time I might not the day before a wedding, I’m not sure I can handle the extra worry.

My little girl planted, with a significant amount of help from Daddy, a runner bean at a bank holiday children’s event. I was pretty amazed to see how much it grew in a single day (the start point represents 3 days growth from first appearing), so thought I’d set up my camera to record it time-lapse. Frames are taken 5 minutes apart. I don’t have a power lead for my camera so the number of frames was limited by my battery ‘s power. I may try again another day with a fully charged battery.

I thought it was pretty interesting how much it moves, so thought I would share.

My wife is pregnant with our second child! Hurray! She had an ultrasound scan this morning and all is well with the little blob. So now the news is public, I added her pregnancy blog (Emily++) to my blogroll – my details about her pregnancy that anyone should really want to know!

In the meantime… I thought the site below was amusing. Before you go…I’d like to point out that this isn’t my work! I don’t use photoshop (or the like) much.

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/