Monthly Archives: March 2024

Bristol venue to host legendary 90s rave sound systems and DJs at ‘free party’ exhibition

The event at Lost Horizon will bring together some of the most instrumental people from the early 1990s free party scene By Mark Taylor Life Writer Festivalgoers these days are used to paying hundreds of pounds for the privilege of … Continue reading

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Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective

Free Party Exhibition and Show. A Retrospective Lost Horizons, Bristol Samsung S10 4K Video 3840 x2160 I’m there again next Saturday 28th May and on the panel discussion then: 4pm – 5pm – Talks w. Q&A – DiY (Harry H … Continue reading

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Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol

Free Party, A Retrospective. Film and Panel discussion at Lost Horizon, Bristol. * Aaron Trinder, Filmmaker* Harry Harrison, DiY* Steff Pickles, Traveller* Alan Lodge, ‘Tash’, Photographer …. video of the panel by Sam also check out the groove at ….

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My Castlemorton Exhibition of Photographs in Berlin. 18 January – March 2024

At the British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. As the co-organiser of the British Shorts Film Festival in Berlin, Germany. We are an independent weeklong festival organised with a love for all kinds and genres of short films and … Continue reading

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One Minute ‘sketch’ around Nottingham

One Minute ‘sketch’ around Nottingham Insta360 Ace Pro – 4K Video 3840 x2160

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A first test to see if this sends a tweet?

Have just set this up using the ‘Uncanny Automator’ plugin for my WordPress Blog. https://automatorplugin.com

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Up to Kinder Scout by Jacobs Ladder

Kinder Scout, Derbyshire Peak District 60 second TikTok https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGefxqFyP/

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Re-Photographing / Digitising my Photographic Archives

Illustrating my method of digitising the work. A Nikon Z9 mirrorless camera. A 50mm macro 1:1 lens and a Nikon ES-2 copying attachment with negative and transparency racks. Then post-processing in Adobe Lightroom. Inverting from negative to positive and correction … Continue reading

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A Photographic Archive

Here at Tash Towers, this is my photographic library of Black and White negative and Colour Transparencies taken between 1979 and 2003. After 2003, my work has been most digital. Hence there is a shedload of scanning / re-photographing the … Continue reading

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MPs, understand this: protests are inevitable when you fail to represent the people

Andy Beckett Politics is not just an activity conducted in Westminster corridors, with the voters locked out – as marches over the climate crisis and Gaza show Sun 10 Mar 2024 13.01 GMT Where should politics happen? For most MPs, … Continue reading

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Kodak Carousel S-AV2000 Slide Projectors on interval dissolves

Kodak Carousel S-AV2000 Slide Projectors on interval dissolves. With long focus 250 mm lenses. One Eye on the Road. This is how it was done, back in ye olde days!

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Socialism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion on Prevent list of terrorism warning signs

Communism also among ideologies on document as human rights groups say UK scheme has been politicised Vikram Dodd Police and crime correspondent Thu 7 Mar 2024 13.38 GMT Share A document from Prevent, the official scheme to stop radicalisation, includes believing … Continue reading

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Facebook Pix : Council Cuts Demo. 9 March 2024

Protest against Nottingham City Council Cuts to services https://tinyurl.com/2cavehh3 Government Commissioners have been appointed to ‘oversee’ Nottingham Council Finances. It is expected that this will mean significant cuts to public services.

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Protest against Nottingham City Council Cuts

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Councillors warn of ‘threat to local democracy’ in England after budget cuts forced on Nottingham

Elected officials say they are no longer in control of financial decisions affecting hundreds of thousands of people Tom WallSat 9 Mar 2024 12.31 GMTShare Councillors elected to run a financially stricken city have warned that local democracy is “under … Continue reading

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What I learned about Photography Projects from Edward S. Curtis

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Revisiting the site of the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’ July 1985

Google map: https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1921722,-1.6660082,1337m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu At a meeting of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), in early 1985,  it was resolved to obtain a High Court Injunction preventing the annual gathering at Stonehenge. This was the device to be used to … Continue reading

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Battle of the Beanfield : Location

Google Map https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1921722,-1.6660082,1296m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu as was then….. as is now …..

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Beanfield : Police exposed film

This is the story of the police action at the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’. The attack on ‘The Convoy’ on the way to the Stonehenge Free Festival on the 1st June 1985. Below is the picture of the exposed film, … Continue reading

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Being interviewed for the BBC2 Programme ‘Trashed’

Me being interviewed for the BBC2 Programme ‘Trashed’ at Savernake Forest after the police actions at the ‘Battle of the Beanfield’.

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