It’s a breathless title for a very tranquil subject. My friend took me to see his allotment on the edge of the city. The street stops, we walk through a gate and… peace. Plants of every description, some in neat little rows, others waging nature’s gentle war. Green crawling over everything man-made, dismantling us so slowly we can’t even see it. How long would it take for a jungle to grow over the lost ruins of Manchester?
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Reap the Wild Earth
Sunshine and Dandelions
Dandelion. It’s my new favourite word – bounces like Tigger and isn’t afraid to wear a silly hat. I want to be a dandelion…
These are some of the views I stole on a walk round Chorltonville yesterday, drenched in summer sun and everything turning green around us. Doesn’t Manchester scrub up well on a hot day? Continue reading
Autumn Leaves
XY Outro – The Found Sound Orchestra
I made a video! The Found Sound Orchestra make songs out of bits of other songs, and I used the same technique here with found footage to make the movie. I chose some of the most stunning time-lapse clips I could find, made by some very talented photographers from Vimeo. My video is in HD and I tried to create an atmosphere of sheltering from a storm, huddling around a campfire with autumn shivers down the spine, while the cosmos cartwheels above.
Hope you like it!
UPDATE: We’ve been visited by the FSO! Check out the comments section…














