Randle rambles

I was going to go out and capture some shots of the fireworks last night but was distracted by the incredible brightness of the moon. It was constantly being covered by fast moving abstract clouds which produced an amazing halo effect. I didn’t bother to get one image of the fireworks! this was much more beautiful.

Have just spent quite a lot of time looking at these amazing Icelandic landscape photographs by Rupert Nightingale. Found them via the creative review blog they are absolutely captivating. Almost abstract in feel and quite illustrative, a couple of large format prints would be lovely!

Had your fill of stop motion movies? Well even if you have this one is still worth a couple of minutes viewing pleasure. Completed for Olympus cameras and in their own words – This is The PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production!

I came across this whilst having my lunch and surfing around the web going off on many tangents. I love the complete randomness of the flight patterns, such a hectic amount of energy in a very small area.

A collection of 156 photographs by film maker Charlie McCarthy, each image is a four second exposure. They have been animated and edited together to create this cool movie.

This is the best stop motion movie I have seen in recent months. According to the details on You Tube it took 1500 hours to make 8-bit trip. A labour of love that must have taken over someone’s life for a while.

The attention to detail and camera work is very good, I must admit to thinking some of it must be CGI for a while.

Mr Worthington is a multi talented graphic designer with a sharp eye for detail and layout who I have known for years. He’s decided this year to venture into the wold of freelance, so if you’re looking for a good designer/art director to work on any projects you need look no further. His expanding portfolio site is dworthington.co.uk.

Because of the tube strikes most of London was forced to walk too and from work the last couple of days. I thought I would document this afternoons walk from Soho to Liverpool St station.

It’s actually been great fun and given me some much needed exercise, I should really walk at least once a week if the weather is god but I know it will never happen. Back on the tube tomorrow!

Stefan Sagmeister gives a very inspiring talk on why design can make you happy. From one of the TED series of lectures you can access from TED or their Google channel.

Stefan Sagmeister

More updates of our great trip to Norfolk a couple of weekends ago. There is something amazing about being near the sea that you just can’t explain but it is very relaxing.

I spent a fantastic long weekend with the family and a few other couples up in Norfolk near a place with a superb name called Wells next the Sea. This really was the perfect antidote to the mad overcrowded rush that is London every day. It was a pleasure to have long lazy walks, kite flying on the beach, amazing old school beach huts and fresh fish and chips by the harbour. Very British and very perfect!

I will be putting more pictures up in the next couple of days.