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Encouraging Quotes 2
February 3, 2012
Bruce Lee It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential. Arthur Ashe Start where you are. Use what you can. Do what you can. Anon Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. “A year from now you will wish you had started today.” “News is something someone, somewhere is trying to suppress.
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Ring of Kerry, Ireland
February 1, 2012
I flew with S to the Ring of Kerry. I took my Soviet Zenit camera with me. I shot footage for a “remaking” project I was doing at Goldsmiths. In this case the footage was all about natural processes, erosion, abandoned objects, a passage from human built landscapes to natural landscapes. I created a short film and played around with the sound effects. For example, I cut the sound of the burning moorland and overlaid it with the sound of traffic and rain in Newcross.
Tags: Ireland
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Working and Travelling in Dubai, UAE and why it blew me away
November 1, 2011
On the 5th October I flew to Dubai, UAE to work on exhibition stands at the Gitex technology trade-shows in Dubai and Abu Dhabi. I returned to Dubai on 27th. This was a great opportunity to finance my Goldsmiths university course, get a change of scenery and be paid to travel somewhere. At first I would have thought Dubai wouldn’t appeal to me but there were many reasons to be intrigued.
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Guest Post: Leon McCarron - From New York to Hong Kong collecting peoples stories - on travelling alone
October 10, 2011
I have always found bike touring to be an intensely personal and introspective endeavour. Journeys with companions have been a lot of fun, and I definitely owe my love of adventure cycling to early trips with friends around the U.K and Europe. As I rode further and longer though, I began to wonder what it was I was hoping to take from a multi day bike ride. Sure, fun is always an important issue, but there’s something else that happens, or can happen when touring.
Tags: AsiaIrishIrelandGuest-postLeon maccarronBicycle touringAdventureCycling
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Visiting Workshops of Makers
October 8, 2011
A project I did at Goldsmiths was about “remaking” making. I had to go and look at making in progress and then have a think if I could a sort of making differently. I went to a range of workshops, shot some film, took photos and made drawings. Joiner Jail Make, Deptford
Tags: UK
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Adventure Travel Show 2011
September 16, 2011
Adventure Travel Show in London 2011. I was representing at this show, and enjoying some fine chat about adventures.
Tags: ShowTravel show
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Janapar at Raindance Film Festival 2012
September 16, 2011
Raindance, which opens in London on September 25th sets its sights firmly on independent filmmaking, and has done so for the last twenty years, to the point where it is now the biggest such film festival in the UK and, according to Variety, one of the top 50 film festivals in the world. The adventure cycling film ‘Janapar’, in which I appear, premiered at the festival.
Tags: StrapsBikepackingTouring
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Cycling the South West Coast Path
July 17, 2011
Got the train down to bournemouth and cycled along the coast path. Full story to come… I’m in Christchurch. Me and Siobhan got the train down to Poole and there was torrential rain. I was sick of at looking at the wealth on display in Poole so it was good when we got over to Studland via the ferry. The ferry clunked and clanked. In the distance was Brownsea island.
Tags: UK
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Geocache Round London
March 1, 2011
Tom and I met up for a spot of Geocaching in London. Geocaching is when someone hides something and puts the GPS location online then you go and find it. Searching round the back of this statue for the package. Reading the rolled up paper with notes from previous finders. A closer look. Adding our message to the list. Then we replaced it back where we had found it. Its good wholesome fun and gets you out of the house.
Tags: London
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Cycling to Ireland, Travels Round Northern Ireland
March 1, 2011
I’d never been to Ireland before and so Siobhan and I decided to cycle there. I’d convinced S to buy a bike for commuting in London and now I had the chance to introduce her to cycle touring. I planned a route and I got my dad to drive us to Tamworth to miss out the first bit in the midlands. Then we made our way via smaller roads through Staffordshire towns and villages into Wales, to Llangollen and the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and onward to Anglesey.
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A Good Year for Protesting in London
March 1, 2011
This year (2011) I attended a few protests against austerity, public service funding cuts, critical mass bicycle rides and others. Huge demonstrations against austerity. TUC march. Occupy outside St.Pauls.
Tags: London
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Encouraging Quotes
January 29, 2011
Bruce Parry The (King) of the Suri Tribe - We are one, we all have ten fingers, we have two eyes, we have two ears, we have one stomach, we are all one. Remember me Sherlock Holmes When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains however improbable must be the truth Ice T After leaving high school, he joined the U.S. Army. He has stated he did not enjoy the experience, explaining, “I didn’t like total submission to a leader other than myself”.