I have begun a new project, or rather, have revived an old one, but this time I am shooting it digitally – The Crystal City. And here is one of them…

The Films page on this website has been updated. I have upgraded my digital media production facility, so I can take media production all the way through from initial concept and copywriting to post-production and release. Also, the Films page contains an update on the current status of My Asian Heart, the documentary film on the [...]

I have just added a number of freely downloadable PDFs of interviews I have done with famous photographers, many of them working in the area of fashion. Most of these were written for Black+White magazine, when I was its European Contributing Editor based in London, while I was also working for agencies like The Leagas [...]

I have a new digital camera – the Canon G10 compact rangefinder. It is, essentially, just about a professional camera in the guise of a consumer model. Here are two photographs I did the day I picked it up – everything set at Auto. The camera has rather remarkable image quality – and an excellent lack [...]

I’ve pioneered a few forms of communication, especially online via the Web, over the years, and it’s been fun, but you do pay a price for being a pioneer. Back in 1999 I tried to create a viable digitally-published magazine, and the price I paid was overwork, then burn-out. Nonetheless, for the duration of its all-too-short [...]

A rather challenging project has landed on my desk. It is confidential, so I cannot talk of specifics here, save to say that it is to do with human rights, that it will be created in sisomo – sight, sound, motion, and that the stories must be told with complete anonymity – no recognizable names, [...]

I’ve not caught up with Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide CEO Kevin Roberts’ blog for a little while, so it was time to do a quick scan, and I came across this inspirational post – A Job for the Future. In it, Roberts writes about the hot careers of the future, using simpler and more direct names [...]

Today I scoured the Sydney inner city bookstores for some of the Cyan books in their Great Brand Stories series, and found one! So they are available in Australia, or at least one title from the series at any rate. The one I bought today is named Dyson The domestic engineer: How Dyson changed the meaning [...]

I had a rather promising meeting yesterday where the subject of creative writing in business came up. What we know as business writing, aka pr, aka marketing communications, aka marcomms can be pretty dire, dry and formulaic stuff, whereas creative writing in business – telling great stories about businesses – is a whole other kettle [...]

I’ve just received the following from a friend who works at Canon in Australia. Renowned (Pulitzer Prize-winning) photographer Vincent Laforet got his hands on a pre-production 5D Mk II, and here’s the result: http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2086 The behind the scenes video is here: http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2008/09/23/behind-the-scenes-video/ This changes everything in video and stills photography. You’ll see why.