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September 2011 Hello It’s been a month of adjusting to and contemplating the unpredictable weather systems we must now embrace in the world, which affect both our lives and work,…

August 2011 Hello Back to London and to our imaginary summer for a moment, though at the time of writing it seems to have mysteriously reappeared. Keep it quiet… …

July 2011 Hello Greetings from sunny New York City where I’m learning to understand this universal language of taking a ‘holiday/vacation,’ a term as yet unknown to me, and where…

June 2011 Hello Once again at the time of writing I am somewhere else, as often as not it seems. This time I am over in Munich Germany to play…

May 2011 Hello As the UK and much of the rest of world recovers after Royal Wedding fever, my month has selfishly only left brief moments to stop, rest and…

April 2011 Hello I’m writing this en route to London from participating in a conference at the celebrated cinema school in Paris, La Fémis, which was most entertaining, especially with…

March 2011 Hello With an already intense schedule lined up it’s reassuring to remember that the origins of March are from ancient Rome, celebrating Martius aka Mars, the Roman god…

February 2011 Hello One month into 2011 and I’ve calculated that I have already worked on sixteen projects this year so I imagine it’s going to be another adventurous and…

January 2011 Hello Into a New Year, a new decade, MMXI, and after a rather ferocious 2010, The Year of the Rabbit, The International Year of Forests and International Year…

December 2010 Hello We are now moving towards the end of the year and to begin this month I’m over in Wollongong, Australia to present my work and escape the…

November 2010 Hello I write this as Halloween strikes and all the monsters appear around particular locations in the world,  so I hope you all survive safely. This has been…

October 2010 Hello The nights are drawing in, the blinds are closed earlier every day and more and more layers of clothing keeping me warm. I have just returned from…

August 2010 Hello As certain areas of Europe close down for the summer period, pursuing holidays and heading towards the mountains, lakes and beaches to recharge, I return to London…

July 2010 Hello The warmest imaginable month in memory has passed in the UK , and sporting events  have united and divided countries with the realisation that fragile and petulant…

June 2010 Hello A hectic month has passed whilst slipping to another human number in age, yet remaining an alien to almost everything else. It’s been a month of creative…

May 2010 Hello Given that so much of my life is spent in transit I must admit to feeling remarkably fortunate in the last weeks to have remained in the…

April 2010 Hello Spring momentarily arrived and I wandered around Parisian streets last weekend in a mild climate, only to return to London and find icy cold temperatures, snowfall in…

March 2010 Hello February may be the shortest month of the year but this one has certainly been as action packed as always in Scannerworld. Back into the studio to…

February 2010 Hello It has been a month when the seasonal climate has severely disrupted my flowing passage across Europe, with snow, fog and atmospheric conditions devouring any stable plans.…

January 2010 Hello Welcome to a new decade, 2010 (MMX), the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century, a bright start to new possibilities.  Given…

December 2009 Hello Moving towards the close of the year, indeed the end of the decade, so it is another opportunity for reflection and consideration. I’m keenly anticipating a quieter…

November 2009 Hello It’s been a month spent living out a suitcase and indeed this very newsletter is composed en route between Brussels and Amsterdam. I’m beginning to wonder if…

October 2009 Hello Sometimes a dark cloud hovers for a moment and inhibits possibilities. Unfortunately September brought with it both personal demise and digital defeat when the foremost hard drive…

September 2009 Hello A genuinely quieter August, spent finding space to breathe in the sea air of Pula in Croatia, enjoying swimming in crystal clear warm waters, avoiding sea hedgehogs…

August 2009 Hello It has been said that too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation and I must share in this view. With my rather…

July 2009 Hello Rock and roll was the theme to close the month of June with the debut North American tour for Githead and what an adventure this was. Professor…

June 2009 Hello  May was a month in which I celebrated another grand birthday at home with ice cream DVDs and Facebook since I’d succumbed to the (swine?) flu…

May 2009 Hello  It has been said that absence makes the heart go wander and with my fairly constant travel schedule I sometimes feel as if I need to…

April 2009 Hello  A month of travels, visas, hotels, variable weather conditions, delays and delights, both present and future past.  Visa tales continue, this time to visit the…