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After three amazing years as the voice of the channel (so on brand), I’ve decided to leave BBC Three at the end of this month.I never really thought I’d end up working in TV, never mind on it, so...
Monday Monday...
I'm finally getting to tackle my to-do list... the list that has sat in my #evernote #moleskine for the last 6 months whilst I have tackled e-mail migration and a server replacement.. It's so confusing being able to actually plan a project and not have the pressures of failure bearing down on you from the outset... It's almost too much of a relief and I actually struggled to start something today... Not helped by the nagging appointment in my diary for my first ISO meeting on Wednesday... Bring it on...
WWSBD: Jamie Morrison - Got Vitamin C
So I figured that in amongst all of the tech talk I'd post some stuff that keeps me going, things that show that there is more to life than failed Raid Arrays! hence the What we should be doing title...
Welcome, Jamie Morrison, Caveat, I've know Jamie for years, followed his band (s) and photography online. Jamie has always done posters and artwork for bands but more recently has started screen printing his artwork. Here's a few recent examples...
You can buy his stuff here: http://gotvitaminc.bigcartel.com and keep up with his blog here: http://gotvitaminc.blogspot.co.uk/
I'm still searching for frames - i'm yet to make the pilgrimage to IKEA - for the last two...
He even manages to fit in a podcast called Cool Dudes Radio with the inimitable Rhys Lowis Stephens or Pugs... you can find that here: http://cooldudesradio.blogspot.co.uk or on your favoured podcast browser!
Mike Harvey’s Taxi Photo Booth
You meet all sorts of people driving a taxi. It’s the nature of the job. If you don’t meet lots of people, it’s a pretty good sign that you’re doing something wrong and should probably reconsider the choices you’ve made.
Mike Harvey is a man from South Wales who started driving a taxi to fund his trips around the world. A few months ferrying lots of people in and out of Swansea; a couple of months in Brazil. Half a year meeting lots more people on the night shift; three months touring Egypt, or Nepal, or Kathmandu.
In 2010, Mike started to document some of his taxi journeys, building a rapport with passengers, taking their photo at the final destination and waiving the fee as a thank you. He stopped taxi driving a year or so ago, but has compiled his favorite portraits from the project, all of which are named after the price of the journey, and unique, intimate insights into the social makeup of South Wales. He is currently exhibiting them at the Monkey Cafe & Bar in Swansea.
I met with Mike yesterday for a chat.
(£4.00)
VICE: Hi, Mike. Why did you start taking photos of your passengers? Mike Harvey: I just found the job so fascinating. I never knew who was going to get into my taxi next—I’d learn so much from the passengers because there were so many predicaments I was put in. So I got a DSLR and started taking photos. I wanted the pictures to represent the journeys we’d shared, because the taxi was occupied by so many people throughout that period.
Were most people happy to have their photo taken? Well, I documented roughly 130 journeys altogether, and I’d say only nine people said no. I’d always do it at the end of the journey, so we’d have built a rapport by then. I see it as one of the best educational experiences of my life, really, because whether it was giving someone CPR by the side of the road, a pregnant woman running away from my taxi, not paying, barefooted…
(£2.87) ”This guy used to be a bit of a regular customer, but he’s passed away since I took this photo, so there’s some poignancy there for me.”
What happened there? I was driving out of Swansea at about 3AM, and this girl who was full-term pregnant—you know, ready to go—was sat at the side of the road, barefoot, flagging me down. So she got in and… it’s a bit of an impromptu counselling service sometimes, driving a taxi. I said that maybe getting hammered when you’re pregnant isn’t such a good idea, but, you know, we had a nice chat. Then, when I dropped her off, she legged it. I’d usually chase after someone, but she was fully pregnant, you know? She was the one that got away, but I let her get away.
People would also offer me drugs—ketamine. I mean, I don’t do drugs anyway, but who does ketamine when they’re driving?
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What an incredible start to 2015 - a Server crash, a flood and our main freight forwarder went pop on Christmas Eve. As you may have guessed, it has been a month of catching up and putting plans in place to pre-empt anything like this from taking a swipe at us again...
It's now February and we're bedding in for Spring, getting plans in place for the rest of 2015 in an effort to not be chasing our tails.
I aim to document the trials and tribulations of being an accidental techie / creative director in a pretty successful, established business. Since starting out as a graphic designer (getting the job because I knew Photoshop Actions) I've found that working at a 35 year old company has it's technological peculiarities.
I'll be talking e-mail migration, server melt downs, tech start ups, non-start ideas and documenting my attempt at spending more time being creative as opposed to hunched over a dying Windows 2003 Server in a dusty broom cupboard.