This book focuses on Lady Byron (1792-1860), her daughter, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, and the ways they were affected by Lord Byron..
Writing: Recent work related experiences have had the effect of denting my self-confidence somewhat, with the “imposter syndrome” that invariably...
I sat at the back where it was coolest and surrounded by the monochrome collage of pictures of Old Soho that papered the walls at the rear of the cafe, staring unblinkingly at the unending stream of traffic outside and people walking lazily past....
Prior to Cinefex the history of fanzines was littered with short-run magazines..
The final title sequence involved a lot of analogue post-work in the form of a sheet of reeded glass that emulated TV raster or low-resolution 8 Bit computer graphics
It's hard to pinpoint exactly when I had the first stirrings of interest in Japan and Japanese culture.
Berlin compares Tolstoy with Maistre, a post-French Revolution, ultramontane Catholic, and extremely conservative thinker who thought Europe should return to the blind Catholicism and authoritarianism of the Dark Ages. He was a hedgehog.
Now, and perhaps even in that moment in the hospital ICU private ward, I like to think that perhaps he was casting his mind back to the early 1950's when he lived in New York, which, judging by photographs from his time there, must have been the time of his life...
In more ways than just cinema, the immigrant community of that part of West London in the 1960's and 1970's could be viewed as a counterpart to that depicted in Tornatore's film, since many came from rural villages with a farming background.
Writing: Plastic Astronauts from Planet Cereal… My mother insists that this is a false memory but I have a distinct...
As the young man came and went I would gently remind him of his promise to build me a jet-pack...
Fan Fiction: *Transcribed, unedited, from an un-dated (late 80’s ?), one-page A4 typed script… It may serve to mention, from...