Fish (incl. video/interactive media producer, digital creativity specialist, lover of Simple Pleasures)
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Often misattributed to Ernest Hemingway, this micro-story of just 6 words dates from some less famous source in 1906. It is a great example of a stor…
“Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.” – Neil deGrasse Tyson Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophys…
“All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.”– Leo Tolstoy Whether it is two or seven (Christopher Booker) or some other low number, there are v…
In the story of the creation, God makes the world, and everything in it, in six days. On the seventh day he rests. The day of rest is significant because it suggests that the creation required a ce…
“It is the true duty of every man to promote the happiness of his fellow creatures to the utmost of his power” William Wilberforce – politician, philanthropist & leader of the British sla…
A survival mechanism orders the world into cause – effect – conclusion. David Mamet – Three Uses of the Knife I’m reading ‘Trip to the Moon’ by John Yorke, my old commissioning colleague at C…
“First learn to be a craftsman; it won’t keep you from being a genius.” Eugène Delacroix There’s a lot to be said for thoroughly learning your craft – whether it’s filmmaking or p…
“Wolves only howl for a reason. Same as men cry for a reason. I think it’s the same thing” John Martyn, musician-singer-songwriter All art – including songs, films, painting…
Berlin was in a state of civil war. Hate exploded suddenly, without warning, out of nowhere; at street corners, in restaurants, cinemas, dance halls, swimming-baths; at midnight, after breakfast, i…
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.” Ernest Hemingway There are two types of competitiveness – intrinsic and ext…
Great Russell Street, London John Lennon, for some reason, has been punctuating my life the last few days. It started when we saw a bloke taking a selfie with a statue on a bench at the top of Carn…
The Fitzroy Tavern, Fitzrovia, London There’s real pleasure to be found in special places. Last night we repaired, as is our habit, to the Fitzroy Tavern after the Charles Peake Ulysses Seminar at …
“There’s no other time but the present. Anything else is a waste of time.” John Lennon, Melody Maker, October 1971 “Life is what happens to you, While you’re busy making other plans.” B…
“The regret of my life is that I have not said “I love you” often enough” Yoko Ono directed by Kevin MacDonald – one of the best docs of 2025 Just watching ‘One to One’ documentar…
We tend as humans to strive for certainty and definition, hard lines and comprehensible patterns, familiar routines and rituals. Life, however, is rarely certain or hard edged. We don’t know how lo…
Phillips auction house, Berkeley Square Our mental radars are fascinating. We can train our brains to notice certain things. After spending 13 years at Channel 4 where issues of diversity were a th…
“As the man once said, the harder you work, the luckier you get.” Ted Lasso Ted Lasso is brilliantly scripted television, as good as it gets. The main character’s optimism and homespun wisdom is ju…
“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.” [WH Auden] Just on my way back from my first ever visit to the Royal Opera House, London (for an opera &…
“Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” [Pablo Picasso] Photo: Edward Quinn. Picasso working on the ‘War and Peace study’ drawings on the wall of Chapelle de la Paix ̵…
I finished making this today – it took a couple of years to find the spherical stones, mainly on the Sussex coast I first saw this table display when I was at university (by Jim & Helen E…