Month: June 2016

  • Bexhill and Hastings

    (OK – the last one was outside King’s Cross station)

  • Wicken Fen

  • Tate Modern – Switch House

    The new extension of the Tate Modern has recently opened and I popped along on what I hoped would be a quiet day. It wasn’t – as there were hundreds of school kids around and about. The new extension, Switch House, is adjacent to the Boiler House (as the older part of the museum is…

  • Cycling in the City

    Cycling in the City from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. Here’s a short film I shot with my Super 8 camera about four years ago that somehow hadn’t previously seen the light of day. The film was basically shot on my commute to work along the cycle paths of Bloomsbury and around Tavistock Square. Unfortunately, I…

  • North Norfolk Coast

    The North Norfolk Coast from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. This video is slightly more recent than yesterday’s timelapse video. It was shot back in March in Sheringham, Salthouse and Cley on the North Norfolk coast. The music is by Arvo Pärt. Available in 2K!

  • A Timelapse of 25 Great Pulteney Street, London

    25 Great Pulteney Street – Timelapse from Adam Bowie on Vimeo. Do you ever embark on a project that somehow you never quite get around to completing? I certainly do. And here, finally, is a project that I’ve completed some six years after I started it. This begins back in 2010 when I was still…

  • EU Referendum: Immediate Post Mortem Thoughts

    Cameron has to take a massive amount of blame for all of this. He probably didn’t think he was going to win the last General Election, and therefore including something in his manifesto to keep UKIP at bay was probably just a sop to them. But he won unexpectedly and so felt he had to…

  • John Oliver on Brexit

    On Sunday night, HBO in the US aired a new episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The second half of the show was a long explanation/opinion piece from Oliver about what Brexit is (this is a show aimed at Americans after all), and was essentially a 15 minute piece imploring Britain to Vote…

  • The Secret Listeners of Trent Park

    Last night I heard a man named Fritz Lustig speak. Fritz is 96. He came to Britain in 1939, as a refugee escaping Hitler’s Germany, where his family were classified as “non-Aryans” – an immigrant who was seeking asylum, if you like. At first, like most Germans in Britain, he was interned once war was…

  • Euro 2016 – Staying on TV

    As Euro 2016 kicks off in France tonight, my inbox has become flooded with nonsense PR stories. My email address has recently been sold to a number of PR agencies and I get a wide variety of emails asking me if I’m interested in writing about things I’m not interested in writing about. I silently…

  • An Open Letter to Facebook

    Dear Facebook, I just want you to be super clear that I am not installing your messaging app on my phone. Ever. I’m a moderate user of your service. I’ve got a fair few “friends” on the service, and I’m a member of a few groups. Occasionally I use your messaging functionality. But I use…

  • The EU Referendum

    Clearly these are my personal views. Now read on… We’re now just under two weeks out from probably the most important vote I’ve had in my lifetime – far more important than any single General Election. We can change a Government after five years (or sooner). The effects of this vote last a lifetime. But…