Here is a view of the river mersey looking out to the ventilation tower for the tunnel.

The whole of the workshop/studio has been planned around an central, empty space and a free wall. Everything like filing cabinets, sets of drawers, storage has been bult on wheels so can move out into the corridoor for more room. I finished the overhead scaff riggin the other week for lights and flags. Few more tasks on some machines then …

I made use of the Mag follower by using its 19″ racking for the amps and Eqs, for the sound from both the steenbecks. Keeping this area tidy and free of cllutter is crucial when editing material gets hectic.

Its official. I hate this thing. Its SOOO unreliable. This time however it might have got damaged when some drilling took place on the frame of the printer. Looks like the bridge rectifier has blown! It can be fixed (my electrical friend tells me) but I hate this box anyway. Ok, it does an important job. It controls the motor …

I came into work one day and the fairies had been busy. Because there on the lens platform was a new lens x and y stage drive rig. Also it had a T-bar plate so I could mount lots of different lens plate holders. I immediately marked off all the basic optical processes ie 16(35 to 16(35) which uses same …

This is theoretically going to work right?

Ok, its only been about 10 years since I made these negs and never got round to printing. Who cares, I’m in no hurry. Sometimes ideas take a long time to develop as well. The idea here though was quite simple. To make sound recordings on the Eurocord-Klangfilm, then document the machine itself.

You got to admire the lomo spiral. Marvel of plastic engineering and design. I prefer the morse however.

The manual table is really the best and most satisfying method of going through films to catalogue, inspect, repair, select, prepare for viewing or copying or projecting. Its film nearly at its most peaceful. Ive got loops and stuff but my lens of choice to view strips of film are Bell&Howell 60mm lenses that you find on the 16mm projectors. …

My 16mm print of ‘Dream of Wild Horses’ by Denys Colomb de Daunant looks pretty faded. But maybe it wasn’t in full colour originally anyway. So can it be restored photochemically? We will see.