MINCED OATHS
Hello!
I’m back to show you the incremental progress of my creative endeavours. SO BUCKLE UP!
I wrote a whole post about the ten year anniversary of my failed kickstarter campaign for Until The Days Breaks trying to reflect on the experience, but I’ll be honest; it just got me down and I still feel a lot of pain thinking back to a time when I went big but crashed and burned. So I thought “fudge it!” Who cares about that now? I just want to make new stuff. So here’s a new joint;
SKATEBOARDING
Since last summer I’ve got back into skateboarding. I’ve started making a comic/zine about it that I was hoping to cheaply print and leave at the skatepark for people to read. As ever, progress is slow (and if you read on you’ll see it’s unlikely to get finished soon) but here’s one page that’s done;
It’s been super fun being able to go to The Warehouse over the winter; Cambridge’s first EVER indoor skatepark. It’s been so beneficial for mind and body, and there’s a really friendly non-threatening vibe there. I have even made some big improvements in my skateboarding for the first time in years! Here’s a cool video about it.
DON’T EAT THE PINK SNOW #1
I still have copies of my first ever complete full colour comic available. Snap one up if you haven’t already! I have plans for another, but I’m holding off doing that until I…
FINISH MY DAMN MOVIE!
Yes friends. I have sworn that I will finish my feature film HARD EDGES for better or worse by the end of this year, or it will go in the bin. That’s real talk. Because I need to move on. It was never supposed to take so long. But I had a child and we all had a pandemic and all the fallout that came along with it. That’s made it really hard to throw myself back into it with the initial vigour that we started with.
So I’m shoving everything else out of the way to get it over the finish line, by hook or by crook. It’s close. It just needs that last huge push.
We’re in the process of getting the final pickup shots (when you need to film an extra shot to plug a hole in the edit) like this one!
It’s been a long time since my last post. One of my oldest and closest friends died of Alcoholic Ketoacidosis a year ago next week. An end that doesn’t do justice to the rehabilitation he went through and the help and support that he gave to others with substance abuse problems with his work at Turning Point. It sucks because he brought so much colour and humour to the world.
I recently found an audio recording on my computer of us on Felixstowe beach. He’s musing over what thoughts are! In the middle of this pondering I suddenly announce that I’m going swimming and run off to the shore. Then he’s laughing hysterically as I’m awkwardly hobbling on the stones, trying to get in the frigid waters. He just carries on talking without me!
So that and my own life revelations meant posting newsletters was not a primary concern in 2024.
But I’m still out there making stuff and I hope you are too, because you’re alive, by Jingo! So live!
Until the future!
Carl
Nice reading from you again! Keep on making stuff and pushing yourself.