The International Society for Krishna Consciousness were out along the sea front in Brighton last weekend. It was great to see such a colourful display out on a steel grey day!
We followed along for a few minutes and enjoyed the dancing and the singing, and then carried on homeward bound.
I was lucky enough to have been invited to a day of filming for “The Scandalous Four“, a period drama being filmed at Sedgwick Park.
The production looked awesome, the manor house that it was being filmed in is just a stunning period building filled with the most ostentatious furniture and statues. The actors looked fantastic with excellent costume and performances, all in all I can’t wait for the film to come out!
My attempt to head to a site of derelict and abandoned buildings was thwarted today by two wiry men and their delightfully boisterous dogs refusing us.
I figured I’d at least post up this shot of a burnt out and battered car languishing in a field, at least the kids had been making use of it from all the smashed beer bottles collected in it’s rusty innards.
Running around a fancy dress party gives many opportunities for some great pictures. Stick them up on Facebook and everyone gets to see how great the party was and how awesome everyone looked!
Always good when people make the effort.
Awoke far too early for a Saturday morning to head down to the West Pier. I’ve been helping some friends film Darkest Day, a Zombie movie.
They put the call out for zombie extras on Facebook, and Saturday morning the horde turned up. Plenty of gore and make-up later, and we had a group of shamblers ready to charge down the beach.
Saturday was one of the few days of the year that the tide goes far enough out to actually expose the west pier, so we ran down there and filmed in what is left of the first section of the pier. It’s not much more than a twisted metal cage now, but still fantastic.
I finally managed to get some friends round and watch the last few episodes of season one of The Wire. What a fantastic show. We showed an awful lot of self control not grabbing season two straight off the shelf and starting it immediately!
It did remind me of what I now know as episode 362 of This American Life, which had one story from The Moth radio show by Richard Price, apparently a writer of The Wire.
It’s a story about a police car which pulls over a black man taking a white child home, and one phrase, “Home boy to base. Home boy to base. We’ve got a black man down” really just suddenly grabbed me when I heard it. I’ve heard this from a recent trailer for a movie…
Now, if I can just figure out which one.
A friend of mine mentioned that he was participating in a charity football match at Preston Park on Sunday. Figured I’d pop down and take some shots on the day. The team didn’t do so well, but it certainly looks like they had fun doing it!
Pride 2009 (66 of 82), originally uploaded by smileham.
Last weekend Brighton was taken over by drag queens, colour and a festival spirit. Despite the rain which threatened to wash the fun away, Preston Park was packed with thousands dressed in rainbows and crazy outfits.
Myself, I escaped the madness and ate fish and chips at home whilst watching the rain pour down, but not until I had enjoyed the atmosphere and fairground rides!
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