Quiet Corners

Pamela Fleming

Paul — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:52:31 +0000

Here is a sneak peek of a project I’m working on with friends putting together a portfolio for dancer Pamela Fleming. We shot these test shots at a local dance studio and have some interesting ideas on other locations and shoots.

Quiet Corners & Blueprint Skateboards

Paul — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 10:18:24 +0000

Really happy to post up info on this project which has been under wraps for a little while. Over the weekend Blueprint Skateboards added their new catalogue to their website including a series of decks featuring my photography and branded as a collaboration between Blueprint and Quiet Corners.

I have been lucky to work with Blueprint previously (the Big Push edit) but to be asked to be involved with deck graphics has been amazing. Dan Magee helped loads with the image selection and the graphic design which has added so much to the images themselves.

Can’t wait to skate them!

July Podcast – Close My Eyes

Paul — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:02:06 +0000

July’s delayed episode of the Quiet Corners podcast ‘Close My Eyes’ is now online, it is available as usual via the usual iTunes/podcast subscription or downloadable as an MP3 via the Podcast page. The track list is as follows:

‘Close My Eyes’

July 2010

‘Seagull’ Ride
‘Slowdive’ Slowdive
‘Come In Alone’ My Bloody Valentine
‘Burn’ Bleach
‘Freezing Point’ The Field Mice
‘No Escape From Heaven’ Curve
‘Black Metallic’ Catherine Wheel
‘Breather’ Chapterhouse
‘Kick the Tragedy’ Drop Nineteens
‘Does This Hurt’ The Boo Radleys
‘Icecream Star’ The Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa
‘Leave Them All Behind’ Ride

This podcast episode is a little unusual as it contains some of my favourite songs from a music genre I loved back when I was a teenager, shoegaze or as it was also known, The Scene That Celebrates Itself. From about 1990 through to 1992 I was buying and listening to most of these bands and loved the wall off guitar sound. Ride, despite never associating themselves with the genre were innovators of that sound and the podcast track listing (in chronological order) begins with the first song off of their first album from 1990. The podcast also ends with Ride with what may have been the pinnacle moment of the sound in it’s popularity and critical acclaim back in 1992. Hopefully the podcast touches on some of the highlights of this brief two year period where this genre flourished.

I do realise this might be a bit marmite this episode but hopefully you’ll be in to it and turn up the volume very, very loud.

The cover and back photos are from The Wedgewood Rooms in Southsea.

The Captain

Paul — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:38:19 +0000

In the next week or two I’m going to be helping out the guys at Bored and taking some skate photos of old friend Kev Kirkham, took one yesterday and it came out good, this is an outtake.

June Podcast – Work It Out

Paul — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:25:51 +0000

Sorry, sorry, sorry, this much delayed June episode of the Quiet Corners podcast ‘Work It Out’ is now online, it is available as usual via the usual iTunes/podcast subscription or downloadable as an MP3 via the Podcast page. The track list is as follows:

‘Work It Out’

June 2010

‘Pretty In Panic’ My Latest Novel
‘Stay On Target’ Half Acre Day
‘Lullabies’ Headlights
‘Other Plans’ Figurines
‘Playing For Fun’ Rademacher
‘Skakka’ Amina
‘New Walk’ Illuminea
‘All The Money I Had Is Gone’ The Deep Dark Woods
‘Whiskey Girl’ Gillian Welch
‘Chimes and Church Bells’ Attack In Black
‘I Erased Myself To Make You Better,
Shall We All Erase Ourselves’ Captain Polaroid
‘Ry Cooder’ Tortoise

Promise I won’t be this late again! Work has been shocking and I haven’t been at home too much so not able to listen to music (I have a tape player in my car, really). I’m hoping to get July’s episode uploaded next week with lots of new music. Also hoping to get an iPod next month too which will help loads. Also going to get a ticket for the Broken Social Scene and Tortoise joint show in London, can’t wait for that.

The cover and back photos are from the Cellars at Eastney, sadly looks like the little venue is going to close.

A Long Old Month

Paul — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 08:32:58 +0000

I’ve been really busy this month with trips and work and have ended up shooting about 20+ rolls of film, 16 rolls of which I’m taking to the lab to get developed later this afternoon. I like that for much of them I can’t remember exactly what I took and even some of the places I had taken photos. Going to be fun to go through them all when I get them back.

Hastings

Paul — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:00:04 +0000

Busy week this week, going to be in Hastings again today and on Thursday and Friday. Looking forward to Thursday as I’m planning on exploring Battle with my camera, should be good.

I still need to go through all the photos from my last visit to Hastings, months ago. Here is a sneak peak:

Bored Shoot

Paul — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:19:14 +0000

The other week I went out to Pagham to shoot photos for ZoZo clothing company plus took a couple of rolls of film shooting for my friend’s skateshop, Bored. Always stoked to work with Gary and crew.

New Cameras

Paul — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 05:57:42 +0000

I picked up batch of new cameras from a charity shop the other day, looking forward to running film through them. I’ve done a little bit of research on the Brownie and I can convert it to medium format 120 film pretty easily. Stoked on the Halina too, although cheap and cheerful my other two models have always wored wonderfully.

May Podcast – Distance Travelled

Paul — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:21:28 +0000

Finally, the much delayed May episode of the Quiet Corners podcast ‘Distance Travelled’ is now online (sorry, again), it is available as usual via the usual iTunes/podcast subscription or downloadable as an MP3 via the Podcast page. The track list is as follows:

‘Distance Travelled’

May 2010

‘Cross Country’ Track Star
‘The Step & The Walk’ The Duke Spirit
‘Our Braided Lives’ Matt Pond PA
‘Won’t You Come Around’ Polytechnic
‘We Will Make A Song Destroy’ Rogue Wave
‘The Soft Rewind’ Portastatic
‘Bonnie And Clyde (Fast)’ Luna
‘Meeting in the Aisle’ Radiohead
‘Highway of Death’ Psychic Ills
‘Station in the Valley’ The Sea and Cake
‘Convict Escapes’ Pale Air Singers
‘Sort Of Revolution’ Fink
‘Pink Holler’ Papa M
‘Boss Inside’ Adam Green
‘You’re My Air’ Minus Story

The latest I’ve ever been, sorry about that, will get things back to normal for the next episode, which I guess is due in a week or so. This episode is themed on travel either by road, rail or plane. Something binds the journey with the music you listen to as you travel.

The cover and back photos I took from a hotel window in Seattle a few years ago.