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As I wrote on my other blog, I’m competing in the Yukon Arctic Ultra this coming February. 300 miles overland in -40˚C, non-stop, self-supported, and that usual silliness. Ben Saunders suggested the event to me, so we can all blame him. But still, asking why is one of those pointless questions: if you have to ask, as the cliché has it, you’ll never understand. I’m not entirely sure myself, but the whole thing makes me ridiculously happy when I think about it. I’ll be writing about the training over the next few months, perhaps on another site. Meanwhile, I’ve put back online something I wrote after writing the Marathon des Sables in 2004.
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Lindka Cierach’s Spring Summer 2008 collection, photographed in London, April 2008.      
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In a crazed attempt to separate Church And State, I’ve created a separate weblog here for the more usual outboard-brain type activities. It’s good Google Hygiene, after all.      
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An out-take from last week’s big shoot - currently in post-production - as I slowly admit defeat to the bug that’s going around. Blergh.      
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It’s my birthday today, so I’m allowed a plug. As The Man Losowsky announced yesterday, the five new Le Cool guidebooks are now available for pre-order. Here’s the blurb for the London edition: Designed by Jeremy Leslie at John Brown, A Weird and Wonderful Guide to London is the gateway to a city of freaks and wonders, of the kind you hear whispered about in dark corners, but were never quite sure existed. Edited by Mat Osman, it takes you by the hand and leads you throughout the city, from New Cross to Mayfair, opening closed doors and revealing secrets that might just change your life. I worked on that London edition,...
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Snapshots from the casting
I’ve been commissioned to shoot Lindka Cierach’s Spring/Summer 2008 collection next Thursday. There are 16 pieces to do, from daywear to evening gowns, and it’s going to be something of a day. My team and I need to have just the right model. Today was the casting, which meant seeing the twenty or so models that we’d requested, putting them in some of the clothes, and seeing who worked well, with the designer, with me, and with the clothes. It’s a hard job for the models - you...
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Announcing…geeKyoto 2008 - Living In The Changed World 10:00 - 16:30 - Saturday 17th May 2008. Conway Hall, London. £20. We broke the world. Now what? Mark Simpkins and Ben Hammersley announce a one day conference in central London, with designers, technologists, artists, architects, policy-makers, explorers, economists and scientists, and clever people like you, to discuss the future and how we’ll live in it. Inspired by TED and last year’s Interesting2007 event, we are holding our own conference in London to look into the theme that interest us: change in the world. We have curated a day that will be inspiring and insightful. We think you’ll leave having learnt something new, with new ways...
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 Ugo @ Oxygen Models      
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Jean, from Paris, in his first London sitting, this afternoon in my studio. Mais oui.      
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Stasia @ Oxygen, clothes model’s own.      
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The Parkour training school in Kensal Green      
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Announcing geeKyoto2008. Mark Simpkins and I are putting on a one day conference in London, on the 17th May, to discuss how we’ll all live, given that we’ve broken the planet. While everyone else argues over whose fault it is, let’s get on and make the cool stuff we need. Top speakers! Great topics! More to come soon! Book your ticket now!      
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Ijust upgraded to Aperture 2, and am in the middle of moving all my old pictures onto new storage. I keep finding old pictures that I now know what to do with where I didn’t before.      
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Kabul airport, 2006       
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