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<channel><generator>iloblog 1.0</generator><title>Adespotoi Feed</title><link>http://adespotoi.davewise.biz/</link><description></description><item><title>The first 3 days</title><link>http://iloapp.davewise.biz/blog/adespotoi?Home&amp;post=30</link><description><![CDATA[  Upon leaving what had been home for the last 4 years, I headed straight to Medway. My friend Stu had made a song with his band and wanted a video for it. We shot it in 2 hours and edited it in 4. Not a bad effort, and it turned out ok. Here it is.     Thank goodness for Fritz Lang. Every scene in Metropolis is perfect. Raises my effort, for sure.  I walked into Chatham to sort banking out. I saw Melodies' old office, imagined her standing in the doorway as she did that time we met, and me saying 'See you around,' and her smiling and saying 'Now that's not likely, is it,' and that was the start of 2 very good years and 2 very indifferent ones. It was nice to see her like that, back at the start.   And then I saw old men steadying themselves on doorjams, wheezing, and tired Chinese cooks shuffling home from all-night Mahjong games - up by the old cinema no doubt - and the relatively afluent of the waterfront area, and my heart went out to meet itself in all of them, and I was glad of being along so I could feel this way.  And then I left Stu and his lady Moira - they have their own great journey to embark on, Moria is 9 months pregnant with their first chilld good luck to the three of you! - and drove, and kept telling myself that you got to stay curious, above all else. You get satisfied and then you're finished. Society didn't invent the saying 'Curiosity killed the Cat' for your benefit, it invented it to keep you paying your taxes. Every day spent in a regular job sees that which is beautiful inside you ebb away a little bit more.   If the future comes knocking, I thought as I passed Birmingham, I'm going to slam the door in its face. I'm going to embrace insecurity, waltz with my fear. Love the unknown. Never give up, never.  Never give up! Never!  The thought occured, somewhere around Lancaster, that this was fake bravado, we shall see, as the layers of my personality unravel. But can they? Can we ever be alone enough in this digital age.  I slept in the car, but it wasn't too great a sleep. My belongings reach halfway up the car you see, with no spare room at all except in the drivers seat, so to stretch out I lay on top of it all, with my nose almost touching the roof. And it was cold, very. But actually I quite liked that. There's some beautiful feelings to be gained from discomfort, some worthy insights.  So now I've checked into the Windermere Marina Village. It's one of those 'you give me a free room and I'll review your room for my website' deals. I'm fine with that, I have a nice place to rest for 5 days.  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 21:04:32 +0100</pubDate><category>A New Path</category></item><item><title>Leaving Stelling Minnis</title><link>http://iloapp.davewise.biz/blog/adespotoi?Home&amp;post=29</link><description><![CDATA[  I went for a short walk today, to see this village of Stelling Minnis where I've been living these past 4 years, before I leave this house, tomorrow. There are lots of fine aspects to this place. For instance, there is only one shop, and it is run by local people, not a corporation, and it really is the hub of life here, along with the pub. There are lots of notices in the window offering animals for sale, services for hire, that sort of thing, and there is this lady who rides her horse there every day and tethers it up outside whilst she buys her daily foodstuff. You don't get that happen very often nowadays. Actually, it happens here a fair bit, people often ride their horses into the village to go to the shop, there's a lot of dirt tracks and pathways so its safe for them to do it. And they are mostly smiley people too, I always wave and they always smile and wave back.  The pub, a few doors away from the shop, is called The Rose and Crown and is also pretty good. Very busy mostly but not with aggressive people, and they have a large field out the back where anybody can camp as long as they use the pub. I often see people there sat around their little camp fires. It's great, in this age of health and safety rules gone mad, that there is still a place where people can have an open fire, so many campsites won't allow it now. The pub food isn't all that great but the beer is kept well and it's welcoming to all ages; villagers from 10 to 70 drink in there (the younger ones stay on the soft drinks, or have their parents buy them for them).  The village also has a working windmill, its the only one left in Kent that still works as it originally was meant to. The one over at Sarre is often driven by electricity, you see, not purely the wind. Our windmill is purely wind driven and still produces flour, but you can't buy it as they don't have the nessecary health and safety licence to sell it. If you know the miller you can get it for free, though.  There's a village hall built in the 1880's that holds many events, including a yearly art show of work produced locally. And they have flower shows, and other twee things, which I rather like. There's no church, but the next village, called Stelling, has one, as does Bossingham. And there are also loads of walks to be done here, all through very scenic countryside.  So I shall leave with mixed feelings. Glad to be setting sail for better personal relationships but, Stelling Minnis itself sure has been a fine place to live. I sit here typing and the windows are open and all I can hear is birdsong, doves mainly, and horses snorting occasionally. If it were windy, as it often is, the trees flanking the field that borders the garden would been rustling noisily. I love all this contact with nature. Hopefully the next place I put down roots will be equally as grounded. I doubt it though, this is a special village in that respect. There aren't many places like this in England left, I reckon. So rural yet only 8 miles from a Cathedral city. Not many places that I could afford, anyhow.  Visit Stelling Minnis! It's a nice place. Just a few miles off the M20 too, but it feels so much more isolated than that. Worth a day of anybodies time. I'm sure I'll revisit the area when I'm settled somewhere else.  Now, I must sign off. Time to pack the car, and ready myself for the off. First stop will be Medway, where I'll make a short music film for my mate Stu Turner. Then it's the Lake District. 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:02:22 +0100</pubDate><category>A New Path</category></item><item><title>Letting Go</title><link>http://iloapp.davewise.biz/blog/adespotoi?Home&amp;post=28</link><description><![CDATA[    
 ]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 16:42:32 +0100</pubDate><category>A New Path</category></item><item><title>The Medway Traverse</title><link>http://iloapp.davewise.biz/blog/adespotoi?Home&amp;post=27</link><description><![CDATA[  Heres a short film of my latest 4 day canoe trip..    
 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:12:49 +0100</pubDate><category>Canoeing</category></item><item><title>Oak Weir pinhole</title><link>http://iloapp.davewise.biz/blog/adespotoi?Home&amp;post=26</link><description><![CDATA[     Today I developed a few pinholes I'd taken 2 weeks ago on a canoe trip. Most didn't come out very well, but I quite like this one of the river Medway at Oak Weir Island. Then I spent a few hours in the darkroom cutting up photographic paper as over the next few months I can't be sure of having a dark space to work in, as I'll be camping, and I'll be up north, and it tends to stay light there until very late, and gets light very early, each day. I'm not sure I'l be doing any pinhole there, but just in case I get round to it. Will post here if I have anything decent to show, or say. 
 ]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 22:05:14 +0100</pubDate><category>Photography</category></item><item><title>Aprils News</title><link>http://iloapp.davewise.biz/blog/adespotoi?Home&amp;post=25</link><description><![CDATA[  My new book will be launched at the Craig Turner Gallery on
Saturday May 5th between 4.30
and 6pm. There are only 10 copies of the Special Edition so if you’d like to
pre-order one, or indeed order one of the Regular First Edition, and have them
posted to you before they sell out, please click here -  http://www.davewise.biz/new/releasingthepast/page.html  

   

 At the book launch all old stock will be buy one get one
free; this includes the Urban Fox Press stuff.  

   

 After this book signing I’ll be heading off to the wonderful
Lake District for 2 months of camping, trail running and wild swimming,
culminating in a 70 mile coast to coast run along Hadrians Wall. Check out my
website blog every so often, or my Facebook page ( http://facebook.com/pinholedave ),
if you’d like to see the films and reviews I make whilst up there.  

   

 My website is undergoing a re-design. The New Work page will
be deleted this weekend, so if you’d like to have a look at what I’ve done
these past few months before it all goes, please check it out here -  http://www.davewise.biz/new/work.html  

   

 Canoeing News – due to a really bad weather forecast this
Saturday’s guided paddle starting out from Oare Nature Reserve will now be late
afternoon on Friday 27th April. Meet at Oare at 3pm. Sorry for the
change of times and dates, I’ve got to fit this paddle in before I go away in
May. 

   

 Another free canoeing opportunity guaranteed to help you see
Medway in a new, positive is this; if you’d like to join me in exploring the
Medway Estuary for 3 days this summer, please check out this page-  http://www.davewise.biz/new/summerontheestuary/page.html  

   

 Our online galleries at Discover Your Estuary are shaping up
nicely, but there’s still space for you to feature there if you want to. So
please take a look at the galleries, here -  http://www.discoveryourestuary.com/viewstories/page.html -
and if you’ve got any Medway Estuary inspired art, photography, poems or
stories of your own that you’d like to see there please get in touch.  

   

 And finally, our last guided walk is on 5th May, led by BBC travel writer of the
year Carol Donaldson. It’s free to attend, please click here for full details -
 http://www.discoveryourestuary.com/newsandevents/page.html  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:55:54 +0100</pubDate><category>A New Path</category></item><item><title>Latest Solargraphy</title><link>http://iloapp.davewise.biz/blog/adespotoi?Home&amp;post=24</link><description><![CDATA[  I've been pretty lazy recently regarding writing in this blog, more about why that is later. But for now today I have been collecting the solargraph cans I put out 3 months ago. Only 1 had been trashed, thats the benefit of living in the country I guess. You can see 11 of the results here -  http://www.davewise.biz/solargraphy/index.html  They all look similar to the one below, which was taken by a camera fixed to the bough of a large old oak tree near the village of Stelling and shows the passing of the sun over a period of 3 months.     Next week I shall be collecting 12 or so more cans from the steeples of churches here in Kent, I will post the results when I get them scanned in.  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 17:58:22 +0100</pubDate><category>Photography</category></item><item><title>BBC News Feature</title><link>http://iloapp.davewise.biz/blog/adespotoi?Home&amp;post=23</link><description><![CDATA[ Here's a link to a piece on the BBC website about my pinhole photography, promoting my exhibition that starts next week at the Craig Turner Gallery at 52 Union Street in Maidstone, Kent. I shall be there from midday til 4pm on Saturday 3rd March, so do come along if you are in town. Here's the link -  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-17139370   
 ]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 13:23:01 +0000</pubDate><category>Photography</category></item><item><title>Medway Canoe Trail 1</title><link>http://iloapp.davewise.biz/blog/adespotoi?Home&amp;post=22</link><description><![CDATA[  I guided the 1st Medway Canoe Trail last Saturday, we had good weather, and a nice turnout, about 40 people. Here's a film I made on the day -  and here is a link to Trek and Run, for lots more photos of the 2 day estuary trip -  http://www.trekandrun.com/features/features/darnetinwinter/page.html  
 ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:07:14 +0000</pubDate><category>Canoeing</category></item><item><title>A Difficult Month, or Not</title><link>http://iloapp.davewise.biz/blog/adespotoi?Home&amp;post=21</link><description><![CDATA[ I woke this morning feeling sorry for myself, then, very quickly after that, lucky. I was cold, freezing I'd say, then that instant I was thinking of a chap I met briefly in India. A rickshaw driver. Not sure at all why I thought of him, he's sure not to be freezing himself at this time, only perhaps that recently I have been very ill, for over a month, not been able to run, and consequently depressed, and perhaps this was me, inside, reminding myself how well off I am. I woke up and it was cold - we sleep with the window open here, to get fresh air - and outside it is below freezing, and I thought, I can't face taking off the bed covers, I can't possibly get up. And immediately I thought of this rickshaw driver, whom I met before dawn one morning outside Delhi Station, who peddled me to my hotel, a long half hour ride through potholed, dirty streets, having spent the night sleeping in his rickshaw, in little more than ragged shorts and a shirt hanging off him, and I thought, if he's lucky he'll still have that job now - better than no job in a country with no official benefit system - peddling around all day for hardly any reward, and here's me moaning about a bit of cold and bad luck with my health. Well, that sorted me out. My travelling gives me little now, I do not want to travel much any more and nobody around me is interested in the stories of past adventures, or the few photos that I have left of that time past, but it does give me this knowledge of how well off I am, and that is helpful at times when I feel sorry for myself for no real reason at all.  I haven't written much at all either recently as I haven't felt like I have much of interest to say. I've been ill with a virus since late December, and now I am injured in my leg which puts paid to my running. Which is bad, as it's my main joy, when I and my dog take to the trails. I've many races coming up, the Rome marathon, the Paris 50km, can I compete in them? I'm really not sure at all. Even if I can, I am woefully out of shape now.  Hey, but there's that guy again, in rags, peddling away down that filthy street, dodging cows and potholes...  And then there's that home life saga. No wisdom needed here, the kids say, just say yes to all we ask. And then they get shocked, as they have been recently, when the 2 kids got killed and left in a pond in Canterbury, and they want to clling to something, and they don't quite realise I think that there is nothing here but us, which has never been enough for them before but becomes so, briefly. But soon, the drama of the situation takes over the shock, and it becomes just another storyline in their soap opera.   I've taken a few pinholes recently, trying to enjoy the sun, well, I can't run so walking with my pinhole is a good second best. I've put a few pics on my new work page, and here is a new one, from London, of Picadilly Circus.     
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