After a short break, the site is back in action, and to start with I've uploaded a few pics from the talk about Proimise T.V. given by some of the recoil recoil crew.

Prague and People Galleries are now up.

Not to me, I'm a paltry 30 years old today, but to paul.recoil.org, which took shape many moons ago on my 24th birthday.

It's been though a few different looks and styles over the years, but has always adheared to it's strict code of larthargic and sporadic updates, broken links, spelling mistakes and insuferable interface design.

Break open the Cristal.

Just back from three days on a training course in Germany, where I spent most of the time hidden away from the daylight messing about with a film scanner.

Being just oustside of Frankfurt meant I managed to get away long enough to get a brief look at the strangely American looking Darmstadt, with it's block like layout and sterile street life, and the much more interesing and traditional town of Mainz.

To top it off, I was unfortunate enough to be booked on to the 10:25pm return flight to Heathrow on a Friday night with non-transferable tickets. This crappy flight was improved imeasurably by the fact that landing around 11pm U.K. time meant that I got back just in time to see dozens of separate firework displays from the air over the whole of the city.

Photos from Darmstadt/Mainz now up.

Finally! The New York gallery is now up, with 40 photos from my recent trip to the states, there are now over 160 images in the photography section.

Well, I'm back from N.Y.C, and having been several months without serious injury, am suddenly recovering from an operation on my left hand. I have snapped the tendon in my finger, have 25 stiches, a cast, and am out of action for the next 3 months. No gym, no running, no Nike 10k, nothing.

Inspite of the injury, the site update continues apace, and there are now plenty of galleries up, with the biggies still to come. The latest New York pics will be up in the next day or so...

It's been a month since the last entry, during which I have left Hensons, spent a week in the Portugese island of Madiera, drunk a substantial amount of the aforemented, and arrived back to take on the mantle of Head of Technical Operations and Engineering at dailies specialist Midnight Transfer.

So far I have mostly been sat in a dingy grading suite honing my sys admnin skills, but apart from that I am loving it.

In the meantime though I did manage to put up a few more galleries, and as ever there are more on the way, including some of the last trip.

Talking of trips and picutres, Andy's wedding in New York next month should provide some enternainment and a bag of pics. Any tips on where to stay are welcome.

In the dying weeks of the Jim Henson's Creature Shop I was fortunate enough to get a look around in the tunnels that stretch out underneath the building.

There is a deep history in this place and the damp, gloomy caverns hint at the rich and creative past, containing relics of productions gone by. It's not a trip for the faint hearted though, and with the all tunnels full of life sized casts and mouldings it's no wonder it's known as the 'catacombs'...

Well, here it is, a site update at last!

It's not 100% finished, but it's here. Amongst other things, there is a gallery or two, and also, more worryingly, some writing.

In additon, to get things moving I needed an ftp/sftp tool for file transfers, so I have been using the wonderful Filezilla. Fast, Free and err, fun.

I just got my notice.

One week left.

It's been a stange month since the news broke that the Creature Shop would be 'considering it's position' and word spread around Soho and the media pretty quickly. But after sitting here in an increasingly sparse office for the last few weeks I think it's time to move on.

It's like funerals, they're never nice, but there are good ones and there are bad ones.

This one, y'all, ain't been purdy.