宇宙人 a.k.a. Adrian Storey, UK Based Self-shooting Director/Documentary DOP & Editor
2022 – Cricket Metaphors Best Avoided
I try, but apparently not hard enough.
Here we are again at the end of another trip round the closest nearly perfect ball of hot plasma heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion at it’s core. This one marked such a special number of such circumambulations that it filled me in near equal measures with morbid dread & teeth gritting determination. It was made up, like all the other such journeys I’ve been on as one of 8 billion passengers on this 40,000km circumference ellipsoid 70% covered in water, of the usual ups, downs and bumps in the road.
I’m deliberately leaving out work stuff this year, there were jobs for Museums, The Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, Trinity College Cambridge, Kickstarter Campaigns, Film and After Effects work for short films, an American adventure as DOP on a feature documentary to name a few but so much of it I’m not allowed to show here so…….
Here is a personal photo/video or 2 from each month, something I can use as a memory aid when my faculties slip even further.
January
There was a lot of this.
A slippery slope.
@documentally featured heavily this year (as in previous ones) so best to start as we mean to go on
February
I visited a dear old friend (who will HATE this photo) I hadn’t seen for nearly 20 years, we watched some footage (bits shot by me) of us in India from 1999. She was still suffering from some of the worst long Covid symptoms of anyone I know. Miss Sparkle, I love you as much now as I did then.
12% ? Just the one then I think.
Fuck the Tories
March
Holkam beach in Norfolk was exactly what I needed.
Existential advice from a waltzer
April
Yep, a lot of this. The visceral realness a fantastic antidote to small town English stagnation.
Smoked Salmon and cream cheese bagels by the lake.
May
Right, won’t be needing those L plates anymore
Took a year and a 1/2, loads of £ and conquering some fears to get here. Glad I did. Fun :)
June
Oh, you have got to be fucking kidding me!
THIS really , REALLY pissed me off. I’m still not over it emotionally. Happy 50th to me, not.
July
Me and Danny “falsalama” Griffin on top of a hill in Oxfordshire. About the only good thing to be said about the end of last month and the beginning of this was I got to isolate at Dannys house which was the best possible place that could have happened. It’s been years since we spent that much time together and it was fucking ace despite the lurgy. I’ll add it to the list of things I owe him for (it’s a long list).
The temperature reached 40 degrees for the first time ever in the UK. Nothing to worry about then climate change deniers.
August
One of several visits to the almost unbearably nice man Lash Marash – Thats not a beer holder mate, that’s the filler cap :)
A reminder that what we desperately need now is a new Guy Fawkes who doesn’t fuck it up this time.
The horrible number birthday, plus upcoming changes to living arrangements was having some pretty major ‘ripples in time’ effects. Physical and psycological boxes packed a lifetime ago were opened.
December
I released a new short film, I wrote a thing about it.
He’s not the messiah, he’s a very naughty boy
I can’t believe you made it all the way to here. Surely you have better things to do? See you in 2023!
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