Saul Willams: Twice the First Time

I first heard this 11 years ago on the Ninja Tune 'Xen Cuts' compilation and it's still a blistering track today. I'd completely forgotten about it until I saw his name pop up on Janelle Monáe's 'Archandroid' album.

Amon Tobin: Verbal (Boom Bip Remix)

Every now and again I hear a track that makes me wish I made films so that I could put it on a soundtrack (but maybe that's just me!).

Los Angeles, July 16th, 2010 by The Gentleman Amateur

Los Angeles, July 16th, 2010, originally uploaded by The Gentleman Amateur.

As it seems to be bitterly cold in London at the moment, I reckon some sunny photos might help brighten things up a little.

groom by yukiharu*

groom, originally uploaded by yukiharu*.

Kitty, Daisy & Lewis 'Going up the Country'

Quite possibly the world's number one, singing, rockabilly teenagers (although there's maybe not a huge amount of competition to be fair). They've been around for a while now, but I'd forgotten about them for a bit before coming across them again today whilst flicking through tracks. This is a great cover of the Canned Heat classic. Bizarrely, the last time I heard a cover of this track it was being sung by a 'Human Jukebox' at Peter Blake's amazing Museum of Everything – best 50p I've ever spent I reckon...

Untitled by Charlie Colmer

, originally uploaded by charlie colmer.

Beautifully composed street photography from Charlie Colmer.

The Printspace Gallery

Newbold Comyn Goalpost, originally uploaded by tom_gifford.

I was very pleasantly suprised this morning to find that one of my photos has made it onto a shortlist for this month's Printspace Gallery 'Search for Exhibitors'. Of course, when I say 'made it onto a shortlist' what I actually mean is that I've been bombarding their Flickr group with submissions for weeks now and they've obviously realised this is the quickest way to get me to shut up and leave them alone...

Tina Hillier, who is currently exhibiting in this year's Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2010 is in charge of this month's judging and will be picking four shots from the shortlist. The four finalists will then appear in an annual exhibition at The Printspace Gallery in London. There's no guarantees I'll make it that far by any means, but it's very flattering and exciting to be on the shortlist at least.

*Update* Sadly I didn't get picked as one of the four winning shots for January. Not to worry, I'll just continue adding more shots in the hope that they relent eventually!

The Dark Side of the Lens

A stunning little film from Astray Films which I found on the CameraLuv blog.

Thames Path Photo Trickery

Greenwich 04, originally uploaded by tom_gifford.

As I mentioned a few days ago here, I finally got around to trying out a new photographic technique I'd seen on Flickr done by Slimmer Jimmer and Richard Kaye. My efforts haven't come out quite as successfully as there's but it was good fun and I'm definitely going to try it again. I think I'll try black and white film next time to see how well that works out.

Canary Wharf from Deptford, originally uploaded by tom_gifford.