In the mid-nineties, before I got into post-production, I wrote. I still do occasionally. One of my completed screenplays was called “Lost People”. I recently dug it out from my archives and got ChatGPT to read it, give me a synopsis and review. The result was so amazing that I decided to publish it on …

More piano, performed live!

For the 20th anniversary of this website, I’m pleased to give you a sneaky peek from the Twilight Ballrooms (or at least the pub near the Twilight)

Working with a computer animated set can put a lot of strain on your computer. But there are workarounds.

And they say nerds can’t party!

This short clip that I posted on Facebook seems to have gone down really well with the viewing public. Don’t know why? 😉

A little experiment with particles and the demo of Red Giants’s Form software.

Check out my fantastic time-lapse of a sunset in the Maldives taken earlier this year. You can tell it’s on the equator by the fact that the sun sinks absolutely vertically.

Happy Halloween from Tranquility Base Presents, plus a video of my day trip to my favourite spooky film location!

The day has finally come! Now the works have finished in my flat I could finally collect and hang the picture I purchased earlier this year from Uli Meyer, pride of place above my telly. Indeed, I imagine many a TV program is now doomed as it will inevitably steal my gaze. The piece is …

Today I had the privilege of being given a personal tour round the animation studios of Uli Meyer, a local based artist here in Camden Town. He has worked with big animation companies such as Warner Brothers, Touchstone, Disney & Universal to name a few. But it is his collaborative work with the late Ronald …

An impulse find led me to purchasing the domain www.actormusician.co.uk Not really got any use for it at the moment other than I thought it was a bargain for £6. Just got it pointing to the music part of this website for the time being. My dream URL of course would be www.tranquilitybase.com or tranquilitybase.co.uk …

There was a picture of me on the telly tonight. My girlfriend spotted the blink and you’ll miss it moment. It was on BBC2 doc celebrating 25 years of Les Miserable with Matt Lucas. There was a peripheral mention of “Oliver!” and up came this pic! It was odd as I’d never ever seen this …

And I mean everything. Had to dismantle all my equipment to deal with a burst radiator pipe in the wall. Dust and debris everywhere. And during the repair process, the face of Christ appeared in the wall, presumably in time for the Pope’s visit later this month. Shame its been plastered up. If I had …