To all readers of Shouting To Communicate,

Have a great Christmas!

Al Palmer

Two nights left in Manchester. So here’s another photograph!

Al Palmer – Isn’t Anywhere

Shouting To Communicate is one year old today. Thank you to the people who read this (yes all three of you).

Normally service’ll resume now.

Another quick sketch. I see this a lot.

Al Palmer – Car Park

Some thoughts

Productivity is a killer, eh? Business as usual:

• Editing my Icelandic series which still has no name. Maybe 15% complete.
• Continuing photographing my Nature series. This really needs a kick up the arse, I’ve been far too slack lately.
• Submitting work to the Mini Print exhibition at the Artlink.
• Blogging at least twice a month.
• The new Dillinger Four album is nowhere to be found. A poor effort.
• Hopefully a solo show at the beginning of next year. Fingers crossed.
• Gaslight Anthem/Former Cell Mates at Manchester Academy next month.
• To see the Rachel Goodyear exhibition at the International 3.
• A series of studies I’ve been working on to keep my mind fresh have produced some unexpectedly strong images; need to work out if this is worth continuing with.
• Completing the Teenage Fanclub and Buffalo Tom discographies.

Hopefully seeing this post staring at me will work as a mental post-it note. Ideally everything on this list should be completed or close to completion by January 1st 2009. And yes, I only included the crossed off ones so I didn’t feel lazy.

The construction soundtrack to this post was Pure Cane Sugar by the Sugarman 3 on Daptone Records.

Beginning

Hello. I’m Al, welcome to my blog about photography, paintings, music and who-knows-what else.

It promises to be emotional.