Milestones in my career

MBR Color Corrector - Update (to Version 2)

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:55:10 +0000

MBR Color Corrector, by Matt Roberts, is a plugin Effect for Adobe Premiere and After Effects, to automatically color correct movie clips / footage featuring a Gretag MacBeth / X-Rite ColorChecker chart or card in-shot, e.g. at the beginning or end of a scene or take.

Carols & Cakes

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:52:29 +0000

A half-hour long mini Christian Christmas service with cakes sale for charity (St. Basils, charity for the homeless).

Chris Moon - Motivational Speaker

Mon, 3 Dec 2012 13:40:06 +0000

Chris Moon is a hard-working motivational speaker with experience and attitude that have made him far more than a mine (bomb) blast and POW survivor. Despite having lost the lower parts of his right arm and leg, he not only runs marathon races but Ultra-marathons, which for example take place across mountains and deserts.

In common with Sarah Winckless, earlier in this blog, the main point he made (that I took away) was that when you think you can take no more, you can in fact go further, especially when you focus on others.

Diwali

Wed, 7 Nov 2012 13:40:48 +0000

The annual Indian (etc.) cultural event, also known as the Festival of Light.

Ross Revenge

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:22:25 +0100

The ex-trawler Ross Revenge served in the 1980’s as the offshore radio broadcasting ship for the legendary (and unsupressable) Radio Caroline. This role came to an end in the early 1990’s when she ran aground and was towed into harbour. Now she serves as a Heritage Museum, also occasionally used as a filming set and for occasional legally-licensed broadcasts.

Meanwhile, Radio Caroline, of course, continues...

I was delighted to be asked on board to video the latest major broadcast engineering work: the taking-down of the “Temporary” dual radio masts at fore and aft of the ship. These had been erected in the mid-1980‘s at sea, no mean feat, following the collapse of an original 300 foot high mast. The photo above, taken on an iPhone and cleaned up in post, shows part of one of them.

Fast-forward to now (the time of writing) and “The Lady” (in Red) is berthed at the secure port of Tilbury, Essex, UK. And official Health & Safety inspectors have dictated that these temporary masts could be unsafe to public, who could not therefore visit the museum. So the masts had to come down.

In some ways a sad day, but also a day to let go of the mast and move on... to a new era with a brand new single central broadcasting tower. More on this can be read in Horizon Magazine.