Stay the Same

  • Dog takes his photo every day for a year

    Lots of people have been sending me videos and clips from you tube of people growing old, growing beards, travelling around the world taking their pictures every day.  There are so many of them out there that there is now even a subsection parodying the original ones. I watched a lot of them before the…

  • 10 months at 67,000 mph

    Having passed the 300th day it is now today exactly ten months since I started filming. It occurred to me this morning as I stood on my platform filming that even if I were to stand in exactly the same place for a whole year I would still be moving. So I googled it and…

  • The 300th Day

    Today is my 300th day of filming. I don’t know exactly when it happened but a shift has taken place. The project doesn’t feel like it is defining my life any more. The idea of being here for another two months without leaving doesn’t feel strange or restricting. Having spent months counting the days, it…

  • Tim MacMillan experiments in film and time

    Moving pictures have been used to explore our perceptions of time since their invention. When Tim MacMillan was at art school at Bath Academy in the 1980’s he experimented using multiple cameras to create different viewpoints of the same space. When these multiple viewpoints are spliced in to one film it feels like time has…

  • The psychology of time perception

    There is a developing psychology of time perception, which suggests our relationship to time affects how happy we are. Below is a fantastic animated illustration of Professor Philip Zimbardo’s theories on this. I love that where you live in relation to the equator affects your perception of time.  You can also hear more about Robert…

  • Cesar Kuriyama – One second every day

    Cesar Kuriyama is making a film using one second of film from each day of his life from. He started on his 30th birthday which, coincidentally, was the same week I started filming Stay the Same.  His is a fascinating and incredibly ambitious project also about time, memory and the desire to capture all of…

  • #24 Simon Lynch who I haven’t seen in ten years

    Simon saw this project in the papers and got in touch through facebook last month. I went to university with Simon. We also worked together as interns in the Labour party media unit in ’97  helping make short films about how great the new Labour government was going to be (we were young!). As a…

  • A small escape at spring equinox

    So here I am. I’ve been filming every day for nine months now. Less than one hundred days of filming left to go! This means I have gone outside and stood on my platform whatever the weather over two hundred sixty fifty times. So far I seem to have retained my sense of humour if…

  • Mallaig Children’s Film Project

    I thought I’d share the results of the other work I’ve been doing over the last couple months with Mallaig Primary School taking a class of seventeen children aged 8 to 11 taking through the entire film making process.  I was very lucky that a private boat service agreed to change the timetable to allow…

  • The Story of Self

    I read this article in the guardian by Charles Fernyhough which connets with a lot the research I have been doing recently in to memory and self, as our perceptions of time and narrative are very much related to memory. I’m really looking forward to reading his book. Our ability to remember forms the basis…