Dark, sometimes colourless. Never really colourful. Thick and meaningful and full of the things that made Jack tick. He laid on the thick oil paints that he scooped up from his pallet and plastered it on the canvas that held several other layers of paint. From this point it looked like nothing, but to Jack it was everything. From the point of nothing thoughts grow and circle one another, Jack applied the paint some more, the meaning is there, the idea too, Jack swirled the colourless colours of purples, Grays, blacks and whites all over the space, he was gathering his thoughts. Jack would listen to what would call him inside; he would remember his relationship with a girl who tried to kill him, but never in such a way that would be considered murder. He would think of the dark and the light that she brought with her and took away. Never happy, only content. That was his feeling on the whole thing.


Above is an extract from a novel I am writing. So by that you might argue that I am a struggling unemployed writer. The novel is called Laughing Gas and is a semi autobiographical novel concerning a man who is a painter who has lost his girlfriend and has a snake in his head and is slowly plunging into a depressive state that could end the whole world. This is my first novel that I have attempted to write and am still writing. It has take a year to get fifty pages into it, but university kinda got in the way. But that is done and kinda dusted, but thats another post.

As well as novelling it, I am also a screenwriter, in the sense that I write films, both short and long and help produce, sometimes direct and star in the shorts that we make and try to send and get shown at festivals!

Currently the group, that is two of us, everyone else fucked off for pastures new or something are trying to get the most recent film Grimm shown at various festivals. It is a film about good and evil, beauty and ugly and how the two can be intertwined in certain circumstances. Loosly based on fairy tales, mixed in with a bit of socially commentary and some would say femmisim. Fuck that, that is all I can say, I never wrote any of that into it.

Basically this little site will act as my own personal axe grinding place and spitball ground for ideas and comments and opinions on all that affects me. There will be a main site arriving soon for the production company that I am involved in called Sketchbook Pictures. Details will follow soon regarding this and other projects.

Meanwhile check out the now old and deformed old production site under the title idiosyncratic pictures.

Keep watching the ground....