Creative Entrepreneur of the Month: Robyn Trainer of Floral Footsteps

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Seymour

Confucius say, “Make a living from what you love and you’ll never work another day in your life” and although this sounds lovely and has become something of a mantra for our times, anyone who has succeeded in making a living from something they love will be able to tell you there is a lot [...]

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Old Postcards

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Seymour

My mother began collecting postcards when she was au-pairing in Italy in the early 1970s. Her parents kept all the cards she sent home from her travels, including pictures of many Roman antiquities. These then formed the core of a substantial collection that has grown over the last 40 years as my mother passed the [...]

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Jazz and Light: Two Things I Love

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Seymour

I do love Jazz. My taste sails into many waters but always seems to come home to this music. I love the sense of balance it somehow seems to make from chaos. I love the spaces between the notes where there is anticipation and elasticity, an endless cycle of unresolving cadences going somewhere but giving [...]

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How Do You Do That? I Can Only Guess …

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Seymour

I wish I could say that I was deliberately aiming for certain effects at the time but it is more often a case of learning by looking back at what you did and trying to replicate it as well as getting used to the quirks and capabilities of your equipment.

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