The Everest Test

Film progress

2010-01-06T02:07:00.000-08:00

Well it has been 4 months now since I left my job to make the Cricket on Everest film. It has been a strange process all told; balancing working all hours on it, with then walking away and doing nothing, but doing nothing so the film can improve! Firstly you need serious motivation to go through 100 hrs of footage, edit, change the edit, decide who to interview, why, then get all that done, then back to the editing, re-editing. But it is when you walk away, leave it alone, not think about it, let it sift around that suddenly you get the 'moment'; 'thats what I need to do', write it down, and hope you get a dozen more moments like that so then you can go back with the instant drive to spend hours at the screen.

The good news is that I have done the rough cut and have been getting some feedback from people who weren't involved in the expedition. The overall response has been very strong which is great, but there are some smaller bits that need tweaking. The current running time is 83 minutes so it is well up to feature length. It was longer but I've cut it down to try and keep the pace high.

I've finally nailed the name; will release that when I get the poster fixed up at sometime in the next few weeks!

I'm justing waiting another couple of days to see if any more feedback trickles in, then making the final cut before it has the sound and colour polished, oh and try and get some animation done, and sort out some music rights!

Disney natures first effort - looks pretty sweet

2009-08-07T08:38:00.000-07:00

For a better look click here

To see how they made it click here

UK release date Sept 25th

The filmmakers spent a year on location, fed digital content back and fwds to London and post done with Final Cut Studio. So my new Mac and Final Cut Studio has turned up, not sure I'll be matching this lot just yet...

A stella doc coming up

2009-07-28T04:08:00.002-07:00

If anyone has been following the Contador Armstrong story for the last few weeks of the tour de france then this promises to be a sensational documentary. They have the raw materials...

Never stop

2009-07-28T04:08:00.001-07:00

I don't want to hear the word digital

2009-07-14T09:54:00.000-07:00

Post Digital Marketing 2009

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On my list

2009-07-08T08:35:00.000-07:00

The Hurt Locker from the director of Point Break Kathryn Bigelow. This without a doubt looks a raw take on an interesting role within war. It is out before Green Zone which is in post production at the moment, with Paul Greengrass at the helm will surely pull an equal amount of punches.

http://thehurtlocker-movie.com/

Music video shot entirely on I-Phone

2009-07-06T09:59:00.001-07:00

http://www.psfk.com/2009/07/music-video-shot-entirely-via-iphone.html

Digital disruption

2009-06-10T13:37:00.001-07:00

Something I have been asked recently was about TBWA's disruption philosophy in digital, and how this could be possible given that the point of digital is engagement? Well firstly the point of disruption, if I 'get it' right, isn't to disrupt people but disrupt convention of markets. So for digital it stays the same, how can we create an experience that disrupts the convention in order for it to truly stand out from the crowd.

Secondly just saying that the point of digital is engagment is misguided. The buzz is about participation and engagement. Yes this is something that digital now allows but to say that other types of digital creative activity are redundant is misguided. It is about getting the mix and balance right and for me they are all centred on experience. Whether this experience involves participation is the question...

A true visual discussion?

2009-06-09T10:33:00.001-07:00

It has been a while since I have been stimulated to blog in a work capacity, but something has dragged me out of my stupor. Story and digital merge to create motion picture. Whilst this blog has recently been focused on my creative adventuring/creating currency, or whatever you want to call it, my professional background is, lets not forget, digital, whilst my passion is moving picture and story, and something I am constantly actively cultivating, so it is not a surprise that this did the trick…

One reason I ever blog is to get my thoughts together when I am unsure about them, and Purefold definitely is something that you can’t grasp straight away and something that has flicked a switch.

The premise if I surmise correctly, we have a topic: What does it mean to be human? This is seemingly topical having watched the pointless Terminator Salvation’s attempts to deal with this same question last weekend. This topic is to be the centre of an open media franchise. Here brands, platforms, filmmakers, product developers and communities can collaboratively imagine our near future.

Interpreting this; we have a topic, let’s get everyones thoughts on the matter and create some compelling content. The content, webisodes initially, are interlinked and the story continually evolves… Essentially this is creating a visual discussion.

There are several things that strike me:
1. Informed by real time conversation: The integration of the subject to the method.
The audience's thoughts regarding the topic are integrated by listening to conversation online, currently friendfeed is quoted. This is effectively using intelligence to groom our thoughts from across the web, distil them into a story and reprocess them for our consumption. This is potentially a much deeper web (spiders not internet) than just using digital to integrate the user, it is topic starting to become embedded into the process.
Given that it runs for 8 years we have no idea how the user thoughts will be groomed and integrated, and it would not surprise me if these issues were not all intertwined in some capacity into the actual content.

2. Getting user participation: The promise
Practically one thing intrigues me, which is personal reward. One of the reasons that the web is highly interactive is gratification:
• Instant involvement, I can see I have had an effect i.e. my picture is involved on a site, or
• Self actualisation / ego. I push out my thoughts but they never go anywhere get judged etc but I feel important
Here lays the problem and something I blogged about a couple of years ago, the promise.

What is the audience promise? That you can shape the content? Now this is what I am interested in, how feasible is it for me as an individual to shape it? And if I can’t do this do I feel cheated, not valued and resent the concept?

As I wrote this and redrafted it I feel that this is less about direct interaction but more passive interaction and that the loyalty will be due to the creativity.

Personally I think that it is interesting because it puts digital and potentially the semantic web at the heart of a visual discussion on what it means to be human. The only question is how do you have a visual discussion rather than a visual feast where my voice isn’t heard but just consumed and repurposed? The ride looks like it will be fun…

As for the ‘brand involvement’ and potential negative views on this. If it is a true visual discussion and the brands are committed to the creative then they will get welcomed by its community. The integrity can’t be compromised else there will be no community.

In a time when everyone wants to be doing ‘engagement’ projects and things that involve ‘participation’ we create fads, things that come and go but don’t have longevity or actually contribute, they become meaningless and not memorable. The power of digital is to connect it is not changing what is the most powerful content which is motion picture.

I look forward to consuming my own thoughts via a minority style experience booth soon…

On reflection

2009-05-22T01:16:00.000-07:00

Thinking about the trip as a whole I am reminded of being in Kathmandu having done the trip, all washed up, in many forms of the phrase, but fresh thanks to the lads at Bulldog, a few kilos down, still feeling ill, lying on my guesthouse bed.

It was then that I really felt like we had achieved something out of the ordinary and out of our comfort zones. We were in a developing country having been through hostile terrain that doesn't tolerate life, had literally dug into our bodies to do so and come through it more complete people, an evolution we'd all shared and seen with our own eyes.

Since I being back in the UK it is the execution of what we did that I take pride in. We had a vision and collective responsibility to implement the challenge in a way that would make people who knew us and saw us on TV or in papers proud, and the feedback we've received endorsed this. Finally it is also how people who were close to the organisation have grown as individuals and are looking for this to be the start of something rather than the end.

On mountain updates

2009-04-22T01:19:00.000-07:00

Day 5
Yesterday a group of 12 of us 'coached' children cricket at Khumjung school. 'Coached' is a loose term as so many of the children were too young for specific skills training, so that gave way to fun games. To see the joy in their faces was uplifting and as the school was at the bottom of an 'indiana jones' type set of stone steps, it felt like cricket was on some sort of frontier journey. Selecting the 12 people from 50 was a tough task and ultimately we went for those whose behavior still resembled that of who we were visiting - it was a wise choice! At the end we presented a full bag of cricket kit to the school.

Days 1 - 3
The third day in and the first chance to write. Two hours sleep in three days as we went from London to our first trek night meant that I really felt the pace on day 1 when I thought I may be suffering from altitude, fortunately it was only sleep deprivation, but after 18 months planning it is only today on day 3 of the trek I feel relaxed and that we are actually here. My biggest thrill so far was the professionalism of the medical team, I spent a lot of effort recruiting them and to see them not only deliver the goods but gain the trust of the team has been so rewarding. On a personal note I have managed to get lots of stunning film footage with easily the biggest challenge persuading enthusiastic people to ignore the camera!

Result

2009-03-30T13:39:00.001-07:00

It is funny trying to get the balance between the offbeat nature of our project and capitalise on its commercial appeal. We've been keen from the start to get partners rather than logos, with Qatar Airways, Met Rx, Medirite and North Face etc we were on the right path.

Now after a long time coming we have secured our title partner, Nokia, and more specifically Nokia Maps. Really chuffed as in the current climate it has been tough, especially consumer sectors like mobile phones. We were determined that we were going to go with a brand who shared our passion and vision and actually had relevancy to our project, and Nokia Maps ticks all of those boxes.

So far it has been a pleasure working with the guys at Mission Media who look after Nokias account. Am especially looking forward to getting a wicked phone now to do some cool funky things on the mountain.

Also a big shout to Bulldog who have come on board as a grooming partner. Again it is going to be a huge positive in the evenings but mainly we've got a huge reception dinner party when we've finshed the expedition and after 18 days on the mountain we're going to need all the help we can get.

Why?

2009-03-26T11:28:00.000-07:00

Spent some time properly back on the coal face recently, potential sponsor meetings, admin central, but also two great experiences one seeing the impact one of our charities is having and the other being the impact we can have on school children.

Yesterday I was lucky to visit the Lords Taverners Table Cricket at the Oval. Children with a range of disabilities playing a game that puts cricket in a table tennis environment. It struck me how much excitement that these children were having, and that is the same experience we will hopefully be getting on the mountain. How the world and expectations are relative. It is always a tough question what comes first helping charity or the event? It is a strange one to answer, they kind of come hand in hand. The event is taking advantage of what opportunities we have but in doing so we can create similar opportunities. Ultimately it is an awareness thing, getting the story out there. I spoke with a girl today on MSN Messenger, I'd worked with like 2 years ago, for a few months, I was able to talk about the charity and it's work. The next second £20 in the Lords Taverners account. She through me knows where it is going and that is will bring a smile to someones face the sort of smile she doesn't get too often because she isn't taking advantage of her opportunities, she said that not me.

Today was possibly my highlight so far, holding a talk / Q&A session and Avon House school in East London. They have spent the previous week making prayer flags which we will take to Nepal.

Basically nepali prayer flags are hung outside near everest, a prayer is written on them, every gust of wind takes the dream to the mountain and when the ink has worn off the dream/prayer is said to have happened.

The number of questions, hands up, and so on was phenomenal, as was the in unison 'good morning' response everytime one of use stepped up to speak.

Highlights would be:
Wes: Does anyone know who holds the world record for the 100m?
Year 7 pupil: Yes, my dad
Wes: Guess you win the my dad is better than your dad competition.

James: So does anyone have any wishes
Answer number 3: I wish that there wasn't knife crime
Answer 5: I wish that smokers lungs would get better
Answer number 7 or 8: Yes, I wish that Amy Whinehouse would have to take drugs

Glen: Doing stars jumps with 5 school children on stage

I will write some of the prayers on the flags at a later date, suffice to say they are phenomenally moving.

What I really took away from this morning was how global the issues were on these childrens radars, and how they were issues that dominated their wishes not too many wishes for being Nadal or Hamilton. It shows how much filters through to them at this age. Also how they enjoyed us being there, it is something I remembered from school having people come and talk, and I did love being on the other side of the fence. Their enthusiasm for all things Nepal, Everest and adventure was outstanding, and it was a girl who knew who Andrew Strauss was too!!!

Back to where I was brought up

2009-03-24T03:38:00.000-07:00

Haben't blogged for a while, been using Twitter!!!

Had a great weekend at Boconnoc which meant I was able spend some time in Cornwall, where I grew up, before I headed off. Also stoked some of the guys like Glen and Tooves were able to see the stunning cornish coast for the first time.

A small article in the local press

Other peoples comments

2009-02-14T04:09:00.001-08:00

I just loved this so much I wanted it on my blog, from JC's recent blog on general progress:
'Other than the usual medical precautions you take on board when doing an adventure like this, we where also informed we better take a test for 'Sudden Death Syndrome'. I think the clue is in the title and it makes you think that if it is so sudden, how do you test for it but I will no doubt find out soon.'

Intergration

2009-02-14T01:12:00.001-08:00

I've managed to get my twitter embedded into my blog, quite chuffed, and got it integrated with my blackberry, amd now fully connected and going to be much easier to bore people with progress of the project!

I know this still isn't twitter but...

2009-02-05T14:50:00.000-08:00

loved Jamo's 'how to get a west indian cricket name' game today, where you were born + middle name.

I know this isn't twitter but...

2009-02-05T14:49:00.000-08:00

pretty gutted my friendly fire blog didn't make January's top 5.

Pulling my head out of the sand

2009-02-04T09:14:00.000-08:00

For the first time in my life I put my hand up the other day and said ‘I can’t go on like this’. It was a weird experience. There is no doubt that I’ve been doing a lot these past few months and that combined with having suffered an true illness, not some pokey bug, for the first time in my life it was a bit much. It really hit me that I might not get to the start line at Kathmandu, and that was just plain stupid.

I’ve wanted to ignore the fact I was ill, because as per the text on our website it sounds like some piffy PR spin, and with justified banter I get from certain parts of the gang it re-enforced that attitude. However it was and is real and I needed to reassess where we were going and what I was doing. I couldn’t go on like this. Being ill, then better for a week, then ill, better for a week etc and this had gone on for two months. I’ve acknowledged this and delegated more Everest work and asked my 9-6 work to go to four days a week. That was a bold, and some say ballsy, call but I felt the right one deep down. I got lots of grief from my family but it paid off as work agreed. It is funny the relief I felt instantly after I asked them was huge, and the excitement when the said yes was pretty sweet too…

It was nice to have that time at home with the family questioning my priorities, though it didn’t seem that way at the time, but when you get too close to something it is hard to see the wood from the trees. Some people question being so open with parents, I guess I am lucky, I’ve always been able to be open with mine especially at times of making big life decisions, and doing so ensures that I keep perspective.

At the end of the day we are just a bunch of people trying to go up a mountain and do something that in our eyes is special and raise a decent amount of money for charity. But it takes the support of others to make even this small challenge happen and to my family and work I will be grateful for all their differing ways of delivering this.

Friendly fire gets worse

2009-01-10T01:38:00.000-08:00

So preoccupied with the Icebreaker top, because it was brand new and a christmas present from my Dad, where he wanted to try and help me on the trip, I missed that my technical micro-fleece was a comrade in battle and joined the Icebreaker in not surviving the hand grenade, or rather friendly fire.

So I guess some chaps smaller than me, but bigger than Toovey, are going to get nice presents in Khumjung School.

Still no update on who foots the bill, she is bigging up the TV so presume that her opinion is that this admonishes her, maybe I should ask for a stake in the TV. Have also been advised advised to play around with the plug, putting a bigger fuse in and blowing it up claiming I was only trying to help.

Hero or villan

2009-01-09T01:12:00.000-08:00

How can a female housemate temper her legendary status of buying a massive LCD top spec Bravia TV? By finding out, within minutes of her telling you that, that she has put your brand new icebreaker (merino wool) baselayer, the only really decent present this year, in the dryer and shrunk it.

Welcome to the jungle

2009-01-07T14:55:00.000-08:00

What a first three days! I thought it was full on last year balancing this all out. Now I have a new client at work in BT which I need to get familiar with, people are being made redundant left right and centre, and Everest as got even more hectic as we get close in on actually going. I am pulling a comprehensive project plan together, currently at 13 pages of a word document, and not font size 18 I promise.

On top of this I need to get fit, I have come off the back of 4 weeks off, a mixture of flu and suffering problems with my IT band due to pronating right foot. This all seems to have been fixed by shoes that account for this, rest and some exercises, but I suffered at the Trim Trail tonight! Anyway got back, been going through the inbox, actions actions actions, starting to close in on an expedition kit partner, couple of meetings including with Qatar's agency, getting one pager updated, sorting our first medical team meeting, and so on and so on! One part of me loves it, the other just isn't sure what I am doing! Thankfully the former is the dominant half! What does daunt me is finding the time to do personal fundraising! I don't get let off on that!

Breaking it in

2008-12-31T04:37:00.001-08:00

Two 5 mile walks in the country in my new shoes, and some pain today! That's why we are breaking them in now, so no pain in April! I watched Troy over christmas, I was ill, and so it is apt that the only place I'm getting any issues is my achilles, my left one at the base. When it is rested it is fine so just teething problems I am sure. I love my boots though, really comfortable up until that point. A few days rest and I'll have another break-in session!

Feet

2008-12-21T04:26:00.000-08:00

Where to start, I've learnt so much!

Well I got my feet tested towards the beginning of December as I am having issues with my IT Band that requires me to roll on a foam roller. Was told I had a normal gait, found this odd as this wasn't the case when rowing... got retested somewhere else for the cost of £40, running on computer linked gel pads, here I was told I needed mid support for high arches, which made more sense. Took the other shoes back and got some funky blue ones, for pronation, in at £100. Went running, the right foot now feels great, the left a bit awkward. Am finally getting fitted for walking boots, oh yes, these feel good, but then at home not so sure so head back in, get some time spent with a dancer, she knows a bit about feet, we find that my right foot pronates, but not the left, hence all the original confusion. So what I need is the original running shoe for the left and the current for the right, don't think so, so the alternative is some insoles that set my heel properly, at £35. Job done, oh I forget, walking shoes, £140. The cost of feet: £315

The 80's influence on today's New Zealand culture

2008-12-05T01:41:00.000-08:00

Got really 'amped' by a new tune I heard on the radio yesterday... Admittedly I thought it was a girl singing 'Hey you're playing with my derriere, the moment i wake I'm gunning for you' and was dissapointed to find out it was in fact 'Hey you're playing with my delerium'. However that dissapointment was soon shelved when it was announced that the band's name was 'Ladyhawke' of 1980's film fame epicness and my first encounter with Michelle Pfeiffer:

When visiting youtube to scope it out further I was impressed that the 80's theme ran further than the name, and similarity with Pfeiffer, initially with the video for 'My Delerium', but this had nothing on 'Back of the Van' (see video below) which can only be described as some 'Europe', of Final Countdown fame, meets 'Sam Fox'... Which in some eyes is genius, others a disaster; I'm in the former bunch of campers.

A bigger question could be why am I blogging about this? Well I was shocked to find that this re-engineered 80's soundwave that is taking over DAB and analogue all over this country is in fact like Sir Ed a Kiwi...
So here is 'My Delerium':

Buying tights at £39.99

2008-11-19T05:55:00.000-08:00

If the thought of going shopping for tights was bad enough then to find out that the starting price was basically £40 really took the biscuit. You see even though I had to wear lycra throughout rowing, especially tights in the winter and the England rugby team bound around in theirs nowadays it is, for a guy who grew up in the surf styled county of cornwall, still something of a bizzare concept, a fully grown man, who is engaging in a 'manly' sport to be wearing tights.

I finally got my head around it whilst rowing. Being on a river for hours in freezing temperatures at 6 in the morning you take every bit of help you can get. Tight shorts and tight tops I got; providing you are in shape they make you feel you can take on the world, but it took a while for the tights thing to be accepted.

Since uni I have lost them, and not hurried to replace them. Even now I wasn't in a rush until Monday night. On Monday I joined Kiwi's aerobic session around battersea park, lap followed by fartlek followed by another lap and so on, halfway into the second lap my calves and hamstrings were crying in pain, lactic acid burning and the cold temperature whispering in their ears, neigh begging them to seize up. I managed to get through it without them doing so, just, but they've been tight ever since, and in short it was enough said. So I can now welcome a pair of £39.99 underarmour tights into my wardrobe, to go with all the tight tech tops from rowing!

Missing a big day

2008-11-05T15:33:00.000-08:00

What was I doing when the first black president got elected? Made it through a crazy crazy day at work and stayed up really late to get a sponsorship deck done for a big big big blue chip brand we're meeting tomorrow about Everest. But still got time to say well done to Martin Luther King and everyone else who struggled with oppression and fought against the tide for their dreams.
Believe. Make it happen. Well done.

Time to drop the hammer; keeping my room tidy

2008-11-03T10:03:00.000-08:00

It is now many many months in? Hard to classify I guess, it is 7 since we presented to the original open day, but 13 since our first real planning meeting in the Antelope pub and who knows how many since vague discussions began, but it has really struck now that it is only 5 months to go. It may seem like a long time, but when Christmas is just around the corner and the trip is just three months after that, it hits home!

This whole process has been a wave of pulses, pushing hard then having to ease off for fear of burnout, and then back on, back off, but now it really is time to really push on all fronts. If I am going to get to the suitable fitness, knock this tiredness on the head, keep the management of the project on an even keel and keep my day job on track there is only one thing for it, to return to my military roots 24/7 and for this I am using my room as the barometer.

You see I find it impossible to keep my room tidy, but it is intrinsicly linked to my productivity, a tidy room leaves me switched on and alert, a mess and I act like a surfer dude, so from here on in it is a tidy room, shirts at work, I've had the hair cut too! It has been like this for 7 days now on all fronts and I think that is a record!

Where I'm really dropping the hammer is at the gym and my diet and I'll save that blog post for later in the week... you see the more posts I get in the more chance I get to win blog of the month!

Some big web thinking coming from Binky

2008-10-22T09:44:00.000-07:00

Had a great meeting last night with Tenzing kiwi Chris Beale aka Blinky who has been studiously working away on a google earth plug for the website. Basically this will mean people will be able to track our journey in the Himalayas using google earth and will see simulated views that we are seeing. We will also be able to post images and text to the route as well so we really can be tracked!

This is was a great meeting and showed Kirt and I that the passion for the trip is running really deep.

Every scene leads to the next

2008-09-21T12:41:00.000-07:00

What is the critical reason for why this scene exists? What does it add to the entire story? How does it form its own drama of beginning middle and end, and how does this generate anticipation in the audience for the next scene? If it does this and all it's sister scenes do likewise then when connected together will they create a story that drives from outset relentlessly to the obligatory scene which the audience has been promised but doesn't yet know what it will be!

These are the many questions I am posing myself as I piece together the story of our exepedition to be conveyed in film. The story is taking care of itself, bringing this to life in a compelling manner for its future audience does not.

Being a strategic planner is pretty similar to film director, understanding the subject matter, the audience, what the key reason for the communication existing is and working with your creatively skilled team to pull it off executionally.

Anyway the picture shows my day, post it notes arranged and rearranged providing a platform for writing a detailed word document for a meeting on Wednesday with out film crew ahead of our first major shoot on Saturday.

An inspiration

2008-09-18T09:15:00.000-07:00

So we all need dreams and inspirations. For me Michael Mann has always been one since I saw Collateral, just something so asthetically pleasing, I then scoped his back catelogue, Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Ali the list is long, and since then the underrated Miami Vice. When doing some more researching on him I found this Ad he shot for Nike last year, uses the Last of the Mohicans theme tune.

Why I love this in particular is that I actually used this tune when doing the Audio Visual for the British Horseracing Awards Horse of the Year Award in 2006, it is pure gold for sport.

Documentary or feature? The formula is the same.

2008-09-16T14:42:00.000-07:00

I was a keen observer of adventurefest this evening at the Vue in Leicester Square. A collection of adventure documentaries I was then in clue finding mode! Using my phone light to make sure I was making legible notes in the cinema on both Sharkman and Big Swell I must have looked a little weird... But I am getting used to that.

It was only when sat at my desk this evening and started typing up my notes that I realised that documentaries are the same protagonist antagonist battle as your favourite action flicks, The Departed or whatever takes your fancy. The better of the two, or more flowing and engaging to quantify this was Sharkman, and it also manifested the quality of each act being a microcosm of the whole, inevitably the challenge facing the protagonist. This I truly learnt when studying Mackendrick briefly at the London Film School.

As I continue to compile my notes, more to come from next week's films I am more and more confident that I will be able to direct this documentary to a high standard, and indeed it is something that I am relishing!

Making sense of the FTSE drop

2008-09-15T06:02:00.000-07:00

I'm not going to claim to be an expert but this can't be good news. In our own project world I guess it just makes the credit crunch seem even more real, will everyone still make it to the start line for the Everest Test. Will we be able to get a sponsor? We are about to have a big push for a sponsor in a coupple of weeks. I am just relieved that we don't rely on needing a sponsor for the trip to happen!

Lewis hopes to fail

2008-08-31T04:01:00.000-07:00

Lewis Gordon Pugh has set off on his Kayak to the North Pole, he hopes to fail! If he manages to Kayak then we really are in trouble and this year it is predicted that the North Pole could for a short while be free from ice! Lewis you will remember swam 1km in the North Pole in just trunks and goggles! His mental preparation has been meditating and listening to music... He hopes that this will show to the public what is really happening in the Arctic, this video is pretty inspiring.

Everest cricket photos in London

2008-08-21T15:25:00.000-07:00

Think Jonny Wilkinson in a Hackett catalogue, and well sorry you'll be dissapointed, potentenially!!! George had us in suits playing cricket in the rain by City Hall in front of Tower Bridge, we got quite some support as well! Really looking to seeing the finished article!
P.s. I did have the shirt!

Photo Shoot

2008-08-19T13:45:00.000-07:00

Seriously embarrassing photo shoot Kirt and I just had to do. George put us on this spinning disk and proceeded to take 24 photos as we rotate, a bit Matrix like, and will no doubt have us looking very uncool. Hopefully he'll use photoshop to its maximum! Some of things we go through pursuing a world record on Everest.

Twitter

2008-08-19T09:40:00.001-07:00

I am up to speed on Twitter now - I'll be using this to keep up to speed on an ongoing basis as to what we're doing in the organisation of the trip! http://twitter.com/garethwesley

Where's my name gone

2008-04-09T09:36:00.000-07:00

Quick little rant - someone has taken garethwesley.blogspot.com and done nothing with it! What a complete lack of respect for those people called gareth wesley who may want to use it!

Anyway that is that finished. I'm off to have some photos done this evening, for the press pack and so on. Should be fun, never had this done before!