Operation Concrete

Monday Muse – Zach Johnsen

A slightly delayed Monday Muse, but never-the-less, that doesn't take away from the man that I'm about to talk about, in illustrator and designer Zach Johnsen. I first came across Zach's work when I was scouting for collaborators for Concrete Operational, ...Read More

Op:Con – Website and branding

So, as part of the overall marketing of the novel, the publishing process, an ecommerce solution and to publish the video blog documenting how I get on with everything, I needed a website. Visit this web-site - WebDesign499 for more details. This ...Read More

Op:Con – Gaining sponsors

So, I’m continuing to go through my Arts Council grant application process for Operation Concrete at the moment, and it’s not easy. I’ve put together proposals for massive projects with blue chip clients before now in my professional life, and ...Read More

Op:Con – The Arts Council Grant

To help fund Operation:Concrete I’m applying for an Arts Council grant. I want to apply for about £5000 which is the mark at which it’s still classed as a ‘small project,’ although this whole thing feels anything but small. This is ...Read More

Concrete Operational – Blurb Book

So, as Operation:Concrete progresses, I seem to be making more and more lists, in ever more detail, on each and every category of thing I need to get done. It’s starting to get slightly ridiculous and things are moving slower ...Read More

Photo #1 – London’s Southbank

Now I’ve got my new Nikon D40 SLR, I’m carrying on with expanding my efforts into other creative areas. The other night I went down to London’s Southbank, awesome place architecturally, especially, if like me, you’re into brutalism. I’ve uploaded some ...Read More

Poetry #1 – The Fatalist

So, on the back of my extended list of creative things I want to achieve, I’m going to start posting other aspects of what I get up to during the week, progress on projects, etc. On Monday I went to an ...Read More

It Tastes Like Copper | Alpha v0.1

So, a little behind schedule, but hey, it's been a busy month with Christmas and all, and here it is, the first very rough edit; It Tastes Like Copper – Alpha V0.1 Synopsis: It’s been a few years now, a few long years ...Read More

Speaking Freely – NaNoWriMo Pwned

"So, we have a National Novel Writing Month winner! That's right, last night, by the skin of my teeth I managed to crawl over 50,000 words and enter them in to the thing that they have to count the words ...Read More

"So my phone has been playing up over the last couple of days and I kept getting 'network busy' messages when trying to call SpinVox, which is a bit peculiar but I'm back blogging now. Tuesday morning. Final week of ...Read More