Just dusted off the photos we took behind the scenes of Machine. We’ve gone to town on the descriptions this time so if you really want to know how we did what we did, head over to the Flickr set, make yourself a cuppa and get reading. You’ll find a few abandoned prototype ideas in there as well, and some actual blood.

Hurray! We made a book of some (well, quite a lot) of our photos from our road trips across the states. It’s a bit of a precursor to the documentary film we’re still editing so we’ve given it the same name.

If you like it, you can go see the whole thing on Blurb’s site, and if you *really* like it, you can buy it from them as well.

First thing we did was Alien Zone, Areas 51 – a place with about 20 alien scenes that you’re encouraged to climb about and take silly photos.. SOLD.

Then we thought we should get the ‘real’ facts and checked out the International UFO Museum and Research Centre just up the road, it was closing for the night so we ran about and took photos instead of actually doing any reading or learning (we’re on holiday, why would we want to do a thing like that?).

And the next day we had to go and see what all the adverts we kept seeing around town for the Roswell Space Walk were all about, they boasted a Paisley-Horvak TVG9000 (no, me neither), how can you refuse? Luckily it was silly, quite silly.

We organised a tour with some random dude of the ACTUAL HANGER where an alien may or may not have had it’s bit’s cut out by sinister looking military types. We got to the car park next to the hanger and looked for a car with a large inflatable alien tied to roof (as arranged) but our tour was a no show, damn it, the truth is still out there.

Here’s many more photos of our time in Roswell:

You like aircraft right? You like lots or aircraft right? Then you’ll LOVE the aircraft boneyard we visited in Tucson, Arizona. You can get a coach tour around this massive military facility (we shot the video above through the coach window) and hear everything there is to know about the 4,400 or so planes, helicopters and missiles they have parked up there (most of which are ready to have their protective white coats stripped of and start flying and shooting things again), or like us, you can ignore most of what’s being said and take lots of photos:

To get an idea of the size of the place, check it out from God’s eye view:

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If you’re planning on taking a visit, pre-book your tour with the PIMA Air & Space Museum.

Just arrived in Woolacombe, Devon, and we have a great view of the sunset from our swanky apartment. So naturally we shot a time lapse of it, and will probably be shooting many more.

This video is also on Youtube if you’re that way inclined.

The Quick Draw Saloon at the last ever V&A Village Fete went down a storm, which had a lot to do with all the work that went it to making and running the thing by the guys and gals of Stuff Club (that, and the fact we were giving out shots of whiskey for 50p a go). I can gladly report that we were thoroughly badly behaved, and successfully encouraged others to do likewise. Some highlights include branding the word ‘LOSER’ over the face of a child, one of punters accidentally fall off the wagon after ten years of not touching a drop of the good stuff and comanding a baying mob to shout out obscene phrases until the wee hours while watching people try to draw naughty things (such as ‘syphilis‘).

 
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Yey! My Lomo LC-A isn’r buggered. The last time I used it (about a year ago) it kept deciding not to open it’s little iris for me. So I left it in the cupboard. I kinda missed it, so I got it out again recently and ran a roll of film through it, picking up some “just take a photo of anything-damn-thing” shots along the way. The results of which are here. I plan on taking a load more casual shots like this (like back in the good ol’ pre mega-pixel days) and slowly adding to the set on Flickr. It really is a joy to use.

A short trip up north to visit a few haunted attractions afforded us a brief excursion to Blackpool. The weather was angry, the back streets derelict and bustling, the accomdation broken, the punters were drunk violent and bloody. I really can’t say how much we love Blackpool. After spending many childhood holidays in it’s fizzy glow, the horror that is Blackpool to the adult eyes only excites us more. It’s crumbling beauty and rotten fringes can not hide the heart of this undead seaside paradise. Well, that’s what I think anyway. There’s quite a lot of photos in the set from the Wax Works. It was our first visit, a truly Blackpoolian experience. Here’s the set.

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