October came and the IHEEM exhibit for suppliers to the NHS was another opportunity for the team at MJ Quinn to present their services to the men and women who run our hallowed health service. Once again I handled exhibition graphics and handouts design.

Why not make a pigeon puppet and get trumpeter Tony Peers to be in a music video?" I should have just left that at the intrusive thought stage and moved on. But here we are, many laughs had, three different pairs of underpants bought, a 1,000-piece jigsaw made in nine hours, plenty of moments of thinking it would never get done, and the budget climbing literally by the tens of pounds.

The winter of 2024 was a strange one; a winter where I found myself standing on a foggy, desolate street, and shouting to a bald man wearing striped socks, holding a smoke-billowing French horn.

Working with the band I was able to utilise the talents of bandleader Martin Smth and write a script based on a car salesman character called; Tex Smith! The concept was to sell the sophisicated jazz music with all the care and attention of hocking a dodgy automobile. We shot on location near the venue, St Michaels in the Hamlet in Liverpool, using both the beautiful church frontage and a nearby carpark to mock-up the car lot. The reel was a great success with Tex Smith play

The title from Maggie Times Watch the music video for "Maggie Times" below. I shot this film on an Iphone 16 pro. See my other WEAVE video: "A study in Fog" here

The owner of Eurocarmats, reached out to me to design a logo for his company, "Click-carmats." However, it soon became evident that I...