Peter Kenny
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How I stopped being a genius
Let me tell you that until the age of 29 I was a tortured genius.To help other people understand this, I lived in a squalid bedsit. I was also permanently unhealthy in that way typical of geniuses, and I spent my nights barking my tortured, misunderstood poetry into the smoky fug of doggerel-filled rooms. Don’t…
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The sound of one hand clapping
I have been fascinated by silence for years. Having lately met several classical musicians and composers, it is interesting to discover just what a touchstone John Cage’s 4’33” is. What I glean from these discussions is that John Cage was trying to get people to listen to the other sounds of the music hall, or…
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The boat comes in for SchilMil Games
Pleased to see that New Zealand’s SchilMil Games, run by a partnership of Amanda (an old school friend who now lives in NZ) and her pal Julia is now well and truly launched, with the arrival of two innovative, spanking-new games. I contributed a little board game packaging copy (a first for me), which is how I got to know…
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Ghosts in the Machine
I love my Panasonic DMC-TZ7. It is my second Lumix camera and I would definitely buy a third. I know it’s not good at coping with low light and images get lots of ‘noise’ under those conditions. Because I almost never use flash I get lots of blurred shots too. To me these happy accidents look like…
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Advertising is not Art
Once in a blue moon you will get a client who just wants to look fantastic, which gives creatives the opportunity they usually can only dream about. But however arty we get in advertising, what we produce is not art. For in advertising there is always that pesky overriding driver: to sell things. Often what it appears we are…
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The Best of London
At last a reason became apparent to me for loading a pictures onto flickr — as somone got in touch with me about using one of them in a book about London called The Best of London. It is a winter shot of Kew Bridge from Strand on the Green… Quite pleased by this. Update…
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Snip from the Alison Ferns show
Was on the Alison Ferns show on the BBC for Valentine’s day… My wee bit starts at 36 minutes.
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Pollard & Kenny CD now well and truly launched
The evening at the Unitarian Church was a success. The CD is now well and truly launched, and is also available for download as you can see in the panel alongside. It will also be available on Amazon and iTunes in due course. At our gig at the Brighton Unitarian Church we were excellently supported…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 