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Open Up
I met the charming Loma who runs the really rather essential Open Magazine, which gives you everything you wanted to know about arts and culture and such stuff. Happily she liked SOTM and wrote a short piece on it, which you can see here. SOTM is always happy to get publicity, so hopefully there'll be a bit more of that to come yet.
Raising Eyebrows
I've made the acquaintance of the hard-working and entrepreneurial Phil and Becky, who run the excellent Eyebrow magazine, a well-written and sharp satirical take on the latest news from these shores and abroad. It's a really impressive effort by this industrious pair, and I recommend you take a look. Their obligatory SOTM picture can be found here.
Schmoozing and Boozing
I actually met Phil and Becky at Schmooze & Booze, a regular social event for young media types, organised with merciless efficiency by Helen Lewis, who displays a wisdom and organisational sense far beyond her tender years. The website is here, so drop Helen a line if you'd like to come to the next event - so long as you work in the media or PR, dahling. I took a number of SOTM shots at the bash I went to, which can be searched for in the Gallery.
Video Star
There are two videos on the site now. One shows a typical SOTM photo shoot, and was put together by the marvellous ladies at Pig Farm Productions.
The SOTM being taken in the video can be seen here.
I’ve also put together a video montage of several SOTM pictures, complete with a soundtrack from my very talented mate Nick.. Both videos can be seen on the Read All About It page.
Malta FM
A happy moment for SOTM – a magazine in Malta wisely decided to run an article on the site. Thanks to the brilliant Sharon Spiteri, FM magazine, distributed once a month with The Sunday Times of Malta, ran an interview and printed several photographs.
Anna the Angel
While out taking photographs of the fire in Camden, London, I met Anna ‘Logophobia’ G. Ramberg, and asked if she’d pose for SOTM as she has a great, striking look. She agreed and made for an excellent portrait. She then kindly offered to take SOTM shots herself, as she's a keen photographer, and has been busily supplying images ever since.
The photos she has taken have been excellent and a welcome addition to the site. Search for her name in the Gallery, or check out this brilliant shot of hers, one of the best so far on SOTM. Well, it is of a stripper.
Student Shenanigans
I packed up my trusty camera and soon-to-be famous sketchbook in early February and headed to Bangor’s beautiful Victorian pier, following an emailed instruction to “meet us on the pier”. That message was sent by the excellent Siobhan Holt, editor of Seren, the student union magazine for Bangor University.
She had rounded up a posse of 15 students, who turned up for their photographs – I also got the chap who sells souvenirs on the pier to take part. The SOTMs had a romantic theme, as it was almost Valentine’s Day. During the trip I took what’s probably my favourite SOTM image, with a lovely message too. Many thanks to Siobhan and the Bangor crew, and I got three mentions in Seren including a double page spread.
Roll up, roll up, get your Facebook widget!
After much work, some wailing from me and a bit of teeth-gnashing from Max the website programmer, a Facebook widget has been born. You can download it by searching on Facebook, or accessing someone else’s widget, or by clicking on the Facebook bar underneath each photograph on this site. So far more than 220 people have installed it on their profiles.
Back to skool
SOTM has been going into classrooms, with both Parliament Hill and William Ellis schools inviting me to come in and speak to several classes about the website. Apart from the slightly unnerving experience of being called “Sir” by people half my age, it was great fun and resulted in a good number of SOTMs that were taken by the pupils themselves. Many of these were excellent and one can currently be seen every week. There may also be an entire week of school work to be put up at some point, to make sure that some of the students’ work is showcased a bit quicker. Thanks to Emily, Ashling and all the pupils who took part.
Flickring through
SOTM now has a presence on Flickr – check it out, join the Someone Once Told Me group that’s on there and do tell your Flickr contacts about it. I’ve had a couple of photographs sent in from Flickr people who saw SOTM mentioned there, plus a number of hits, so it was a good move to sign up to it for sure.
And SOTM also has a page on MySpace too - add it as a friend if you're on there!
SOTM launch party
The Someone Once Told Me launch party took part on Saturday 8 September 2007 in London. Pictures by Marcus Yorke. Thanks to all who came.
