So the prospect of everything getting done over summer somehow felt a lot more achievable this year. It doesn’t fall to me to tell anyone who once ever read anything on this page that it certainly wasn’t in my grasp. In fact, just by looking at that which I have posted in the last few months, it makes me a little annoyed to see just by how much I fell short of the mark. Indeed, with every passing day it got harder and harder for me to post properly. The reason for that was good, actually. I have been incredibly busy over the past 3 months. Not so much on the topics on which I left you, but with other things that took command of my time.

The season picked up – a no brainer on the work front. Unavoidable. Also, I started a band as well as knuckling down on a few other side-projects, deciding to kick things a long with the music I made over the last year or two. Writing and producing music in any number of ways has always been a key factor in what handandface is about. So in a way, I was always focused on it, just not so much on the blog updates.

Some of you may be aghast to find out that I now contribute to another, newer blog – it can be found here and it doesn’t need any more explanation that this, sufficed to say it is important to me, but so is what I do here, and though I am sure in the coming times ahead they will both correspond with each other, I want for one not to take away from the other.

As for photos, I have been busy taking shots of everything and above all else, nothing of any relevance except to me. I have become enthralled with technology and the ways in which different sites now intertwine. I want for these spaces to talk to one another. The photographs, taken on a variety of different cameras show nothing but a snapshot of my normal and anything but ordinary life-cycle. Everyone’s life is like that, not only mine. At the moment, I am basking in the mundane, and one day hope to get back out there, with a goal, a purpose, new focus and some black and white film, but for now, a 3.2 mega pixel camera phone has as much charm as it does ammunition in it’s capacity to keep the world updated about the things that no one really cares about; and certainly no one cares about more than I do. But then again, I’m not the one reading this blog. You are. I read other people’s and it’s important we all give each other something to read once in a while, so here I am, for the sixth millionth time, pledging that I will try harder to put my particular brand of art out there.

I happen to think no one cares about any of this really. But I’ve been wrong before. I hope to not disappoint you all soon.

Thom, Hand & Face