I was thinking of one of my old photos as I took this one, and it’s come out as quite a nice companion piece, really.

I spent some of Sunday in Battersea Park with Miranda, stopping in at Comica Comicket and the Hypercomics exhibition at the Pump House Gallery. The image above is one of Dave McKean’s sculptures for the show.

I remain painfully dissatisfied with the state of hypercomics (as distinct from webcomics) but that’s a rant for another time and one that everyone has heard me give before, and in any case, until I actually put my money where my mouth is, I should really shut the fuck up on that front. That said, Mr Goodbrey, who was part of the show, continues to be one of the few people out there trying to do anything interesting, and Mr McKean’s take on them within this exhibition was interesting, but I think more about being an art exhibition than about the narrative potential of an hypersurface. But still, pretty and interesting, hence the photo.

It’s the first UK comics event I’ve been to in a few years, and it was really lovely to see people there. And I’m delighted to see that the bodies of work that people I have collaborated with in the past, particularly Messrs Goodbrey and Azzopardi put me to shame.

Oh and Gillen was there, as well, but obviously his output is a load of old toss that anyone could have come up with. The bastard.

So, having said I’m condensing everything down to one blog, it’s time to talk properly about the exception. Anyone paying close attention to my flickr stream will have seen a new set appear there titled "365 Bullets". The long and the short of it is: I haven’t done nearly enough photography in the last 18 months, and what I have done, I haven’t shared enough of. So, in order to break that habit I am doing a photo-a-day project, using my iPhone camera, and the plastic bullets app – the idea being to force myself to take more photos, and to be less perfectionist about them, by only allowing myself a limited amount of control (a choice between 4 random effects, basically) over the post processing. If you want to follow the whole project, you’ll find it on its own tumblr, but in any event I’ll be posting the better shots (because with 365 photos, they can’t all be winners – some days, I’m just not going to see anything that interesting) to flickr and then to my blog, so you’ll get to see the good ones anyway.