00:00Hi, it's August 12 time. Earlier today I finished walking from London to Brighton,
00:14something I started earlier in the year when I walked from Battersea down
00:22through Brixton etc and got as far as East Croydon, that was back in the spring
00:26and I was thinking of continuing the walk to Brighton with some of my
00:31walking friends but due to various injuries and family commitments and
00:36stuff they've been waylaid for quite some time now so I thought you know I'm
00:40just gonna do it myself as it's summer. So a few weeks ago I walked from East
00:46Croydon to Gatwick Airport and then about three weeks ago I walked from Gatwick
00:50Airport to, no it was a couple weeks ago, well from Gatwick Airport to Hassocks last week and then this morning I got
00:58the train to Hassocks, thought right I walked back into Brighton and it took me an
01:02hour and a half, so it's gonna take a lot longer. So yeah you can walk from the centre of
01:07London to the beach at Brighton in four days and you can do the half of it, London to Gatwick, just on the pavement turns out
01:22you can just go on the road and then the bottom half is the countryside and it's much nicer.
01:27That sort of forms part of a photo and video essay called Gatwick, for Dizzy Tiger movie
01:43company or manuscript company depending on whatever gets finished first. I might do
01:49it again. And I found out during the week I was finishing reading a book by Ian Sinclair
02:00that he published last year called Pride Genius that Vincent van Gogh, when he was a
02:08young man, lived in Brixton, watched in Brixton and according to Ian Sinclair who's been
02:13apparently researching this for another book that's coming up, I woke up one day and
02:17thought I'm gonna walk to Brighton. Van Gogh didn't have a normal survey map, he just
02:25headed in that direction. It's good to know, it's nice to know. I mean, oh and apparently
02:31the earliest, according to Wikipedia, the earliest piece of artwork credited to
02:38Van Gogh is a pencil sketch of the house in Brixton he was lodging at. I don't know if he knew that either.
02:45So if you wish to follow in the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh and walk from London to Brighton I'd recommend it. That's not really Dizzy Tiger related but
02:53but what is, what is, a segway was it last year or the year before that Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X and everyone, lots of people got the hump and went oh I'm leaving this website because all other websites are
03:00Last year or the year before that Elon Musk bought Twitter and renamed it X and lots of
03:06people got the hump and went oh I'm leaving this website because all the other websites
03:13are really good or better or something. Oh god. It's like threads. Blue sky. Anyway lots
03:20of people left Twitter. If I didn't, what's the point? And I thought it would be even
03:28funnier as everyone starts leaving Twitter to start making more Twitter accounts. Even
03:35though no one's on there anymore. No one follows them. So there are actually two other as well
03:42as my old one that's there. There is now an official Dizzy Tiger Music Company Twitter
03:51which you can find at at Dizzy Tiger Music. Yeah I think I've done about three tweets of
03:58that. And there's also, like I say, because I liked the idea of just adding loads of extra
04:05content to a website that everyone hates, there is now an official Stay Out Forever Twitter
04:12which is at Stay Out Forever 4. Number 4. Well that was great. I think this works. Because
04:21apparently there must be a Stay Out Forever 1, Stay Out Forever 2, Stay Out Forever 3, other
04:25people have already got. So Stay Out Forever 4 which has currently got two followers which
04:30is me and the Dizzy Tiger accounts. I like doing things like that. So I think I might have
04:39said four or five tweets from that account. And I'm the only person who's seen them. It amuses
04:47me no end. Things coming up. We're off to Ireland, Northern Ireland, the north of Ireland soon. We've been to
05:05We've been to Corfu. I did some digging around in the band camp drafts. Did a bit more salvage
05:19of things I've started, or things that were sitting on Suno that I've started and haven't finished.
05:24But I thought that they didn't exist before, so I've scooped a few of those together. And
05:27I'm not sure if you're trying to set something up on Suno and you're trying to set something
05:31up on Suno and you press, you click the generate button without filling in all the boxes and prompts
05:43that you're meant to do correctly and you end up with some piece of music that there's no
05:47resemblance to what you're trying to do. But I thought that they didn't exist before so I've
05:52scooped a few of those together and put them as an accidental release on band camp. I'm not
05:59claiming any credit for anything on that, apart from the fact that they are there and you can
06:07listen to pretty much what AI music generating software does when you fail to set any parameters
06:14and it just goes off of its own accord and generally makes kind of fairly laid back stuff. It's
06:21there. I called it serendipity. Makes sense, doesn't it? That's there. No more film projects coming up. We
06:37ought to start trying to finish walking along the Ridgeway, I was going to say the Westway, the Ridgeway at some point if the others are feeling well enough. Despite this
06:50middle of August grainage, you can tell I'm a bit at a loose end. This is about the point that YouTube sticks its automatic ad break in.
07:12There's a break in proceedings. Technical full television breakdown. But yeah, that's kind of it. It's really a midsummer love.
07:27Oh, was this something? I don't know what it was.
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