Author: Pete Ashton

We had a fantastic time with the camera at the Moseley Folk Festival. While our other outings this summer have made us feel we might be onto something good here, the Folk Fest confirmed it. There’s no going back now.

Our original plan was to move around the site and point at different things, but MoFo (as it’s known) gets rather full of blankets and chairs rather quickly, so after a trial down by the stage on Saturday morning we moved to a hillock overlooking the back of the field, right by the beer tent and on the way to the toilets. In other words a perfect place to meet people.

We can’t say how many people looked through the camera that weekend. It was easily in the hundreds. And all of them loved it.

We were at the Moseley Folk Festival this weekend and it was tremendous fun. Full report to come soon but we tried something new, sticking a little digital camera inside the camera obscura to record what it saw.

Here’s a nice representative clip from early Saturday of the mirror being attached, the view playing out and then, two minutes in, Pete’s friend Ian being given a tour. Watch for his hairy head.

Flatpack have been running a series of film-related events for the younger humans called Screen Juniors at the mac this summer and we asked if we could tag along one day. So last Sunday, prior to the Pinocchio screening, we set up the camera on the path between the back of the mac and the Cannon Hill Park and entertained the pubic for a few hours while people started gathering for the Eid Mela.

Last Saturday we took our camera out of Birmingham! Only to Coventry, mind, but even so. Next stop, Brazil!

We were invited to the inaugural Festival Of Imagineers, put on by Imagineer Productions who are responsible for the giant Godiva puppet that Coventry has taken to its collective hearts. That's not just hyperbole – it was really noticeable how much affection people had for their giant blinking puppet and this little festival really built on that, bringing in a load of similar performers and makers from around the country to entertain Coventry.

On Saturday we wheeled the camera to Edible Eastside where the Bicycle Basket Bazaar was taking place as part of the Warwick Bar Summer Fete. Got all that?

It was a lovely little affair put on by the various arty types in that corner of Digbeth and we had some good chats and happy smiles from those who had a go. Because Pete was on his own (Jenny was on holiday) he didn't take many pictures of people using it but here's one plus a couple we scavenged from the internets.