Pete Hindle

It is now officially summer. And with summer, there comes the dreaded “Countryside Invite”. That’s my term for those parties that are held in the middle of nowhere, but that you have to attend. It’s usually a not-too-interesting event – a relatives birthday, an engagement party, or some sort of art event – but it’s [...]

I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be undertaking a residency at 25 Stratford grove this August, where I’ll be working with juggling. We had a brief run-through and experimentation with what you can do with juggling balls and a room full of artists on Sunday, when Carole Luby hosted an artists crit group. We spent some [...]

Above: Heaton Park, last weekend. Like I said in my last post, I was back in Newcastle at the weekend. Luck had it that I came back for a scorchingly hot few days, and the local park became full of people. On one side of the park, there were families playing, a bowling green, and a coffee [...]

I lay in bed on Monday night, feeling pretty weird. I’d been back in Newcastle for four days, which is the longest I’d been away from home since I got sick. Unlike before, I’d taken it pretty easy, and restrained my impulse to schedule a dozen meetings for coffee every day.  In fact, by most [...]

Yesterday I took a trip into London by myself. I’d arranged to met up with Jock Mooney, who made this video: We spent a few hours catching up, and then I set off for Camden’s juggling shop, Oddballs. I’m not really into Camden. Maybe I’m too old, or maybe I’m just not sold on the [...]

I just realised that I’ve been living with new media technologies as the locum of “what I’m doing in the art world” for the past seven years. And that I’m totally sick of them. So I deleted 97 feeds from my RSS reader. What I’m bored of is people who don’t understand the difference between [...]

I don’t often sling Youtube videos up here, but this band – solo violinist Owen Pallett – has not only covered this song and made it his own, but also written an album called “He Poos Clouds”, which is about the magic system in Dungeons and Dragons.

Wednesday was a bad day for me. I’d been carrying around a broken tooth, and leapt out of bed to make an emergency dental appointment. I then fixed breakfast and was just starting to gingerly chew my toast when I got a call from the benefits agency who told me that I wouldn’t be getting [...]

I can’t wack my dog during the day, so I’ve hired an angry under-employed person to come over and beat the crap out of it.

I sat down few days ago and made a concerted effort to watch Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It’s a long, slightly flawed movie, but in the third act something interesting occurred to me. It wasn’t the fact that the alien spaceship was very cool, in that pre-CGI filmmaking way, nor anything [...]