Dio Bach's Web Fun

Catch Up Time...

2009-10-27T00:57:00.003Z

Well, things have been pretty busy down the DioBach neck of the woods. Here's a quick round up of the stuff I've been up to. The major focus has been Devil's Bridge. I'm up to my neck in sorting out the paperwork for the project, which is really boring. However, on the creative front, Chris has just finished the 1st rough cut of the film. It's in at about 100mins, which is a good 20 mins longer

Devil's Bridge Extended Trailer

2009-07-25T21:12:00.005Z

For those interested in the film, there's an extended trailer / taster now available online for your viewing entertainment. It's a 6 minute rough cut to give an idea of the mood and dynamic of the film. Take a look at the Devil's Bridge trailer (Note: Long trailer taken down now, the proper trailer has taken it's place.) And yes, blink and you'll miss it, that's me making my feature film acting

Devil's Bridge Week 3 & 4

2009-07-15T11:37:00.006Z

Well, we're almost done with the shooting. My part is over for now, but the rest are shooting today around Cardiff. I'm back home trying to sort out my invoices and stuff. Ok, so last week things were decidedly spaghetti western, up in the fields above Allt Y Coed. After a few weeks up in Cardigan, it was a big relief to pack everyone up and not have to travel up and down everyday. It's a lovely

Devil's Bridge Week 2

2009-07-05T22:12:00.004Z

It's been another busy week with the film shoot continuing to fill my every waking moment. We started at Allt Y Coed on Monday, but after that we've been away from our base at Cardigan this week. Tuesday we had a day of location shooting at the Rose and Crown in Goodwick (thanks Dave and Anne for the help and hospitality!) I got to make my movie acting debut as one of the locals in the bar, but

Shooting Devil's Bridge

2009-06-27T22:31:00.008Z

If you've been following my tweets and stuff, you'll know I'm currently taking a major step outside my comfort zone and joint producing a low budget horror film. I'm just back from the first week of shooting, and absolutely knackered. Things are going well so far, despite a few technical hiccups and other slight set backs. We're shooting it digitally, using a Sony XDCam EX3 camera that I bought

Chelsea Flower Show 2009

2009-05-25T23:40:00.005Z

After years of watching the shows on the beeb, this year Mrs Dio suggested we go to see the Chelsea Flower Show in the flesh. Naturally I agreed, being the part time vegetable gardener that I am. We travelled to Cardiff and stayed the night with relatives before getting the early train up on the Saturday morning to see the show. We got

Five Nights In Amsterdam

2009-05-03T20:51:00.003Z

Just back from Amsterdam after a 6 day trip to attend two affiliate marketing related conferences, the A4U European Expo and Amsterdam Affiliate Conference (formerly CAP Euro). I won't bore you with details of what they were all about here, but the main thrust for me was to get lots of good SEO advice and ideas for promoting my sites, and

Lake Vyrnwy Trip

2009-04-16T01:23:00.003Z

Last week we decided to take a road trip up north. Mrs Dio has always wanted to stay at the Lake Vyrnwy Hotel, so we finally booked a room and made the trip. It's not an area I've ever visited before, the lake is situated in the Berwyn Mountains, just a but south of the Snowdonia National Park. The run up was great, up through the Preselis,

Art Attack

2009-04-14T01:06:00.004Z

I have to admit to having been on a bit of a binge recently. I've got a small amount of spare money thanks to business, and I've been spending it on original art. I've been following the posts at OMG Posters and as a result buying myself some lovely screen prints to adorn the walls of the office. It's a great way of collecting original art at low bucks prices and although I've run out of wall

Weekend Trips - St Govans, Bosherston Lily Ponds, Tenby & Saundersfoot

2009-03-23T15:57:00.009Z

Bang up to date with photos, with some here only shot this weekend! Woot, the excitement. Anyway, this Saturday past we took a trip down the coast to see St Govan's Chapel, the famous hermitage set into the side of the cliffs near Bosherston. I've wanted to go see since I was a little boy, I've always loved the legend of the uncountable steps which my dad used to tell me about. Needless to say I

Saundersfoot Beach, Glen Beach And Misc

2009-02-27T23:04:00.003Z

I'm throwing it up here, here's the last of the big batches I have from last year (that I've processed). Autumnal trips on the beach at Saundersfoot, building dams, round the other site of the harbour on Glen Beach, and some odds and ends from Haverfordwest and Manorbier Castle. There you go, those have been sitting in my web ready folder for months, now I've got a pile equally as

Tenby's Castle Beach - Sand Castle Competition And Cave

2009-02-24T23:25:00.002Z

I'm just throwing up some more nice images from last year, this time all taken around September time, at the end of the Summer season. The first lot are of the Tenby Sandcastle Competition that was held as a part of the Tenby Art Festival. The event was on Castle Beach, and the photos are off the event and other bits of the beach. It looked like fun, next year I'd love to enter with Elis.

Last Summer's London Trip

2009-02-18T21:31:00.002Z

Well, as promised, some photos. I think the best I can do is little and often. Plus the shits Brits is on and I'm at a loss end so here we go. We took a trip last Summer to London for a few days with Elis, we went to London Zoo, a couple of museums and took a tourist trip on the river. My camera actually died half way through the visit, but

A Cheery Wave From A Stranger

2009-02-17T23:24:00.003Z

Well, here's me posting again after almost a half a year's break from the old web fun. Happy New Year to anyone still dropping by on the off chance I posted. Part of the reason I haven't posted was the fact the site was not showing up for people on BT powered connections, self included. I finally got around to moving the site to a new server and that seems to have cured the problem. So now I can

More Summer Photos - Broadhaven, The Dinosaur Park And Iron Bar Sands

2008-09-18T19:38:00.005Z

Well, if you're on a BT internet connection, you won't be enjoying these photos. Early this month I moved this domain to a new server, and ever since BT can't see it. I don't know why, as any other connection sees the domain fine. I've had a similar problem in the past and it eventually resolved itself, so touch wood it'll sort itself out because at the moment, I'm not able to see the site

Recent Trips - Picton Castle And Folly Farm

2008-08-25T15:38:00.009Z

I've finally sorted through the backlog of images I've taken the last few months, on various cameras, and will post them up over the next couple of posts for anyone interested. I've ordered a battery charger for the spare camera we've got here, so hopefully that one will last a day or two and allow me to take a few more shots.First up are

Camera Catastrophes

2008-08-17T10:36:00.002Z

I'm in a bit of an annoying position at the moment, both the new cameras we had in the last year have packed in. My Sony has been playing up pretty much since the first time it was taken to the beach, and has now decided to work only about 20% of the time. We went to London two weeks ago, so I took the Canon I gave to my wife. Half way

Hopper (?? - 2008) - Farewell Old Fella

2008-08-16T23:11:00.006Z

It's with great sadness I write today to mark the passing of one of our 4 cats, Hopper. He was put to sleep yesterday around lunchtime, following the discovery of a large tumour on his insides. We've all been devastated by his loss, the house feels that little bit emptier since his passing. If this is already to maudlin for you, move along now, but I'm going to mark his passing with some words

A Few Recent Anniversaries

2008-07-20T22:27:00.006Z

I can't put into words how busy I am at the moment, right at a time when everyone else is slowing down for the summer. I love being this busy, but we're going to be all over the shop the next few weeks, so it'll be smash and grab working up until then. None of this has been helped by the fact I managed to crash my car a couple of weeks ago, writing it off in the process.I skidded off the road and

200 Nipples On My Chest...

2008-07-01T20:13:00.003Z

I'm a sucker for a good idea - I just spotted 200 Nipples via the Metafilter projects page. Basically, they're a new homebrew T-shirt company. Their premise is simple, they produce one T-shirt a month, with a design by a local artist. The T-shirt is limited to an edition of 100, and after they're all sold, the screen is destroyed.I like that, it sort of reminds me of the spirit behined

Guitar Porn - The Moog Guitar Paul Vo Edition

2008-06-10T21:51:00.008Z

Well, I've finally arranged a guitar tutor and I'm intent on putting the years of bad practice I have with the instrument behind me and learning to play a bit. Maybe in a couple of years time when I can string a few notes together, I will seek out the Moog Guitar Paul Vo Edition, with its Lou Reed impressing infinite sustain. Looking at

Snaps From The Isle Of Wight

2008-05-27T19:06:00.005Z

We spent last week on holiday in the Isle Of Wight, a place we'd never visited before, but choose for the range of things to do and the excitement for Elis of taking the car on a boat. We stayed down on the south eastern side of the island in a holiday home in the town of Shanklin.Well, we caught the weather lovely, it was sunny pretty much

In Praise Of Jericho

2008-05-25T23:11:00.009Z

Never one to be up to date with great TV, I've been having a bit of a catch up the last few months on some TV series that I'd heard good stuff about. I have to say I'm not a fan of the US style drama series, but that's a whole other post that I'm not going to waffle on about now. That said, I recently watched the entire first seasons of Heroes (really good), Dexter (superb) and after seeing the

Times They Have A Changed - A New Old 4 Track

2008-05-15T22:59:00.005Z

Well, I mentioned in the last post I might pick up a 4 track, and I went and did just that this week. Thanks Joe for the offer of a Tascam Portastudio, but I had my heart set on replacing my old recorder.My old deck was a Fostex XR-3. I remember when I bought it back in 1997 it was the most expensive things I'd ever bought, weighing in at

Coming Out Of The Closet... The Guitar I Mean!

2008-04-29T12:16:00.003Z

I'm getting the old inklings again, I want to make music. I miss not making tracks and songs, and last week I picked up a little practice amp for a tenner at the New Hedges car boot sale. It doesn't help that I've been working on updating my guitar site either, looking at loads of lovely old Fender Stratocasters. It's driven me to envy - so my old guitar has come out of storage this morning, and