Pablo has completed directing ADRIFT IN SOHO. The film was shot in Nottingham's Lace Market district posing as Soho of the 1950s. Additional photography took place in the real Soho, in London.

Full info for cast and crew on IMDB

Twenty-two pubs and one Latin bar. Soho, London.

Plenty of choice for your pub crawl in Soho, London.

These pictures were taken at a specific time. It was Friday September 20th between 7pm and 8pm. The idea was to complete the crawl in one hour as the light was going fast.

Note: All pictures taken with a BlackBerry 9790.

DUCK AND DOG 

7pm

CROWN AND CHAIRMEN 

7:05

At this time office workers in Soho are the first to arrive. If the weather is good they congregate on the pavement rather than inside. This is the real reason why I took the pictures. Punters take over the streets and change the nature of the city.

As it is the end of summer I was not sure when this phenomenon would happen again. So I had to be quick.

THE FRENCH HOUSE

7:07

GOLDEN LION

7:10

BAR SOHO

7:14

THREE GREYHOUNDS

7:15 

All pubs are within a 200 meter radius from the centre of Old Soho which would be somewhere around Meard Street. If you are going to crawl twenty-two pubs and one Latin bar in one evening, let me warn you than many before you have tried and failed. With dire consequences.


PILLARS OF HERCULES

7:17

THE TOUCAN

7:20

Did I crawl the pubs myself on this evening? Answer is at the end.

NELLIE DEAN OF SOHO

7:21

THE GEORGE (closed).

7:24

THE BLUE POSTS

7:25

JOHN SNOW

7:27

STAR & GARTER

7:30

SHASHTON ARMS

7:32

WHITE HORSE

7:35

THE SHIP

7:37

COMPTONS

7:40

ADMIRAL DUNCAN

7:47

THE CROWBAR

7:50

BAR SALSA

7:53

THE CAMBRIDGE

7:54

THE SPICE OF LIFE

7:56

COACH & HORSES

7:59

Answer: No! I didn't engage in effective pub crawling this time. It was just a photo-crawl or I woudn't have finished in time!

Grand Tour of Venice with Canaletto.

CAMPANILE AND PALAZZO DUCALE.







RIALTO BRIDGE

PONTE DE TRE ARCHI



Francesco Guardi.




STEPS OF SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE.







ARSENALE.







PIAZZA SAN MARCO.






SAN GIORGIO MAGGIORE.






SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE.

VENICE FROM VIA GARIBALDI.



Paintings by Canaletto except Ponte Tre Archi by Francesco Guardi.
Photos taken by Pablo on a BlackBerry 9780.

Hi All. Sorry I haven't been updating this blog. I have been kept very busy writing for other publications and blogs. Hopefully they will all be united soon.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY

Hi there. Fabulous Xmas and New Year. Soon planning a South American fireworks display which was left from New Year's Eve for lack or quorum.

WORLD CUP MEDIA COVERAGE

PRETORIA (June 16 ANSA, UPI) This is a smuggled picture on how Uruguay plans to use the pitch against South Africa today. Uruguayan engineers disguised as groundsmen have been working overnight fitting pulleys and special gearing to the new pitch under the noses of South African and FIFA officials.

ORIEL LAST STAND

On Feb 26 2010 after 25 years of loyal service to locals and visitors the French brasserie Oriel closed its doors for the last time.

My production ORIEL LAST STAND recorded for posterity what happened on that evening.

A version of it can be seen on the documentaries section on my front page.

French style cafes and brasseries are essential for today's city requirements. They have been initiators of fervent revolutions for a reason. They are democratic, they cater for a lot of people, they are affordable, they are popular, they work twenty four hour days.

I think a French-style revolution is what London needs. Tout suite.

THERE YOU ARE

February. It means January is over. Big deal.

Light is improving. Days last longer. Projects come to fruition. Money pours in. Life is beautiful.

Got a short film in competition in the UK. Won't say where until I know what's happening. Just in case I don't get selected. It means I won't need to find excuses or bad mouth the selection process.

Here's a picture I took in December. I always envied the freedom of the painter to do what he wanted on the canvas. These are my photo finish approximations.

Click on pictures to englarge and on the link to see the full set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/44155803@N08/sets/72157623023935208/show/

In terms of film-making, Adrift in Soho is taking fantastic shape. Keep you posted.

LONDON: What's this?

Awesome November. After an awesome September. So awesome they were that I couldn't even get into the blog for two months.

As you can see, this is going to be an awesome blog.

AWESOME NIGHT OUT
At Floridita an awesome promoter friend set up the most awesome Latin reverie. To go into details wouldn't do it justice. I went with my Nikon camera and had a great time. Click on pictures to enlarge.



The place is supposely based on the famous Havana, Cuba bar of the 1950s.

www.floridita.co.uk



AWESOME TV PROJECT
Got involved in an awesome TV, Internet, Film Project. But I can't give you any details because it's secret. The project will be release during the World Cup in South Africa 2010.

AWESOME MUSIC VIDEO
An up and coming band of awesome rappers from The Oval performed in front of fans for a whole day while we filmed. Seen to be believed.

VENICE: What's that?

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Already? August? Not only that but half way through September.

Been to Venice the last mad week of August. Got the mask to prove it. Here's a picture with my son Fede.

Took all my photos with my mobile phone camera as a kind of mad challenge. Did a Vivaldi vs Canaletto mad music video.

The best thing in Venice was the mad Cafe Americano snack bar at the edge of the Piazza San Marco five minutes before midnight, followed by the mad bells of the Campanile and L'Orologgio sounding at the stroke of midnight and finishing with the mad fish market near the mad Ponte del Rialto. And the mad vaporettos. Everything was mad in Venice. Mad = good here, but mad nonetheless.

And the mad bridges. All the rest was the most incredible mad location ever. Didn't even notice the mad tourists. Some people say Venice is sinking because of the tourists. 15 million of them sink it more every year.

Absolutely devastatingly mad to climb at least 30 bridges (and back) every time you wanted to go for a short walk.

On my return to London, life seemed sedate by comparison. Even boring. I had to spend two mad weeks recovering. Maybe that's why time moved so maddlingly fast lately.

Other mad places in Venice: Il Loco Ghetto fruit market, the mad Canale Grande, the mad Excelsior Hotel in Il Lido, the little mad canalettos, the pasticcerias off the beaten mad tourist track.