Welcome to my personal corner of the web.
I’m Jim, and this is where I document my various obsessions. If I’m not writing books or making music, you’ll usually find me deep in a tech rabbit hole.
This blog is my public notebook for everything from Apple hardware and AI to the technical side of film and live production. I’m a bit of a gear-head when it comes to lighting, sound, and cameras, and I have a never-ending project of making my home smarter than it probably needs to be.
I also write about anything else that catches my interest, including theoretical projects like the Carnaby Media Hub or The Festival Mesh, as a way to get thoughts out of my head and, hopefully, share them with people who find them useful.
Stay a while, have a look around, and feel free to reach out.
Featured Projects
The Books: Magic, Mystery, and a Little Grumpiness
Three very different magical worlds:
Magitech Mysteries — Neon cities, arcane technology, hacked spells, and mysteries that refuse to stay solved.
Casefiles of the DMC — A darkly comic urban fantasy where magic is regulated like gas or electricity—and an underfunded department investigates what the Ministry would rather forget.
Bartholomew Quill — A retired magical enforcer, a disgruntled Shadow-Moth, and an Ever-Brewing Kettle navigate a world that is dangerous, inconvenient, and in need of tea.
Soundtracks for Life and Logic.
Whether I’m experimenting with the latest in music-gen tech or singing to my kids, music is how I document my world.
Check out the Singularity Suite for a journey through machines and misadventures, or Some Kind of Intelligence for an AI-collaborative experience. You can also find the softer side of my work in Songs for Scarlett—a project born in the early days of fatherhood. (Stay tuned: a project for Blake is currently in the works!)
The Carnaby Media Hub.
Most blog posts stay as posts. The post got a little out of hand and became a whole series.
I started with a simple idea for a production hub and ended up creating a full architectural and technical roadmap. It covers everything from professional audio and video workflows to the complex network infrastructure required for live broadcasting and filmmaking. It’s equal parts creative imagination and technical manual.
The Festival Mesh
Another one of my What if...? ideas that got a little out of hand.
This series explores the various rungs of the of the production ladder when producing live video for events. From three smart phones on the beach to a full TV broadcast rig in Bridlington Spa's Royal Hall all whilst exploring the idea of broadcasting a town-wide festival in real time, and creating a full red button like experience, like you would get on the BBC for Glastonbury.
Latest Posts
Step inside the Department of Magical Crimes, meet its unlikely investigators, and explore the strange, darkly comic world behind Book One.
The Priory and Spa Gardens reveal how professional broadcast evolves from hybrid SDI/IP to full SMPTE 2110 production.
Post 1 was survival. Three venues. Three budgets. Three radically different approaches to the same problem. Now we climb. The Black Lion is a ...
Let me be honest with you from the start. This is the jankiest corner of the entire mesh. Not in quality — I'll fight anyone who says the bottom...
Let me set the scene. It's a Thursday night in Bridlington. I'm standing at the back of the Harbour Tavern, pint in hand, watching a three-piece...
The story of the 2023-2026 production evolution of Eurovision doesn't actually start with a piece of gear or a fibre optic cable; it starts with a ..
Blackmagic, if I find a URSA Micro in my plant, we’ll be chatting. In Oct, I wrote about your ATEM upgrades, likening it to a marathon in flip-flops.
So… it’s been a minute, hasn’t it? I haven’t posted since the 16th of October, and before you think I’ve just been sitting around eating grapes (I ...
Me and Abi have been saving for a deposit to buy our first home and with that comes the inevitable updates from various home search sites with ...
Introduction: The Journey to a New Era in Media Production From its initial spark as a visionary concept, the Carnaby Media Hub has evolved from a ...
Let’s be honest, trying to keep up with Blackmagic Design’s relentless pace of innovation can feel like running a marathon in flip-flops. Just when you’ve maste
We've explored the grand vision of the Carnaby Media Hub, from its magnificent soundstages and pioneering virtual production volumes to the dynamic R&D labs tha