Review of the Year 2011
My annual end-of-year tradition is now online for this year.
It's the Review of the Year 2011, an hour long audio programme for you to download and listen to, containing music and news clips from the twelve months of 2011.
Still Playing With Trains
I previously held the world record back between 2004 and 2006 for travelling round the London Underground in the fastest time possible.
I organised Tube Relief a charity event in the wake of the London tube bombings in 2005. Over sixty people participated in travelling the tube all day.
Two of my previous attempts have been filmed for TV documentaries, you can watch them both online here, and read write ups of all attempts so far, currently eighteen and counting ...
Attempt write ups: Tube 10 - Tube 11 - Tube 12 - Tube 13 - Tube 14 - Tube 15 - Tube 16 - Tube 17 - Tube 18
Docking Hell
The TFL Cycle Hire scheme was launched in London at the end of July 2010, and from the moment it launched I mused the possibility of seeing how long it would take you to ride to all 345 of them.
A couple of months in - on one September Saturday morning - and we did just that! We called it Docking Hell - an attempt to ride round to all the docking stations in one day.
Underground : USA
For eleven weeks between June and August of 2009, I drove around the whole of America on a 48 state road trip (not Alaska or Hawaii) visiting a place in each state that shared the same name as a stop on the London Tube map, this due to my love of The Tube (see below).
Throughout the whole trip, I documented it on my blog with photos and videos as well as using my twitter feed to provide constant updates of where I was and what I was doing. I'm now writing up a book of my travels based on my tweets during my time on the road.
Underground : USA Photobook
I took over 3,000 photographs on my summer 2009 road trip around the whole of America, and finally got round to sorting through them all, tidying them up to make them look great and putting them into a book.
Self-published through Blurb.com, it's the Underground:USA photobook.
Living in America
In May 2006, I made a transatlantic move and ended up spending over three and a half years living in South Carolina in the USA.
I experienced the highs and lows of emigrating to a new country, as I got to grips with the true South in America. The phrase "Two nations divided by a common language" started to actually mean something to me as found myself comparing the difference between Britain and America.
The 50p iPod
Between November 2003 and June 2004 I managed to successfully cyberbeg online for a third-generation iPod. I got five-hundred people around the world to donate me fifty pence each to raise the funds so that I could buy an iPod. I had photos taken with the person where I could with the person donating me the money, and they got to nominated a song for them to have on the iPod - marked in their name forever.
The whole story got written up as daily updates - which eventually turned into my blog. It was called 50pence (iN Da Pod), and you can read the whole story of everything that happened here.
Guides
Shooting better video : BBC News Online since 1997 : The 'Friends' Sex Guide : History of the iPod
Other Stuff
How to host a 'Millionaire' Quiz Night : Never the Best Man : England Football Results : Cameron Girls
About me!
I do improv comedy with Hoopla, and are performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival again in 2011.
I used to have a blog. I stopped writing it so that I couldn't concentrate on writing my proper book instead, about my 2009 USA road trip - there's already a photobook out about that.
eMail me at geoff@geofftech.co.uk, and follow me on twitter.
Websites I find myself perusing:
Tucker Max
The Oatmeal
The Best page in the universe
What Should I put on the Fence?
James Randi $1,000,000 Challenge