Welcome to DanPatmore.com

Mar 03 2012

Hi and Welcome to danpatmore.com!

You can find out a little more about me on the about Dan Patmore page

My Creations

Where you will find my kitchen ukulele sessions, poetry, spoken word, flash fiction and art and whatever else I try my hand at

Ideas for Dads

A blog with my meandering experiences in parenthood and list of ideas for dads of stuff to do with their kids

Sharing Cool Stuff

Simply sharing some of the stuff I’ve found that I think is cool, I’ve split it into a few sections, such as ted videos, personal development  etc..

Hope you enjoy some of what is here, if you do would be lovely to hear from you (dan@danpatmore.com).

Peace, love and respect

Dan x

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Original song – Battles

Jul 28 2012

Hi

Hope you’re all well. This morning I have changed a bit of the navigation and removed the SEM section having decided it’s not all that relevant to what I’m doing here. Plus while my posting is so haphazard I’m not sure there’s much point.

Yesterday I wrote my first song in years  (aside from my lyrical work with RiseBaileyRise), plus it’s the first song written on my ukulele. it’s very chilled out and the vocal is deeper than I’d usually go for but I think it works. This was a one take recording made as soon as I finished the 1st draft of lyrics. I expect there will be some arrangement and lyrical changes, but here it is – Battles

Would love to hear from you with your thoughts on this, get in touch – dan@danpatmore.com

 

peace x

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Rise Bailey Rise – One of Four

Jun 30 2012

The first Rise Bailey Rise EP -One of Four- has just been released. Set to be the first of four EP’s over the next 18 months, it contains the songs – Brother needs a Brother; Gideon (which I co-wrote); I Know You Well and Racing Trains.

One of Four is streaming on Soundcloud and is available for download from bandcamp now.

Find out more about Rise Bailey Rise

Search for Rise Bailey Rise on danpatmore.com

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Until you have it all you won’t be free

Jun 21 2012

Lyrics to Society by Eddie Vedder

Lyrics to Society by Eddie Vedder

“Until you have it all you won’t be free” Eddie Vedder – Society.

Eddie Vedder’s Into The Wild soundtrack is fantastic and for me, the song Society is a real standout. This line in particular resonates with me strongly. That’s why when I stumbled upon this promo shot from the movie, I thought the two were perfect together.

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Mantra – Calm, confident, controlled

Jun 21 2012

calm mantra

Just thought I’d visualise this mantra of mine for you. I thoroughly recommend it

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Story Rules by Pixar

Jun 21 2012

Been a while since I’ve shared something random and cool. It’s not a new posts, it’s been kicking around for over a year, but I saw it doing the rounds on twitter a couple of weeks back.

Emma Coats an artist at Pixar was tweeting some story basics and there’s a nice round up of them here: http://www.pixartouchbook.com/blog/2011/5/15/pixar-story-rules-one-version.html

Including some great advice and creative exercises such as:

#20: Exercise: take the building blocks of a movie you dislike. How d’you rearrange them into what you DO like?

#13: Give your characters opinions. Passive/malleable might seem likable to you as you write, but it’s poison to the audience.

Thoroughly recommend reading through these 22 tweets size bits of gold.

http://www.pixartouchbook.com/blog/2011/5/15/pixar-story-rules-one-version.html

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Ideas for dads – fly a kite

Jun 19 2012

Go outside, fly a kite, feel free.

There’s a lot of peace to be found in flying a kite. There’s a lot of fun to be had too. Unleash your child on a kite and watch them beam with joy (assuming you can get it flying!)

Fly a Kite

Fly a Kite

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World View – Be Bold

Jun 19 2012

Something else that I thought I would share with you all. A simple thought:

“Be Bold”

Be Bold

Be Bold

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I CHOOSE PEACE

Jun 19 2012

I CHOOSE PEACE

I CHOOSE PEACE

I thought I would visualise for myself one of my mantra’s, hopefully it will resonate with you as well. Feel free to share and re-post as you takes your fancy x

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Weak by Skunk Anansie, Ukulele Cover

Jun 07 2012

Hi

Final video from tonights Ukulele session. Weak by Skunk Anansie. A fantastic song from their debut album Paranoid & Sunburnt.

In all the years I played guitar, I never really thought of playing this. Love how the ukulele has made me braver at playing a wider variety of songs.

Anyway, to the video! I get a bit carried away at the end, so sorry about that

Peace, Dan x

 

 

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Guest List – Eels Ukulele cover

Jun 07 2012

Hi

The really sad thing about tonight’s uke session is that I am wearing the same top I had on for the last set… tut tut, it’s digusting…

Beautiful Freak by Eels was their 1996 debut album. It’s an absolute cracker of  unrelenting misery. When I look back, a 12 year old listening to this album as much as I did cannot be possibly be healthy but nevermind.

Bit happier with this than the last two I have just posted, enjoy x

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