The end of Britain’s coal industry and coal-fired power stations - memories and musings:

The View from Strange Street
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No More the Dance
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The Wrong Towers
fionakonca.wordpress.com/2025/08/16/t...

#coolingtowers

A Tale of the Unexpected

Links to (and screenshots of) my music videography work so far and the story behind my unexpected entry into this “arena” last year

youtube.com/@andygower-s...

fionakonca.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/a...

#AndyGower #musicvideography #musicvideos #Stoke-on-Trent #videography

A highlight of the pre-CGI era

How Blade Runner (1982) was made - links to a behind the scenes documentary, and American Cinematographer’s 1982 article detailing some of the special photographic effects used:

youtu.be/9AoiqICo6ZI?...

theasc.com/articles/bla...

#analog #analogue #sciencefiction

One of my brief appearances in Doctor Who spin-off sci-fi movie Exit to Exxilon - available on YouTube (youtu.be/6cHlPqRqiFA?...)

I only turned up to do the photography - I was lucky to get out alive.

Photos and narrative snippets from my travels beyond Stoke-on-Trent

Recently updated with trips to Ireland, Spain and Wales - walking in the footsteps of my Celtic ancestors, and exploring Islamic art, Celtic art/history and the Roman influences on both.

fionakonca.wordpress.com/the-universe/

“Silence and Cry review – deeply strange 1960s erotic ballet meditating on Hungary’s history and politics”

On Klassiki from 29 January

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

#Ballet #EasternEuropeancinema #Psychodrama

What better way to round off #IndependentVenueWeek than an evening with Tom Hingley (ex Inspiral Carpets) and Andy Gower (open.spotify.com/artist/37i7Q...) at Stoke-on-Trent’s Artisan Tap?

www.seetickets.com/event/tom-hi...

#independentmusicvenue #independentmusicvenues
#Stoke-on-Trent