Toby Miller
@tobytram.bsky.social
Freelance video editor. Nebraskan/East Anglian, so possibly inclined towards flat lands. Once hosted a radio show about cinema, but now mainly take photos using prisms or pinholes. Being kept for my decorative seed head.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
A stones throw from Cambridge.
“Meep meep” over the bench the teenagers usual gather at to smoke.
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“Meep meep” over the bench the teenagers usual gather at to smoke.
Lidl, Kevin. They come from Lidl.
November 26, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Lidl, Kevin. They come from Lidl.
in and out of the local bookshop, as Christmas gifts are ordered and delivered - and the ability of the bookshop to (almost always) say "we'll have that for you by tomorrow" is about the closest thing we have left to old Night Mail magic.
there must be vans filled with books that drive all night.
there must be vans filled with books that drive all night.
November 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
in and out of the local bookshop, as Christmas gifts are ordered and delivered - and the ability of the bookshop to (almost always) say "we'll have that for you by tomorrow" is about the closest thing we have left to old Night Mail magic.
there must be vans filled with books that drive all night.
there must be vans filled with books that drive all night.
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES >>> sound & vision made using an IBM hole punch on 16mm film/tape loops/celluloid synthesiser vision to sound/vox >>> loops of the ‘obsolete’ and the handmade
#ibm #tapeloops
#ibm #tapeloops
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES >>> sound & vision made using an IBM hole punch on 16mm film/tape loops/celluloid synthesiser vision to sound/vox >>> loops of the ‘obsolete’ and the handmade
#ibm #tapeloops
#ibm #tapeloops
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Catching up on the bowtie block from last week's quilt class. Pleased with getting my points lined up for the first two. The 3D version (where you can get a finger under each of the four edges of the "knot") is much more fiddly and will take another 2-3 attempts before I properly get the knack.
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Catching up on the bowtie block from last week's quilt class. Pleased with getting my points lined up for the first two. The 3D version (where you can get a finger under each of the four edges of the "knot") is much more fiddly and will take another 2-3 attempts before I properly get the knack.
Certainly have entered my golden age of ‘Finding Owls by torchlight’.
Managed a closer photo of this Tawny Owl, but I like this image where it’s looking round the branch at me. Wondering if there’s a meal worth having under all that packaging of coat and scarf and hat.
Managed a closer photo of this Tawny Owl, but I like this image where it’s looking round the branch at me. Wondering if there’s a meal worth having under all that packaging of coat and scarf and hat.
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Certainly have entered my golden age of ‘Finding Owls by torchlight’.
Managed a closer photo of this Tawny Owl, but I like this image where it’s looking round the branch at me. Wondering if there’s a meal worth having under all that packaging of coat and scarf and hat.
Managed a closer photo of this Tawny Owl, but I like this image where it’s looking round the branch at me. Wondering if there’s a meal worth having under all that packaging of coat and scarf and hat.
Looked down from working to see Rula walking along the high street, window shopping for fancy jewellery she’d drop hints to her husband that she wanted for Christmas. She’s on her way to the Ritz, for tea and gossip with Gwendolyn.
November 25, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Looked down from working to see Rula walking along the high street, window shopping for fancy jewellery she’d drop hints to her husband that she wanted for Christmas. She’s on her way to the Ritz, for tea and gossip with Gwendolyn.
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I loved Toby's photos and so made this
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I loved Toby's photos and so made this
Last excerpt. Originally published in 1964, An Enemy at Green Knowe is as eerie as I hoped for, sort of A Casting the Runes rewritten for children, with a smidgen of Miyazaki in the squirming oily animalistic nature of the dark magic put against the ancient house and its occupants.
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Last excerpt. Originally published in 1964, An Enemy at Green Knowe is as eerie as I hoped for, sort of A Casting the Runes rewritten for children, with a smidgen of Miyazaki in the squirming oily animalistic nature of the dark magic put against the ancient house and its occupants.
An illustration for An Enemy at Green Knowe.
The witches’ cats have driven the birds from Green Knowe’s garden. But one of the boys has painted a banner, lit a lantern and is buying his hair with the hair of Hanno the escaped gorilla (from a previous book). The spirit of the gorilla will help.
The witches’ cats have driven the birds from Green Knowe’s garden. But one of the boys has painted a banner, lit a lantern and is buying his hair with the hair of Hanno the escaped gorilla (from a previous book). The spirit of the gorilla will help.
November 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
An illustration for An Enemy at Green Knowe.
The witches’ cats have driven the birds from Green Knowe’s garden. But one of the boys has painted a banner, lit a lantern and is buying his hair with the hair of Hanno the escaped gorilla (from a previous book). The spirit of the gorilla will help.
The witches’ cats have driven the birds from Green Knowe’s garden. But one of the boys has painted a banner, lit a lantern and is buying his hair with the hair of Hanno the escaped gorilla (from a previous book). The spirit of the gorilla will help.
I looked up this scene to send to my partner (mainly for Bob Hope’s “hurry up, this is impossible”, a line that sums up the magic of cinema in general”)
But the work here is so clever - the three wheel car in the wide shot, and the horse stunt work - especially when behind the backfiring car.
But the work here is so clever - the three wheel car in the wide shot, and the horse stunt work - especially when behind the backfiring car.
November 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I looked up this scene to send to my partner (mainly for Bob Hope’s “hurry up, this is impossible”, a line that sums up the magic of cinema in general”)
But the work here is so clever - the three wheel car in the wide shot, and the horse stunt work - especially when behind the backfiring car.
But the work here is so clever - the three wheel car in the wide shot, and the horse stunt work - especially when behind the backfiring car.
Knowing she’d like the tiles I forwarded this post to my mother.
She responded with a long memory - I had totally forgotten my English grandfather was a fish and chip shop owner for a while in the 1960’s (many decades later he was head chef for Ipswich Town FC restaurant)
I like the chairs waiting
She responded with a long memory - I had totally forgotten my English grandfather was a fish and chip shop owner for a while in the 1960’s (many decades later he was head chef for Ipswich Town FC restaurant)
I like the chairs waiting
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Knowing she’d like the tiles I forwarded this post to my mother.
She responded with a long memory - I had totally forgotten my English grandfather was a fish and chip shop owner for a while in the 1960’s (many decades later he was head chef for Ipswich Town FC restaurant)
I like the chairs waiting
She responded with a long memory - I had totally forgotten my English grandfather was a fish and chip shop owner for a while in the 1960’s (many decades later he was head chef for Ipswich Town FC restaurant)
I like the chairs waiting
Dropped a half full punnet of blueberries on the kitchen floor, and as I tried to sweep them up I was reminded of Nicolas Cage’s desperate kidnapper trying to recapture all the babies in Raising Arizona.
November 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Dropped a half full punnet of blueberries on the kitchen floor, and as I tried to sweep them up I was reminded of Nicolas Cage’s desperate kidnapper trying to recapture all the babies in Raising Arizona.
The charity shop had the 3 Green Knowe books I was missing. This excerpt is from ‘An Enemy at Green Knowe’.
Lucy Boston is here describing both the house in the story and the ancient home she lovingly restored.
‘.. if you let in a nine-hundred-year dose of time, you let in almost everything.’
Lucy Boston is here describing both the house in the story and the ancient home she lovingly restored.
‘.. if you let in a nine-hundred-year dose of time, you let in almost everything.’
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
The charity shop had the 3 Green Knowe books I was missing. This excerpt is from ‘An Enemy at Green Knowe’.
Lucy Boston is here describing both the house in the story and the ancient home she lovingly restored.
‘.. if you let in a nine-hundred-year dose of time, you let in almost everything.’
Lucy Boston is here describing both the house in the story and the ancient home she lovingly restored.
‘.. if you let in a nine-hundred-year dose of time, you let in almost everything.’
Eyebrows should give off enough light to read by.
November 21, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Eyebrows should give off enough light to read by.
Thelma Ritter in Pillow Talk, looking like they’ve scratched away the celluloid emulsion to discover another, earlier and more thrilling, film underneath.
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Thelma Ritter in Pillow Talk, looking like they’ve scratched away the celluloid emulsion to discover another, earlier and more thrilling, film underneath.
But back in the 1970’s an English lady arrived in the mid-west and grew a small garden.
Reminded of Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop, who opens her store in the small town and nobody ever really wants it.
Reminded of Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop, who opens her store in the small town and nobody ever really wants it.
November 20, 2025 at 10:35 AM
But back in the 1970’s an English lady arrived in the mid-west and grew a small garden.
Reminded of Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop, who opens her store in the small town and nobody ever really wants it.
Reminded of Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Bookshop, who opens her store in the small town and nobody ever really wants it.
Ok, this is cool.
In America, in Nebraska, we lived next to an airbase. British Vulcans were based there; Vulcans are the coolest of planes - an art nouveau Star Wars of a shape and Neil Young feedback of a roar. I recall them flying over, and here one is, all faded like a photocopy of a photocopy
In America, in Nebraska, we lived next to an airbase. British Vulcans were based there; Vulcans are the coolest of planes - an art nouveau Star Wars of a shape and Neil Young feedback of a roar. I recall them flying over, and here one is, all faded like a photocopy of a photocopy
November 20, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Ok, this is cool.
In America, in Nebraska, we lived next to an airbase. British Vulcans were based there; Vulcans are the coolest of planes - an art nouveau Star Wars of a shape and Neil Young feedback of a roar. I recall them flying over, and here one is, all faded like a photocopy of a photocopy
In America, in Nebraska, we lived next to an airbase. British Vulcans were based there; Vulcans are the coolest of planes - an art nouveau Star Wars of a shape and Neil Young feedback of a roar. I recall them flying over, and here one is, all faded like a photocopy of a photocopy
A single snowflake forecast to roll into town after dark, like the troublemaker in a western, arriving on an otherwise empty train. He won’t plan to stay, but he takes a liking to our gentle town, and to the schoolteacher. He looks to set his past behind him, and we’ll convince him to be our sheriff
November 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
A single snowflake forecast to roll into town after dark, like the troublemaker in a western, arriving on an otherwise empty train. He won’t plan to stay, but he takes a liking to our gentle town, and to the schoolteacher. He looks to set his past behind him, and we’ll convince him to be our sheriff
Another little trick vampires could learn from cats is coming into your house, standing in the room until they know you've seen them, then jumping out of the kitchen window to wait outside the kitchen door like they're a different cat/vampire.
November 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Another little trick vampires could learn from cats is coming into your house, standing in the room until they know you've seen them, then jumping out of the kitchen window to wait outside the kitchen door like they're a different cat/vampire.
Hurriedly buying instruments and learning music so I can call my experimental baroque pop group ‘8-bit Owl’.
It’s an 8-bit owl compared to a proper and patient nature photo, but all I had was my phone, my torch, and my Sneakers slow walk through the leaf litter. Closing in and zooming out.
Saw an owl on this riverbank tree two years ago, so kept going back, with no luck until tonight.
Saw an owl on this riverbank tree two years ago, so kept going back, with no luck until tonight.
November 18, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Hurriedly buying instruments and learning music so I can call my experimental baroque pop group ‘8-bit Owl’.
It’s an 8-bit owl compared to a proper and patient nature photo, but all I had was my phone, my torch, and my Sneakers slow walk through the leaf litter. Closing in and zooming out.
Saw an owl on this riverbank tree two years ago, so kept going back, with no luck until tonight.
Saw an owl on this riverbank tree two years ago, so kept going back, with no luck until tonight.
November 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It’s an 8-bit owl compared to a proper and patient nature photo, but all I had was my phone, my torch, and my Sneakers slow walk through the leaf litter. Closing in and zooming out.
Saw an owl on this riverbank tree two years ago, so kept going back, with no luck until tonight.
Saw an owl on this riverbank tree two years ago, so kept going back, with no luck until tonight.
Creeped out again by the stocky shape in a field edge back garden I pass on my walk. Either a large man sits in the dark after work, looking out at the stars, or they’ve a pizza oven.
November 18, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Creeped out again by the stocky shape in a field edge back garden I pass on my walk. Either a large man sits in the dark after work, looking out at the stars, or they’ve a pizza oven.
Sam Lowry's beautifully damp commuter toast popped into my head.
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Sam Lowry's beautifully damp commuter toast popped into my head.
Sorry, I appear to have made this too believable for those not in the UK. No, we never had a Toast Men selling toast on the streets. I was a sort of riffing on the street seller song in Oliver!
Frozen morning and no bread in the house for toast. This is when I miss the old days when the Toast Man would be outside first thing, with his cart of sliced breads, shouting “Get Your Hot Buttered Toast”. And you’d rush out, choose a bread from the basket , and he’d brown it over an open flame.
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Sorry, I appear to have made this too believable for those not in the UK. No, we never had a Toast Men selling toast on the streets. I was a sort of riffing on the street seller song in Oliver!