Many of you will know I am a complete retro computer geek. Specifically Commodore 64 and 16, but I collect other systems like ZX Sinclair Spectrum, Atari, Coleco, etc. Back in the day I used to program games and adventures and do all sorts of fun things with them. Easy tiger.
Anyway, back in the mid 80’s a company called Melbourne House released a text adventure called “Hampstead”. For the uninitiated a text adventure is a game where you type in a series of commands and you try and solve puzzles and pick up objects and find treasure, etc. It’s very much like reading a book. You create the locations in your imagination 
The aim of Hampstead was not just to reach Hampstead, but to attain it. Questions and answers posed on the advert below included:
Questions people ask about Hampstead:
Q: Is there life after Hampstead?
A: No, Only before and during…
Q: Why do dustbins have no lids in Hampstead?
A: In order that passers-by may see the week’s completed Guardian
crosswords stacked neatly within…
As I now live not far away from Hampstead I am determined to complete this classic game and therefore attain my own version of Hampstead and hopefully my own bicycle with a basket 
Check out Hampstead on World of Spectrum and get yourself an emulator to attain Hampstead with me
Download HERE the latest SIDtastic Anna Black Anorak from the home of C64 remixes SLAY Radio. Amongst much fun and jollity – links in the show included mention of GET LAMP : THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY and C64Glen and his rather interestingly different C64 remixes.
Ok… I admit this is getting silly now…but as requested “825 photographs in less than 1 minute?” !
Warning – please don’t watch this film if flashing lights and fast images affect you at all
Love Anna x
Warning – please don’t watch this film if flashing lights and fast images affect you at all
People often ask me where are all the photographs of all the people holding thesignedphotograph are. Well, it’s a logistical admin job and a half and I get very confused So to enable you to see the scale of the project I’ve updated the previous APOTSPOAB flicker film and hereby present to you “825 photographs in less than 2 minutes?” Music courtesy C64Audio.com I hope you enjoy.
If you are an APOTSPOAB I hope you can spot yourself! Thanks so much to everyone who has taken part. It was a pleasure meeting you, and I have made many friends on our travels. I still need another 1365 people, so if you wish join in let me know and I’ll come to you. I hope to be having an exhibition and film screening shortly too so ears peeled for that
It is a pointless pointlessness for a very good reason… I will get the website tidied up shortly so it all makes sense… for info on how and what and why, please visit thesignedphotograph.com or follow on Twitter 
Have a great weekend,
Anna x
We went to Portsmouth and saw the hovercraft which was a geeky ambition 
And here is @thesignedphoto with the Spinnaker Tower 
The second film in the FaceTalking series / B & W / 3 mins 58 secs
I’ll be doing an edition of my Retro Radio Show “Anorak” Live 23/11/09 at 20:00 CET (19:00 UK Time) on SLAY Radio (the home of Commodore 64 remixes) It should be great fun. Please listen in or download after from the archive
Here is a short advert for thesignedphotograph project – The Signed Photograph AD from a previous show.
Also I’m after random people to record the words “Anorak” and “Anna Black Anorak” and send them to me on MP3 for some jolly new jingles I’m putting together. Cheers,
Have a great weekend!
Anna x
An improvised and rather acrobatic short filmed on Margate beach in 2007
Music courtesy C64Audio.com / 2 mins 33 secs
I was looking back over some of the photos and film of the signed photograph quest and this one brought back some great memories of Hull last year, and the Comedy Festival. This is me and Jeffrey Holland – who is honestly one of the nicest chaps you could ever meet – he was coincidentally playing René in the stage play of Allo Allo in Hull at the time, and we met up at a photoshoot for our shows, bizarrely enough in the Allo Allo cafe! Cheers to @Skaromedia again for putting us up and for letting us play with his toys too!
