Living A simple green Life: A Wonderful journey of photography and film

Welcome

Welcome to my wee blog.My name is Andy ( The Dafthermit ) . For the last 20 odd years i have ben trying to get back to a simpler way of life and finally in my old bus up here in the Scottish mountains i am finally getting there. My time now is spent taking pictures of the highlands ,making films to show the world the beauty all around and writing something that has surprised me having had a few of my stories published , Having picked up a camera and laptop in 2008 i have really enjoyeed the journey the camera has taken me on again having had a couple of pictures in national magazines, last year three of ,my films where shown at the Loch Ness film festival. anyway i hope you enjoy your visit to my wee blog

love and light

Andy

Friday, 24 July 2009

A Wonderful journey of photography and film

I have said this before but since picking up a camera and laptop just over a year ago i have been amazed at where it has taken me.

I have been busy doing a film all about water and i want to thank everyone for all the wonderful comments and emails.

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My project about water is growing so fast and today i was blown away again by the kindness of people ,Sally Hope has given me permission to use her amazing song Blessed water in the film if you have not heard of her please take a wee moment or two and visit here

this is a wee bit about sally i hope you will pop over to see her:

I am a creator, as Ellen Von Einem once said 'we are the Mothers and Fathers of our own thinking and are thus creators'

I am an artist poet, musician, singer/songwriter, hypnotherapist, writer, intuitive and entrepeneur.

I have two albums out 'Medicine' and 'Pearl' which are available here from my shop via itunes or C.D's, my music reflects my positive outlook and of course reflects what is going on in my and our world.

I love...music, art, books, films, people, animals, angels, my family, growing veg, trees, the earth, skies, Wales, colours, rainbows, peace, happiness, freedom, justice, talking and discussing all sorts of issues with people...

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happy travels all the dafthermit

well before i could even post this wee post i have just recieved another amazing email a new friend called Katie who is an amazing fiddle player has agreed to me using any of her music .

You can hear her playing here

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So many thanks once again for all the support in the making of "Water "a wee highland film..

The film on you tube is only an intro to the full length film ...

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Someone else i have to thank is my friend tui for allowing me to use his music ,you can here tui;s stunning work here..

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Water

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Colours in the early light of day.

I stood to let my eyes caress the curves and contours of a world

Through air so clear

This clean and noiseless save the swishing of the sea.

The quiet calling of the gulls as if to you alone

And here to me questions come you know.

Just what are we within all things

Perhaps some answers in these lands of space of time lost highland clans

More wild more FREE……

by Mel Lowe

more of mels poems here

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A wee film about us on STVs the HOUR SHOW click on STV logo to see the film

Andy the Daft Hermit lives 45 minutes outside Inverness with his wife Mel in an old bus parked in a layby. This current home of theirs is the longest they have ever stayed in one spot. “I’ve been travelling now 25 years,” said Andy Lowe. “Mel’s been travelling 15. One of the reasons we’ve come and stayed up here is because of Mel’s health. I wanted to bring her to the mountains for fresh air and clean water and just a slower pace of life.” Mel has had breast cancer twice, skin cancer once, and for three years believed she had bone cancer after being wrongly diagnosed. Andy’s belief in the restorative powers of the north made them pack up ‘The Black Bus’ that they live in and cross the border into Scotland. New Highland home for hermit couple Andy and Mel “I think we both believe in trying to get to a more simple way of life,” said Andy, “but it’s strange for us because we are sort of hermits, or we like to live separate, but it’s not being anti-social… it’s just the way we are that allows us to be creative.” Andy first began travelling when he left the army. Fed up with bureaucracy he packed a rucksack and left for France and has been travelling ever since. By investing any money the couple have earned into solar panels and wind generators they now live a self-sustaining existence, without electric bills, and collect rain water “straight from Heaven”. “It’s not easy,” said Mel. “There might be time when there might not be enough facilities around, but you always find a way, you know?” Rather than rejecting technology, Andy blogs about his travels online and collaborates with artists from around the world via his ‘Scratchy Heid Film Studio’, which he runs from a static trailer next to the couple’s bus. He explained his philosophy: “My belief is that if you can go through life and you drop dead and you’ve got a balance there that slightly outweighs the good than the bad, you’ve done alright. “Yesterday, with what Mel’s been through with the cancer and all that, I had a woman on one of my sites there that thanked me for the writing, for the positive things, and to me that’s worth everything. You can keep your millions, we’re not interested. That is what we do.” To check out Andy’s artwork and video projects check out his website. MORE FROM THE NORTH