Kieran Turner's photos with the keyword: notbyme

Train-spotters will no doubt be thrilled at the pre-1990s seat cover. ;-p

Lorem ipsum facilis magnat sit dolor amit. For the "tenuous links" group, the connection, obviously enough, is "signs"...

Archive photo (not from 2005 festival) — Zhenya's group Trim with dancers from "Art Studio Detroit".

That's what's going on. Honest. This is one of a few late additions to the pics from the Sen'kovka festival at the border of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Taken by Tonia, my friend who I work with under the auspices of www.aidconvoy.net

We all had temporary tatoos that night. This pic is rapidly becoming one of the most viewed in my photostream, you bunch of voyeurs! It's one of a few late additions to the pics from the Sen'kovka festival at the border of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Taken by one of the gang I work with under the auspices of www.aidconvoy.net

From the previous (2004) Sen'kovka festival, Zhenya in boy-band "Vivat" with their amazing young bugle player. A copy of this band is now playing the same songs, in breach of Zhenya's copyright, so I'm wishing him good luck in sorting it out. Meanwhile he's performing in his two-guy group "Trim" with dancers from the "Art Studio Detroit". This photo is by Tonia, not me, it's just here to be of interest if you're looking through the festical pics on flickr :) Find out more about what these young people are producing at www.aidconvoy.net

Archive photo (not from 2005 festival) — Zhenya and friend, as the group "Trim". Constitution Day celebrations in central Chernigov.

You won't see me approving of a shot of me in profile very often. It's a nose thing. But this one has a kind of weird cheekiness that I do quite like.

Appropriate words on the poster? Oh, and yes, that's a Sussex University "The Final Frontier" T-shirt!

Me doing some sort of tree-elf impression, with Bruce Leigh in the old wood at Drum Castle.

Since it's that time of year again, here's Suzi and me in Munich at the Oktoberfest a while ago (en route home from a Kosova trip.) It's a crazy idea: consume lots and lots of beer, quite a lot of heavy food, and then go on fairground rides and throw it all up... Thanks to Steph for grabbing the camera and snapping this. Probably an old Nikon something-or-other with a 50mm lens.

Please do not feed the lunatics. For tenuous link group: farmstand herbs -> farmyard fruitloops! Taken with a Pentax ME-Super (or possibly an ill-advised MV-1) on Kodak Ektachrome transparency film, then scanned with a Canon film scanner through an old Mac with no colour management software working. Hmm. Patina?

Check out the arc of feet! For a few years I've been a member of a great idea called Hospitality Club. It's a lesser-known version of CouchSurfing — and a little more amateurish, in a good way, in its feel. In essence it's about helping fellow travellers. You use the service if you have a room, couch or even floor to offer (or you want to have a place to stay in a strange town), and even if you just want to give a tour (or be shown) around town. I've met some very lovely people through HC. This pic is of Anja and Agnesja from Poland (and me, and another friend of theirs). They stayed with me just very briefly in Brighton while they looked for another place as a base while they told fortunes there. www.hospitalityclub.org

This is one of a few late additions to the pics from the Sen'kovka festival at the border of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. They recently arrived from Ukraine so I thought I'd upload them. Note the appropriately positioned flags! Funny thing, timing. I can look at my eyes in this picture and remember that this trip to Ukraine wasn't "work", although I am with Tonia and some of the gang who I often work with under the auspices of www.aidconvoy.net . But this trip was wonderful because instead of being work it was in fact more about me saying to them, "this time I need you, my friends", coming as it did right after a break-up which had left me with lots of questions. A time when I really needed to be me again, doing my stuff, instead of wishing I was half of something else. Best viewed bigger: static.flickr.com/38/96612988_bcad38f67d_o.jpg

The "Rail" — you had to wear shades because there's no windscreen. If you wanted to go above 50mph you had to wear a bike helmet! (And it weighed next to nothing, so it got there very very quickly!) My friend Mike owned this, but at the time of this photo I was the only person who could actually get insured for it, so I drove him around a bit! The best thing was driving up the several flights of steps to park outside the 3A20 computer lab (COGS) at Sussex University. The double-takes from people looking out of their windows were priceless! Go on, view it large, see my David Hasselhoff impression!

In the kitchen at the house so many of us lived in over the years. It was in this room that (ridiculous and sublime list coming up) : + I discovered the joy of reading the Saturday papers at the table with my flatmates + We heard the first ever broadcast of Virgin Radio + I had many battles about the clear superiority of peanut butter over marmite + I told Mike something he dealt with very very well + Ruth locked me and Rob out, in very few clothes, in the hailstorm + Joe first described to me his theory of a new mathematics + Ruth inspired me to think about "the third world" seriously and do something Blimey. Student life.

I've always loved this one. Taken for us by Sybilla, a German exchange student who was then with our friend Joe Karthauser. Outside 12 D'Aubigny Road, where lots of us lived over the years! The wing mirror peeking in is lovely Josie, my Morris 1800 with the acres of red leather. I used to always pick up hitchers on the way to Sussex University campus, or my job at the Juggs Inn (a 14th century pub!). One of them once asked me, on looking at the leather, wood, and chrome, "Are you a drug dealer!?"

Aberdeen in October. Nobody told me just how cold it could get!