http://www.carlwilkinson.co.uk Words, Pictures and Travels Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:54:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Financial Times, 7 December 2009 I've just spent a few weeks setting up the template for, and editing, the FT's new Business Education magazine. All content can be found at ft.com/businesseducation http://www.carlwilkinson.co.uk/2009/12/07/biz-ed/ FT Magazine, Saturday 10 October 2009 For an audience with Brian Duffy you need a sense of humour, a working knowledge of philosophy, English literature and art and an unshockable disposition. “I’m reputed to swear a lot,” he warns, “but I don’t consider it swearing … ” You would expect as ... http://www.carlwilkinson.co.uk/2009/10/14/portraits-of-the-swinging-sixties/ The Observer, Sunday 14 September 2008 The extraordinary story of a unique label devoted to releasing music by Iraq war veterans. By Carl Wilkinson. A gleaming black-and-white Fender Stratocaster is an unusual item to find in a soldier's kit bag, but for Sergeant John Dobbins it is one of his most treasured ... http://www.carlwilkinson.co.uk/2008/09/14/combat-rock/ The Observer, 2007-2008 I've spent the past year-and-a-half editing a series of 112-page paperback books for the Observer newspaper. The series was published each month with the paper and included contributions from, among others, Philip Pullman, Mark Quinn, Antonio Carluccio, Sting, Felix Dennis, Danny Boyle and Christopher Hampton. The books developed ... http://www.carlwilkinson.co.uk/2008/07/01/observer-books/ The Observer, Sunday 30 March 2008 For a decade, Vice magazine has pioneered a no-holds-barred approach to the counterculture. But now, with a TV channel and hard-hitting reportage from the frontline of the world's trouble spots, it's aiming to shock in a different way. Carl Wilkinson hears how the streetwise teen-zine ... http://www.carlwilkinson.co.uk/2008/03/30/the-vice-squad/ 30 October 2007 I've spent the past eight months editing a series of books which are published each month with the Observer newspaper and last month I took a day off to shoot a video for the band Mr Hudson & The Library for their song 'Upon The Heath' from their ... http://www.carlwilkinson.co.uk/2007/10/30/my-first-foray-into-music-video-direction/ The Observer, Sunday 1 April 2007 Stratospheric house prices mean even the bottom rung of the property ladder is out of reach for many. Carl Wilkinson meets the couch surfers and warehouse guardians who've found novel ways to save their rent Location, location, location goes the trite estate agent's mantra. But just ... http://www.carlwilkinson.co.uk/2007/04/01/the-artful-lodgers/ The Observer, 21 January 2007 The snake was at least two metres long and eventually identified as a forest cobra, although I initially had it down as a piece of hosepipe. It was writhe-around-in-the-dust, nasty-way-to-go deadly. And it was in my shower. That I considered picking it up says little for ... http://www.carlwilkinson.co.uk/2007/01/21/i-passed-the-bush-tracker-trial/ New Statesman, 15 January 2007 Carl Wilkinson made a journey to meet the Karen tribes of Burma - and found them in Thailand It's 6am. The sky is the colour of gruel as the mist clears, and there is the fine scent of old wood smoke in the cold air. From ... http://www.carlwilkinson.co.uk/2007/01/15/in-the-cold-thai-hills/ The Observer, 19 November 2006 On a remote tip of land in Australia's empty north west, an Aboriginal tribe has built a luxury, safari-style camp, where visitors can explore the local traditions in a stunning setting. Carl Wilkinson went a little bit native 'White man living in the wrong climate,' said Robert ... http://www.carlwilkinson.co.uk/2006/11/19/cape-leveque/