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I’m about to change all that right now by telling you about my next adventure: Switching up a gear and revamping this website into something that my family and loved ones might want to look at long after I’m dead and gone... There are a few of you that I’m pretty sure I’ll outlive so I’ll try and post something of interest for you sooner rather than later, starting with something that literally inspired me to get out and get filming again.I shot it a couple of years ago whilst renting in Werribee, Victoria, Melbourne Australia. It got me out ...read more

I’m older now and it seems that one of its benefits is that I am finally becoming the person I should always have been. I’m quieter, happier, less impulsive (that one takes effort), less stubborn and a lot more considerate. I don’t see too many of the ’old gang’ anymore... nice people but far too young to be any kind of a support structure!.. and that has helped me to find my inner peace. I now only spend time with people I care about and who care about me. As soon as I see a glimpse of arrogance, anger or ...read more

It’s been such a long while since I shot or edited anything that I’m feeling pretty pleased with myself. I’ve finally got my engines running again and kept them running all weekend as I put together four minutes of footage that will form some part of a bigger feature. The last time I sat at my editing suite was back in March, the last time I’d picked my movie camera up was before Christmas. I’ve had [good] reasons for not doing any of it but feel suitably shamed for being too busy at work. Last summer I decided that the ...read more

Shoot ’til Your Batteries Die. That’s what I did this morning. I got up at 7:00am and was out the door and on my way to the side streets of the city by 7:15. No time to shower, no time to shave, just out. It was cold and it was wet but I kept on shooting footage of the city as it started to wake up. There were young people going home from a night out. Others were arriving for their early morning Sunday shifts. I got into a conversation with a garbage collector who apologised for spoiling my shots. ...read more

They’re gone. They caught the plane out of Melbourne, Australia this evening and I was very sad to see them go. The emotional exchange caught us all by surprise. I will miss them and I hope that they will miss me. They have been the place for me to go of an evening when I didn’t want to be on my own. They have been my family here in Australia. ...read more

I know someone who is in China this month visiting some of the places that I visited almost two years ago. The village that I stayed in for five very cold days will – at some point in the near future – be turned into a city of apartment blocks. The land used for farming will disappear and the farmers re-housed. As I write this I am already formulating a plan to re-visit Weifang to document the changes. There are people there that will be greatly affected by these changes. Some for the better, but also some for the worse.One ...read more

"I have to admit that I haven’t paid a lot of attention to this website [DavidSoul.com] for quite a while and I’m sorry about that. I’m lazy. On the other hand, I don’t like talking trash and when there’s nothing to talk about or when it’s just about filling space, I prefer to demure to memory, which is not the easiest thing for me to remember. But recently, my dear friend, colleague and artist in his own right, David Delfouneso reminded me of a collage of film moments from Starsky And Hutch that he’d edited together five years ago and ...read more

"San Francisco - a U.S. city favourite of mine, if not one of the greatest cities in the world - also offered me a seminal moment in my early career. After guest starring in the television series, The Streets Of San Francisco (1972) (Karl Malden and Michael Douglas), Clint Eastwood, who saw the episode, offered me the role of ’Davis’ in the second of the Dirty Harry films, Magnum Force (1973). Not only would that film mark a first ’big’ break, Magnum Force would eventually lead to an offer from Aaron Spelling to do the role of Hutch in Starsky ...read more

Anyone who knows me will be aware that I’m passionate about filmmaking. I have other skills but this is the one that centres me. When I travel I always have a camera with me. In the winter of 2008 I visited Weifang - a Prefecture-level city in the Shandong province of China - for what was to be the coldest winter I ever spent anywhere. My friends have heard me talk about this so often now... about the solar powered water tank on the roof that delivered piping hot water but stopped short of coming out of the tap because ...read more

I have two albums by Pueblo Café ; La Batalla (2010) and Busch Oro (2004). My favourite tracks are Reflejos, Nieves Tiempos and Todo Mi Vida which translated into English are All My Life, Reflexes and Snow Times. Long before I looked up the lyrics to translate them into English and discovered what they were singing about; I'd already had one of the tunes playing as the soundtrack to our lives back in 2007 when putting together a short film about a holiday in The United States. It was winter in London, England so a welcomed break in Los Angeles, ...read more

This information spans every significant relationship I ever had. Back before Spotify, before iTunes, Apple Music and CDs; we used to make mix tapes for our girlfriends or for parties we were either hosting or attending. Without fail, the first track on my first tape would always be the first 30 seconds or so of UB40's D.U.B Dub. There was just something about it that set the whole tape up and ensured its place as the opening song on side A. At nineteen I was still a teanager when I first heard it and I hadn't heard it in the ...read more

My father died when I was only twelve years old. He had been ill for quite some time with cancer and I remember taking care of him each day when I got home from school. I was all he had during that time as my mother worked nights in the hospital and my brother was always at the pub. When people asked me about him I would always tell the story of how he sat us down one day and told us about the argument he got into with a German man he encountered one day whilst walking along the ...read more