Rob Manuel

Running web projects I don’t get a huge amount of media requests and when I do I often feel really weird about them. Being interviewed by someone is giving control of your own mouth to other people and my experience is generally that nothing good comes from it as it only annoys your peers who feel hard done by that they’re not getting any attention.

But then Word Magazine got in touch and I had to say yes as A. I’m a subscriber and have read pretty much every issue since launch and it’s hugely flattering to be in something like this and B. It’s run/staffed by a number of people I’ve worked with in the past including David Hepworth (sub to his blog on RSS you won’t regret it) and more recently Fraser Lewry.

The interviewed was conducted by James Medd – who I think should write a book about red hair as his Guardian feature on the subject was great, and photography by Muir Vidler – who in himself is a very interesting chap currently putting together a series of photos of contradictory people, e.g. a Jewish person with a swastika tattoo.

Anyway – you’ll have to clicky a few times to make this big enough to read.

Photoshoot

I had a fun photoshoot with Muir Vidler – he encouraged me to pull silly faces which is pretty much how I entertain my wife so it wasn’t too hard.

You can see the rest of the photoshoot here – which at the very least should give the b3tans some new material the next time they want to photoshop me chained to a radiator and being pissed upon.

BTW: The downside of this feature is that I wasn’t able to read this issue of Word – everytime I picked up the magazine I was flooded with anxiety and put it down again. Hope I didn’t miss anything good that month. Thankfully normal service has resumed and Word have stopped producing issues with me in them.