The Sunday Summary

🏰Ally Pally, 🎬 Colour theory and 🎳 upcoming vids

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Tom Hutley
March 23, 2025

💂🏻 A London experience

Through the National Lottery open week, I was fortunate enough to visit the abandoned BBC Studios at Alexandra Palace. Almost 90 years ago, The BBC leased a portion of the palace to conduct simultaneous experiments in Studio A and B which would decide the technology that would be the future of broadcast television. 2/3 of the BBC at Alexandra Palace remains derelict.  Alexandra Palace is a charitable trust and despite having some very large events on, would require a lot of money to get these renovated to their former glory.

It was incredible to see the space, and know that this area had laid dormant for decades Walking and running past Alexandra Palace and not knowing what lurks on this second floor.  Highly recommend this tour, to find out when the tickets are released again, just subscribe to the Alexandra Palace website.

🎬📺 A YouTube channel you NEED to subscribe to!

The Secret Sauce to Cinematic Colour Grading was incredible. This is just perfection.  Visually. Narrative. Production.  It goes against all YouTube trends, it’s cinematic and filmic. The kind of content that people say YouTube doesn’t favour.  But here I am, 4 videos back to back. This is incredibly inspiring. Subscribe to it now!

🎧 On heavy rotation

This was a big motivator for me 9 years ago on The Knowledge, 3-4am the long drive into big bad London would start with this.

Coming soon on Tom the Taxi Driver

  • A taxi shift using just taxi ranks! (Saturday 29th March 10:00)

  • Uncovering the hidden world of taxi advertising (this is looking BEAUTIFUL! Can’t wait to share this one!)

  • Visiting the biggest tourist traps in London

  • Can I avoid the congesting charging zone?

  • Why removing the 25 foot turning circle, could DESTROY the London taxi trade

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Please feel free to reach out to me with your; comments, concerns or just general conversation. I'd love to know what you're up to or what you might be working on!

Have a great week!

Tom

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