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  There's loads more happening so if you're remotely local, have a good look through the listings on the Photoville website. Photoville is FREE to the public. Spread the word and we'll see you there! Brooklyn Bridge Park, September 19 - 29, 2013."

Preview of upcoming story. Live next week. Small Town Inertia : MARKET TOWN : HELENA : EVERY DAY IS A MORNING AFTER

Mike Hartley :  "Several months back, Jim Mortram needed to move his powerful and moving stories from Posterous to a new website. I was inspired by Jim's work and together we designed and built an open source WordPress template to become the stories' new home. We wanted the template to showcase the stories, the lives people have so generously shown Jim and Jim's beautiful story telling.  My hope was we could get the template accepted into the WordPress Theme Directory so others would have access to it and also be able to tell their stories. Today it was accepted and you can go and view the theme on wordpress.org. If you host your own WordPress, you can install The J A Mortram from within your WordPress admin pages [Appearance, Themes, Install Theme, search for The J A Mortram]. I wasn't sure we would get it accepted. I am so pleased we have."   J A Mortram : "Working with Mike (BigFlannel) has been and continues to be such an honour, a labour of love and a place of safety. Not only has his support rescued Small Town Inertia from very real homelessness, his design and coding has created a site that's the perfect vehicle for sharing the photographs and stories. Websites, so often, can overshadow the media being shared, or at worst dilute it by imposing a superfluous and false identity upon them, a template that detracts and distracts rather than facilitates and frames. Mike's hard work creating Small Town Inertia was a real joy to witness, his intuitive, instinctive design, and being really listened to, it's hard to describe a 'feel' or a sensation but Mike was able to untangle my mess of dreams and fashion an end result as though I'd expressed my own ideas articulately, which I really had not done!. Minimalism is so easy to get wrong, less is for sure more, often though there's a temptation to add needless elements, like adding sugar to a perfect kiss, totally needless.   Mike just got it, got me, got the stories, got the photographs, got the intent and got everything, everything right. Not through luck, not chance but skill and damned hard work." http://bigflannel.com  "Bigflannel have over 10 years experience making simple, elegant and award winning websites. Awards have included a Webby, clients have included photographers, creatives, boutique retailers, publishers and producers."

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