DecemberDec 30 Wednesday 09
Amongono
It’s cold. Winter seems bored, snow las night fell settled, when all awoke, not white but greywetrain. Stepped up my reading after Christmas slump, new years to follow but less disruption due to persistant decision making skewed away from heavy drinking.
Bowling …
DecemberDec 27 Sunday 09
The state of things.
Christmas came by and stayed awhile. It felt strangely unChristmas-like. It sure was nice though. We had a BATTLE MONSTERE day on the 23rd which was pretty good. Will hopefully be editing that and posting to lastfm pretty soon. I didn’t manage to get the ZINE out as …
DecemberDec 21 Monday 09
Uh oh.
Yet another blogless week.
I can explain. I have been spending a lot of time sorting out the book, hopefully finding the right actor for the part of Spencer, trying to negotiate the pool!! sorting out the film collective site and generally getting caught up in the …
DecemberDec 14 Monday 09
Break
Oh no! A whole week and no blog.
Went with P to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in Birmingham on the wednesday. They were really good. The support band got the place moving and their Montreal robot style and the singer’s ten year old girl outfit and haircut got all the teen …
DecemberDec 7 Monday 09
London
I am well into the journal/blog to book process now! Using the website blurb.com to compile everything and so far so good. I didn’t think I’d have enough time to do all the printing and binding myself this time and Blurb seems to provide a very good frame to work …
DecemberDec 1 Tuesday 09
Discuss
Had first group tutorial today. The tutor Mark was very impressive, full of knowledge, inspiration and ideas. It was good to find about the work of a few of my peers and find out more about my own work. The conversations in your head can risk missing the point, but when …
NovemberNov 29 Sunday 09
Extracts from a past happening.
This weekend has whizzed by. Managed to get some of the first essay assignment done. Am comparing and evaluating the stance that art publications take on the moving image through a website, journal and book. When we were first given the assignment I had thought it would …
NovemberNov 26 Thursday 09
tired trees
Orange Sherbet DVD was a nightmare on tuesday. Tim and I have never spent the required weeks reading the heavy tomes that accompany Final Cut Studio Pro and so whenever a showcase deadline pulls in close and we are trying to conjure up multiple film projecting layouts …
NovemberNov 23 Monday 09
Elastic
Helped filming with Shona Illingworth friday and saturday evening. She has been commisioned by RADAR to do some installation film pieces. The sequence I was helping with involved a very high end underwater camera and sound equipment following Charlie, a swimmer for the …
NovemberNov 19 Thursday 09
etat
Audition invites sent out yesterday. P is helping produce this thing and it’s nice to have someone else helping out on this kind of stage. It’s exciting to actually be attempting this kind of stage also.
Filming this morning turned Burt into a no-go. Had been having …
NovemberNov 17 Tuesday 09
Research and Emails
Another day of emails!
Am now listening to Olafur Eliasson talk on TED.com. Very interesting ideas about the author and viewer and interaction etc. Have been trying to research some artists for the Radar project as we have a meeting tomorrow. Keep getting back to …
NovemberNov 15 Sunday 09
Infectious Diseases in Cattle
An exciting weekend despite lack of filming expedition. In the end we just couldn’t muster the acting peoples and when it looked like we could, the weather turned bad.
Did however get to spend almost whole time with P and we went photographing, film watching and …
NovemberNov 13 Friday 09
Sink me
Apologies for the delay in this blog and the fact that it probably wasn’t worth the wait.
Have been very busy this week and it doesn’t look like things will be slowing down for a while. So what’s cooking?
The Doldrums. Have been advertising for actors and trying …
NovemberNov 4 Wednesday 09
ZINEtime
so, pulled it all together... issue 2 of the parisoir zine is now available,
EISENZINE
Features great stuff from Tim, his grandpa, Livi and P. Is very fun making this little zine. Need to find some additional contributors though if we hope to get it consistently made and …
NovemberNov 1 Sunday 09
How to hide a mountain
i am now back.
Italy was amazing. Lucca is a magical town. It has a feeling of complete detachment from the outside world.
A high medieval wall circles the skyward reaching buildings.
-there is a sense of being cut off,
different, an independent state.
Without need for the …
OctoberOct 15 Thursday 09
on
Occasionally things start happening very fast and for a while they don’t stop.
Music allows you to dance through these times with (if not control then) a focus and style.
Watching Tacita Dean: Artist’s Talk, on Tate website. It’s pretty interesting.
Hopefully seeing …
OctoberOct 12 Monday 09
eek
monday and week looking b u s y. reworked film collective site. and that is now online. well it will be by the time you read this. maybe not. the website is being skrewy.
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Italy next week. Should be interesting and stuff. Sure will miss Poco though. times a million.
Art …
OctoberOct 4 Sunday 09
we kend
Busy weekend.
Art starting to go a bit smoother now with group seemingly happier about direction. Saying that, I was the only person in the studio on Friday. Need to get up to the library for some heavy paper research.
Friday night watched Annie Hall avec Poco. Will post …
SeptemberSep 29 Tuesday 09
LUSAD
So, two days into Lusad... We are working in groups to begin with which is more challenging than it should be. In groups of nine we are developing our ideas from all the photos of found objects. First day, very tense. Second day, still rather uneasy. Hopefully the break …
SeptemberSep 24 Thursday 09
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So the news....
Turns out Battle Monstere are enjoying some airtime in some cool kids hangout up in aberdeen. They are playing Cinnamon Bear, BATTLE BATTLE and Re Remi in store now! Rumours are, there’s even a fanmade tshirt flying around the highlands. Blimey.
Expect a …