this morning my phone rang and i woke up while i dreamt i was on the apprentice, working for lord sugar, developing a shaving razor. i was project manager and had just arrived at the scene of the shoot for the advert we were making. i watched on the test screen as the actor (who looked to be made out of playmobil) stroked his cheek, 'ooh smooth like heaven'. i say "i did not give the green light on the use of that phrase", i swish my coat and turn towards lord sugar. he says that the next point we are to consider is advertising - 'now, think about it carefully' he says. 'TOP GEAR.... we'll advertise on top gear' i say, and i know that i have cracked it. i've done it, i've got the golden ticket, i am Stella.
i answer my phone, it's 9am. i awake straight into an interview for a job as a recruitment consultant. i have actually already been interviewed by this man about eight months ago. that time i didn't get beyond, 'so tell me what makes you want to get into recruitment', i said that i didn't want to, that i didn't know anything about it, and that the idea of working in sales made me want to cry even though i didn't know what it was. i still feel vaguely the same. i would like to have gargled my answers RECRUITMENT CONSULTBLEEEEEH! but my dream had made me think that perhaps i was the apprentice. i brushed the crumbs of my bedclothes and thought, what would stella do.
deeply immature but keeps having deja vu, which makes me think - older than i am? i have just made christmas biscuits. last night i watched the elephant man. i can see over five different types of bird from my window. does the blue tit wish he had a hat. integrity? where is my integrity. where are my sequinned pants. where is my storyboard. where's my silky tights.
a bizarre creative malaise. x
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Wednesday, 29 September 2010
MUSIC
a musical renaissance.
new discoveries;
MR MEEBLE 'until i grasp the second'
YES!! :-)
4 year old twin led gospel... triumphantly oddball!
Spike Jonze directed.... the pharcyde - the drop
new discoveries;
MR MEEBLE 'until i grasp the second'
YES!! :-)
4 year old twin led gospel... triumphantly oddball!
Spike Jonze directed.... the pharcyde - the drop
Thursday, 27 May 2010
ee cummings
maggie and milly and molly and may
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea
went down to the beach (to play one day)
and maggie discovered a shell that sang
so sweetly she couldn’t remember her troubles,and
milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;
and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and
may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
For whatever we lose(like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the sea
POEMS
the charge of the light brigade
by lord alfred tennyson
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Some one had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre-stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
by lord alfred tennyson
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!' he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
'Forward, the Light Brigade!'
Was there a man dismayed?
Not though the soldier knew
Some one had blundered:
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them
Cannon in front of them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Flashed all their sabres bare,
Flashed as they turned in air
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wondered:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right through the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reeled from the sabre-stroke
Shattered and sundered.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volleyed and thundered;
Stormed at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came through the jaws of Death,
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honour the charge they made!
Honour the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred!
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
Air Balloons
My pitch idea...
What makes things fly?
What is air?
What makes things burst?
The only interesting one to me is the first.
Levoisier and the hot air balloon
Bristol and the balloon festival
Pink piggy want to come and film it with me?
Secrets and things that never made the news
The woman who went round the world in record time.
Loneliness hits hard those who write but forget to.
Started reading War of the World today and bought a confederecy of dunces.
Watching Michael Mason's series about The Story of Science...
'How history made science and science made history'
Henig Berg the alchemist convinced his urine would make gold.
What makes things fly?
What is air?
What makes things burst?
The only interesting one to me is the first.
Levoisier and the hot air balloon
Bristol and the balloon festival
Pink piggy want to come and film it with me?
Secrets and things that never made the news
The woman who went round the world in record time.
Loneliness hits hard those who write but forget to.
Started reading War of the World today and bought a confederecy of dunces.
Watching Michael Mason's series about The Story of Science...
'How history made science and science made history'
Henig Berg the alchemist convinced his urine would make gold.
Tuesday, 18 May 2010
an experiment
i ate sushi, proper sushi, for the first time last night.
i watched the simpsons. i saw the clod ensemble in the pit of the old vic.
i saw a drag artist reveal her shoulders and squint with richard gere's eyes and speak with a new york drawl. in a darkened room she put her face in the square of light that the spot had cast on the floor and told us of every major injury she'd incurred - breaking both heels, smashing a fist, getting poked in the eye with a stick.
i am not coming home early this evening.
Monday, 17 May 2010
Recent sources
Brilliant.
Recent things I Have Seen:
- The insides of people's houses on the Montpelier Art trail
- Daddy Long Bones at the Attic supporting an all girl band from Oz who were dull & performed like Sims and made me feel like I was at a Sims rock concert. the camera angles of my eyes were also video simulation reminisces. daddy long bones i like a lot though! www.myspace.com/daddylongbones or something.
- DOGTOOTH at the cinema. good, dark, bold, imaginative! perfectly paced, poised and greek.
- a film about people who'd been struck by lightning.
Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Jim Henson's passing away. I am a big fan of the Muppet's, in particular the Great Muppet Caper..
- I went to London and saw:
a photography exhibition by Richard Billingham
he wasn't exhibiting this photo but i've had it on my wall before and just realised it's his. the photos he does now are less enclosed - lowrylandscapes, but also different types of encloseds, like zoo animals.
i hate the zoo by the way and i will not go.
-
an exhibition at the Tate Modern about Theo van Doesberg --- which I really liked. dada is an affirmation and negation. it is the bird with four legs, the ladder with no rungs, the square with no corners... to say that dada is of destruction misunderstands life, of which dada is the essence.
i particularly liked the video installation of the 'la ballet mechanique' by fernand leger made in 1924. total anarchy and early early days of the vj set.
i get excited by the dada thing.
- saw Bath. a beautiful city, green and caramelcoloured.
- Coco Rosie in concert! at the Trinity, which is an old church.
- Cocorosie cover of Turn Me On
they are beautiful, sexy and i wish more girls would sing about girls in this way.
- Tonight I am going to be seeing: Peggy Shaw and the Clod Ensemble: MUST
the clod ensemble
as part of Bristol MayFest....
I am also really enjoying Nicola Bernedetti, Mahler's Spiegel Im Spiegel and other classical musics...
Life affirming stuff ey.
Recent things I Have Seen:
- The insides of people's houses on the Montpelier Art trail
- Daddy Long Bones at the Attic supporting an all girl band from Oz who were dull & performed like Sims and made me feel like I was at a Sims rock concert. the camera angles of my eyes were also video simulation reminisces. daddy long bones i like a lot though! www.myspace.com/daddylongbones or something.
- DOGTOOTH at the cinema. good, dark, bold, imaginative! perfectly paced, poised and greek.
- a film about people who'd been struck by lightning.
Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Jim Henson's passing away. I am a big fan of the Muppet's, in particular the Great Muppet Caper..
- I went to London and saw:
a photography exhibition by Richard Billingham
he wasn't exhibiting this photo but i've had it on my wall before and just realised it's his. the photos he does now are less enclosed - lowrylandscapes, but also different types of encloseds, like zoo animals.
i hate the zoo by the way and i will not go.
-
an exhibition at the Tate Modern about Theo van Doesberg --- which I really liked. dada is an affirmation and negation. it is the bird with four legs, the ladder with no rungs, the square with no corners... to say that dada is of destruction misunderstands life, of which dada is the essence.
i particularly liked the video installation of the 'la ballet mechanique' by fernand leger made in 1924. total anarchy and early early days of the vj set.
i get excited by the dada thing.
- saw Bath. a beautiful city, green and caramelcoloured.
- Coco Rosie in concert! at the Trinity, which is an old church.
- Cocorosie cover of Turn Me On
they are beautiful, sexy and i wish more girls would sing about girls in this way.
- Tonight I am going to be seeing: Peggy Shaw and the Clod Ensemble: MUST
the clod ensemble
as part of Bristol MayFest....
I am also really enjoying Nicola Bernedetti, Mahler's Spiegel Im Spiegel and other classical musics...
Life affirming stuff ey.
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Thursday, 11 March 2010
embdedded this time...
the old daisy face video loop...
my first video loop - BFI archive footage feat. Afrika Boombata // (music Windowlicker)
my first video loop - BFI archive footage feat. Afrika Boombata // (music Windowlicker)
Truckers of Husk
Sal's friend Casey who I met in Cardiff at the Celtic Wrestling phenomenon (that I'd forgotten until now: village hall affair, families, rats tails, kids on E numbers, middle aged welsh men in pants and masks mock fighting each other --- the real and sickly spectacle being that 50 minutes in, the 'Hindi Hulk' is floored - crowd riled, want movement! -- lies down for a confusing length of time (paramedics enter) while no one knows what's going on but still chants and cheers for blood (are the paramedics for show- damn pussy), until the paramedics eventually stretcher him off and we later learn he was paralysed. Man! family fun turned sour) made this video for a band called Truckers of Husk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0bciQ-5Knw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0bciQ-5Knw
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Kate Bush and Theory
had a good engaging with theory discussion with sal -
- must not be shy of acadeemia
- feminist books and works
- women, queers, sea creatures: state your cause, spout your wisdoms
- your experiences are valid and are part of the process of making academia something that's not offputting
- something we can be involved in
---------- TAKE A LOOK!! ----------------------
Check out the promo for Deborah Withers book!
Adventures in Kate Bush & Theory the Movie - A film by Emma Thatcher
Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory by Deborah M. Withers is available March 15th 2010!!
'An in-depth labour of love from a genuine Bush fanatic'
Mark Radcliffe
Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory will present Kate Bush as you have never seen her before. Here is the polymorphously perverse Kate, the witchy Kate, the queer Kate; the Kate who moves beyond the mime.
Through in-depth readings of the often critically neglected works of Bush's career (The Kick Inside, Lionheart, The Dreaming, The Red Shoes and her film The Line, the Cross and the Curve), Withers guides the reader through the complexity of Bush's art and how it transformed popular culture.
Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory makes theory accessible to new audiences. Drawing on cutting edge feminist philosophy, critical theory and queer studies, the author uses Bush's music to demonstrate how these often abstract ideas can be applied to everyday life.
Through rigorous analysis of the music, film, video and dance of Kate Bush, it breaks down boundaries between the academic and popular, showing that theory can be sordid, funny and relevant - despite what most people think.
Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory is available for pre-order and will be distributed through the following formats: hard copy, ebook and on the Amazon Kindle.
Advance praise for Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory
I have never in my life laughed out loud while reading cultural theory. Until now! Deborah Withers has created a text that is a dream come true for gender studies, musicology and fandom. This is just what we hoped for, a weaving of theory, historical data, imagination and activism tied with astute observation and wry wit. This intense semi-biographical read through the oeuvre of Kate Bush is something to be proud of. Cultural Studies has met its match in a readable stretch of the boundaries of theory and genres. Allyson Mitchell, artist and scholar.
As a middle aged, white male who has written about Kate Bush, I am very pleased that Deborah has fought against this cultural/sexual hegemony in her new book. In focussing on the 'lesser known' works, she has done a great job in illuminating aspects of the artist's oeuvre hitherto largely overlooked in the worlds of academia and journalism. The work is an intelligent, challenging and provocative read that will reward those readers and scholars with an open mind, and a love for the music of Kate Bush.
Adventures in Kate Bush & Theory the Movie - A film by Emma Thatcher
Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory by Deborah M. Withers is available March 15th 2010!!
'An in-depth labour of love from a genuine Bush fanatic'
Mark Radcliffe
Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory will present Kate Bush as you have never seen her before. Here is the polymorphously perverse Kate, the witchy Kate, the queer Kate; the Kate who moves beyond the mime.
Through in-depth readings of the often critically neglected works of Bush's career (The Kick Inside, Lionheart, The Dreaming, The Red Shoes and her film The Line, the Cross and the Curve), Withers guides the reader through the complexity of Bush's art and how it transformed popular culture.
Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory makes theory accessible to new audiences. Drawing on cutting edge feminist philosophy, critical theory and queer studies, the author uses Bush's music to demonstrate how these often abstract ideas can be applied to everyday life.
Through rigorous analysis of the music, film, video and dance of Kate Bush, it breaks down boundaries between the academic and popular, showing that theory can be sordid, funny and relevant - despite what most people think.
Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory is available for pre-order and will be distributed through the following formats: hard copy, ebook and on the Amazon Kindle.
Advance praise for Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory
I have never in my life laughed out loud while reading cultural theory. Until now! Deborah Withers has created a text that is a dream come true for gender studies, musicology and fandom. This is just what we hoped for, a weaving of theory, historical data, imagination and activism tied with astute observation and wry wit. This intense semi-biographical read through the oeuvre of Kate Bush is something to be proud of. Cultural Studies has met its match in a readable stretch of the boundaries of theory and genres. Allyson Mitchell, artist and scholar.
As a middle aged, white male who has written about Kate Bush, I am very pleased that Deborah has fought against this cultural/sexual hegemony in her new book. In focussing on the 'lesser known' works, she has done a great job in illuminating aspects of the artist's oeuvre hitherto largely overlooked in the worlds of academia and journalism. The work is an intelligent, challenging and provocative read that will reward those readers and scholars with an open mind, and a love for the music of Kate Bush.
Lion in the Warehouse
A video I put together on iMovie........
Ode to Fuddeh Buddeh Guddeh
feat. sal harrington
Video Loop
One of my first video loops...........
Face pulling contest vs. Afrika Boombata
Not sure how to embed a video from youtube on here..... follow the link!
Using footage from the BFI archive mixed in with Aphex Twin's windowlicker.
Using footage from the BFI archive mixed in with Aphex Twin's windowlicker.
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