the old daisy face video loop...
my first video loop - BFI archive footage feat. Afrika Boombata // (music Windowlicker)
Thursday, 11 March 2010
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.
Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
werner herzog rogue film school
http://www.roguefilmschool.com/default.asp
The Rogue Film School will be in the form of weekend seminars held by Werner Herzog in person at varying locations and at infrequent intervals.
The number of participants will be limited.
Locations and dates will be announced on this website and Werner Herzog's website: www.wernerherzog.com approximately 12 weeks in advance.
The Rogue Film School will not teach anything technical related to film-making. For this purpose, please enroll at your local film school.
The Rogue Film School is about a way of life. It is about a climate, the excitement that makes film possible. It will be about poetry, films, music, images, literature.
The focus of the seminars will be a dialogue with Werner Herzog, in which the participants will have their voice with their projects, their questions, their aspirations.
Excerpts of films will be discussed, which could include your submitted films; they may be shown and discussed as well. Depending on the materials, the attention will revolve around essential questions: how does music function in film? How do you narrate a story? (This will certainly depart from the brainless teachings of three-act-screenplays). How do you sensitize an audience? How is space created and understood by an audience? How do you produce and edit a film? How do you create illumination and an ecstasy of truth?
Related, but more practical subjects, will be the art of lockpicking. Traveling on foot. The exhilaration of being shot at unsuccessfully. The athletic side of filmmaking. The creation of your own shooting permits. The neutralization of bureaucracy. Guerrilla tactics. Self reliance.
Censorship will be enforced. There will be no talk of shamans, of yoga classes, nutritional values, herbal teas, discovering your Boundaries, and Inner Growth.
Related, but more reflective, will be a reading list: if possible, read Virgil's "Georgics", read "Hemingway's "The short happy life of Francis Macomber", The Poetic Edda, translated by Lee M. Hollander (in particular the Prophecy of the Seeress), Bernal Diaz del Castillo "True History of the Conquest of New Spain".
Follow your vision. Form secretive Rogue Cells everywhere. At the same time, be not afraid of solitude.
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