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.
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
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
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