1st May 05
The End of the Moon...Laurie Anderson's new touring multi-media experience which I saw last night at the Sage centre in Gateshead...we have too many scriptwriters working around the clock trying to organise our lives into some sort of coherent whole or like we're continually travelling a night bus with no passengers, going round and round, not knowing where we're going or who we are or where we are...her storytelling placed you right in the situation, a conversational tone studded with jewelled nuggets.10th March 05
Looked at past few days work.Last years Pomegranate prints both medium format and 35mm will be box framed in different sizes. The new work from this month I have decided to treat experimentally, create a book. The idea is that they are aware
of themselves as a flat surface with scratches/blotches etc showing a 3D image - plus I am hoping to take some more photos with me in them a little more, deliberately showing the cable release - a mise en scene.
8th March 05
Success with my Voitlander Brilliant. After finishing a film yesterday and correctly developing the film at 20 c (ie not guessing and cooking the negative, which is why I ended up with a reticulated one the other day i.e very dense - the heat speeds up development time, so this negative
must have had double or triple time...).So yesterdays negs (125 ASA) were better, but underexposed...hmmm...looked up some old exp/shutter settings for a 400 ASA film taken in similar conditions to the new ones (400 ASA - overcast
outside, window light interior shot) and adjusted them with the light meter on my semi-auto canon camera and an exposure/shutter sheet off Pete...chatted with him had diagrams drawn and explained and then I took todays film...at the moment they look pretty good. So, slowing down, researching technicalities, help/advice off others and looking at the negs and working out how to do the next
step does pay off...let us see now with the printing...
Timer works from the camera seller...attention turns to preparing roughs of the Pomegranate prints and new ones to show Alec Finlay, possibly a mock-up of the hare...
Ideas for the Bloomsbury Group course (helps to while away a Thursday afternoon at Newcastle University). I've propsed a journal/diary pastiche of the artist Dora Carrington.Through this I want to explore
second-handedness, (her penchant for collecting other people's cast-offs) in relation to herself and some of the others in the group; why was it an important part of the bohemian life-style? were they making statements about their own identities or the England of the 1920's? Looking at some literature at the time will help for attitudes from contempory writer's, E.M Forster's Howards
End, Aldous Huxley's Crome Yellow, although not a "member"
he cariacatures Carrington, Mark Gertler and Lady Ottoline Morrel probaly amongst others too...Waugh's Brideshead Revisited also has references to Bloomsbury style decoration and taste...
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