Scary Northumberland! Snowplough in the ditch at Highgreen, car through the wall at Hareshaw and another almost in the burn at Greenhaugh. Only one calm is the sheep.
Saturday 31 January 2009
The day after...
Sheep witness
Scary Northumberland! Snowplough in the ditch at Highgreen, car through the wall at Hareshaw and another almost in the burn at Greenhaugh. Only one calm is the sheep.
Scary Northumberland! Snowplough in the ditch at Highgreen, car through the wall at Hareshaw and another almost in the burn at Greenhaugh. Only one calm is the sheep.
Friday 30 January 2009
Weather and mindfulness
Leek show in Northumberland ca. 1938
WOW!
We have some serious weather coming our way so we better prepare! Get groceries, candles, wood, fuel for lanterns, matches, and finally the Guardian Saturday paper and our local Hexham Courant. The Courant cannot compete even with one vowel with the Provincetown Banner! Both are local area rags but the Banner has so much more cultural stuff in it where as in the Courant it is practically non-existent. However the Courant does have great coverage in the autumn on the local leek shows with photos of winning leeks and their growers. They are huge and that is how they win, the bigger the better.
It is not about taste here.I will see if I can find an image to post.
Russian winds,temperatures and snow is on the way. Get cosy and work is my motto!
I also have a daily body scan to do for the mindfulness course I am taking. It is very intense lying on the floor and breathing into all the parts of your body. I feel as though I am floating. I wonder how the cats will respond!
WOW!
We have some serious weather coming our way so we better prepare! Get groceries, candles, wood, fuel for lanterns, matches, and finally the Guardian Saturday paper and our local Hexham Courant. The Courant cannot compete even with one vowel with the Provincetown Banner! Both are local area rags but the Banner has so much more cultural stuff in it where as in the Courant it is practically non-existent. However the Courant does have great coverage in the autumn on the local leek shows with photos of winning leeks and their growers. They are huge and that is how they win, the bigger the better.
It is not about taste here.I will see if I can find an image to post.
Russian winds,temperatures and snow is on the way. Get cosy and work is my motto!
I also have a daily body scan to do for the mindfulness course I am taking. It is very intense lying on the floor and breathing into all the parts of your body. I feel as though I am floating. I wonder how the cats will respond!
Thursday 29 January 2009
Derek Bailey born today in 1930
Derek Bailey was a great guitarist! He died in 2005 at the age of 75 of motor neuron disease and he was also a great influence on many musicians you may know like Thurston Moore, John Zorn, Fred Frith...
I filmed him improvising with a group at the ICA in London in the early 80's. The Japanese dancer Min Tanaka was performing with them. It was an amazing dance concert.
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Life is Immense progress
I usually start with "brackets" when I am making/editing a film. By that I mean the very beginning and the very end. It is the sense of containing I think that helps.
There is so much material in this particular project and wading through it is daunting at times.
It is definitely fascinating and compelling and the question is how to fascinate and not bore. Finding that balance. I can watch footage for ages and have no problem looking and seeing more. But I have to think about an audience coming into a theatre from the outside and settling into a film which is of a manageable length and intensity.Yet what is a film if it does not ask for attention?
So far so good.I have plenty of time to complete this project thank goodness!
Samuel Menashe is extraordinary and remembers his poetry of a lifetime and sprinkles his entire conversation with it and stories relating...fascinating subject.
Could not have been easier to collect the material the challenge is what to cut.
There is so much material in this particular project and wading through it is daunting at times.
It is definitely fascinating and compelling and the question is how to fascinate and not bore. Finding that balance. I can watch footage for ages and have no problem looking and seeing more. But I have to think about an audience coming into a theatre from the outside and settling into a film which is of a manageable length and intensity.Yet what is a film if it does not ask for attention?
So far so good.I have plenty of time to complete this project thank goodness!
Samuel Menashe is extraordinary and remembers his poetry of a lifetime and sprinkles his entire conversation with it and stories relating...fascinating subject.
Could not have been easier to collect the material the challenge is what to cut.
Tuesday 27 January 2009
Waiting with anticipation
The past couple of days have been surprisingly mild and even some sun!
As I wander the wee garden I look for signs of spring. Primavera is such a beautiful word for spring. At the very moment small snowdrops around the front door are peaking out. The Japanese quince bush has tiny buds, and I have spotted other bulb appearances around. No flowers other than snowdrops. They are so dear to me like wild primroses are also. Spring in England can be summed up by snowdrops, pale yellow primroses and bluebells.
The call of the curlew and the larks too, when they return we know spring is here.
Primavera, the first truth?
Spring is my season I love spring. It fills me with such excitement and love of life again. Joie de vivre.
To express myself I feel as though I need all languages at my fingertips my tongue tip rather.
Growing up bi-lingual I felt as though I existed in an interface between two languages/cultures etc and it was in that space that all was fluid and could be essentially merged. Later in the world at large it was either one or the other.
This needed adjustment and I think it is therefore I really love talking and thinking to myself where I can use whatever words I wish as long as I understand them!
Tell me about your spring.
As I wander the wee garden I look for signs of spring. Primavera is such a beautiful word for spring. At the very moment small snowdrops around the front door are peaking out. The Japanese quince bush has tiny buds, and I have spotted other bulb appearances around. No flowers other than snowdrops. They are so dear to me like wild primroses are also. Spring in England can be summed up by snowdrops, pale yellow primroses and bluebells.
The call of the curlew and the larks too, when they return we know spring is here.
Primavera, the first truth?
Spring is my season I love spring. It fills me with such excitement and love of life again. Joie de vivre.
To express myself I feel as though I need all languages at my fingertips my tongue tip rather.
Growing up bi-lingual I felt as though I existed in an interface between two languages/cultures etc and it was in that space that all was fluid and could be essentially merged. Later in the world at large it was either one or the other.
This needed adjustment and I think it is therefore I really love talking and thinking to myself where I can use whatever words I wish as long as I understand them!
Tell me about your spring.
Monday 26 January 2009
Sky Stones by Linda Gordon in Devon
Go to the link www.throughstones.wordpress.com and see the new piece by Linda Gordon who is a Devon resident. It is called Sky Stones and it is beautiful. Congratulations Linda! The piece is up in "person" and if you look at the link you can get all the information you may need. Enjoy!
See under links on this blog.
See under links on this blog.
Sunday 25 January 2009
Robert Burns 250 years anniversary!
Robert Burns House and museum in Dumfries, Scotland.
Cottage where Robert Burns was born.
Robert Burns Center on the river Nith in Dumfries.
The Scottish poet Robbie Burns was born 250 years ago today. Above I show the cottage where he was born and then the house he lived in in Dumfries.
Last year I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Burns Center in Dumfries to show the presentation film for In Person 30 Poets and this was in conjunction with an excellent reading by Moniza Alvi. The evening was superb with a friendly audience and a fabulous Indian meal afterwards with lovely people from the center. We stayed at an Arts and Crafts style B and B run by a former PC!
All over today people have celebrated with haggis and single malt and what have you!
I just like to recite his poetry and remember from my childhood my father reciting by heart and one of my favourite books was a Robert Burns with soft tartan covers!
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