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
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