I am relooking at my own list of aims to pick it apart a bit, self criticise, expand, elaborate or just slag it off completely. 1 To make Art works. The idea that ‘Artworks’ are the final output of my time is contingent on several other ideas that mostly involve the actual social role of the artist as well as …
Continue Reading...Light and dark We know the light How well do we know the dark Like dreams A third of our life spent in them In film, 2 x 5ths spent in darkness Resting 2 x 5ths is 40% , which sounds more than a third. It is. Sounds closer to half It’s hard to think of the agency in the …
Continue Reading...This sketch has is an edited drawing of one of the architects plans we had done for the process of planning what to do once we bought the building.
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Here we see the Cube buildings from Princess Row, the staff door entrance. A nice detail is the glazed windows in the Lantern. This lantern feature was originally the means of light coming into the workshop which is now taken up by the wooden, fan shaped, raked, T&G auditorium. We would like to restore these glass features and explore the …
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Old photo of Mark Berry on one of his UK visits. Ray is probably playing with Danny who is out of shot. This is the back door of the projection room at the Cube Cinema which leads out onto the roof of the garages in Princess Row.
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This endlessly resourceful and insprational booklet by Esther Urlus at Worm in Rotterdam is now available as a pdf. Here is a link to the pdf version. Its free and its amazing!!!! http://www.filmlabs.org/docs/toboldlygo.pdf
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Been getting into workshop hardly at all due to full time kids homeschool. Managed to get in on monday and started on the viewing table area. Ive got a 16 and a 35 and they both need a few bits of work. The 16 has had a full drive belt and bearings service by Lew.G and the picture is the …
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I suppose one thing that seems to be appearing more and more as a focus of interests is the idea of practical explorations of historic cinema (trick photography) techniques but with a very different set of image outcome aims, ie not trying to create ‘fantastic’ or even ‘literal’ images that illustrate a mythological storyline or visual interventions into illusory realities …
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The PLAN in new room is to create as much SPACE as possible. I can do this by putting all filing cabs on wheels. Everything on wheels. Then with an overhead scaff grid and clean / free wall I can operate it as a studio and actually work towards making the films I have been planning and devising for years. …
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This subject has a deep fascination for me both as history and as a practical art. This attempt at a more long form post hopefully works and I will be coming back to it when I can with new research, results of practical experiments and other readings. Reading Craig Barron and Mark Cotta Vaz’s (1) great book about matte …
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