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The last edition of The Kick-About took us to the preferred habitat of Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests—empty horizons of sea and sky: all the better for directing our focus on Jansen’s remarkable ambulatory creations. This week, we’re preoccupied by absences too: how negative space likewise sharpens our attention, pushing us to consider what is present, even…
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Another watery French building floating in the waters at Brantôme.
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Same rainy, overcast day in Brantôme, France; there’s a low weir spanning the river and this photograph was taken of the ‘split screen’ effect of the weir and the reflections of the trees in the larger body of water below it.
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I’ve been in France for a few weeks, eeking out the summer for as long as possible – even though on the day this photograph was taken in Brantôme, it was overcast and raining. We were walking by the river and the reflection of this perfect shuttered house was too evocative to pass up. This…
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This began with producing a quick and dirty 12-frame walk-cycle of a single stick-man—fully deconstructed into its most basic formulation of over-lapping lines. What I always enjoy about The Kick-About is taking one thing – a first draft, a first take, a first go – and then pushing it as far as it will go;…
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Our last Kick-About together explored the simple proto-cinematic delights of the magic lantern. This week we’re sticking with fantastical sights—the ambulatory beach-bound sculptures of Theo Jansen. Enjoy this latest selection of ‘new works made in a short time’ and for all previous editions of The Kick-About go here. Gary Thorne “A remarkably interesting KA prompt,…
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For the record, no actual light sources were used to produce these images; what you’re looking at here are 2D layers moving around on top of each other. The original image is a circle cut from a photograph of grasses—because I had a feeling they’d give me the speckle and noise I was after. By…
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Following the optical excitements of our last Kick-About—inspired by Victor Vasarely—this week’s collection of new works made in a short time dims the lights and invites us to marvel at the illuminations of the magic lantern. For all previous editions of The Kick-About, click here. Kerfe Roig “I immediately focused on the Freemason slide “All-Seeing…
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A second set of Victor Vasarely-inspired images produced for this week’s Kick-About; I think I was spawning alien eggs by the time my enthusiasm wound down finally—but I particularly liked the final image, reminding me of old Pearl and Dean cinema intros as the aesthetic grew more graphical and jazzy. There is a common lament…
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I was drawn to the tumescence of some of Victor Vasarely’s op-art—our muse for The Kick-About No.112—that slight sense they give of deformations produced by swelling—of blisters, goitres, galls and burls. I’ve got these big glass paper-weight things that are filled with suspended bubbles, and these images began with me filming them on my 4K…
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