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More Kick-About No.56-inspired images, seeking to visualise the percussive effects of a Sandy Nelson drum-solo. By this point in the process, I was getting some nice effects and was enjoying all the mid 20th-century vibes.
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A third set of images produced in response to The Kick-About No.56, and specifically this drum solo by Sandy Nelson. I was trying to create a sense of cymbals being struck and percussive vibrations and much fun was had in my pursuit for the best expression of that idea.
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There’ll be no prizes for originality, but this photograph was taken from the Staten Island ferry on a nicely murky late December day back in 2014.
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With Sandy Nelson’s 1962 12 minute drum solo as a starting point for our latest Kick-About, I wanted to respond to the divine bash and crash of it with moving images. I had a technique in mind and sense of what I wanted, but couldn’t achieve it, and not for want of trying. That said,…
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My immediate response to The Kick-About No.56 was ‘make a film’, so I set about trying to find a means to visualise Sandy Nelson’s percussive effects. I built some simple 2D shapes in the video-editing software and tried to ‘vibrate’ them. I had the image of a cymbal being struck, a disc-shape producing more complex…
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There’s something stripped back and uncompromising about the paintings of Basquiat, the prompt for our last Kick-About together. Likewise Sandy Nelson’s For Drummers Only, a 12 minute drum solo from 1962 that has likely had a few of us bopping about our respective work spaces or reaching for saucepans and wooden spoons to make a…
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It’s been a very hot and sunny week in this small coastal town, with no sign of the north-easterly breeze that more usually cuts through the rising temperature. This image from some similar sunny day back in 2013 was taken by squinting into the sun, with the light managing to make the shingle look like…
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An abstract little something from a student field trip to Prague in February 2014, tram tracks looking like skeins of silver set into the damp cobbles. This was taken on a long walk one very peaceful evening – in stark contrast to our hostel, which was above a night-club, though not ‘above it’ quite enough…
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I took the opportunity of the Basquiat-inspired Kick-About prompt to do something I don’t usually do or identify with particularly, which was to style myself as a ‘painter’, and undertake some expressionist self-portraits.
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Our last Kick-About together was characterised by a whirl of ingenuity, with our community of artists reaching for ad-hoc materials and digging out old tools by which to produce their ‘new works in a short time’. With Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings as this edition’s start-point, the range of work is no less inventive, and in common…
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