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When you’re scrambling about in an old dark house trying to produce phantasmagorical effects on film using various Heath Robinson-style contraptions comprising light-sources and black elastic, not everything goes according to plan. My various hard drives are somewhat littered with ‘failures to launch’ – underwhelming photographs featuring unmagical moments. Some of these ‘off-cuts’ are not…
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Another set of experiments produced in the wake of The Kick-About No.50.
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You know how it is: you’ve got this pair of perfect shoes you’ve already worn to death and are fraying into oblivion, and yet you nonetheless find a way to keep wearing them. They’re not smelling great either (which is probably why this particular pair were photographed outside!).
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A few more photographs produced for Naum Gabo-inspired Kick-About 50, with a criss-crossing of nylon wire as their subject. The deeper colours were produced by pulling in a nearby table-lamp and covering its bulb with coloured cellophane.
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The Kick-About No.50 features work inspired by Naum Gabo’s Linear Construction No.2 – an elegant, near-organic sculpture in which translucent filaments combine to produce something akin to a sea-shell, seed pod or spatial anomaly. For my own response, I laced up the table-legs of a long narrow table with nylon wire and investigated the ensuing…
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The swirling spiral introducing Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo is one of Saul Bass’s most iconic designs, and our last Kick-About celebrated Bass’s bold, pared-back visuals with all the usual eclecticism and creativity. Our latest Kick-About originates from another spiralling form, Naum Gabo’s Linear Construction No. 2.
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A final set of images from the short film, Vertigogo, which was inspired by the film posters and title sequences of Saul Bass, and produced for The Kick-About #49.
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A particular view from a particular spot in a particular place: a line of poplar trees, bringing with it a rush of other sensorial associations; a breeze as dry and heated as from a baker’s oven, the gentle chuck-chucking of soporific chickens, and the prickle of skin that’s likely seen too much sun for one…
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Another set of Kick-About-inspired panels derived from Vertigogo, a short animation made in response to the work of Saul Bass.
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