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The Kick-About #9 ‘Short Ride In A Fast Machine’
In marked contrast to our last creative prompt, which encouraged us to reflect on the slow, attenuated life-cycles of the cicada, this week’s jumping-off point invites adventures in velocity. As per, the range of responses… Read more
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Getting Lost In Fields Part Four – Knave’s Ash, August (2020)
The film series Getting Lost In Fields began as a response to this Kick-About prompt, in which I challenged myself to use my numerous photographs of local fields, pastures and scrubland as the basis for… Read more
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Throwback Friday #19 Speed Paints – La création du monde (2013)
Back in March 2013, I was tasked with conceiving of a way in which an entire community of animation students, staff and alumni could work together on a big external EU-funded project, the goal of… Read more
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Spotlight #2 ‘Clever’ Keith Burden
Between 2013 and 2019, I was involved in a series of ambitious European-funded creative projects centred around the visualisation of sound, and specifically the visualisation of classical music. During this time, I was fortunate enough… Read more
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MFT #7 The Thing In The Cellar (1932)
David H. Keller’s 1932 short story, The Thing In The Cellar, is one of my favourite things. Here’s why. Read more
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Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1964)
I didn’t know this 1964 short film directed by Gene R Kearney, or the 1934 short story written by Conrad Aiken, from which it is adapted. I feel like I should have known it -… Read more
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Knave’s Ash, August – Part 4 (2020)
A final visit to the soft gilded bristles of Knave’s Ash, with its bronze skeins and glinting copper. Read more
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Throwback Friday #18 5×5 (2008)
There was a period in my life when I got used to editing other people’s video footage into coherency, inheriting hours of hand-held video and working with it to produce something engaging and resolved. Editing… Read more
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Knave’s Ash, August – Part 3 (2020)
At one end of this dry, brittle field, all the stiff congregations of desiccated rumex spires made me think of ermine, or of leopard moths, or the streaking on tulip petals, and always brush work,… Read more
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Puparia (2020)
When I look at the juvenile forms of the cicada, I experience instinctive distaste and also fascination. I feel similarly about these images of my own larval self. I experience some distaste at my physical… Read more
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