i get to friday and need to take time out on the sofa to reflect a little. there has been some early stage politeness and stuff and wednesday was fun and yesterday was a day where i didn’t seem to do anything yet i got done loads.
actually yesterday was doing loads of now, stuff connected to the days preceding which went a little against the optimism of doing stuff not yet done in the future, on the residency. while i was in the studio in the afternoon, a chap popped in looking for some assistence of a purely technical nature. he does flying kites with skate boards and was so into it he wanted to film himself from his own helmet’s point of view. he’d popped in to get some gaffa tape to stick his camera to his helmet. i looked at his helmet, playing with his camera realised that the two together could become very unstable. oh i forgot to mention, i got involved with the conversation as it happened near me and i found it interesting. we got talking and i think a collaborative opportunity might come out of it. he wants to use the stuff he thinks he’ll shoot and isn’t really into editting, so i told him i like to edit found footage, well stuff i’ve not shot, and maybe i could do something with his footage.
funny how the language can’t cope with video, still saying footage, maybe in time it’ll become ‘working with the files you created’
in other news, i got online at the studio, very quickly and easily, allowed me to check in with what else needs checking in with. the website i’ve finished recently needed some minor tweaks.
i did get a little frustrated, i had wanted to continue to play with the device i got access to on wednesday, video and stills. an intivation or was it a challenge or merely have you thought of doing… had been bandied about me prior to going.
there’s been a lot going on this week. a little slow, yet movement, towards a slow increase in momentum to some noticeable stuff. no over all direction seems to be before, other than going back to a place where an origin remains. i’m slightly on the outside of that, feeling a bit like an observer. this is simply because i’m not fully engaged as yet. i am still observing and collecting research material. in my mind i’m continually on the brink of having to address a thousand people about what i’m doing, so i continually attempt to construct something amazing, where as in the real, physical, actually happening around me world, i am merely observed for what i do. in finding extra weight in the doing, i know i have more fun and do more and subsequently have more to talk about.
