Above - still from 3 Noodle Minutes a short film which came about due to having to eat cheap food as, by an irritating set of coincidences, I’ve arrived in the third richest country in the world with only about 50 of my worthless pounds… I thought I’d left Mr Noodle in Nottingham. Video soon - when I can get vimeo to stop playing up.
I’ve just started a 6 week residency in Sandnes, Norway. I’ll be posting bits of work and notes while I’m here (actually I started posting yesterday). I have a lot of thinking to do as well as enjoying the long days here. The studio, Stasjon-K is an old fire station and is next to a larger complex KinoKino containing three cinema screens and a gallery space that is opening in September. (Which looks very exciting…)
Not entirely sure what project(s) I’m working on while I’m here - I have a few ideas half developed but feel like its a bit pointless to just plough into them without taking in my surroundings here first. Trying to balance the panic of knowing I’ve got a couple of shows coming up and relaxing into the place will get easier when I’ve got some beer money… I’m off to the smallest mountain I can find tomorrow, building up to the terrifying but ‘tourist friendly’ Pulpit Rock. I’m still thinking about these natural patterns mentioned in the two previous posts - but I want to go out and find sources and starting points from nature rather than allow myself to just descend (should that be ascend?) into the wholly imaginary.
In the absence of any well written prose, here’s a short list of things I’ve written in my sketchbook, without their accompanying illustrations or explanations.
- video-soup
- guts of an old cinema
- cake stands
- film mechanisms
- cyclones
- eye-floaters
- winding desk/edit table
- runes
- tatoo convention
- tony conrad
- wooden cabins
- A1 paper - boo!
- rolls - yeah!
- newsprint
- hydrocarbons
- guitar picks and table tennis balls are made of celluloid