Two new paintings

Two new additions to the "alphabet" series of paintings: "Painting-C" and "Painting-F":

Painting-C:


Painting-F:

Life Form

This my new video at DailyMotion.com. It's called "Life Form". The exagerated screen pixels from a computer image of a pencil drawing. The pixels eventually resolve into the blurry pencil drawn image of the human form, which is altered into a monstrous distortion. The music is a stuttering fit of synthetic pseudo-flute sounds.

Life Form
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Future Poesie

Recently I joined the video sharing site: dailymotion.com where many of the users are French or, at least, francophone. Accordingly, I've created a French language version of my "Future Poem":

"Future Poesie":

Future Poesie
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DumTV

Continuing my occasional explorations of The Prelinger Archive I present "DumTV":

Passing Through Abstract Space

This is another new video:

"Passing Through Abstract Space".

Alienation Effect

So I've just added a copy of the blip.tv player to the bottom of the page. It will automatically update everytime there's a new video of mine on blip.tv. at the moment there's three new ones: "Alienation Effect", "Passing Through Abstract Space", and "DumTV". Thesethree are also on YouTube but over there I'm forced to cut longer videos in half. So here's the YouTube version of "Alienation Effect" in two episodes:

Alienation Effect (Episode One):



Alienation Effect (Episode Two):



The idea of this video is to apply Bertolt Brecht's concept of an "alienation effect" by putting a strange soundtrack onto the images and then distorting both.

Mixing It - Where's The Skill in That?

One of my favourite radio shows "Mixing It" which was on BBC Radio Three for 16 years was recently axed without explanation and the presenters forced to move to a different radio station. Happily the two presenters, Mark Russell & Robert Sandall were quickly taken in by the excellent Resonance FM in London and the shows are able to continue. The name has changed from "Mixing It" to "Where's The Skill in That?" but the content is still as strange and wonderful as ever.

Relevant links:

http://forum.resonancefm.com/viewtopic.php?p=11103

http://www.resonancefm.com/

http://www.last.fm/group/Mixing+It

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixing_It

Mark Russel's statement after the BBC version ended and before the Resonance FM version began