Raw Footage: Road Sweeping and Litter Picking 2 - Lunchbreak at Miller's Crossing
As a road sweeper I had to be out in all weathers, rain, snow, ice, blazing sunshine, etc. all the year round. I had a one hour, unpaid, lunch break and I had to find somewhere to sit and eat my lunch while keeping an eye on the sweeping barrow. Sometimes, if it wasn't raining, I would sit by Miller's Crossing and Blackaller Weir. The key thing for lunch was to know somewhere on the route where I would be less bothered by members of the public than usual. Members of the public are always bothering road sweepers with stupid questions and comments ("You're doing a good job there, boy" - etc., or "How do I get to the concert hall?" and so on....) ["You have to practice"]
I was working as a road sweeper for Exeter City Council. The only road sweeper with an honours degree. I took a video camera with me for a bit of reportage from the environmental front line.
Raw Footage: Exebridges - and the speculative extension
First here's the raw footage of the timeslipping Exebridge area of Exeter, where previous centuries seep through into the rubbish of modern day traffic noise:
Now here's one possible parallel universe extension of that cultural slice:
Moving on with the Apskaft World project I continued altering the sound and the images. Aiming to achieve a union of musicality and painterlyness in a time based work.
Another version of the video I made for the Apskaft World project. Slightly further along. The concept begins to develop. At this stage I was beginning to get the feeling of "painterlyness" into the video. One of the reasons I still like to use analogue video tape even though I own several digital video cameras is the analogue scan lines and interference artifacts which create serendipitous texturing in the stream of images.
Peter-David Smith » Take the Smooth with the Rough
I'm in a situation at the moment where I may possibly end up homeless. My landlord has given notice to repossess the property and I currently have nowhere else to go.
Maybe I'll find somewhere or maybe I'll become homeless. In the meantime I'm trying to get as many of my projects up and online as fast as possible in case disaster strikes.
So here's my latest album. This time not under the name "Speculativism" but under my real name Peter-David Smith. As usual it is a free download:
