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26th June 2009

making something
So, back to plastic cameras andfilm and analogue synthesisers played with one finger in an attempt to find something fresh. It's all about making something brilliant. The steps to that goal.
Never quite but almost achieving what we set out to do. Then these moments of pure joy, that only we can feel, when the film comes back, when the frequency is just right. It's all about that.
(pics by Wes)

25th June 2009

In the city, not even the angels are safe...

24th June 2009

the city is full of photo ops...

must take more pictures...

23rd June 2009

Coco Steel & Lovebomb - Feel It voted 48th best ever Warp release by Warp fans. Check the whole chart here.
Feel It is in the mix of Warp20 (Elemental): a CD album - Specially-commissioned hour long piece by Osymyso, made from sections, samples, and fragments of Warp music from the last 20 years. Part of the Warp20 box set out in September.

22nd June 2009

Some summer sunday why not become a tourist in your own city
Visit London's vibrant Borough Market;

or the sun drenched terrace at the Royal Festival Hall;

or the bustling Waterloo international station terminus.

21st June 2009

What's that sound? It's just the world turning...

Up to primrose for the summer solstice. We came here for new year, and the snow, now we're back in the middle, all downhill to xmas, midsummer, the beginning and the end.
And just like the Gorsedd of the Bards of the Isle Of Britain, who first met here on 22 June 1792, we stare at the sky and pray for the sunrise. Just like them we feel the dawn chill and feel ourselves to be the truth against the world.
And just like the up all night boys and the bike people and the man already arguing on his mobile phone and the inevitable bloke with the big white beard, we take a few seconds out of modern life to marvel at it all, the play of light on fluffy white, myriad shades of blue, so bright, star bright sun on flash repeat, look, blink, flash, blink, flash.

Then, as the dawn cold takes over from the dawn chorus, back home to bed, back to the real world. Or should that be back from..?

19th June 2009

Chris Coco - 8808 is on Atzaro, Ibiza, Soundscapes Vol 2. Check the album here.

16th June 2009

Modelicious
Went to concrete poetry / art /graphics - 60s and 00s exhibition at the ICA.
MILK.RACE.SPIRAL.
Learnt new word (see title). Drank beer (Beck's I think).
HONOUR.FIXIE.ELABORATE.
Wondered where was She One. Perhaps too far from words now.
LOVER.LOWER.SHOWER.SHOW.
Marveled at late evening sun and old frame fixies. Wondered why style has become so clipped and coded.
HEAT.HEART.ART.HEARTH.EARTH.
Something to do with length of days and shortness of nights.

14th June 2009

The mighty ox heart at the art car boot...
Went to car boot. Ate bun. Sat in sun. Um.

12th June 2009

There is always art and beauty in the street...
Donzoko with The Boy. A couple of Beard Papa's, then home with the new Sonic Youth. What could be more perfect?

8th June 2009

Fresh burst
There's always art and beauty in the most unexpected places. On the street in Soho I found an eye and some lips. Running on the canal towpath I found this fresh crop of graffitti.

5th June 2009

Always Fridays OR we're here because we're here OR my panda shall fly...

And so, inevitably, over East, to collect some more blurry pictures of walls and blurry dancers...

4th June 2009

It's got to be green...
Down south to vote. Dreaming of Tellytubbies, my grandad and smoked sprats. Drawn by the threat of apathy and acronyms - U.K.I.P., B.N.P.
Pushed up the hill to the polling station by the fear of becoming one of those people who are proud of doing nothing.
Then, the long strip of yellow, the long list of names and those peculiarly soft-leaded pencils, like someone is afraid us citizens will look at the list and stab ourselves in the eye instead of marking the page with a cross.
And the decision: How can I vote Labour now, when they are falling and failing, again, to live up to all that promise, adhere to the principles, embrace the s word (socialism)? But how can I vote for anyone else?
I need to vote for the future, for the kids and me, for us, for Europe, so today, it's got to be Green.