As you may have noticed, all of the photographs on this site were taken on film (discounting screenshots of OS X screensavers, CGI, and video of course).
Why should anyone living in the 21st century still cling on to such an archaic form of image capture? Personally:
Submitted by namcom on Thu, 03/05/2007 - 15:03.Something that (I think) Brian Eno said quite a few years ago, about the impermanence of digital audio (that much new music was being recorded, mixed, mastered, and delivered on digital media which has a relatively short life - a master tape with a few bits corrupted here and there becomes unreadable. Compared to analogue tape which may pick up dropouts, but the tape can still be listened to many years after its recording*), was echoed in a program last night touching on photography (BBC4's 'Thoroughly modern: The snapshot camera').
Got a message from Martin last night, wondering about resurrecting the project we were supposed to do last year at the Tate (Martin got chickenpox, so we were unable to do it). Feeling quite excited by the prospect of doing something creative with someone again... Since Martin went to Berlin, things have been a little quiet here in York, nowadays there seem to be too many other things to do.
Just a short note to acknowledge the passing of the author Kurt Vonnegut. I first read a KV novel back in around 1987 I suppose - having just got the Dave Howard Singers' Yon Yonson 12" which referenced Slaughterhouse-5... I went down to my local library and tried to get the book, but all they had was Deadeye Dick and Breakfast of Champions, which I duly read and was hooked...
I guess he's an author who can polarise opinion - you either love or hate him. My wife can't bear to read his books.
So it goes.
Thank you Kurt.
"I guess he's up in heaven now"
My creative side has been gradually becoming more and more bipolar:
On one side, I love new technology - whether it be digital video captured from a camcorder; pure computer graphics created in Blender/Quartz Composer; or simply digital stills caught from my PowerShot; or on the audio side perhaps some new softsynths or plugin effects running within Logic.
Submitted by namcom on Mon, 30/10/2006 - 00:00.Well, it''s been a while since I posted here, but we finished the music video for Sand a couple of months ago. Both Mark and I have done an edit, and the band seem to like the look so far.
The track is called The Dalston Shroud and coincidentally is the title track for the new Sand album out in July...
Big thanks go out to everyone involved! Let''s get some more done!!
Submitted by namcom on Sun, 30/04/2006 - 22:00.We are currently in the process of creating a music video for a track on the forthcoming (as yet untitled) Sand LP. We did the filming (yes, filming - not video! ** ) over the weekend of 24th/25th September, and sent the film over to Berlin to be processed. From Berlin, the processed film went to Uppsala for transfer to computer-file - the DVD of the transfer will then be sent back to us here (along with the film of course).
Submitted by namcom on Thu, 13/10/2005 - 22:00.
