A one second time machine... |
[He doesn't believe he loves his relationship until he dreams it- Michel Gondry]I finally got the opportunity to view indie film maker Michel Gondry's quirky surrealist creation entitled The Science o...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:18:00 GMT |
The five and a half minute hallway... |
[This is the end of the outside world -Virilio]Sick, trapped alone in my flat and exhausted, having not slept for five days because of the intolerable pain, I finally managed with fearsome irony to re...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:33:00 GMT |
Ritualised noise... |
[A blend that expressed both the ugliness of a mechanical, commercial age and the spirituality that is crushed beneath it- James Harding] People are effortlessly drawn to the Siren machinations of des...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:03:00 GMT |
The path is a network... |
[I end where you begin. And where you end I begin- Zita]The curious and occasionally macabre world of puppetry is one that endeavours to present one singular reality as another, with a magnificent sta...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 11:37:00 GMT |
Lower your eyelids to die with the sun... |
[Her horizon seemed to her limitless- Virginia Woolf]It's odd how chance ideas can suddenly become coherent, having been thinking of that almost impenetrable abstract notion of timelessness when readi...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:14:00 GMT |
Fast and slow, asleep... |
[It's not that we use technology, we live technology- Godfrey Reggio] Not since Orange's retro infused, enchanting and wilfully contrived television advert with the ballet dancers and Brian Eno's time...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:57:00 GMT |
The angel of alternative history... |
[Nothing that has ever happened should be regarded as lost for history- Walter Benjamin]'Hope in the Dark' a gentle book by cultural historian Rebecca Solnit is a breathtakingly fresh perspective and ...
Posted by on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:13:00 GMT |
Still night, nothing for miles... |
Think of the Quay Brother's masterful stop-motion animation of muted colours and Gothic stroboscopic breathing, that microscopic habitat a suitable co-pilot as too much caffeine renders my senses a d...
Posted by on Wed, 30 May 2007 12:52:00 GMT |
Meadows of fire... |
[I dreamed a new dream, meadows of fire- Iain Sinclair]It occurred to myself engrossed in lavish art books and considering the decaying city that is the Expo92 site at Seville, that accepted creative ...
Posted by on Tue, 15 May 2007 17:18:00 GMT |
Excavating the near future... |
[O mother of wounds; half masonry, half pain- Mervyn Peake]Children of Men inhabits that peculiar tense zone embraced by films like Brazil and 28 Days Later: between so-called hard science fiction and...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:08:00 GMT |
