am working with the soundtrack ‘kappsta vinyl’ by the Field, and am working on getting their video shot on a slow motion camera which films 2000 fps, it looks like this.

proof….. it makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up!

This one day project was to take us out of our comfort zones, and give us new experiences. I thought long and hard as to what I was gonna do, what makes me feel the most uncomfortable and would be the developmental for me as a person|creative. I thought of skydiving, running naked, singing in a choir, speed dating, bingo etc etc, but when ever I imagined myself being my most uncomfortable, embarressed and scared I kept coming up with the same answer: Poetry. I loath poetry, I don’t like to read it, hear it or listen to it. The idea of reciting a poem to a group of poets scares the living shit out of me, and so I decided that that was what I’d do. So I wrote the worst poem I could come up with, and went to the Poetry Cfe in Soho on Thursday night and recited it in front of about 20 other wannabe wordsmiths. I was super nervous and scared, however, after getting up and doing it I felt very elated, and felt slightly bigger and braver after.

The first two images are of Seans film being projected  in the cinema at Spring Projects.

the lower 4 are photos taken from the ongoing show which is a duo, I took the photos of one of the artists work, Barnaby Barford, he re-made porslin figurines to represent more modern depictions of reality. Really great.

managed to sneak in to the london fashion week, see some catwalk goodies, and get free stuff!

more on the subject of the homeless, found this phonebox in central London, noone was home, but it did look rather cozy.

Found this website for a company called dutch by design who make furniture, productdesign etc. They also make this duvet cover which I thought was hilarious. Where are we going as a species when we make stuff like this? Atleast some of the profits went to charities that help the homeless…. I love it though (what does that make me?)

First idea is very mch based on the soundtrack, and I went with the first thing that came to my head, which was that the track feels like it’s underwater. So i had the idea to shoot the entire video in one take, with someone holding their breath the full length of the track. Next to the face would be a bulb, which would interact with the character during the vid.
image from ‘Only You’, Portishead, dir. Chris Cunningham

Second idea is based loosely on the notion of what inspired Gorillaz to make this track in the first place, Beowulf. So I found a comptetion on youtube between the world famous Kobayashi, who holds the record for eating most hotdogs in least time, competing against an adult grizzly bear in a hotdog showdown. A typical man vs beast foodfest extravaganza.

Stills from the world hotdog competition held between Kobayashi and a Giant Bear! from youtube

this is a frieze film competition i entered during the summer, the idea was to make a movie based on Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel The Road.

my idea: simply to illustrate how f*cking hard it can be to fold a map.