The Digital Category | In the Realm of the Underwhelmed

KEEP LEFT

July 24, 2007 By Gary 1 Comment

A couple of years ago I made a short video with Jawed Ashraf that is like a moving version of our Twins project. I haven’t put it online before because I think it really works better when shown bigger, either projected or on a large screen, but Michael David Murphy at 2.8 linked to some street photography videos which made me think… so, now you can see it here.

The recent Street Photography workshop went well and another has been scheduled – get in touch for more information or see the Photofusion page.

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How We Are

June 18, 2007 By Gary Leave a Comment

The How We Are show at the Tate has a flickr tie-in where users are supposed to have their pictures displaying as part of the exhibit (over 5,000 pictures in the group currently). Unfortunately all four screens were showing either crashed Windows or a spinning slideshow wheel with no pictures (how hard can it be?). The rest of the show is well worth seeing (room guide) although I have to admit that I found the best part of the last room was the ability to pull up my own flickr account and run it on a computer that was working.

In other news, my daughter Max is just finishing her degree and has put her final piece, a Knitimation Video, online. Go watch it.

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How We Show

June 7, 2007 By Gary 1 Comment

I’m always interested in seeing the underpants of a gallery and while I’m sure running such an enterprise is often a thankless task, it amuses me how often they seem unprepared for visitors. I sometimes find myself more interested in the mechanics of the place than the stuff on show. Today I went to Alec Soth at HOST and fortunately the pictures were enough of a distraction from all the construction work but I did feel like I was getting in the way a bit (click thumb to enlarge). Still, my arrival seemed to prompt the stacking of the otherwise empty bookshelf which gave me another chance to browse the Niagara book and get in the way some more.

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Street Photography Workshop

May 31, 2007 By Gary Leave a Comment

I’m leading a Street Photography Workshop at Photofusion which runs on two Saturdays in July (7th and 21st) with time in-between for practice. Among the plus points is that it’s a small group of participants. There are more details on the Photofusion site and it’s half-full already so if you’re interested but have questions, feel free to contact me. Update: another has been scheduled. Update 2: I’m planning to run it again in the summer.

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Upgrading This

April 13, 2007 By Gary 1 Comment

I’ve just upgraded this blog to WordPress 2 and it seems that it’s fussier about some of the hacks I made to the theme. ~~Categories aren’t working at the moment…~~ probably some other things too. I’ll either fix later or switch to some fancy new theme. Update: Using Spotlight to search for code I realised that I’d actually documented my previous hacking. Amazing! Now if only I could remember that I’m sometimes quite sensible. The notes I’d made said, “I should write this as a plugin so that it doesn’t break with future WordPress upgrades”. Please let me know if you spot anything else broken.

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CMT at Kinetica

March 31, 2007 By Gary Leave a Comment

A new Cabaret Mechanical Theatre show opens at the end of next week at Kinetica in London and runs for a month.

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ResonanceFM Fundraiser

February 19, 2007 By Gary Leave a Comment

ResonanceFM (London’s first radio arts station – providing “a radical alternative to the universal formulae of mainstream broadcasting”) is raising money so it can stay on air, buy a new antenna, etc. Even if you’re not in London, they’re worth supporting so that me, you and everyone else can listen online.

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Products from a Former Life

December 24, 2006 By Gary Leave a Comment

Since it’s too late to think about shopping I thought that now would be a good time to mention a few items which have recently become available again. Three videos that I made for Cabaret Mechanical Theatre are now on DVD and a book that I co-authored has recently been reprinted. The book is about basic mechanisms and making things move – it’s available directly from CMT, or from amazon in the UK and now from Make:, the Make: Magazine people, in the USA. The DVDs are available from CMT as follows: Cabaret Mechanical Video, How to Make Automata and my favourite, Made in Stithians.

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London Art Galleries

October 19, 2006 By Gary Leave a Comment

I originally started my page of links to London art gallery web sites because a lot of them were very hard to find via google. However, it has since become very popular so I’ve tidied it up a bit and added a featured gallery spot at the top with the vague plan of making vast amounts of advertising revenue [Update: I've given the page its own domain]. I never set out to be a listings guy but hey, if it means I can take more pictures we can’t complain. This picture was taken after a wander around the insides of Battersea Power Station. More art.

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Walking and Teaching

October 11, 2006 By Gary Leave a Comment

This picture was taken while wandering with students on the recent course I ran at Photofusion.

The first time I ran the course we took the easy option of going out on the roof which was ok but I think the students preferred the stroll along the Southbank that we did this time. The course is due to run again in January and should be listed on the link above soon.

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Street Photography

September 29, 2006 By Gary 3 Comments

Definitions, pigeon-holes, limitations and inspiration. Are people who hang on to the “old” forms of street photography the equivalent of stuckist painters? I’m tempted to write something longer in response to the suggestion that Street Photography is dead but in the meantime here’s a picture of a bus stop.

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