the moment a thought explains itself ad infinitum

What I had found and posted on http://marksargeant.blogspot.com/2008/05/found-this-on-wall.html
has also been found on various locations from Cambridge to London and beyond.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/arenamontanus/2520986609/

http://www.londonist.com/tags/themomentathoughtexplainsitself

It's been a busy week

London cops declare war on photographers

"Thousands of people take photos everyday. What if one of them seems odd?"









http://www.boingboing.net/2008/03/04/london-cops-declare.html

Define odd?
If you're an artist or filmmaker
the chances you are looking very odd taking pictures
to the average passer by.
Let alone with a camera in your hands.

Found internet words

Losing your grip
Why do councils love jargon?
7 days 7 questions

Word Sequencing

01001101 01100001 01110010 01101011
00100000 01010011 01100001 01110010 01100111 01100101 01100001 01101110 01110100

My name in ASCII binary

The unknown country

This caught my eye when looking at the stats for my blog. Eight down on the list is marked a visitor from the unknown. So let us spare a thought for what does constitute this place. Mythical or real it must exist somewhere even in the depths of the the internets imagination. Thanks for everybody who does visit it's much appreciated and if you have any idea please leave a comment.

Converting Vision into Audio

It's probably been down to the fact that I have broken my video camera so my brain has been thinking about alternative strategies to make pictures whilst I figure out the financial repercusions of over coming this hurdle.

It's been a quite happening last few days thanks to some freeware software and my mac. It's been a revelation and a very much needed theraputic session these last few days.
I have then been making these audio segments into longer soundscapes using Ableton Live and then rendering these to put into Logic Audio. There's no secret in what is already availiable on the net...now. It's what you do with it that counts.

Very interesting but I have to put these into an order for a video piece I am putting into the Ferini Gallery in Lowestoft soon.

Then I discover something which will work with Puredata. Time to brush off the dust on my backup disks and reinstall.

There's always a discovery waiting to happen.

Keeping the mind active to new possibilities.

I need to meet yet more people and experience a differrant perspective to feedback into my arts practice.

The Abbey Taxi

I would like to say thanks to Kirsten Lavers and the Abbey Taxi for the photograph and the free hosting of the magnetic message. For more information about the Abbey Taxi which is based in Cambridge please visit http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kirstenlavers/taxigallery/

The Closer You look

A wall or is it a map showing a coastline?

A Painting A Day

Duane Kaiser has been making a painting a day since 12/10/2004 and posting them on his blog. Though recently he has been doing them three times a week.
He manages to sell them aswell.

http://duanekeiser.blogspot.com/

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My jouney has sometimes taken me here quite a few times.

The Norwich Fringe 2006 has ended.

Met some new people and seen what their artworks like.

Here's to The Norwich Fringe Festival 2007.

I'll post some more when I've sorted out some pics

People and Architecture

A glass backdrop for actors.

"Urban Life" is performed throughout the day all year round.

Will the real me stand up

Put my name in google and came up with some of these.

The headchef?
http://www.gordonramsay.com/claridges/chefs/headchef/

The female impersonator?
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,59922,00.html

The pole vaulter?
http://usctrojans.cstv.com/sports/c-track/mtt/sargeant_mark00.html

None of them are me.

Prehaps I should start changing my name?
Prehaps I should start charging for my name?

Quiz

What is it?

a: An early warning radar station

b: Part of a sewerage works complex

c: A photograph

Answer is b the sewerage works at Corton

Curiosity Collective

Making Ipswich Interesting

http://cefn.com/curiosity/?pagename=exhibition

Mad Mag

The fifth Mad Mag finished with a bang with "Rocket Robins" firework performance on saturday night. This one day festival is staged on the Magdelene estate in Gorleston. there used to be large meetings in the early fifties but the area had not been used before. Started in 2001 it stages music, dance, workshops and stalls for various community groups in the area. Even poetry for the first time this year.

Another 6 years and it will have a legally binding right to be held every year. Who could argue against that?

Operation Zeebra

Film still from "Maltese Dreamer"

The past couple of weeks I have been dodging the football over in Germany. By a strange twist of fate the recordings I made of the Quill art exhibition poems will go off to Germany. As films they will have to play off other world entries in a poetry film submission called ZEBRA Poetry Film Award 2006. No cup I think.

Details can be found by the following link.

http://www.literaturwerkstatt.org/index.php?id=124&L=1

So far I have the following films to choose for entry for this.

A Somewhat Fuzzy Recollection of a Collection -Sue Wooden

The whole ARC Open Studios exhibition of work by Mark Leech, Racheal Brown, Prue Dobinson, Simon Sela Kasumba, Mark Sargeant, John Dashwood, Manuel Sexias, Derek Jackson, Tonia Jillings, Rupert Mallin, Bridget Heriz, Katarzyna Coleman, manuel Mondonca, Emrys Parry, John Kiki, Bruer Tidman and Mark Cator

Maltese Dreamer - Fiona Hall

inspired by a terracotta figurine by Bridget Heriz

A Portrait of a Young Woman - Sue Cooper

Simon Sela Kasumba painting of the same name

Opposites - Ellie Trett

Simon Sela Kasumba painting of the same name

Rainbow Lady- Fiona Hall -

Simon Sela Kasumba painting of the same name

The Three Ages - Fiona Hall

Three bronze scultures called The Three Ages by Bridget Heriz

Moonlight - Ellie Trett

A painting called Irony by Manual Mendonca

Seaborn - Ellie Trett

A textile piece called Bluesail by Prue Dobinson

Three Spanish Ladies - Fiona Hall

Photograhs of three flamenco dancers by Derek Jackson

There's still a couple more I haven't finished and even all these wont fit into the required maximum duration of ten minutes. But still it's good that this has come out so quickly and has an avenue to to express itself. There's a model for doing this elsewhere with other writing groups something I would like to explore in the future.

Architecture and the passing of time.

Stills from a film piece.