9.11.2006

Millitary Cutbacks




Owing to financial cutbacks military forces are having to reuse "old stuff we haven't used in ages" to save money. Here soldiers are seen reusing equipment from the early nineteeth centuary at the Great Yarmouth Maritime Festival.

Meanwhile the Royal Navy was showing to the public one of their reused "magnetic mine proof and 100% enviromentally aware" warships.

The Royal Airforce was unavailiable to comment until they had a firm offer on a user manual for some World War One biplanes they were thinking of using a source said yesterday.

9.10.2006

Save our Seagull








September 9th protest to save the Seagull Theatre, Pakefield at Lowestoft.

A well turned out and peaceful event by local people in support of this cultural instution. The Seagull Theatre has been a positve influence and resource in the Lowestoft area and beyond in the last forty years. It was a school school since 1895. Earlier this year Suffolk County Council stopped funding the £60,000 a year theatre to save money but made this decision whilst spending £144,000 a year on snacks at meetings.

Stop it from being changed into a car park or building land.

The fight goes on.

9.01.2006

The Freesound Project


"The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ...

8.31.2006

Agosto, o mês do cachorro louco

Farewell August I know you well.
Let's compare notes this time next year

8.27.2006

Lowestoft: an ongoing compendium of tall things.


This part of East Anglia is relativitly flat and its structures are rated along a scale of tall things to not so tall things. St Peters Court pictured above in the background is classified as being at a point towards the end of the tall thing scale *
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* This might be subject to change and the value of your taxonomy may go up or down as time dictates.

8.25.2006

Ipswich subway revisited





Electric eyes, empty spaces and the sound of footsteps.

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

8.24.2006

The horse has bolted.....

A stable door somewhere in the back streets of Great Yarmouth

8.22.2006

Sign of the times...

Todays presentation was a success. The Residents Association accepted one of our designs for the village sign at Runham Vauxhall in Great Yarmouth. Myself and Mike Skipper gave the presentation. First step and there is still more work to be done.

8.21.2006

If this is August it must be Belgium.

For this years Fringe festival I will be exhibiting in Norwich Castle Mall. As well has having some work with Quill shown at the Bally Factory at Hall road. October is nearly upon us and I am working on some video pieces.

Norfolk Arts Project - "Teenages" will start in October. A project aiming to reduce the fear of crime amongst the elderly in the Broadland area. Working with older poeple and teenagers aiming to find the common ground that connect people as everyone was a teenager once.

Me and local creative Rupert Mallin will have entered The Jerwood Open by then with our art proposal.

Should find out how my Zebra film submission has faired.

Doing a performance at Pams House at the UEA on October the 6th. The DJ speak is live appearance i.e not using a taped backing circa 1990. It's not just me and there will be amongst the others. More later when the nearer the time.

Right now applying for a residency at Bedford Creative Arts.

But in the present with the help of local artist Mike Skipper we are designing a village sign for the Runham-Vauxhall area of Great Yarmouth. Presenting it on this tuesday at a meeting at the Runham CLIP office. Hopefully they will be impressed and will have accepted the design. We also have consulted the inhabitants about what they would like to see in the design. An important point as it is for them after all.

2006 has been a hard year financially so far but has been worth it. Already working on 2007.

8.19.2006

00:00:00.00


25 pictures a second
1,500 pictures a minute
90,000 pictures an hour
2,160,000 pictures a day
66,960,000 pictures a month
788,400,000 pictures a year (790,560,000 on a leap year)
If you live to seventy then expect your realtime life video to contain atleast 55,188,000,000 pictures

The obligatory self portrait