WHOLE TOUR AND NOTHING BUT THE TOUR

This was originally from a message to joanna when she asked how was tour, i wrote a review





















We played the u.k first with BAYS who were fucking mint everynight.Sheffield was mint, played outside, our bass players brother cut his head open whilst he was playing with his band.We stopped outside at a service station and cooked meat.Played a sweet show in Kingston,said goodbye to Bays, stayed at this kind girls house made her room smell like everyones feet, got up to early for the ferry but got a earlier one.We drove straight to belgiam the show looked like it was gonna suck, and hardly anyone came but the people who were there were ace.The drummer from lanlocked got drunk for the first time ever he was trousered.The next day we went to Lille me and a the bassist got lost for hours and we ran out of weed.A dead sound guy put us up who couldnt speak a word of english.Only one of us could speak fench but he fed us weed, coffee and biscuits.We got showers aswell so good!!We then drove to willebrook, we got there well early and invented a stupid game called ouchwitz that occupied us for abit.Then we played wembely singles its a soccer game were you just play to score for yourself.The americans were shite at it.That night we stopped in the venue, we found the merits of douval .We had a lengthly debate about whether we should stop in holland at a coffee shop.Some of us are straight edge so they couldnt really see the point to go to a city out of the way to buy weed, which is understandable.Then some one suggested we go to Antwerp which was on the way.Since the gig in Aschaffenberg was cancelled we had a day off to drive most of the way to poland.Next day we went our singer past after been there 20 mins.The people were so nice there we then decided to form a band called The Kings of Chill and move to Holland, is gonna be the best band ever.We bought so much weed.We called in at Hanover for tea, so two japenese girls fight whilst i ate my burger.On the way out we had an argument were we should sleep.We decided since the last night outside without tents was so good we should do it again.We drove to phil got tired and stopped near a train crossing in the middle of a forrest in Bradenburg, we saw the biggest ant hill ever decded to move were we were sleeping further away.Me Parky and Ric speant ages making a fire out of damp wood.Smoked this party spliff that we got from the coffee shop and pazzed.All night before i went to sleep i could here mosquitoes buzzin round my head.We all zipped up so we just ha air holes.I got bit on the face six times, parky got bit on the lip, an ric got bit on hi face but they dint show up on his ginger skin.We got woke up to rain it was miserable.Wet we started driving to Poznan.Which was so pozzie, we drove for hours and hours and all we saw were 24 hour night clubs (whore houses) and novelty garden furniture shops at the side of the road.When we got to city it was totally different they had this cool currency that made you super rich, cause everything was so cheap.The show was mental loads of kids were there and thee were stage dives and other mint hardcore stuff.This mentally handicapped filmed our set and pretended to sing all our songs even the ones we havnt recorded.We travelled to leibzig the next day and played a squat.You walked through a dark apartment block to tiled garden were we played in a weird stone building.Everything was propper uneven and it was really hard to walk around.It was packed and people were singing our songs and throwing confety, so weird.We got stupid high that night and smoked nearly all da weed we bought a day previous.We played Augsberg the next day and the promoter put us on shit loads of vegan burgers that were actually really good.I ate 5, he put us up too and give us pop to drink.He played us some really mint band one called I not Dance which are well worth checking out. He fed us in the morning to propper nice guy.He then went to watch us at the next show in Ulm.We got really drunk as it was the last night and were stopping in the venue the higlights were: wathcing the american lads who'd hardly drunk before rage to slipknot like they were 13 again.Phil smashing his knee after slipping on some spilt beer on the pogo stick.His knee then swelling up into a big angry ball.Ric nearly punching me for annoying him.Watching phil and ric passed out .Getting beat at a game of skate off a guy who drove 350 kilometers to watch us.Putting Danny Pegg on the p.a when everyone was trying to sleep.The next day we packed up and drove to Aschaffenburg were we were meant to be playing Together at a five a side game of football.Non of us could be assed accept phil whos knee looked like it was dislocated.We had a massive meal and set of for the ferry at Calle.And non of us got layed can you beleive that.



















































photos from phil, nate and michael

HEXABITIONISM

First year exhibition
My freind Connel linked me to a lecture on TED by a software developer called Blaise Aguera y Arcas .Its well worth a look at, hes developed a program that works with images in a lateral way, allowing you to view multiple images at once.The program works on the principle that you can only have a certain amount of on scren at any one time.Allowing you to move through a seemlessly through images wich are linked through meta-data.What it also allows you to do is move around enviroments spacially,via David Hockney style joiners.Giving a 3D experience to 2D platform.What I found particularly interesting about Arcas's talk was the way he demonstrated moving through images into othr ones linked to it.At one point he moved from a photograph uploaded from a phone with a poster of Notredam cathedral in the back ground , to one from a different user taken on a digital camera of the actual building self.Then he preceded to move around the building spacially with the collection of different photos.The idea that you can move through different images in different from different times really struck me.I wanted to play with the idea abit before i started anything concrete.These are my reults... http://photosynth.net/search.aspx?q=defectiveobjective

the basic idea: i wanted to be able to move through at least 3 different spaces in time, while the objects in the photographs could still syncronize together.After maticulously photographing my room, i chose one image of window to use.I then transfered this image to acetate, then put it on a projector in the studio.Then maticulously took loads of photos of the projector switched on; then tranfered that to acetate.I then projected the image of the projector projecting from the second step and again photographed that.After about 5 hours waiting for all the images to be uploaded to the photosynth website it turned out it was always '70% synthy' which means it doesn't work aswell as I'd hoped as 3d platform.I later learnt that its because many of the things i photographed lacked texture and thats what the program needs to glue different images together.Wich makes sense its not magic.The things i was taking pictures of; the wall and the window because of there flat surfaces stopped my project from working completely.Still i'm quiete happy with the results just because its spared me on for a new idea.


SUMMARY: projected a photo of my room, took a photo of the projector,and then projected that image

the new idea: i now want to get more people involved.This program has great potential for interactive sculpture in as such it content can be coupled together from different users and made into enviroments.What i would like to do is collaborate on an instalation that only exists complete in virtual form.Parts of it would exist in reality made by different people, in different places and as a given in different times.I'm still toying round with ideas on how this is going to be acheivable and Iam looking for more imput, on how these imags can be glued together.Input of any kind would be a banging.

SCRATTIN MY HEAD

These are some recent drawings from the bunker, experimenting with scale, there alot bigger than i'd usually draw faces.


klll

1-5 are felt tip and ink.This bottom one is a photo of the television from home at my parents house.Kind of looks like a face if you beleive if your that way inclined .Ive been thinking about a lecture we had a few fridays back alot. A man called John Hiyatt told a story of how he saw a UFO over the Grane Road, which is a bout five minuetes.Amongst other crazy stuff he was talking about natural forms in everything been related.Hes got an exhibition on at the link gallery hes a modern mystic with ideas that would make William James piddle his pants his audio work is very interesting too http://www.myspace.com/thethreejohns
http://www.hyattartandlife.com/

Academic Anum

This year has past to quickly, just as I’ve started to get into been at university the end of term is looming. I don’t feel as though I took as good of an advantage I could of this year, I made some very stupid mistakes. The most valuable thing I’ve learnt is just to come in more instead of just when it’s strictly necessary. The course runs as much unofficially as it does officially. It took me while to realise that interactive arts was more about been a functioning community of artists, as much as it was a course. There is always something going on or been planned outside of university.

My main regret is that I didn’t get involved with the link gallery next term Ryan has said I can help with witch I’m looking forward to. Been involved with the Abandon Normal Devices festival has put me in touch with organizer which might come in handy this summer if we get the gallery space in Blackburn again for a few weeks. Jacks coming back up with people from his course and were we plan to do a joint exhibition that should hopefully be reciprocated down in London. It’s something to do with his manifesto that he’s compiling together. I’m hoping Europe is going to be inspiring I haven’t been abroad since I was ten and views on the world have change quiet a bit since then. I’m hoping its going to be fruitful I’m getting some super eight film for my camera, and borrowing a dictaphone.I want to try and record as much as possible, and I should be able to borrow someone’s laptop to blog it when out there too. I want to come back to university with a decent body of work that I’m proud of.

http://www.andfestival.org.uk/siteNorm/programme/selectedEvent.php?qsSelectedEventId=140

found images

I've recently aquired a thirst for finding photos and interesting bits of card on the floor, i think its a posture problem thats becoming quiete beneficial.

Compositions compiled and found nothing profound.


BARF

POSI WINS NEGI EVERYTIME

After most negi tutorial ever this appeared on my facebook, i am capable of good things.Its a award i got for my work last year at college and now the colledge are using me as an exemplary student to advertise the course.I've been propper photo-shopped weres are my red cheeks.A period of rest is over and i'm back on the sunshine horse.

During his time at the College, Daniel got involved with various extra-curricular activities and was one of the key students who founded, curated and ran, ‘A Lovely Art Gallery’ at Blackburn’s Pavilions. This project was a huge success and brought culture to the local area.

Dan, who is also the drummer in Manchester group, Brown Orange Blue Band, said: “My classmate and I independently approached Blackburn Council to see what help was available for creating an art exhibition for the people of Blackburn by the people of Blackburn.”http://www.blackburn.ac.uk/student_celebrates_outstanding_achievement_award.html

Also check out the gallery myspace, http://www.myspace.com/alovelymyspace  the funny person who hacked it  managed to do it again, puck you! you negi bastard!We did some amazing things for Blackburn. Was there really any need, we worked pretty much full time maintaining it, somedays 9am till past midnight,  whilst doing our college courses aswell.You won't beat me down that even includes Jackal and  Soudal (whos got some mint photos going up in Blackpool tower) http://bitingatyourheels.tumblr.com/

PUCK YOU SIR

CHOP CHOP

CHOPPIN WOOD: here is the mastered demo from Daniel Fiasco thanks a bunch .He also writes a great deal of good stories on his blog http://danieljfiasco.blogspot.com/

It has five songs on it which now have names, i think thats totally incadental, to be honest i don't know.It is the combined effort of Simon Frazer, Dan Hunt, Rich Hall and myself.We've had a string of gigs recently more photographs to follow,that have contributed to my no work ..I put a stupid amount of effort in and i'm proud of what the result is.

1.hey lad i'm your dad

2.don't touch my hair i have alopecia

3.them gypsies probably got knives

4.do you think this brick shit house was built in a day

5.eh?

LOWNDOADLOWNDOAD--- choppin wood demo

THRIVING PERMANCENCE OF SOUND

The third year talk was dead insightful, exhibitions at Moonfish on 25th Feb, projections at Sand Bar
a 24 hour sonic improv performance at islington mill on 24th April see
//mill24blogspot.com
loads of other artists exhibiting too.He talked a great deal about long sound pieces that are continual like this sonic sculpture in Kent.The hole is a 7 meter deep, 2.4 meter diameter shaft, constructed from concrete rings. The bottom 2 meters are waterproofed to allow a pool to form.The sculpture relise heavily on water flow, so there is a pond on the surface that acts as a reservoir.The water flows through a grates and into the hole and the sound is amplified by a steel trumpet.'If you look carefully through the slits in the cover in some places you can see a wire mesh. Below the mesh are trays of gravel that break up the flow and cause drips to form in an unpredictable manner.If you sprinkle water from a bottle onto these areas you’ll hear an initial flurry of sound followed by a period of more measured and melodic music.
Its in Kingswood near Challock which is ten minutes away from my Aunty Fi's house.I'm gonna visit in Summer.
SCORE FOR HOLE IN THE GROUND LINK






























The idea of the permanent sound reminds me of a blog i stumbled up on ages ago on 'Stone Tape Theory on Language Log by Benjamin Zimmer.Something that largely been disproved by the scientific community, its origins lay in Charles Babbage's Ninth Bridgewater Treatise written in 1832 and his theories into the memory of molecules around us, giving permanence to every sound.It is also very strangely linked to 'video killed the radio star' by The Buggles the first video ever shown on MTV and also been credited as a explanation for ghostly aparitions.



LOOK AT THE FICTIONAL WORLD OF PAElEOACOUSTICS








(image from teen wolf)

crystal mazing