Making the video Artistic ideas always have inspiration from somewhere, but sometimes the inspiration is more simple and direct than others. In this case, it was a visit to an exhibition put together by a friend, Indigo Claire. I arrived thinking I was too late for the opening, but I’d misread and I was a […]
First of all thank you! The response I’ve had to my work during 2016 has been astonishing. While it’s important to find your own voice in creativity and follow your own ideas, I like to know that I am connecting with people. This year’s review is different. I have made many more machinima (videos) (on […]
Well today I’m plugging someone else project! The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is being held for the fourth year in Kendal, a market town in the north west of England. It attracts comic art illustrators and writers from around the world to run workshops The Lakes International Comic Art Festival is being held for […]
My latest work is very short – ‘Solitude’ – a film poem. I did something that had a similar kind of form last year, but I only discovered earlier this year that the film poem (or poetic avant-garde film, verse-film or verse-documentary) was an existing idea with a history. But there is nothing new in […]
At the end of the last week, an idea came together for another machinima, this time located in Furillen in Second Life. A bleak, open sim, it’s based on a real life place – an island off the northeast coast of Sweden, where a limestone factory was turned into a hotel. Furillen has been recreated […]
‘Biomechanical’ is a fascinating bot performance produced in Second Life. The installation was built by Jo Ellsmere, and returns to the Split Screen Installation Space in Second Life during January 2016 for about six weeks. The installation was inspired by the actor training methods developed by Russian theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874-1940). More information on […]
Last Sunday marked the final weekend of Nitroglobus Gallery. Dido Haas will be creating a new Hall – with the passing of Nitro Fireguard, her partner in Second Life, she had decided the old Gallery they created together should go. It could never be the same. So in that great space that was characteristic of […]
