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 […]
Furillen was unusual – it sprang up and disappeared in a very short time. There was no fanfare for closure, and no time for a reprieve. And that was right. Gertrude Jekyll, the great garden designer of the early 20th century, never wanted her gardens preserved. Without the gardener, the garden ceased to be a […]
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 […]
Furillen: “An island off the northeast coast of Sweden. Once a limestone factory, now a hotel. Remote, bleak, beautiful”. So it says in the information ‘about land’. And so it is. Furillen is based on a real place. If you want to find out more, these are links to [the hotel webpage has now gone] […]
