rendering wigglyform

finally finished cutting up last night, then today i've been going through finding my mistakes, fixing them, and then, having cut everything up, and named them so they're in the right order already, i put them all onto the timeline... go through and push each little bit closer to the last bit by the right amount....

and now it's rendering and we'll see what it looks like... then maybe change one or two bits, then put titles on...

phew...

i so deserve this orange lucozade that dinah's just got for me from the shops...

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almost 2 thirds

i'm midway through K,

i've cutup 68 of 104 improvisations...

very close to 2/3 of the lot...

i should have been paid on wednesday but i wasn't, N in the personnel department of hammersmithwork is franticly trying to get the money into my account today but it may not happen until monday morning...

like the last few summers i'm quite close to the edge financially at the moment and not being paid has taken it's toll on me & dinah... funny how it always seems to be when i don't have that buffer zone that this sort of thing happens... at certain other times of the year it doesn't matter if they are a day or so late with this money because i've not completely run out...

but in the summer, generally when i know i've got money coming in i have often got no money at all the night before it comes in...

so that's tricky... not impossible, but tricky...

BB has all sorts of drama going on for those that follow it... sylvia is almost sure to be evicted tonight... except that i've heard there's a rumour that dennis is going to be extracted for spitting @ mo... please, please, please let sylvia be going as well, i've so had enough of that woman...

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A - H

i've cut up to week 48, almost half way...

I through to O left...

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synthesis

on thursday i played D's moog again and it's so, so sexy...

yesterday i picked up the NORD with a view to getting close to the moog but i got sidetracked into this almost corrosive sound that forms the basis of yesterday's improvisation, year 3 week 1...

i love it... i sometimes wonder why i do the improvisations, but week's like this when at the end of the improvisation i express doubt about it's interest for anyone else, listening (watching) back i really like it...

as if i get lost inside the sound, stop thinking about an audience and just play... i wake up near the end and my audience aware personality wonders whether it's been any good, but my floating non-language personality has been guiding the improvisation in a lovely way and there's nothing to worry about...

of course this is me that's really liking it, it doesn't mean that others will like it... but then i am really doing these improvisations for me... it's uploading now...

i've got D writing a script for me i hope, i can't decide whether or not to start cutting up the clips for the cutup wigglyform or whether to wait until the script is ready... cutting them up is the long way round, but just how long will D take? will he be able to do it?

i've got a number of other things to do, but i find it hard getting on with them while this is not finished, but then, this (cutup wigglyform) will either be days of work, or a couple of hours depending on the scriptableness of it...

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cutup straightform rendered

cutup straightform rendering

i've cut all of the 104 weekly improvisations into 3 seconds each... and i'm currently rendering the result which i'm calling cutup straightform... as opposed to the cutup wigglyform (i guess, hadn't thought of a name before writing this)...

it's reminding me of the process which will help me when i get down to editing the dawn project, (only 52 weeks)...

it's lovely watching it, for me anyway...

probably later on tuesday it will be up there x

PS - we saw the lives of others tonight which was simply wonderful...

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cutup of 31 weeks improvising

rehearsed tonight (monday) with T's band, really looking forward to friday's gig @ the metro...

fancy it?

let me know if you want to come xx

PS - enjoy the cutup x

cutup improvisations 2

that same old trick, updated to include all of the improvisations up until now... still in 3rd of a second bits... i may swap it around a bit next time...

(dinah turned 25 yesterday, many stories, just not yet)

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cutup improvisations

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betowled and pleased with cutups

so i'm sat here in my towel, which is controversial these days, when i'm not working (and i'm not working very much these days) i can spend hours in my towel, making tea, walking around...

very comfortable, have been for years...

and recently one of my housemates has made it known (after living here for a year) that she doesn't want to see me in a towel in the kitchen... and in fact has now started a vote in the house as to whether there should be bare chests allowed in any communal space...

so i'm an endangered species these days, my betoweled self...

in other news i cutup my video'd improvisations last night, took 20 seconds from each one (there are 8, which includes one experiment that hasn't yet been posted online), cut each 20 seconds into 60 third of a second bits and threw them all together and i love it...

LOVE it...

as soon as i've worked out how to put a title on my film (i use vegas and i'm still quite new at it) it'll be up there and i'll be showing it to you,

and finally i'm going to record the piano piece for my thames path film over @ my landlords in thursday - with the help of Wfloopyshaman - and i'm going to take that opportunity to do my weekly improvisation over there too...

but now i have my one weeks work of the summer approaching and i need to make plans...

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"Royal Northern Gardens - an experiment" & other news

30 minute Royal Northern Gardens film finished in december - recently hosted on googlevideo

no post since monday... that's not like me...

dreamt that me & J (from hotel full of cops) were on different sides of a sectarian struggle and were meant to hate each other but ended up laughing at a cushion salesman practising falling into a carefully arranged placement of cushions... echoes of the wind that shakes the barley there that i saw this week at some point... using up the july free cinema tickets...

i don't know when i saw it though, can't have been tuesday because me & felinity were clambering around london rooftops to take this picture, wednesday i was rehearsing, last night i was cycling around half naked and saw... no but i'll tell that story in a moment... maybe it was monday night?

so it was very good (the wind that shakes the barley), if a little forced in it's storytelling right at the end, and this only noticeable because the story floats so naturally through most of the film, a fictional story set against 1920's ireland, the early days of the IRA, the brutality of the english soldiers... the lead actor from breakfast on pluto is excellent in it...

tuesday saw me & felinity climb to the high place above somerset house that i've been wanting to take her to, to take a picture of one of the stars of the star odyssey, she is only the second person to have possession of that particular star, testament to her networking, internet self... the indian restaurant that backs onto the spiral staircase had it's window open and i spoke to one of the waiters, telling him we'd be in there in about 5 minutes... unfortunately this drew a security guard's attention to our descent and we got told off on reaching the ground...

felinity took pictures of our journey up there and a few pictures of the star - although the picture that she posted to the community was one i took... (i so tried not to mention that fact... honestly i did...)

so anyway we went to said indian restuarant and ate, coming back to the fountains @ somerset house to wash our hands, then crossing the river again to where i'd taken some video for my thames path project when i met her, and where i wanted to take some more, a few hours had passed and a metre of so of tidal water level had shifted... we finished the night sipping G & T's in the national theatre bar... very nice... felinity great company as ever...

in fact i remember now, i went into town to take thames path video on monday night and went to see the wind that shakes the barley directly after, the same plan last night, i cycled in without a top on, first time for me in town on a bike semi naked but it was cool...

i arrived at my videoing point only to find a photoshoot going on exactly there, i had to wait around for half an hour, taking odd bits of video and pictures until they left, which meant that i missed fearless @ the pictures and ended up watching the lakehouse which was so, so, so stupid of me... it also meant that i didn't get back in time to meet spski and do the deflea i'd planned for balthazara last night... darned photoshoot...



the lakehouse was average to bad, keanu reeves is unbelievably bad and sandra bullock is so-so, the story has a few irritating holes, although the idea is a good one, added to this is that to my left on my row was a group of tourists who just wouldn't shut up... massively irritating, i spoke to them early on which shut them up for a time but after awhile they just carried on and i learned to live with it, being as it wasn't the greatest film... and i thought about this, why should it matter to me when it clearly is a rubbish film... but it DOES matter... it is sooooo rude...

the combined effect of the film and the tourists really wound me up and i cycled over to dinah's stage door for her soothing company as she left work which did me a power of good...

and look at that, no post all week and then you get this huge one...

which reminds me i did my weekly improvisation yesterday and it turned out to be 20 minutes long, googlevideo verifying it now, i don't mind that they've had it ages now being as they dealt with my 30 minute experimental film as well yesterday...

i'll be posting it when it becomes available

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