i get paid on friday...
so, traditionally, i have not a bean...
last thursday it was my sister felinity's birthday and i managed to turn up twice to see her.. as i was going to see wole soyinka be interviewed @ the BBC world service...
i can't quite believe i haven't blogged about that already...?
so briefly:
i was nervous, i'd been to bush house once before, years earlier, when my old friend Becki worked there and i'd just moved to london, she arranged for me to meet her and play a grand piano which she recorded onto a DAT tape for me...
lovely woman that Becki, fiddler from the Red Herrings...
anyway, i was that kind of subtle nervous when in the room with Wole Soyinka, the kind of nervous that makes you want to shout out or giggle really loudly (it was a recording)...
i asked a question, i don't know if my question will make it to the program but i'll let you know if it does, it's being aired in the week of the 29th may, 90 minutes of time reduced down to 26 minutes, he was talking about his uncle the reverend ransom kuti, who he'd been meaning to write a book about, who had died making it impossible to write the book, but still wanting to get across the atmosphere of his childhood he elected to write about his early years, which ended up as Ake - the years of childhood - one of the books i've got listed over there on the right, which was why i was invited to the recording...
so anyway i asked if the reverend ransom kuti was related to fela kuti, (the nigerian james brown) and it turns out fela kuti and wole soyinka were cousins, fela being the reverend's son, it was only a tiny question so it might get in there...
in the weeks prior to the day i was searching for my copy of ake, it was only when i spoke to josiah that she reminded me that i'd leant it to her... so i didn't have it with me to get wole to sign it... it would have so cool if i'd have had it because almost everyone else had the same edition of the book, only me & harriet having the edition i've got... (harriet whose name i've forgotton - who asked the questions of wole soyinka)..
anyway, all this talk and still not even a mention of the actual birthday drinks with felinity...
and still no beginning to the soup story... buckle up folks, this'll be a long one...
on the same day i had done my dawn project and then worked over @ hammersmith where i'd had my teaching observed by my boss... (she's just emailed me her report, i'm a little scared to read it)...
i rolled up @ the chandos to meet felinity and her G and we had a gin... strategically edging towards a larger area of the room to accomodate the later arrivals...
before i left we'd secured a whole side of that bit of room, space for 15 or so, us 3 were trying to make it look full...
so i went off to the BBC and after went straight to the EAT on the south bank to take advantage of an offer from timeout, a free soup and bread... only they'd sold out of soup...
so i met with dinah and i spent almost the last of my money on a little less than my share of the bill for chi, £6 all you can eat noodle place that felinity showed me...
we returned to the chandos where that same space was now full of felinity's friends, livejournallers, and real people...
and a lovely night was had, felinity's G very funny with an idea for the 10person bag of wotsits...
felinity lovely as ever...
but look that's tired me out, only the start of the soup story...
you'll just have to wait...
x
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Sunday, May 13, 2007
stardust
it was written in the 1920's by hoagy carmichael, it was then covered by practically everyone who was anyone in 30's jazz... 40's jazz... 50's...
anyway, i saw frank sinatra sing it the other day and i was reminded of how much i love it...
that night me & dinah went round to W(floopy)shaman & T's for a shabbat meal that was lovely...
anyway over the course of the night we got drunk & stoned to the extent that once home i couldn't sleep, so i kept my notebook by the bed, so as not to disturb dinah too much in the night...
i lay there for awhile, trying to sleep, then i wrote for awhile, then i got up and went downstairs, eventually getting back into bed just before dinah had to get up @ 8...
i'd spent the entire night thinking about the song and how i wanted to do a version of it, i'd messaged yimkin on myspace about it, downloaded lyrics and a few different versions of the chords, developed the opening couple of minutes for the video...
around 6 i still wasn't ready to sleep so i video'd the sky and the crescent moon, and the sun which was up by then, all from the top of the house, while i watched chungking express...
yesterday i downloaded as many versions of it as i could... many bad, many cheesy, in fact frank's version from the 40's is still the closest to what i want, although a 21st century production...
glen miller does it well too...
my next step is to find a way of playing it, somehow akin to my arrangement of that song i did a few summers ago when i had the quintet that never gigged... what was that song?
x
anyway, i saw frank sinatra sing it the other day and i was reminded of how much i love it...
that night me & dinah went round to W(floopy)shaman & T's for a shabbat meal that was lovely...
anyway over the course of the night we got drunk & stoned to the extent that once home i couldn't sleep, so i kept my notebook by the bed, so as not to disturb dinah too much in the night...
i lay there for awhile, trying to sleep, then i wrote for awhile, then i got up and went downstairs, eventually getting back into bed just before dinah had to get up @ 8...
i'd spent the entire night thinking about the song and how i wanted to do a version of it, i'd messaged yimkin on myspace about it, downloaded lyrics and a few different versions of the chords, developed the opening couple of minutes for the video...
around 6 i still wasn't ready to sleep so i video'd the sky and the crescent moon, and the sun which was up by then, all from the top of the house, while i watched chungking express...
yesterday i downloaded as many versions of it as i could... many bad, many cheesy, in fact frank's version from the 40's is still the closest to what i want, although a 21st century production...
glen miller does it well too...
my next step is to find a way of playing it, somehow akin to my arrangement of that song i did a few summers ago when i had the quintet that never gigged... what was that song?
x
Thursday, May 10, 2007
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
longcat weekly no. 47
on the landlord's grand piano, with W(floopy)shaman's camera, taking the easy way, trusting to the audio that that camera delivers...
x
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
astrology
ok, so today i managed to get this software called voyager (version 3 - they're onto version 4 for mac but i live in a PC world), which i run a demo of, to look a little like the birth chart that T made for me...
with the ecliptic a circle, each sign marked (although not named, it gives degrees, so cancer is 90 t0 120 degrees), and the planets, (including the sun & the moon) marked on it...
it doesn't draw angles between planets which would have been nice and i have no idea what's going on with the houses in astrology, so that's not in it either, but your basic planets moving around the ecliptic and conjuncting, going into retrograde, ingressing into different signs... that's all there...
so of course i put in my birth day & time (the time that W(floopy)shaman doused for me - as mum doesn't know the exact time - only roughly the time of day - early morning) and my place of birth and i watched the whole day unfold, with my little event @ 3:37 am...
then dinah's birth, both more and less precise details,
and i've been looking at which planets ingress, for example i was delighted to find venus ingressing into cancer @ around 8 this morning, cancer being my sun sign,
the moon ingressed into... oh i don't know, something... at around 6/7 this evening, the moon moves very fast around the zodiac and only spends a few days in each sign, mercury will ingress somewhere in a few days and mars on the 15th...
i saw that pluto is pretty close to an ingress so i hit the go button, making it move in days rather than minutes becuase pluto is far out and slow, and it turns out that pluto and jupiter are currently going backwards, retrograde baby, retrograde...
i also found that in early december this year, pluto, jupiter, mercury & the sun will all be conjuncting together, not that that will be visible because the sun will be blotting everything else out, but if such things have an effect on the weather (emotional/energy weather) then i hope i'll be aware of it then and i'll be open to sensing the shift...
hmmm...
D & M's wedding day?
anyway, must to the shops to get provisions x
with the ecliptic a circle, each sign marked (although not named, it gives degrees, so cancer is 90 t0 120 degrees), and the planets, (including the sun & the moon) marked on it...
it doesn't draw angles between planets which would have been nice and i have no idea what's going on with the houses in astrology, so that's not in it either, but your basic planets moving around the ecliptic and conjuncting, going into retrograde, ingressing into different signs... that's all there...
so of course i put in my birth day & time (the time that W(floopy)shaman doused for me - as mum doesn't know the exact time - only roughly the time of day - early morning) and my place of birth and i watched the whole day unfold, with my little event @ 3:37 am...
then dinah's birth, both more and less precise details,
and i've been looking at which planets ingress, for example i was delighted to find venus ingressing into cancer @ around 8 this morning, cancer being my sun sign,
the moon ingressed into... oh i don't know, something... at around 6/7 this evening, the moon moves very fast around the zodiac and only spends a few days in each sign, mercury will ingress somewhere in a few days and mars on the 15th...
i saw that pluto is pretty close to an ingress so i hit the go button, making it move in days rather than minutes becuase pluto is far out and slow, and it turns out that pluto and jupiter are currently going backwards, retrograde baby, retrograde...
i also found that in early december this year, pluto, jupiter, mercury & the sun will all be conjuncting together, not that that will be visible because the sun will be blotting everything else out, but if such things have an effect on the weather (emotional/energy weather) then i hope i'll be aware of it then and i'll be open to sensing the shift...
hmmm...
D & M's wedding day?
anyway, must to the shops to get provisions x
Friday, May 04, 2007
wending
finished work @ 1:30 and i made it home around 4:45...
the first hour i was just where i'd been teaching, stooging around on the net, firstly i listened to all the tracks that i've got on my CM page, then, to the track on yimkin's CM page, about 5 different videos i found inamongst ramjac's favourite's...
by then nippy had come in and then K also, they were about to start teaching the afternoon session, me & nippy getting on better now which is good...
so i got on my bike and began to head home but i realised i wanted be out in the sun, reading, i also remembered that i would pass the opticians...
because last saturday i bought some more contact lenses and didn't have my card with me and promised to pay on monday... and on wednesday i had a nagging feeling i was supposed to have done something...?
so anyway, by the time i was cycling past it today i'd remembered and i popped in to rectify... then over the road to hang out in highbury fields where i kicked off my shoes, lay down on the grass in the sun and read from living in time by palden jenkins, which i'm really enjoying, tying together the zodiac and the movement/appearance of the moon, the quarter & cross-quarter days which i first read about over on deoxy, mike nichols telling a good story...
then up to manolis's for a little food and more reading, him on good form...
since getting home i've cuddled with my dinah and worked on a new tune... i've got my keyboard plugged in to the computer and the B4 organ plugin is just gorgeous, found a slightly spooky chord sequence and i've been mucking around with that for what could well be hours and hours...
so now, to feed the cat and then go off to get some shopping to feed me & dinah..
a shabbat meal awaits us but it's a little way off yet x
the first hour i was just where i'd been teaching, stooging around on the net, firstly i listened to all the tracks that i've got on my CM page, then, to the track on yimkin's CM page, about 5 different videos i found inamongst ramjac's favourite's...
by then nippy had come in and then K also, they were about to start teaching the afternoon session, me & nippy getting on better now which is good...
so i got on my bike and began to head home but i realised i wanted be out in the sun, reading, i also remembered that i would pass the opticians...
because last saturday i bought some more contact lenses and didn't have my card with me and promised to pay on monday... and on wednesday i had a nagging feeling i was supposed to have done something...?
so anyway, by the time i was cycling past it today i'd remembered and i popped in to rectify... then over the road to hang out in highbury fields where i kicked off my shoes, lay down on the grass in the sun and read from living in time by palden jenkins, which i'm really enjoying, tying together the zodiac and the movement/appearance of the moon, the quarter & cross-quarter days which i first read about over on deoxy, mike nichols telling a good story...
then up to manolis's for a little food and more reading, him on good form...
since getting home i've cuddled with my dinah and worked on a new tune... i've got my keyboard plugged in to the computer and the B4 organ plugin is just gorgeous, found a slightly spooky chord sequence and i've been mucking around with that for what could well be hours and hours...
so now, to feed the cat and then go off to get some shopping to feed me & dinah..
a shabbat meal awaits us but it's a little way off yet x
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
words
looking back i realise that this obsession with video has reduced my words quite a lot recently...
that last post, irritated by youtube, testing out googlevideo... showing you 2 versions of the same video i showed you in the post before...
sorry about that...
and i don't even have many words right now either,
my improvisation is uploading - did it yesterday, me & dinah went round to W(floopy)shaman & T's last night to celebrate 1st of may and W doused for my birth time, a crucial piece of information for astrology which my mum has only a vague notion of...
so today i'm armed with a chart and it spins my head a little, but i've read some of what it means, the fact that i have saturn square with pluto is interesting, reading what that should mean and finding it true in my personality, i have a few squares which are tricky and a grand trine which is easy...
astrology ahoy, i'll be delving more into that with time,
time that i really don't have right now, worked this morning and i dashed home to get a couple of things ready and now i'm dashing out to work again, although this afternoon's lesson won't be too taxing...
x
that last post, irritated by youtube, testing out googlevideo... showing you 2 versions of the same video i showed you in the post before...
sorry about that...
and i don't even have many words right now either,
my improvisation is uploading - did it yesterday, me & dinah went round to W(floopy)shaman & T's last night to celebrate 1st of may and W doused for my birth time, a crucial piece of information for astrology which my mum has only a vague notion of...
so today i'm armed with a chart and it spins my head a little, but i've read some of what it means, the fact that i have saturn square with pluto is interesting, reading what that should mean and finding it true in my personality, i have a few squares which are tricky and a grand trine which is easy...
astrology ahoy, i'll be delving more into that with time,
time that i really don't have right now, worked this morning and i dashed home to get a couple of things ready and now i'm dashing out to work again, although this afternoon's lesson won't be too taxing...
x
Sunday, April 29, 2007
comparison between youtube & googlevideo
the audio and the video not matching in the youtube version does irritate me... so i uploaded exactly the same file to googlevideo and it works perfectly...
?
Saturday, April 28, 2007
me & balthazara playing piano + dawn project 7
the middle 4 minutes of this weeks improvisation... the audio and the video not sitting together right... which is irritating, not my end i don't think, youtube being typically rubbish, but that's where the audience is...
oh to have this vain notion that i want to be popular on youtube and for youtube to be so shaky...
oh well,
watched a program about robyn hitchcock last night on BBC4 and i was delighted to see Gillian Welch & David Rawlings being interviewed... robyn hitchcock was interesting but not always to my taste... anyway the program finished and i'd finished my wine by now, dinah asleep curled up against me and to my surprise there was a BBC4 session featuring gillian welch & david rawlings straight after...
i was in heaven, they did a song i'd never heard before - title something like "what you made" - and a killer version of revelator...
heaven on a stick x
Friday, April 27, 2007
week 45 longcat piano, voice & cat improvisation
from yesterday morning, with balthazara joining me x
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
sunshine
once again i'm not working and it's beautiful but unhealthy for the bank balance...
i'm about to off to manolis's where i'll eat my repast and then spski will meet me there and we'll pop over the road to see sunshine @ the holly O...
listening to lakshmi shankar which is a joy...
my practise of overtone singing to a drone continues and coincides with teaching about scales in the last couple of weeks and finding an indian mode called bhairov, 1st in a lesson, one of my students had it written down... then in the book harmonic experience which i'm working through at the moment...
then in the track listing for lakshmi shankar's the hours and the seasons...
anyway, must dash, beautiful things are afoot...
(and dinah is at this... - click on towser TV)
x
i'm about to off to manolis's where i'll eat my repast and then spski will meet me there and we'll pop over the road to see sunshine @ the holly O...
listening to lakshmi shankar which is a joy...
my practise of overtone singing to a drone continues and coincides with teaching about scales in the last couple of weeks and finding an indian mode called bhairov, 1st in a lesson, one of my students had it written down... then in the book harmonic experience which i'm working through at the moment...
then in the track listing for lakshmi shankar's the hours and the seasons...
anyway, must dash, beautiful things are afoot...
(and dinah is at this... - click on towser TV)
x
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
dawn project videoblog week 6 a little late
i just noticed i hadn't made this and it's almost time for week 7, so here it is, week 6, last thursday, very bleary eyed... x
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Friday, April 20, 2007
andrew hill
this week's improvisation is rendering and i was pootling around on the web where i found out that andrew hill died today... this morning...
very sad, genius piano player he was, in the offcenter not quite free still jazz world...
had i known i would have mentioned him in the improvisation, which i recorded against a drone a few hours ago...
i brought my copy of harmonic experience into work on tuesday to read a quote from it (which i didn't get round to in the lesson) and i was talking with y1mk1n about it afterwards and it struck me that maybe after all this time now would be the right time to start the singing practise it asks for...
i bought it years ago, back when me & P were together, she spilt nightlight candle wax over one of the pages the night she moved into the squat near waterlow park, a huge wind was blowing and her room was right at the top of this immense block... i was scared the roof would come in or something...
i'd just received the book through the post, $45... i'd met with D the D shortly before then and he'd told me about it...
anyway i read through th first section fairly quickly and skipped the exercises but at the end of that section the writer advices not to proceed until doing the singing exercises, so i held off, and held off...
over two years later and i might get round to doing it...
we just had a brief power cut which set my rendering improvisation back an hour or so, so not there yet...
bless andrew hill, what have i got to hand by him...?
x
very sad, genius piano player he was, in the offcenter not quite free still jazz world...
had i known i would have mentioned him in the improvisation, which i recorded against a drone a few hours ago...
i brought my copy of harmonic experience into work on tuesday to read a quote from it (which i didn't get round to in the lesson) and i was talking with y1mk1n about it afterwards and it struck me that maybe after all this time now would be the right time to start the singing practise it asks for...
i bought it years ago, back when me & P were together, she spilt nightlight candle wax over one of the pages the night she moved into the squat near waterlow park, a huge wind was blowing and her room was right at the top of this immense block... i was scared the roof would come in or something...
i'd just received the book through the post, $45... i'd met with D the D shortly before then and he'd told me about it...
anyway i read through th first section fairly quickly and skipped the exercises but at the end of that section the writer advices not to proceed until doing the singing exercises, so i held off, and held off...
over two years later and i might get round to doing it...
we just had a brief power cut which set my rendering improvisation back an hour or so, so not there yet...
bless andrew hill, what have i got to hand by him...?
x
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
shops in slippers
i hadn't made it out of the house all day and i was strolling to the shops to get some halloumi for tonights meal and i was wearing slippers...
i'd noticed just before i left the house and i hadn't ever done it before so i wondered what it's like... i now know what it's like to go the shops in slippers...
anyway, i was coming back, with the halloumi, rubbing at my eye in that hayfeverish way and my left contact lens came out and tumbled to the ground...
so i've just been down in the kitchen, somewhat complicatedly washing my lenses, putting them in 2 glasses, washing the container in boiling water, and transferring the lenses to the now clean container...
all to the not distant enough sound of one of my least favourite housemates practising voice movement therapy in the bath... much howling and singing at the top of her voice, a voice i don't really like listening to at a normal volume...
a touch of gillian welch now before going downstairs to eat our meal...
a strangely creative day i've had...
my last free day before returning to work tomorrow...
x
i'd noticed just before i left the house and i hadn't ever done it before so i wondered what it's like... i now know what it's like to go the shops in slippers...
anyway, i was coming back, with the halloumi, rubbing at my eye in that hayfeverish way and my left contact lens came out and tumbled to the ground...
so i've just been down in the kitchen, somewhat complicatedly washing my lenses, putting them in 2 glasses, washing the container in boiling water, and transferring the lenses to the now clean container...
all to the not distant enough sound of one of my least favourite housemates practising voice movement therapy in the bath... much howling and singing at the top of her voice, a voice i don't really like listening to at a normal volume...
a touch of gillian welch now before going downstairs to eat our meal...
a strangely creative day i've had...
my last free day before returning to work tomorrow...
x
Sunday, April 15, 2007
quakerquest
ok, so we laughed at an advert in timeout a week or so ago... maybe longer...
and we decided to make the advert... as a video...
and i was round W(floopy)shaman's earlier with dinah and we sang the closing part...
just fiddling around with it while she & he play hogs of war...
i'm going round there in a little while with the finished product for the grand preview.. on a real TV...
today i also did a version of a film i made a little while back... because in my improvisation yesterday i was reminded of how much i love the vibrato on my rhodes and the extreme effect this can make...
so this eerie film now has an eerie sound track to it...
i love it...
film making is so my thing these days...
oh... and while i'm at it, click on the picture below to subscribe to my youtube channel... it would make me happy... go on...:
and we decided to make the advert... as a video...
and i was round W(floopy)shaman's earlier with dinah and we sang the closing part...
just fiddling around with it while she & he play hogs of war...
i'm going round there in a little while with the finished product for the grand preview.. on a real TV...
today i also did a version of a film i made a little while back... because in my improvisation yesterday i was reminded of how much i love the vibrato on my rhodes and the extreme effect this can make...
so this eerie film now has an eerie sound track to it...
i love it...
film making is so my thing these days...
oh... and while i'm at it, click on the picture below to subscribe to my youtube channel... it would make me happy... go on...:
Saturday, April 14, 2007
week 43
recorded early evening on friday, before a wonderful evening of debauchery with the watts...
one of those late nights where it makes sense to go film the moon @ 6 in the morning x
Friday, April 13, 2007
she's wise
i came in 20 minutes ago and i had her on my lap...purring away...
but when dinah came in it became clear that something was up and she scarpered...
so now she's outside... i've locked the catflap to only let her in and we have a small window of opportunity when she next comes in, she's already suspicious but if she tries to leave again and realises she can't it's going to be more difficult...
---
ok, well that was alright... she came in nosed about a bit, i tried to ignore her, she seemed nonchalant enough but i couldn't get to her in time and she did try and get out...
but it turned out ok... i picked her up with her being all i don't like this... and dinah put the stuff on her neck... we're done...
one hour before she's allowed out again and 24 hours without going in the rest of the house...
and a couple of days before she loves me again... oh well... she was really lovely this afternoon when i was napping...
x
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
no moon - new series
finally turned off my alarm this morning @ 5:56 am...
it would have been 15 minutes past by the time i got up to the park and got the camera ready...
so i stayed in bed.. beating myself up...
not sure what to do... just to take the 4 shots i have and call it a day... carry on having messed the order up...?
i suspect my getting out of bed at 5:15 are over for now...
irritating but better for my sleep...
and i was reminded today of the great song by shelby lynne: black light blue...
and learnt how to play/sing it and started a new series today, youtube based: other people's tunes...
so black light blue is now uploading as no. 1 in that series...
and me, dinah & spski watched double indemnity this afternoon on film4 and it was great...
x
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
too bright moon
a perfectly clear sky this morning with the moon blazing away, a little too bright to be honest... but beautiful none-the-less...
it's such a wierd and beautiful thing to be doing...
pre-dawn... great time...
tomorrow i've got my year-long dawn project 2 & a half hours after the moon shoot so for the first time i'm going to stay awake directly after the moon shoot...
tempted to stay where i've been filming the moon, turn the camera the other way and video the sunrise... without the direct sun... i bought another couple of miniDV tapes today so i have the space...
but how long after 6 will the sun rise?
6:30 according to voyager... the software Wfloopy(shaman) put me onto for mapping out where celestial bodies will be at any time...
so 30 more minutes in that cold?
maybe it's time to break out the flask...
ok, anyway, i'm off to check out the marks in the concrete for the dawn project, set up the shot with this different camera & tripod that i'm using, then i hope me & dinah are going to see inland empire on an orange wednesday in a little while..
x
it's such a wierd and beautiful thing to be doing...
pre-dawn... great time...
tomorrow i've got my year-long dawn project 2 & a half hours after the moon shoot so for the first time i'm going to stay awake directly after the moon shoot...
tempted to stay where i've been filming the moon, turn the camera the other way and video the sunrise... without the direct sun... i bought another couple of miniDV tapes today so i have the space...
but how long after 6 will the sun rise?
6:30 according to voyager... the software Wfloopy(shaman) put me onto for mapping out where celestial bodies will be at any time...
so 30 more minutes in that cold?
maybe it's time to break out the flask...
ok, anyway, i'm off to check out the marks in the concrete for the dawn project, set up the shot with this different camera & tripod that i'm using, then i hope me & dinah are going to see inland empire on an orange wednesday in a little while..
x
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
moonless
i was cycling up to where i shoot from @ around ten to 6 and i looked behind me to check the moon was there and it was hanging in the sky, partly covered in cloud, looking beautiful...
as i set up the camera the moon quite quickly got swallowed up by the cloud that was in fact covering most of the western sky...
so i shot my video @ 6 with no moon to look at...
so that's not particularly hopeful... it had been an amazingly clear night before the first morning of filming and the sky was empty... it didn't take much cloud cover to knock out the moon this morning...
but we'll see... i'll do it at least until thursday when i'll be doing the dawn project several hours later... if i don't get another moon tomorrow or thursday then it's not worth doing...
that first shot from yesterday... slowly zooming out, with the sounds of the birds and the occasional train... and the moon, red and full in the middle...
that's what it's about...
x
as i set up the camera the moon quite quickly got swallowed up by the cloud that was in fact covering most of the western sky...
so i shot my video @ 6 with no moon to look at...
so that's not particularly hopeful... it had been an amazingly clear night before the first morning of filming and the sky was empty... it didn't take much cloud cover to knock out the moon this morning...
but we'll see... i'll do it at least until thursday when i'll be doing the dawn project several hours later... if i don't get another moon tomorrow or thursday then it's not worth doing...
that first shot from yesterday... slowly zooming out, with the sounds of the birds and the occasional train... and the moon, red and full in the middle...
that's what it's about...
x
Monday, April 02, 2007
1st morning done
i didn't see the sun rise, but i saw the full moon set, red against the lightening sky, in fact it faded before it hit the horizon...
i settled for a weird, almost industrial place for the filming, in finsbury park, close to where the disused meets the park...
i cycled out of the house @ 5 and checked out a few possible spots but i'd been to the park earlier on and i'd noticed that this particular place had a good west view... back then i didn't know i wanted to look west... so i didn't waste much time looking elsewhere and in fact i knew where i wanted to shoot from @ 5:15am, 45 minutes early...
so i went and got myself a kitkat and a lucezade in the absence of a hot baigle, the happening baigle bakery not being 24 hours as i thought it was... shame...
the dawn project has that cafe right by it and i could so use a cafe right by the moon project, but it's not to be, not at that time in the morning anyway... maybe the flask that dinah got me for christmas...?
i'm tempted to also film the moon rising tonight, but i'm not up for filming every moonrise in this 2 week period, not with getting up for the 6 am shot as well, the moon rises @ 7:50pm tonight, 2:50am in a week, 6:30am the week after... the moon sure does have crazy hours when looked at from our sun based time...
so maybe i'll do the next couple of nights moonrise but certainly not the 2 week thing...
this morning in bed, getting the few hours i was getting, dinah woke really disturbed and needed calming, this 6am shot is going to be weird enough, filming moonrises is a job for a single person...
i settled for a weird, almost industrial place for the filming, in finsbury park, close to where the disused meets the park...
i cycled out of the house @ 5 and checked out a few possible spots but i'd been to the park earlier on and i'd noticed that this particular place had a good west view... back then i didn't know i wanted to look west... so i didn't waste much time looking elsewhere and in fact i knew where i wanted to shoot from @ 5:15am, 45 minutes early...
so i went and got myself a kitkat and a lucezade in the absence of a hot baigle, the happening baigle bakery not being 24 hours as i thought it was... shame...
the dawn project has that cafe right by it and i could so use a cafe right by the moon project, but it's not to be, not at that time in the morning anyway... maybe the flask that dinah got me for christmas...?
i'm tempted to also film the moon rising tonight, but i'm not up for filming every moonrise in this 2 week period, not with getting up for the 6 am shot as well, the moon rises @ 7:50pm tonight, 2:50am in a week, 6:30am the week after... the moon sure does have crazy hours when looked at from our sun based time...
so maybe i'll do the next couple of nights moonrise but certainly not the 2 week thing...
this morning in bed, getting the few hours i was getting, dinah woke really disturbed and needed calming, this 6am shot is going to be weird enough, filming moonrises is a job for a single person...
full moon
and lo, it became clear to me that this 2 week film project should be about the moon...
because it's easter...
a 2 week break from teaching centred on easter sunday, which is always on the 1st sunday after the 1st full moon after the spring equinox...
so i realised today that this means in the week before easter there will always be a full moon...
and so close to the equinox (well, a week or so) with the moon being full that means the moon & the sun are pretty much at opposite ends of the planet right now, so when the sun rises the moon sets and vice versa... the equinox giving us a fairly close night / day ratio...
so i'm staying awake until 6 when i'll be out there somewhere filming the moon pretty close to the horizon, then @ 6 every morning for 2 weeks,
the moon will be moving quite alot in that space of time...
from almost due west this morning to almost due east in 2 weeks...
a challenge catch it...
then i'll get a few hours sleep, getting up when dinah does around 10, my body will hate me for that after this 1st shock it should be fairly easy setting up the rising @ 5:15 am routine that i'll be doing every day...
then two weeks of that and i'll be set that way...
i still love my improvisation from thursday... i'll be glad of my shuffle out there on the streets when this tea is drunk...
x
because it's easter...
a 2 week break from teaching centred on easter sunday, which is always on the 1st sunday after the 1st full moon after the spring equinox...
so i realised today that this means in the week before easter there will always be a full moon...
and so close to the equinox (well, a week or so) with the moon being full that means the moon & the sun are pretty much at opposite ends of the planet right now, so when the sun rises the moon sets and vice versa... the equinox giving us a fairly close night / day ratio...
so i'm staying awake until 6 when i'll be out there somewhere filming the moon pretty close to the horizon, then @ 6 every morning for 2 weeks,
the moon will be moving quite alot in that space of time...
from almost due west this morning to almost due east in 2 weeks...
a challenge catch it...
then i'll get a few hours sleep, getting up when dinah does around 10, my body will hate me for that after this 1st shock it should be fairly easy setting up the rising @ 5:15 am routine that i'll be doing every day...
then two weeks of that and i'll be set that way...
i still love my improvisation from thursday... i'll be glad of my shuffle out there on the streets when this tea is drunk...
x
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