Stay the Same

  • Clocks for the New Year

    Standard Time is a performance project by Mark Formanek which he has built in different cities. Carefully choreographed builders change a huge wooden digital clock in real time. For more films and information click here. There is also The Human Clock which shows photos people have submitted of the time, in real time. It is…

  • Slighty Misaligned Clocks

    Due to delicate timing of my filming, the light changes significantly during my ten minutes in front of the camera each day and it can look radically different by the time I finish recording. I am always aware of the winter darkness living here, but right now every minute makes a difference. So this is…

  • The Longest Night

    Today is the winter solstice. I am half way through this project! I have taken my camera out, slotted it in to my homemade platform and filmed myself every morning now for 182 days. Only six months to go . . . When I started filming back in June it was getting light at 3am…

  • The Feltron Report

    Nicholas Felton has been recording each years worth experiences in a quite different way. At the end of each year he produces a data report of his life.  They are kind of fascinating in an odd way as you glean odd bits of information to build a picture of his life.  His last report for…

  • #11 Mum & patron saints of obscurity

    Me and my mum have developed a small tradition over the last few years of visiting shrines and sites possibly of pagan origin, often purported to have healing properties, the more obscure the better. We both enjoy the comedy and absurdity in these stories, (I am an atheist and mum a pagan), and the way…

  • #10 Solargraphs

    I have been chatting quite a bit over the last few months to James Holcombe from no.w.here an arts organisation that specialises in experimental projects using 16mm and 8mm film. We are hoping to set up an event/project here in Knoydart for the local community and visiting artists and he mentioned these Solargraphy photographs in…

  • #9 What the locals think

    A few weeks ago I sent a letter to the local community asking for to responses to this project. This caused some confusion as I think people thought I wanted responses to the final film as opposed to the ideas and process behind it, so I sent a few questions as starting points. These included …

  • The Storm

    Thursday was pretty wild. Half an hour after I wrote my last post the 100mph winds really hit and I have never experienced anything like it (it was a bit like being in the Wizard of Oz). It blew for about five hours and all you could do was sit and watch. Within half an…

  • More wind & a small river

    Ha ha! My spirits may have lifted but the weather definitely hasn’t. This is the worst winter I have experienced since moving here! Today the winds are stronger than ever, check out the 100mph gusts in the met office forecast.  So, I literally tethered the tripod down this morning and it worked. Haven’t got as…

  • A Change in the Weather

    So on Saturday, after the tripod nearly blew over (see last post),  I walked around the coast to look at the atlantic ocean. I took some music with me by a few composers I’m considering for the film and sat on a hill top watching the hail storms blow in and clear again. The island…