how a sailing ship works

not maybe something i thought would've tweaked my interest when i was young but ever since i saw the vasa in stockholm away back when i do love me a sailing ship! 

rembrandt's prints

 i love these how this was done videos! 

byung-chul han

been doing a fair bit of reading of byung-chul han recently. the burnout society i've seen described as a good basic primer but, for me, i'd say psychopolitics is a better place to start. further, i've seen criticism of him that his books really don't progress, don't rea;;y say anything particularly different from one another. at this stage, i'd have to say i'm inclined to agree but that said, psychopolitics in particular, i've really enjoyed reading him

philip guston

 nice wee doco on philip guston 

pj harvey

pj harvey - without doubt one of the finest english musicians working today. what a joy seeing her do tiny desk 

and i like her so much, here's more. one of the old classics but performed as she is now, not repeating what she did then. love it all! 

vinyl

 old school mixing. ideal for mindless work round the house! 

barniz de pasto cabinet

 v&a delivers again! this was all new information to me! 

tetrapack printing

 there's a couple of things i'd take issue with in this. i think the dark stripes are done with a method she's not shown, i wouldn't apply ink with my bare hands - you'll get coloured fingers and you're asking for trouble with your paper, and i definitely wouldn't even try the spatula method! mainly because it's time consuming, your pressures will never be even, it'll compress your printing surface, and i just don't think it'll work. other than that, solid vid 

and, obvs, i'd be circumspect about tracing someone else's image!

chung sang-hwa

 insight into chung sag-hwa's process 

the madness of max

 more australian documentary (and just a bit of spanish practice!) 

chiharu shiota

 beautiful. but if cats get in there..... 

blood and thunder - the sound of alberts

 really good doco about australian rock music back in the day 

pinhole

 another vid about doing pinhole photography. and why not! lol 

midori takada

 sublime

ansel adams

 old school doco on ansel adams - who plays his own piano! 

papa jo jones

 massive skills! 

armour

 old school craft! lol 

the etruscans

 a documentary for sunday....

bad brains

it's a mystery to me quite why i never got to see bad brains when i was living my new york life, let alone at cbgbs which, while not my favourite venue, i was certainly at on a not irregular basis. i think the first thing i bought by them was a cassette of rock for light and i've never quite got over it. 

ando glaso

 i was out seeing this lot last night. a joy! 

tho it has to be said i was lucky if, during the romanian songs, i recognised more than three words! and, the only song i did recognise, it's been so long i couldn't remember either its title or how to sing along or the words (bulgarian), despite knowing it really well back when i was listening to such things.

but excellent to see the roma community here making themselves and their culture felt

drum practice

along with balance board etc i think that coordination is something that needs practice, particularly as age kicks in. i'm fortunate that i have my cajon to play with but a drum pad is super handy also 

drumming

 am going through a percussion phase and really enjoying watching drummers at work on drumeo. i;ve particularly liked these two - 

very different styles of drummer but, rather than get bogged down in genre, it's just great to see proper musicians at work

dr najeeb

 i don't do much in the way of teaching these days but if i was going to dr najeeb would be my first stop as the litmus paper of finding out if i knew what i was talking about, it's a joy that he appears in my algorithm. a delight to listen to 

ana luisa negrao

i know a flat zero about contemporary dance but i do know what bendiness is and, if i ever had it, it's long vanished. if i had my time over it's the one thing i'd like to have done. i knew, in my early teens, that dance was something amazing having seen, i think, nureyev doing some sort of solo routine, but any notion that i'd do the same was thoroughly ridiculed out of me. to be honest, i don't think things have improved that much. so thank you ana luisa negrao. for taking something that's lovely and a mystery to me, and smashing it out of the park. sublime 

hinault

 what a legend 

ufo

this was my personal favourite from back in the day. couldn't make any sense of the series then or now but loved eberything else about it. string vests in submarines? why not! lol 

barry gray info here

space 1999

 a different time for tv music! 

and there's more... 

cyanotype

 i've had cyanotype on my horizon for a little while and this is a decent wee vid about how to start with prints. i'm not sure i can be bothered with the faff of photoshop, printers and transparencies but that's likely to do with my luddite tendencies!

that said, outwith a uv lamp if you live in duller climes, there's plenty to get creative with, without needing to use transparencies 

william blake's printing

 what a brilliant thing to get into! i remember a time, going to vienna years ago and not having previously been taken with the wake of egon schiele, sitting in the leopold museum (?) thinking, i could draw like that. then picking up my sketchbook and altering my process immediately. and still, if i'm feeling i can't make up my mind what to do, copying a schiele is just a lovely wait to settle my mind and go off at a tangent. this guy, tho, takes it to a whole other level! 

michael phillips again. same thing but more detail. and close ups! 

slavoj zizek

there's no better example of binary thinking, coupled with appalling human cost, than palestine israel. i wouldn't know how to make a comment nor, these days, would it be wise to do so on this or so many other issues that have dissolved into binary positioning. fortunately slavoj zizek is here for that. 

*that doesn't mean he gets a free pass on his references!