light reading

recently ive been thinking about some of the more light hearted sides of the systems we take for granted so for anyone bothering to read this (both of you) i have an idea, one of the fundments of physics is that nothing moves faster than the speed of light, it is a constant and to go faster would require an infinate amount of energy to accelerate any mass above 0. Are shadows faster than light? They get everywhere before light. they have a mass of 0 but clearly exist and as such do not require an infinate source of energy to make them go faster than light. They are a sum total of nothing but an infinate amount of nothing compared to a restricted amount and speed of light. So the question then is...
Is nothing faster than something?

this guy i know is friends with russell crows brother

here is the long awaited online debut of Team Chaps cinematic, majestic and plain dispicable film.

enjoy.



oh and for any one getting into the halloween mood, check out this video by jan svankmajer


oh and it is real i'm afraid
"The Sedlec Ossuary, located in a small suburb of Kutna Hora in the Czech Republic, was built in the 14th century on the grounds of a noted cemetary to store the bones of roughly 40,000 people killed by the plague and various religious wars. At first the bones were simply stacked inside the church. But in 1870, a woodcarver named Frantisek Rint was charged with bringing order to the chaos. Rather than simply rearrange the bones, he used them to decorate the church and to fashion its furnishings. The large chandelier in the center of the chapel contains every bone in the human body. Rint’s signature, in bone, adorns one of the walls."

Mapping project.

Recently ive been thinking alot about invisibility.
Social, personal, global and its posibilities.
When we were doing the mapping project it just sort of struck me while watching the street, I cant see radio waves or wind or gravity, i only know they exist by the effects they cause- i know (or rather it is thought that) we are all made of subatomic particals which are asumed to be in order or in a state of chaos, but we cant see any of these systems.

When i realised i was the most forgetable member of the class (my name wasnt even in the hat) i started thinking about how to manufacture invisibility. during the group performance stuff i was taking note of the monologue in my head about how i was avoiding the gaze of the group.

I don't know if co-incidence is the word but saturday is the one year aniversary of the first (confirmed) invisibility cloak

Although- and heres the science part, given the correct conditions and alignment of atoms it is possible on a subatomic level light can pass through normal matter whilst the odds of every molecule in a human body being in this particular state are infinately improbable given an infinate amount of time this scenario will inevitably play out, so (via the miasma of quantum theory) this may or may not have already happened or be presently happening.

or its all just an INSANELY complex mind-fuck. whatever floats your boat.

The other issue here is perception- the eyes play tricks so why trust them?
Vision is a response to a stimulus not a reality all we see is reflections of light bouncing off what we assume are objects- colour is non existant it is a construsted system of understanding that some surfaces reflect light at different frequencies than others... so where does this leave the colour blind, or in the extreme the fully blind? what would a blind man take pictures of?



that was all a bit serious wasn't it?

i'll finish on a joke.... Two bee keepers are in a bar, "wow ive had a hard day, lots to do! ive got to look after ten thousand bees spread out over eight hives in an acare of prime flower beds, and i mean prime flowers from three continents in there. Takes some serious effort to keep them in bloom", "wow" says the other keeper "Well ive got a million bees.." slightly shocked the other keeper replies "christ thats tough how many hives is that?!"......."One..Fuck 'em theyre just bees"

hugs A.x

today is tommorow is today

ive been neglecting the picture side of this blog a bit so heres some pretties.

lets start with some stuff from skye



ill put them all up on flikr once i get my black and whites processed

for those of you not privy to the premier screening of our short epic last week here is a taste of things to come- it'll be up on youtube soon enough.

here's something i made when i was not in the most profesional mindset

sorry...... i'm really sorry

unrelated realy but if ever you could sum up me and my good pal andys relationship in one picture it would be this one-

tells a thousand words.

more posts soon

Video project

It has been a hellova week. ive seen things that made my eyes bleed, ive swam with sharks, ive had another mans head near my loins and we've made a film which premiers tommorow. I would feel really bad about giving the plot away but no-body reads this anyways so here goes....

Myself, Will and the long-suffering Richard have crafted a peice of contemporary cinema which can only be summed up in the word "Balls". It is the after they were famous story of Salvador Dali and Marcell Duchamp, after the wave of surrealism dries up they are left as unloved dejected hobbos trying to eek out a living in Glasgow. There are some wonderfully poetic scenes alongside alcohol abuse, jazz kazoo, pipe smoking, rampant transvestism and (where we spent the entirety of our budget) narration by Morgan Freeman.

For paramount issues of international copyright and piracy it shall be posted in its majesty after the premier

TOODLES!!!!X

back from skye

triumphant return... fear the forthcoming wrath.....once i get some sleep