July 21, 2002
Great Cumbrae is a very strange place indeed
This week I have had a few days off. We spent a couple of days visiting the island of Great Cumbrae. Great Cumbrae is a tiny island (you can drive round it in less than 20 minutes) - the only town Millport is like a throw back to the seventies - because there are very few cars on the island you can always park and the sea front reminded me of Tom Phillips paintings. The island is full of wildlife - driving round one morning just after nine o'clock the road was overrun with rabbits - I saw a huge range of birds including a very large bird of prey. Worth a visit but only a short one.
Its been nice to spend a few days away from work and to see Milo when we are both awake. I have managed to get quite a lot of video clips edited up - still got a lot to learn but I am getting happier with my results. I am going to attempt to put together a video for one of my tracks at some point when I am a bit more confident with the whole thing. I have also managed to do (a very little) bit of music which is quite good - the problem being the only time I have to myself is when everyone else is asleep and I don't like working on headphones.
Media wise - well worth checking out is A tree full of monkeys (Real player needed) - a collaboration between Simon Armitage (poet) and :Zoviet*France:. Music and Poetry is suprisingly difficult to do right and alarmingly easy to do wrong. This piece gets it very right indeed - Simon Armitage allows his poetry to fall more into a song structure and ZF keep the atmosphere working. All in all a very good piece of work indeed.
I must make a mention of The Fold Gallery run by my friends Mr Steve and his wife Richeldis (Mrs Steve :-)). A well designed site with lots of interesting content and if you are in Kirby Stephen I would recomend a vist.
Posted by Mark at July 21, 2002 11:58 PM