rufford pictures from Sunday :)
here are some pics taken with Urban Revolution this Sunday
images from light night TRACE installation
less than a week to go…. picking up the pace….
well it’s snowing….. so my plan now is to just resign to the elements and build loads of snowmen if that’s all we can do :D
This week has been really eventful…. met up with DILK and we visited the TRACE site to share ideas about his graffiti piece …. my thinking is to create a stop frame animation of him painting. DILK will be down at the site during this week and completing the finishing touches on Friday during the event.
Rufford shoot this week was great – tho we did finally get rained off…. The site has lots to offer – completely different from anywhere else – and instead of dead pigeons as the back drop we’ve got stunning English Heritage buildings and the crumbling abbey… Look out for these images which are being exhibited at Rufford in March.
Following a quick presentation of my work at Broadway Media Centre at their ‘Show and Tell‘ event on Thursday, I headed off for the finale TRACE shoot with Will, Sean. JP and Alex…. and so
…ending what has been the most amazing TRACE road trip (phase 1) was our visit to an epic city centre roof top! The THE THE most inspiring space to play and take images…. getting to this location in itself ignites adrenaline – and once up there…. walking/jumping on top of large open rooftops and in and out of different levels – the feeling is just magic! can’t wait to work on these images and share them.
Other news…. Antenna are up for hosting an exhibition of my work either in April or May, which is really nice follow on from the project, and importantly a chance for me to see my work printed up – which is really important after seeing everything on screens or projected….
So a week to go… lots to do ….. sleepless nights I’m sure …… I CAN’T WAIT!
TRACE freerunning film festival: call for submissions
Broadway Media Centre will be hosting a debut TRACE freerunning film festival on march 25th 2012.
Follow this link for details of how to submit a film: don’t miss out!
Deadline 1st March
submission details for freerunning film festival
coming to a cinema near you… well sort of.
the last few weeks have been pretty varied in terms of locations for TRACE. Just this week we headed into a central internal building site inside Nottingham’s shopping centre… 4 floors of abandoned retail unit… just dust, bricks, columns n the odd headless mannequin, the site felt like it had a hopeless future!
still we ran around it, jumped off the walls n created some dust clouds…. also we’ve entered into a city centre labrinth of concrete, vast spaces once housing and entertaining thousands of viewers… (say no more)… tonight we’re off to Rufford Abbey for some tree jumping and freerunning in what promises to be icy and cold conditions…. can’t wait.
choo choo …
this week we entered into the wonderful world of decaying train carriages… WOWEEE…. we were very lucky to arrive at the site at dusk, with the most stunning clear sky, orange sun set backdrop.
The stars began to appear whist we all just explored… instant fun, instant playfulness, just an endless resource of imagery… hard to begin.
Here are just a couple of images to share… (more to follow)…
2012 – a good start so far!
Well the great news is that TRACE has been funded by Arts Council England! This fund is supporting all of the visits to locations, PR, event performances and tech! VERY VERY VERY good news!
The first few weeks of 2012 have been crazy busy and a schedule of 12 locations for shoots has been arranged to include a train carriage ‘grave yard’ near Loughborough, and abandoned hospital, courtrooms (2nd visit), a couple of cinemas and a boarded up fire station… ooooo very exciting!
Tom Hill has started recording sonic works for TRACE, which is great, and Alex Gilhams’ slow shutter speed film snippets are coming together!
Also plans are now arranged for a post event group trip to PARIS – hurrah!
too much to think about…. too much to curate …. too little sleep…. too much fun! happy new year!
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