thinkinganddoingandgoingout

after last weekend's excellent Sound City in Ipswich this weekend was The Suffolk short film Festival at Leiston Cinema - (built in 1914) https://www.suffolkshorts.co.uk/. The program was a little bleak - death, Alzheimer's, bullying and more death but/and/so Wonderland, seven and SYLVIA https://sylviafilm.com/ are worth seeking out. This week is busy - Ron Athey at Norwich Art Centre https://norwichartscentre.co.uk/events/acephalous-monster/ Premiere at the Dance House in Ipswich https://www.danceeast.co.uk/watch-a-performance/ and hopefully checking out some shows in London 180 The Strand is on the list along with Mark Lecky's bridge at the Tate. Succession finale was dark with all the players demonstrating why they are so twisted but the final scene was where we were always going so it felt weirdly cathartic. Deep into the brutal Unbelievable - episode one is hard to watch but by three you are into buddy cop dynamics which is an easier territory. Meanwhile working on more folding and articulated structures. Revisiting some of the work created with the robotics department at Kings for Parallel Practices. We had so many starting points that most were never explored so rethinking with new knowledge and after watching Austin's butterfly with students yesterday considering the value of iteration with rules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqh1MRWZjms

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teaching has been good this week so far and its only Tuesday - solid tutorials at Camberwell, supporting the thinking behind the research and a full-on mind warp drawing sound and reading images session at NUA. Tomorrow is Book-Art-Family-Tree-Symposium-1 so we get to hear book story starting points. Working on the presentations for the teaching I'm involved in - Dr Tadashi Tokieda has become my go-to person when thinking about making topology accessible and meanwhile still thinking about Keith Albarn's tessellation  http://patternandbelief.com/

Noel Gallagher on hot ones - it was interesting to see after all the Americans that Englishness was so evident.... dourness and irony to the fore, we really are a different race. Listening to The Rapture an episode of Melvyn Bragg - In Our Time explains a little more why America is like America https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008p2k. In the Shadow of the Moon https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8110640/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1 was a quirky time travel lesson about living in the now.

My experience of Sound City Ipswich had a bad start with Greater Anglia cancelling another train (this is now obviously some form of policy so going to the station has become a sad lottery) But an hour late I managed to see Peaness - soft indi guitar band, Plastic Mermaids - knob twiddling radiohead, Girls of the Internet - excellent samples and dance in the great venue that is the Smokehouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qPU_pWK13o&list=PL0gmWNnsmaDchNuxIU4dcg_TOScpdI5Wg&index=1, Emma-Jane Thackray - a really interesting sound - tight Sun-Ra-afro-beat-reggae-2-tone-house- inspired mournful rock jazz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jle9v6JZzAE, Novelist - ok'ish' grime-lite. meanwhile all this terrible weather and the start of Autumn has got me 1- thinking about the Summer and 2 - planning for next year!!