newcapenanonew

another cape video - the possibilites are endless - so here is the last cape video (for the moment).

evolvingcapework

working on the cape images for the next nano cape film - a busy week of teaching presentations at Camberwell include http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/finishedness-0712-12 - http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/context-audience-understanding- -2013 - http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/context-audience-understanding2014 meanwhile a weekend of watching films - Terrence Malick's - Knight of Cups - the first 15 mins....oh dear - then after a much needed realignment and 'settling in' it evolved into a wonderful soulless meditation of drifting damaged people - everything you hate about it is the point of it. 45 Years - studied loss - stillness whilst shuffling around Norfolk. Diary of a Teenage Girl - a sad, creepy search for life's meaning - so wrong but beautifully constructed. Spotlight - a dark period in the history of the Catholic Church! the latest work for OCA is going well with an evening spent exploring context and developing relationships to making and audiences and at NUA assessments are ongoing.

nanocapeandhistory

The film has become nano cape - its the first iteration that includes
some of the ideas that have informed the ideas that led up to the designs on
the capes - the google sketch up work, film from castle museum in Norwich residency,
and live film of the lazer cut textiles from the Summer. Meanwhile its
assessment time at NUA with presentations and rooms of work to look at - the potential
for wonderfulness is all around - it will be interesting to see what the next coming
months bring. A film to watch but not if you're feeling squeamish. The Revenant is a truly beautifully brutal
film - hours of grunting, sweat, blood, dirt, cold and snow alongside the force
of nature accompanied by a soundtrack that becomes a main character in the
action.

capecapecapefilm

the first draft - first rough draft / layer of latest video. cape imagery created from work with nano scientists in Cambridge.  Images - Les Bicknell and Bob Bicknell Knight. film created from still images. models Jim, Evie, Bob and Jayne.

mirroredisbest

playing with the cape images - everything looks good mirrored! - and then theres some more films - Steve Jobs - managed to make behind the scenes at a product launch tense - then the film is really about people and their relationships with each other - the launches are a great device to explore the apple story and Fassbinder is frightenly good. Bridge of Spies - Tom Hanks is 'block buster believable' in this Spielberg cold war fantasy until the last 'memory train ride' but Mark Rylance understated spy steals the show.. Trumbo - yet again America navel gazes its values and comes up poorly - American Values. Snowpiercer - nonsense.

filmcapefilmgamefilm

a break but also a busy time finishing off the capes and photographing them in a number of photoshoots - am in the middle of learning new software to make a film comprised of the stills created - also managed to see some films - Star Wars - most excellent - it felt at times like a supercharged remake of the first (which isn't such a bad thing, or is it? It's at its best when the camera is observing space, following flying machines, watching stuff get blown up, shot and also looking at landscapes. Lobster - a straining tragic portrayal of the disconnective connectedness of society - a beautiful parable for this internet age- like! Big Short - a dark film about how the banks created a virtue out of greed whose style feels like something new - a hybrid - a docu-mocku-post-meta - informed by our experience of using the internet and how we engage with it including a montage found footage, infomercials and complex ideas delivered to camera by celebrities - wondrous. Anomalisa the 'puppet film' by Charlie Kaufman - just plain astoundingly odd, in a good way. Finally if you haven't already you have to get into the gut wrenching embarrassing train wreck that is Nathan for you - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2297757/ after binge watching some (every episode) I would recommend starting with smokers allowed http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5199634/?ref_=ttep_ep5 this episode twists and turns so that the 'joke' or focus eventually questions every aspect of an idea, nobody and nothing is safe, especially your own brain - all through Nathan's layered deadpan delivery. You have to see it to really get it! Played beginners guide - a great game - essentially it is a deconstruction of the very idea of gaming - exploring the relationship the gamer has with the game maker through the act of playing - existential crisis all round....

holeswithintheargument

busy working on two strands of work today - first lazer cutting more fabric for the cape photo shoot next week - this time cutting with the pattern in mind - scaling up and also leaving the designs 'holey' - taking into consideration and thinking about the light and shadows I've been working with over the past weeks at the Castle Museum.  second - developing the raw filming into 'something'.  not quite sure what they are or what they are for but excited to be playing with ideas around multiple dialogues through duality - old and new, light and shadow, heavy and light, Islam and Christianity even. 
two tales from and of America - two really excellent films - but for very different reasons - Brooklyn - the emergence of something wonderful, of a burgeoning beautiful possibility http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2381111/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 and Sicario - of bloated madness, a country seemingly at war with everything, even itself. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3397884/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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theenergywaselectric

spent a couple of hours draping the lazer cut bonded fabric over and on a mannequin - pinning it onto a 'body' really gives the idea of what it could be - it has started to look good and the cape is defiantly all go with a hood, just need to start cutting the pattern.

There's a very considered body of work that connects two libraries either side of the Thames - the work by Rick Myers links Somerset House and The Poetry library via the old Waterloo bridge, an experiment that Faraday was involved in is also thrown into the mix - worth a look/listen.

The yellowbluepink mist by Ann Veronica  Janssens at The Welcome Trust is quite disorienting - but  it also feels like a sort of comforting/fluffy white-out on top of a mountain in the Lake District.  After working at BAM I spent the evening at Central St Martin's 3D and XD open studios. I so love Art College, as both an idea and in reality. it was full of superb challenging work and the energy in the building was electric - so friendly conversations - so supportive of the work and the performances - it was excellent to be in a room with a beer in my hand with so many truly wonderfully bad haircuts and people looking gloriously fabulous. my people.