Fridays

I am well on my way to sorting out my filing issues, and have transferred and archived most of them! Ready to rock and roll with my new computer! Well, that is just a start but a good one because now I'll be able to get going properly with these animations/movies I keep promising.

Last week I went on a course about curating, found it really useful in that it has given me a much better idea of how to go about doing things. I enjoyed meeting new people and having conversations with them. Many of them were also artists.

I have also decided to change the way i do this blog a bit, that is, I will be updating it every Thursday to be ready for Friday, this is much more manageable than trying to do it everyday...don't laugh! I know that I only seem to get to it twice a month! Its just a way of dealing with the guilt and being a bit more reasonable with my expectations. I want to start building a website (have started) so I need to fit that in somewhere too!

Anyway... watch this space and I'll try not to dupe you.

indian ocean

Things seem to be getting back to some kind of normality, that is, I seem to have both the time and the focus to post something. I'm adding to the previous water footage with this video of the Indian ocean taken at the heads at Knysna in April this year. As i mentioned before about wanting to catalogue my images and video, well, its a kind of start. I have heaps of water, so i thought it was an easy enough one to start with, until i figure out exactly what i want to do with it all. I waas browsing around on Youtube and came across some really inspiring animations, some of them really short... I'll add the links at the below.

what a great day
sand on glass animation

Photos

Well, they are dated now - seems like ages since I was home. Anyway, I will continue to add them. I had to remove the links before and now I'm just putting them in again.

Sycamore Trails

Oudshoorn and Knysna

Owl House

I hope to add more soon! Cheers

I am working on preparing images of the sand sculpture I made in near Plettenburg bay, its slow progress because my computer is playing up, but I keep plodding on. Hopefully i will be able to buy a new machine next month, so it should go better then. Here is a sneak preview of what I'm working on....
Yesterday we went to some artists studios as part of a Open house studio event in the Richmond area. It was a lovely day and has given me the necessary inspiration i was hoping for. I want to mount some of my work, print some of my photographs and try and show my work somehow. Also, as we were taking a break, sitting on the bank of the river, I noticed some interesting, beautiful junk floating down the river. I have take quite a number of short videos in a similar way, keeping the camera as still as possible and focusing on something particular (in this case as in many - moving water) I am working on ideas for putting it all together, but for now, just this...

Life Drawing