Slow Shutter

Trying out the "SlowShutter" app - I've not quite got the hang of it, but I liked the white car zooming into the bottom corner and the circles of rain on the window.  I'd just been to the CCA to an event organised by Polly Clark as part of Cove Park's summer residency programme:  a reading by Anne Carson and Robin Robertson.

I'm a big fan of Robertson's poetry and had heard him read before, but didn't know much about Anne Carson, although I had managed to get hold of a copy of "If not, winter: Fragments of Sappho" which has translations of Sappho's poems, but kept in the fragmentary form they were found in on scraps of papyrus.  Anyway, I really enjoyed hearing her read a variety of pieces (she has a very droll style of delivery).  One in particular featured "The Library of Water" in Iceland, with Polly reading some lines and Carson's  husband walking round the room doing a kind of large scale cat's cradle with a reel of pink string.  I'll be hitting the University Library in search of some more of her books...

Threads of Sound - The Last Machete

A few shots from the Threads gig last Saturday, featuring

Muscles of Joy

North American War

and F.O. Machete.

More pics on the Threads Flickr page.

Green Vinyl

Last night's Thread's Gig (photos to follow) was the last gig for F.O. Machete and the launch of their E.P.  "My Last Machete".  

This is the biggest cover photo I've had so far...

...and it contains an actual see-through green record. Here's my favourite song (along with "Teenage Spaceship") filmed as it was recorded...

Dinosaur on Wheels

Spotted it trying to sneak in the back door of the library...

EMP

Higher and Higher

Stuart

Caught up with Stuart who was back in the country for a couple of weeks and wanted some new profile shots for LinkedIn and suchlike.  Unfortunately we were stuck on dry land as the pond in the park here doesn't have any sailing boats (and is currently doing its best impression of the Sargasso Sea anyway).