Category: Life
Dark Night and the Soul
There are some who believe that the cognitive functions of the brain can somehow be abstracted out to computational processes, that science can define the activity of thought as sets of sequential effects. That this is...
Archeforming
There is a world behind the world, full of forgotten absence and undesirable presence. A recognition of this inhabits some. Their task: To smooth the creases, To unfold the folded, To return the measureless...
Transcinematics: Collaborative Transformational Filmmaking
Transcinematics. The origins of the term emerged with the inception of The Grey Man project: The project that eventually became ‘The Gaps Between’ (2007) As I say, transcinematics is cinema that goes beyond, it was the first time...
The Magic of Film: Children of the Tide
Back in 2005 I became involved in a collaborative arts project with Phil Smith and Maggi Squires located at Shaldon Primary School, which sits at the mouth of the river Teign in South Devon. We worked with...
Economy and Revolution
There are many ways in which Art can be perceived as a revolutionary act. The most powerful for me is through the internal revolution of the self; to engage in experience in a way that shifts...
The Art of Living
All my life I have been thinking of ways to make a living from art, when it turns out making art has been my means of living life. You’re Welcome, Mr X ...
Caution: Wet Floor
Yesterday I watched a man walk into a shop and trip over the ‘Caution: Wet Floor’ sign. A larger sign signalling the potential danger of the first sign might make an amusing addition I...
Confronting Fear
Confronting fear can be about taking risks that cause you to confront the potential of your own death. Confronting fear can also be about confronting the risks that cause you to face other people with the...
Hymns
In one of the universes thejauntycontinuum intersects with there is an institution that you might call a church. It is a simple organisation for simple people with simple needs. Worship does not require either...