graham fagen s work

stars

http://new.a-n.co.uk/news/single/graham-fagen-selected-to-represent-scotland-at-2015-venice-biennale/

fingers on the pulse chaps.  I did the process of Peter Greenaways "Drowning by numbers" and got the name of two stars.. Salcis and Spira (which means the final fantasy)

Video with projection from Lincoln event

Article online

Check us and the work out here in the Lincolnite

4 images from Lincoln Projection night

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A successful set of sessions complete and we left with people wanting more - always good! The opportunity for people to come and take part in self-led creative projects has enabled the creation of an interesting film with a bespoke sound track. What i like is that the film is fundamentally theirs, the content is theirs and it shows loads of approaches and interests and you can see where things could be built on and developed. What i tihnk we should be proud of as a team is how the work has acted as a catalyst for something else to happen beyond the life time of our sessions...that might be more creative outcomes, extra sessions led by Lov1 and Framework at the Collection or just a increased positive profile for the cities young people. The sessions are a good example of how by starting something, trusting in word of mouth and providing good relevant work things will inevitably grow and build.
Alice [Lov 1] and Ollie [Framework] have been great too and this work feels like its increased their confidence to take the lead and further grow creative opportunities for Framework folks.
Look out for things in press, there was a lot of interest and thankfully Kieran was a star and fielded loads of interviews - he was a true professional
http://thelincolnite.co.uk/   this is the online site for Lincoln who took some photos
http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/   the paper who did an interview
http://www.sirenonline.co.uk/  the radio people who came and interviewed too.

Day4. Quotes

Ollie - im no longer writing code - i have made a stop motion animation. Its been really nice to have place where young poeple can come and be creative in a set space. It would be great to do it regularly.
Alice - Ive had a brilliant time..ive made some new stuff. I particularly enjoyed putting glow sticks in a bin and shaking it around then filming it with a kalidescope lens
Tilly - i ve had a great day i love making stuff, you should see my bedroom. I wouldnt change a thing about the day.
Steve - Absolutly brilliaqnt- brilliant absolutely.
Lee - Extraordinary Chaos - creative chaos
Becky  - You can actually do what you want, instead of being told what to do. Ive made a plastercine doll and stop animnation, the resources are good. The only thing i'd change would be being inside on such a nice day.
Jack watching - ive seen Becky moving a doll, it looks good but not as good a BMXing
Luke - Tilly looks like shes enjoyed doing today.

Tonight!

Flyer for this weeks Sessions

Some More Images

Here are some more photos I took from day 1 at the Usher,,,,thought i'd put them up before the session tomorrow. Andy said he will put the music Kieran made up after the next few days.I hope we can get Olly and Alice to add some thoughts on the blog too, their work looks great.
This short video is a Lee and Alice collaboration.

Alice distilling Love will tear us apart by Joy Division by using long division or something like that!

 Kieran making a sand drawing of a character from his favourite book. It was filmed from underneath  -you can see it in the film Steves put up.

Olly doing some hard core binary coding to work out the essence of a spoken word poem about Icarus- can you believe it after all this he got to the word Never...   Perfect.

Kieran admiring his handywork!

Picking up and leading on at the Usher

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=useo6r5NKa0



We had a great day on Thursday working with a massive amount of visual data from day one. My favorite bit was pretending I knew what a split infinitive was.  When I got home I looked it up and I quite like this explanation - It's putting a to between the verb and the adverb.  I think if we have two Neon and as lots of artists Neon seem to be ironic perhaps we need to have a think about placing a to between the words

SPLIT TO INFINITIVES

Split infinitives

What are split infinitives?

Split infinitives happen when you put an adverb between to and a verb, for example:

She used to secretly admire him.

You have to really watch him.

What’s wrong with split infinitives?

Some people believe that split infinitives are grammatically incorrect and should be avoided at all costs. They would rewrite these sentences as:

She used secretly to admire him.

You really have to watch him.

But there’s no real justification for their objection, which is based on comparisons with the structure of Latin. People have been splitting infinitives for centuries, especially in spoken English, and avoiding a split infinitive can sound clumsy. It can also change the emphasis of what’s being said. The sentence:

You really have to watch him. [i.e. ‘It’s important that you watch him’]

doesn’t have quite the same meaning as:

You have to really watch him. [i.e. ‘You have to watch him very closely’]

To split or not to split?

The ‘rule’ against splitting infinitives isn’t followed as strictly today as it used to be. Nevertheless, some people do object very strongly to them. As a result, it’s safest to avoid split infinitives in formal writing, unless the alternative wording seems very clumsy or would alter the meaning of your sentence.

Some of our work from Day 1

kieran barks

I arrived at the course today with only my company and those running the course, I was told what I was going to be doing and what the end ideal product was. I then proceeded to begin my work by drawing into flour the face of Hiccup Horrendus Haddock III from the book How to train your Dragon, then whence I finished I continued with the flour and drew Toothless from the same book. Afterwards I then had to stamp, then draw two words that I believed to sum up the book, which I believed as Friendship and Loyalty. Then after a short challenge of finding a dark enough space using glowsticks we spelled out Friendship and Loyalty for a video using the glowsticks. Today was enjoyable.
Keiran

Day 1

Here we are at the Usher - Alice, Lee, Me and Ollie from Framework.   No internet to speak of but lots of manual making - magnetic poetry, drawing, sand things and a duff translate app on a pc....
Sounds like a productive day...