British Bender

Film School

Giant fake rock and rusty elevator

cat under the table

Current drawing journal

Detective Masahiro 1

I am finalizing the screenplay for the film, but I haven’t shown it to anybody yet. When it comes to writing a script I reckon its better to show it to as many people as possible, they can cross reference your ideas, your grammer and whether its a good story or not.

I know this is bloody outrageous but If you don’t know what a screenplay is click here

My method is thus: I take a tape recorder and record what I hear from the movie I will make, using notes in front of me as guidance. From that I make a rather blurry and unsophisticated version of the screenplay which I put into writing later. Then I add detail.

VIDEOS OF JAPANESE STUFF

Artists in Psycho Buildings

Same again, here are the artists:

Atelier Bow-Wow, Michael Beutler, Los Carpinteros, Gelitin, Mike Nelson, Ernesto Neto, Tobias Putrih, Tomas Saraceno, Do-Ho Suh and Rachel Whiteread

The Artists Involved the ‘The Recent History of Writing and Drawing’

I forgot to add names of the artists :

A Recent History of Writing and Drawing: programmer / designer Jürg Lehni graphic designer Alex Rich, curated by design historian Emily King

also the site ‘field trip’ has information and links about Hektor
there are loads of pictures on THIS site, which also contains a lot of background information about the artists and the history of the project itself.

A Recent history of Writing and Drawing

On Sunday I met up with some friends from Brighton, they talked about football all the time so I just spent most of the pint watching the ongoing Arsenal vs Real Madrid on the HD TV’s surrounding me and curiously asking questions about the game. The match was called a ‘friendly’ match, because everyone was smiling and laughing and taking it really easy on the field.
Later in the day I went to the ICA to see what they were up to, there was an exhibition in the lower gallery called ‘A Recent History of Writing and Drawing’ and previous works by various people in the corridor to the left.

There were a few television sets lumped around the central area with lines and dots moving and changing shape on each screen, they all behaved differently some were more fizzy, whereas some were made to look like literal shapes floating about. These visual queues were all made of the relation between white and black lines and dots, so I thought it was referring to the use of lines and dots as mediums of shape and form.

A contraption on the right wall looked curiously like a wall drawing device, with two motors to control a large chalk attached to them via metal wire cables. I understood that this machine was called ‘Viktor’, and has a relative called ‘Hektor’. Here is a video of ‘Hektor’ working in an exhibition I don’t know the name of.

Unfortunately the machine had already drawn something when I got there, it looked primitive, which is what interested me. The lines were not bold, and not straight, but quite wriggly, and looked more as if it was drawn by human hands than by a machine. The drawing was of a geometric pattern, but due to the irregularities it looked more like a cave drawing of a rectangular spider web.

Near the entrance there was a desk with torch like devices. I watched two people use them and found that they were handheld laser printers that could print single lines of text onto various surfaces. I joined in the printing, When used it printed the line ‘IT’S ASTOR LA VISTA FOR JOSH’S GIRL’. The three of us tried printing on everything, the desk, the envelopes, the ticket, coins, even my hand was used as an experiment. (it was completely painless of course).

Here is a similar device used for industrial purposes developed by HP

the final attraction of this exhibition was a Graphtec Plotter Cutter connected to a computer. The plotter cutter is a printer that could also cut paper, it was cutting what seemed to be holes into large A2 sheets of paper. On the floor was a splurge of small white paper circles of various sizes. You typed text onto the computer, and the plotter cutter would cut the words as a series of dots. On the wall behind the printer were 9-12 of these prints hanging up saying things like ‘I’m Tired’, ‘Come in if the light is on’,etc.

Here is the same Graphtec model printer in use somewhere in China

Psycho Buildings

The Hayward gallery curated these atmospheric architecture pieces, there were many deep meanings in each piece regarding culture, materials, optical illusion, fractals, ‘mind space’, and other things. The speciality of the exhibition was that amidst the madness, there was a lot of space to walk around and it was more the environment around you as well as the structures.

I wasn’t able to sneak any photographs in but the guardian has a few