it all part of it

Colonialism

2007-02-02T14:11:00.000-08:00

Natives Should be Free

2007-02-02T08:09:00.000-08:00

Fiction crises

2006-11-30T01:55:00.000-08:00

How do we approach personal questions of identity, faith and worldview? We live in a global pluralistic society with in this the individual and personal are imperative. Culture takes on global mediated themes. As mass culture searches out controllable sub culture becomes ever more important. Perhaps the personal and the historical are lost in the fictional, as the fictional bears as much relevance to truth. Conte xt and experience revaluate the fictional. As we pose are experience in the real as the fictional, documenting it.

"There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing left to pursue."
 'Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai' by Tsunetomo Yamamoto

How dose the present exist within the documented, can we share experience, I believe we can, can we document the experience? I see to documented is to fictionalize, though to fictionalize serves a purpose in its self. Fictionalization is a begin point of a new experience, if we lose the physical experience within the fiction, the is a constructional fictional crises, it could well be the that we are beginning to experience this crises. When dose revolution become revolution in its manifesto or in the street movement. One can not exist without the other, it seems street movement are losing the purpose and manifestoes are becoming more generic. The people have a voice, more intensively than has existed in mankind but have they got something to say, it seems not. Take You Tube and Myspace as examples. Thousands of viewer a mind blowing audience, but content is not there, the masses may have a voice now but do we really want to here what they have to say or do they even have anything to say.

So how dose the present moment exist within the documented?

Budapest

2006-11-27T23:48:00.000-08:00

through Bratislava

2006-11-25T04:15:00.000-08:00

Or right time for a look at what’s been happening, haven’t quite got into this blog and writing to the masses. As of course there is fast moving masses read my blog.

Ok to the people, start back at Bratislava, which really begins in Budapest. Have been spending a lot of time on trains over the last while, throwing the bank notes on the ground. Heard about a conference that was taking place in Budapest, quite in the area of what im looking at in this moment, well so I thought. There was another guy Mark how thought he would come along for the ride and we would also make it part of a research trip, which we needed anyway. So, fly out of Berlin having spent a number of days there being trailed around the town looking at to much art as part of the college program. Will never become a large group person, my first reaction is always to slip quietly away.

Away way got to the airport in Berlin after that and the intense meetings began, started with a fight with the pass port control as, I filmed him as he stared in the camera and told me to turn it of. Then got rather heat so I remove the camera pointing at his face (was interested in the image, was not just looking to piss him off). He then told me to give him the camera, which I refused to do, at this moment I was wondering if I had over steeped the mark. He came out of the back of his box requesting to see the image. Got on through though not with out a nervosa moment.

Landing in Budapest, feet on the ground Mark start chatting up some girl from New York, wasn’t worth the trouble she only turned out to be problematic. Headed for information as we where short on time to be lift pissing around the streets with no idea where we are. Meeting people started turning in to normality, as I suppose it is, came back for the information desk and Marks found a Hungarian girl, she was a miss leading hand full. Some of her views made me have to look at her twice. We meet up with a few of her friends, who where all studying sociology and I got a reasonable history lesson from one of the them, much need as we should have been a bit more informed. Having been filled in on the 1956 revolution we head on and of course Mark had made a few arrangements with the girl for later. Tried getting a language lesson on bus, from some girl, amusing the people with our stupidity as we tried to say simple things, not such an easy language, in there with Finish. Then the women at the bun shop tried to rip us of seeing our fresh hungry faces but the women next in line held her in line. On the under ground we felt the vibe, back in the eastern lands. Back in the eastern land but where the fuck are the signs. Think they must have buried them all during the commie times. Not really a joke with the commie time but it seems this secrecy stays and makes it hard to find your way around when a youth hostel is hidden on some floor of a large building and nothing stands outside to direct you there. Pack the bags there and got out on the street, time was ticking to get some work done, need to photograph a memorial that is only a few weeks old commemorating the 56 revolution. The architecture is class, so many different forms, narrow streets, the building’s on top of each other, old and new. Meet up with the Hungarian girl, after pizzas from a Jew, the most expensive I have eaten, a bit miss judged on price, not leaving out Mark trying to burn down the pub, a content moment of filled hunger and then I notice the smell of burning and looking round the map on the table licks up into flames, having been set on the candle. The girl from New York turn up with a pack of first 1-year engineer student from America on a weekend trip, mmmm not quite what I was in the mood for at that moment in time.

posable return to Estonia

2006-11-01T15:47:00.000-08:00

Jena to Moscow

2006-11-01T15:32:00.000-08:00

A concept in working progress. Well this is one of the things on my mind at the moment. Am prat of a project of public art in Jena. Was looking around there a bit, but was not really identifying with the town. Am really looking to work with journeys and do not want my work to be static. But some how this idea of movement and journey was not identifying in Jena. So have decided to make it the starting point from where I will begin a journey towards Moscow. I have no intention of get that far but it is important that i get up into Russia. I will be looking to explore lost cut of soviet architectural towns that are out of place through dying industry. but the old question, but what is being looked for in all this, it is really a from of creative journalism im looking thoughts on a particular tip of question and will put myself in a voluble place in order to get them. this is only the point of statement, it is the details of process that bring an idea into being, but first we need vigor.

2006-11-01T14:18:00.000-08:00

Streets of Weimar

finally getting this blog underway. well life is taking shape, have left out the moments of over thought and despair. Weimar has become home to me now. Not sure if I should be letting this out into the public eye, but things got a little bit over creative in the pub last night. For no particular reason I thought id change cloth with mark in the pub toilets, he always where synthetic brown suits and on this occasion with waits coat and hat. So we got changed in the toilets, slightly odd thing to be doing in the pub and came back in, was meet with quite a lot of hummer. But then it came about that other people started to change cloths to and before long just about everyone was where another persons cloths (there was about 20 people). I end up with what i might say a rather fetching skirt and a checked jumper to go with it, still just about staying in the male Scottish look. Then the cloths changing got extended to those out side the group and just in the pub this where it was starting to look a little bit out of control. was quite harmless no nudity. An entertaining night all in all.

2006-11-01T14:09:00.000-08:00

2006-08-30T14:45:00.000-07:00