my legs ache and i feel irritable.
a good day !
(i arrived this morning to another opportunity to document work made at the studio. we discussed and arranged the adaptive space and somehow the flow of the shoot was interrupted by expected visitors and the guy with the kite.
he’d popped round on the off chance that i’d be free to go with him to record some more escapades with kite and board. he’d bought another toy, a little camera that would allow for other shots not possible with bulky dv stuff.
in the wind that was a whirl i lept into his car and off we sped.
before we got heads into a position to forcibly travel forward, yet more visitors. men looking for boys on a motocross bike nicked from a place of work. we were both very sympathetic as neither of us had seen the young whipper snappers.
i spent an enjoyable afternoon playing with toys and laughing-well being amused by – other kite exponents who seemed to have much differing styles to the young man i was with. (i’m pleased to report that the guy i was with was the one i would have wanted to be doing stuff with, if i was sat on a chair on the bank, observing the kiters while waiting for an over head display.)
the young man in question has footage shot from the camera with attached to his helmet, i think i’ve already mentioned his helmet and the work i did on it. seems i am having conversations that will result in a video piece, representing the feeling for the young man when flying. it doesn’t have to be a deep piece, for me it’s fun to be playing again, making shots and potentially making something from what we get.
when i stopped and relaxed this evening, i realised that going out with a very vague intention, which itself was specific, meant that relaxing and reflecting left me feeling very tired. there wasn’t the satisfaction of setting to get specific shot and getting to the evening having achieved it. i have experienced that, one shoot that springs to mind was for a solpadine commercial.)
we did experimental film making this afternoon !
