Colourscape-1, originally uploaded by meltingman.

Never underestimate the power of colour and light. I’d never been in one of these things before, and it was great. An inflatable canvas world, populated by people in single-colour capes, lending the whole thing an air of Logan’s Run. The unnatural pinks and  purples and the wandering saxophone troupe only added to the seventies sci-fi feel.

But really, it was a genuinely rich sensory experience. Almost too much colour.

Anyway, I’ve been messing around with something different. This is my first attempt of a long still photo. I reckon a still photo with a soundtrack should be able to draw you in in a different way to both ordinary still photos and long photos. The idea is that they take the moment of a shot and extrapolate either forwards or backwards (or both) in time around that moment.

For this one, I took the photo with the iPhone and then switched to the iTalk ap to record the audio, so it’s not quite authentic as a soundtrack. I think in future I’d rather take a still from a movie (or traditional long photo) or, better still, choose the moment and take a separate photo while recording the audio.

 

inportant notice, originally uploaded by meltingman.

I share this for many reasons, though that it asks me to isn’t really one of them.

Just found it on my desk. It came through the letterbox last summer. 

I find it strangley moving that someone went to the effort of printing off a load of these and then delivered them to I don’t know how many people.

wall, originally uploaded by meltingman.

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squares, originally uploaded by meltingman.

I love the light at this time of year. As the sun stays low in even the midday sky, it seems to skid across the surfaces of things like a skimming stone thrown across a frozen lake.

Our offices, with whitewashed walls and untrue lines of the fire escape staircase, collect these stray patterns of light as they fall.

Large cat, originally uploaded by meltingman.

The new turbine hall installation by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is good.

As soon as you push through the plastic curtains and find yourself looking at banks of bunk beds, it feels like a sort of mass evacuation isolation ward. There are raised wall-mounted industrial lights and a constant dripping. Like ‘The Crack’ from last year, it places you in a new, uncomfortable post-event London. The Crack gave a feeling of physical insecurity (or at least it did me), that maybe our foundations aren’t as solid as maybe we’d like to think. This seems more of an amalgamation of fears expressed. Biological. Social.

The separate items at the far end of the hall don’t sit as well together, but an oversized cat skeleton and a large screen are a fantastic combination for anyone with a camera.

The Garden, originally uploaded by meltingman.

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Christmas decorations and reflections

Originally uploaded by meltingman

Anyone else watching the sky this afternoon? It’s been changing every five minutes. It’s pretty spectacular.

About 20 minutes ago.