Homelights

The front of this house catches such good light.

Homelook

A fisht o'burgers

Last Sunday I video'd and photographed the Tullykyne Vintage Run, in aid of the Parkinson's Association. Look away now if you don't want to see copious amounts of tractor photographs.

A spin in the country

Atlast

I feel like every time I look at these photos I'm a little surprised, I don't know why. They're the last photographs I took while still living in Dublin, my last couple of weeks there, though some are from home also.

My most recent, long suffering pair of shoes, donated to the side of the river and the world, generally.

A long walk and a high place.

Towards the end of the course I started taking the sort of photographs I was taking before; at least, it felt that way. Photographs that were not connected necessarily by theme, but more by mood or function; namely, these things I saw made me feel something and photographing them was an attempt to record that feeling. Or maybe an attempt to articulate that feeling in some way. Though I know it's inevitably futile, my response to these scenes now is, through the filter of memory, irrevocably changed. Still, what else can I do? I'd forget it completely otherwise.

One last trip to the Tesco down the road. Soon after taking this, the last frame of the roll of film, I saw a beautiful fox roaming the streets of an estate near my house. I stopped and watched him for a while, he spotted me at one point and stared hungrily back for a few seconds before slinking off behind a wall. I went home and ate whatever awful food I had, went to sleep and moved out the next day. I felt pretty good about that.

Fairy Fort/Witches Club

... is a music night/gathering/happening set up by Takashi Kumagai this month, taking place in an active Fairy Fort frequented by adolescent witches with territorial ambitions. The first night was just over two weeks ago; I was cameraless (except for a dodgy film camera that proved its dodginess by not yielding one photograph) so Gavin Prior kindly passed around his little Olympus camera and I took some messy photographs. He uploaded the better ones to his flickr account, and I took from there the photos I'm pretty sure I took, memory is unreliable...

Video by Takashi Kumagai

The second night was yesterday, starring Phantom Dog Beneath the Moon and Paul O'Reilly. I managed to bring my own camera this time...