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The web © John MacPherson “Yo pider! Thats a fine web.” I told the orb-web-spider as I clambered up onto the kitchen sink at 11pm one night. My one leg in the sink, the other stretched across the large second storey window, and jammed against a wall. A day of frantic pider effort had [...] I like stories. And the web is an amazing place for storytelling. Stuff goes up, and stays there, floating about waiting to be discovered by someone and run with. Maybe to inspire something else, or something similar. But sometimes what goes up is only partly finished. The web, you see, is fertile ground too, it [...] I’ve been threatened with ejection from my local supermarket several times. You may guess which one by the red ‘s’. They don’t like cameras. Not inside. Nor outside. Especially ones with big long white conspicuous lenses. Shame really, because I just keep seeing things I want to record. Interesting things. Like the crow, in their [...] The blurb is below for todays BagNewsSalon. I think I’ll probably be coming at this differently than any of the other panelists because I’m not sure I agree with the premise of this webinar, that the Kony film ‘back-fired’. Backlash would be a much better word because I am of the opinion that the Kony [...] Claudia Leisinger telling us a tale of the demise of the Billingsgate fish porters. “In January 2012, the City of London Corporation – effectively an independent governing institution – withdrew all trading licences from the porters, revoking a bylaw dating back to 1876. Without this protection, the porters could legally be replaced by cheap casual [...] We had some fantastic entries for the scholarship place on this year’s Hinterlands workshop – very many thanks to all of you who took the trouble to send us your work. This year’s place will go to Christian Petersen. Check out his work HERE. Congratulations Christian – we’ll look forward to seeing you on the [...] Dan Cainey has something to share: “The work asks what it means to be a Tamil refugee, and identifies these diasporas as a form of resistance against the ongoing erosion of the Tamil ethnicity back in Sri Lanka”: Take a few minutes to read this, thanks.
Open publication – Free publishing – More community [...] Well well well. You will be after listening to this: swfobject.embedSWF(“http://www.youtube.com/v/wiAPUZkJYTM&rel=0&fs=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=0″, “vvq-23540-youtube-1″, “700″, “567″, “10″, vvqexpressinstall, vvqflashvars, vvqparams, vvqattributes); Water. © John MacPherson I like water. Water is amazing stuff. I stood on this beach, a gentle slope, and watched fresh water from a little stream fan out across the sand. To help it show me it’s tricks I stood in the water, facing the sun, letting sheen and glare polish its act. [...] ‘I think there’s value in pursuing work that doesn’t aim for commercial value or validation in the fine art photography world. I’m trying to avoid being overly cynical but it really seems that these days there’s an unhealthy obsession with the economics of photography and status within the community (whichever community you find yourself in). [...] Wow, what a steal, for just $1500 you can buy dinner and a night out in Soho with VII’s Jocelyn Bain Hogg! Worth checking the small print on the emphas:is website (its a reward on his project) cause it looks like you may need to bring your own food and wine. Spotted this first here [...] Fallen angel © John MacPherson Sign I spotted on the door of a women’s hairdressing salon in rural Wales. I wondered what Helen, the hairdresser, was doing on the roof. Unless it wasn’t her roof. Maybe it was different roof. On a thatched cottage?
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Did Jackson Pollock like boats? He was born a long way from the sea, in Wyoming. But if he did have a boat…. ….just supposing for a moment that he might have had one… Would it’s hull be any more artfully damaged than any other boat’s hull? Rocktearscrapepullgrindscratchmarked? [...] John’s post earlier today reminded me of this black work by Ted Hughes, one of the great poets of the 20th century: When God, disgusted with man, Turned towards heaven, And man, disgusted with God, Turned towards Eve, Things looked like falling apart. But Crow Crow Crow nailed them together, Nailing heaven and [...] “The guys at duckrabbit not only helped me gain skills in audio recording, interviewing and photofilm production, but also increased my confidence in getting closer to people, and hearing their stories. I recommend this training to anybody with an interest in people, their stories, and how they are represented.” Phil Lang. Photographer and Picture Editor, [...] Crow business © John MacPherson
I like the cleverness of corvids. Smart birds. I watched this crow lift whelk shells on the seashore and drop them to smash them open, revealing the tasty morsel inside. Clever. I watched (and filmed) two crows trick an otter out of a crab one day. One crow [...] BANG BANG. YOU’RE DEAD. Entries for the Hinterlands scholarship place close tomorrow morning so there’s still time to enter and win a free place on this year’s workshop. Enter HERE for your chance to train with us in beautiful Devon. Here’s a couple of the entries received so far… War Songs by Agata Pietron
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