25th December

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
I hope Santa brings everything you asked for!

Playing my Jimi Hendrix Vinyl

In a previous post in September, I had bought an original Jimi Hendrix Vinyl, but I didn't have a record player to play it. I'd always wanted an original Jimi Hendrix vinyl as it was on my thirty before thirty list.

Today my lovely Dad dug out his record player and we gave my record a spin!

Thanks, Dad-Cat!

Letters to Santa!

My dad found these letters to Santa that me brother and I did when we were 5 and 7.

I thought I would share them with you- they're so cute!

My letter; (I didn't want much, just a few marker pens and a kitten)

Julian's letter and artistic drawings!....

so cute!

Christmas Stamps

The church keep all stamps and recycle them. My mum ripped off a stamp and I had a closer look....


...Wallace and Gromit- singing Christmas carols!! I love Christmas Stamps, they're so festive and creative! I thought I'd share it with you all.

If I see anymore lovely stamps I'll post them here so keep a look out!

Congratulations C&G !

Congratulations to C&G Photography!

Julian's red squirrel image was featured on BBC's Autumn Watch earlier this month.

See the Autumn Watch Flickr favourites here. (39 seconds in)

Click here to go to C&G Photography's website.

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Home for Christmas

which means... I get to see my gorgeous Rajah!

He's enjoying some lovely cuddles :)

Also, one of our chickens gave us a less than large egg;

Taken this morning;

Chicken's like to sunbathe

Give me back my button!

Rajah!

Fluffy is a humbug!

ISTD | White Noise | 4′33″

For the ISTD awards this year I chose the brief 4′33″ (4 Minutes 33 Seconds) composed by John Cage.  4′33″ is an inspiring three-movement composition. The piece is a silent piece, which consists of three movements. The idea was that although the piece was silent, you can in fact never be silent; no matter how hard we try. We are always breathing, moving and there is always background noise. The piece purports to consist of the sounds of the environment that the listeners hear while it is performed, although it is commonly perceived as "four minutes thirty-three seconds of silence"


I saw huge potential in this brief which is exactly why I chose it. 

Research showed me that white noise can be a very uncomfortable and eerie sound, which can also involve ghostly sounds and voices. This is exactly the reason why I chose it to include in my work. The idea behind my piece is that you read the distorted text whilst listening to the white noise. 

The piece has an extract of Don Delillo’s ‘White Noise’. The extract is of a man talking about great men who have died and how they probably did not fear death. The man and his wife then go on to argue about who should die first because they love each other so much neither of them could live without one another.

When listening to the 4 Minutes 33 Seconds whilst reading the distorted text, your mind is open to interpretation of you what you hear and read. Therefore, when each individual reads and listens, each experience will be different and unique.

All this type was produced using my typewriter featured here.