Chatted with the very lovely Sue from East Photographic, and equally lovely photographer Leandro Farina today. Gorgeous stuff - GORGEOUS - “as long as there’s no humans” and here’s some of it in film form. There was also a random interlude where we educated an American of the existence of the Giant’s Causeway. And here we were thinking they all knew…

On This Day in 1902 on Nowness.com.

The flying. OH THE FLYING. Was NOT prepared.

Las Vegas, Houston, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Seattle so far. Seven of those in the last two weeks. My body hates me, my skin DEFINITELY hates me. Sometimes I only see the airport, sometimes I only see the hotel, sometimes I see some sights, and sometimes - ONLY SOMETIMES - I find myself breaking my own rule (no Irish bars outside Ireland), and drinking a Guinness, listening to Van the Man, standing under a Belfast Giants flag while having a great chat with Francey from Newry. 

America is really big. WELCOME.

This weekend, some fabulous creative people in Belfast are putting on a contemporary arts festival celebrating the even BIGGER number of fabulous creative people living in the Ormeau area - Household Belfast. They describe the thinking behind it here, and there’s a little video from the news here (it’s an fb vid so soz if it doesn’t work), but basically they’re giving visitors the chance “experience new work in unrestricted non-commercial and non-institutionalised contexts by inviting members of the public into selected artists’ homes.”

Anyway - one of those selected artists is my friend Lyndsey, throwing open the doors to her house on Kimberley Street, and curating a show around the concept of Collect & Display and how quite often, our best ideas come out at home. There’s details on all the contributing artists here, including Claire Miskimmin & me who teamed up on a photo projection project - Punk and Post to [ ]. 

Claire’s been on the ground at Kimberley Street capturing gorgeous people and the photos they used as backdrops, and some of the shots from that, and the shots we submitted, are below, and also all collected here.

Everyone involved has been amazing, and I’ve had fun stalking art from afar. 

from Claire Miskimmin

from me

from the show

A lot of people used to come and visit us at Hyper Island, possibly to try and figure out:

a) was it an actual island (my nana still thinks this),
b) what the hell we did there (good luck with that one),
c) was Sweden as nice and as expensive as they’d heard (yes, and yes), 
d) was ability to skateboard around while on a macbook skype call an entrance requirement (no, but def extra points).

Anyway, one day some Japanese people came to visit, and the story they wrote is here. You can google translate and get the jist - EXCEPT for the header (above) which could really say anything at all. So sorry if it’s rude Japan.

Now that I’ve finished the school part of Hyper, it’s down to internship business, and right now it’s with Snook in Glasgow. 

And as if this wasn’t enough of an outlet for my nonsense, I’ve been blogging (as a Snookster no less) about how I ended up there, and a bit about what we’ve been up to so far.

And that’s about that for now.