We are to carry Riaz to the top of Tunnel Mountain on a litter. We carry Riaz’s luggage, a chair and table, and a pot of hot tea. Poetry and tunnel mountain history are read out by the guides. No smiling. Struggling to the top of the mountain the ceremonial photograph has us sherpas …
Asking Riaz how to get rocks to speak he tells me to go out and talk to them. Must do! Also the following picture is so much like a musical composition!
Have spent the last two days processing mp3 soundtracks onto the computer. Thanks to Mr Sony there is no way of digitally transferring so everything has to be done analogue in realtime. The reason why I have been delaying it was hoping that there was a solution. On the whole not a lot of …
Picked up last of postcard sized prints from Xerox. For colour photocopies they have been exceptionally good. Printed 6 more sheets of cyanotype but overprinting did not work because you are meant to size and seal the image! Have booked a time to learn this on the 29th.
Rebecca on Tunnel Mountain looking towards Sulphur Mountain Jen Southern helped with gps stuff. Told me about 93 Photo street and MacGPS. Fabulous! Want to try the overprinting of blue cyanotype on brown Van Dyke or reverse. Surprised how good graphic images worked. DIdn’t go on walk today to Mt Yamnuska as was too …
Had great fun printing images. Cloudy weather meant 20-30 minute exposures. Printed a view of Marble Canyon in cyanotype plus some graphic images as Van Dykes. Would like to overprint as well. Doing something physical and magical instead of computer work.
First quarter BAS statement. At least the view is inspiring.
This one was actually really depressing ending. The shaman says “We are happiest when we don’t think too much. We are happy when not having to worry about hidden things” “We don’t fear death but we are afraid of suffering” Same as the last film that strange sense of only discovering at the end …
A day of dahl and chicken, tracing geological maps and Atanarjuat. Atanarjuat or Fast Runner is a film made by the Iglooik community in northern Canada. Winner of a swag of awards it tells the story of a community split by disharmony and violence. Resolution comes only after many years and through the …
The world is noisy. With the help of Professor Robert Stewart and Kevin Hall of the Department of Geoscience, University of Calgary I explore ‘rocks talking’. A pick-up truck arrives with an impressive array of electrical cables strung out either side of the tray like day-glo hair curlers. These are the cables required for …
Did three sound recordings of wind through trees, a nice small stream and some cascades. This could only be done with three people to stay with me each time because this is bear country and there are safety conditions to be adhered to. Fortunately ended up with two quiet people (third person didn’t stop …
The idea behind coming here was to make a sound art walk about geology — getting rocks to speak — that would be about 30 minutes long and would start at the Banff Centre. Whilst doing timings for the possible walk I recorded and photographed these Chinese tourists all in orange. Would be interesting …
closeup of Tunnel Mountain gap huh!
Discover Cascade Gardens on the other side of Bow River. A garden designed by Harold C Beckett during The Depression. In the summer it is a riot of annual blooms. By autumn the soil has been turned over. The squirrels are fighting over pine cones. The gazebos are freshly painted and the ponds are …