Me and Dave C - DJing and Snacking

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New Work and change of direction

Here are few examples of my new works that were developed as part of the recent NOPARKING Collective exhibition in Derby.

Icreated them through painting mdf boards and then scratching into the surface with a nail...

Ideas were taken from photographs / sketches and memory...


I have a few more completed which I am intending to exhibit elsewhere.

NO PARKING

No Parking Exhibition as part of Format 09 International Photography Festival - Derby

we have Cheapside for at least two weeks from 12 March 2009 open from 11am - 6pm

some images below of the opening night

The Dust Collectors with Pat Thomas

The Dust Collectors with Pat Thomas - A Dedication




The Dust Collectors with Pat Thomas - Retrospective



As Part of a Derby Jazz Project 2009 at the University of Derby

Some Sketching ideas

Here are some examples of sketches/ideas i have done over last few months....

Videos

These are videos that have been recently uploaded that feature my work the first being my work in NOPARKING show filmed by Gary McCloud a Commercial Photo/Video student from Derby University.
The aspect ratio seems to be wrong becouse the images filmed are distorted but the actual video is fine i have beeen told.


The Second Video is Confluence made by Sean Clark from Cuttlefish it was a collaboration between myself / Candice Moule / Sean Clark of Cuttlefish and Steve Gibbs of Bathysphere. It was originally shown as part of the Nanoplex Cinema /Caravan.


NOPARKING exhibit






Confluence

a Great New Discovery

A friend just put me onto a music site called Jamendo... check these guys

Kolektyw Etopiryna ..... Polish Jazz

a new acquisition

i've been in to the idea of using reel to reel tape for years ... having watched the film The Conversation years ago ... as well as being into the BBC Radiophonic Workshop

I have recently acquirred a machine similiar to the one pictured... A ReVox PR99 MKIII... a few of the buttons are different.... its exactly like the picture below the first ... but does have a metal plate with groouves in it in the middle empty section at bottom.... i also have an older machine called Golden Spinney as well which is working, but needs fixing... the tape pressure pad is needing replacing... I think it is a 1950's/60's machine... similiar to the one pictured below...


I'm going to start playing around with sound ... who knows what might happen...

My Friend

My friend, Fellow Artist and Inspiration - Jerry Hope died on Friday 25 April 2008.

I miss him greatly... he lives on in the spirit of machines and nature


Hope everything is accomodating to your satisfaction sir...

Have a tremendous journey!

No Parking Exhibition

Exhibition
Opening with a Preview on Tuesday 15 April for a week including weekends at No2 Cheapside, Derby....

website


facebook group

you can also sign up to say if you might or might not come ....

Charles Mingus

the full documentary Triumph of the Underdog on the life and music of Charles Mingus

watch

Moments and Things

Happy New Year to everyone whom reads this...



Stuff I'm looking forward to in 2008

1: Getting on with it and getting out of creative ruts which happens to us all at some point...

2: In June its the My Bloody Valentine tour... Im going to Manchester to see them...
hope its good becouse when I saw them more than a few years ago they were and more...

3:The Opening of Quad and the future...

4: attending more arts events

5: Going back to Cornwall for a few weeks

6: being financially stable and finding new ways to produce work

7: well thats enough to be going on with for now!

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A gift for Christmas

Thought I put this lot up... my compilation of Stereolab

Starting with a Vinyl Justice Clip with a seasonal flavour...





Merry Christmas from Me - George ...

Have a good one...

The Dust Collectors soundtrack for Nosferatu

Yes The Dust Collectors are back for gig only they can do...

The Soundtrack to Nosferatu the 1922 silent film adaptation of the Dracula story by FW Murnau...

at the Metro Cinema in Derby on Sunday 25th Nov 07 at 6pm check prices on website as well as book through the site and by ringing 01332 340170

its a double bill with Christopher Lees - Dracula ( were not playing on that)

and tickets will be £2 extra on top of the normal price for the double bill...

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Nosferatu is a German Expressionist film by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok. Its original German title is Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens ("Nosferatu, a Symphony of Horror"). The film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922, was in essence an unauthorised adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, but with names and other details changed because the studio could not obtain the rights to the novel (for instance, "vampire" became "Nosferatu", and Count Dracula became Count Orlok).

above text taken from Wikipedia


you can also download a copy for yourself becouse its now copyright free...

both the black and white and tinted versions are here on above link - download


anyway see you there...
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as an end note:

dj Hungarian Pimp appears

Im DJing this coming Thursday 15 Nov at the Creative Block event which is taking place at the Blessington Carriage in Derby... with doors opening at 8pm upstairs in the function room...

several bands and I'm on later but could be filling places in the middle with devious tunes which happened last time...

Control

IM NOT GOING SAY ANYMORE THAN JUST GO AND SEE THIS FILM, NOW WHEN EVER YOU CAN ... JUST GO AND SEE IT...



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another post punk wonder - The Monochrome Set



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what I have been up to recently

Well its been a while since I've written one of these...
lets get on with it ...

for one I have recently been an extra in a movie - The Duchess - being filmed at Chatsworth with Keira Knightly, Ralph Fiennes and Charlotte Rampling...

It was fun to do, but alot of hanging around on first day... I had managed to get a lift in as well with one of the other extras - Roy... whom I met at costume fitting...

It rained a bit so filming stopped...

it was a wedding outdoor banquet scene...

Anyway second day some of us got called back and not others including Roy whom gave me a lift...

i had to think of another way of getting there by any means...

It took an early train to Matlock, 5.40am from Derby - walking - bus and more walking... to get to Chatsworth from Derby arriving around 8.30... a little late and I was worried I'd be sent home...

But not ... it was a more intense day of filming ... a constant process of retakes... rehearsals...

the director even got me to walk through near the main charactors...

It was more of the wedding scene bits through the day ... including the food bit where we as Tenants yes I forgot to say I was a Tenant Charactor...

By the day we got to film the food on table was mouldy and at the very least appetising.. but we had to convince the camera we were enjoying it mmmmm mould mmmmmmm ... but it some how made it more jovial amongst us extras...

we even got to do the sound of a party at end... most of the time through out we had to maintain silence due to dialogue being recorded by main actors near by...
it was interesting to experience how a film is constructed...

I enjoyed the experience and would love to do it again at some point...

heres what i looked like in period costume....



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Tango

What else have I been up to .... Gone to two weddings recently... one of which was Lorin Halsall's from The Dust Collectors, got to Tango properly to a band called BetTango featuring Walt Shaw whom plays with us in Dust Collectors...

Its a dance I would like to learn properly...

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And Finally -

To quote from the film 'Billy Liar'

Its all Happening!!!

its opening today, but heres a photograph I took when it started...



Temples(2006) copyright georgeharrisphoto

back online

finally I am now back on line in the comfort of my home... will be updating the website more frequently ... as it needs be...

here is a link to my you tube account in which I am collecting all the videos and things i like.... enjoy... theres some John Cassevetes bits and much more..... at my you tubery

or view this selection of John Cassevetes down below...

odds and sods - bits of life

This Week - Great Finds in Charity Shops - Jazz discs....Duke Ellington at the Cotton Club various Stan Kenton discs and Count Basie....

apparently there were more before but someone beat me to it... ahhhhhh

i hope 'City of Glass - Stan Kenton' wasn't there i would be annoyed

great band online at myspace King Kahn & the Shrines
- soul garage punk stuff-

will be djing soon in Nottingham - will let you know - in September...


anyway over and out...

mr g

iam now playing in The Dust Collectors

I am now with The Dust Collectors... about to play the 5th gig with them.... poster above...

Here are some photographs from our last gig in a field in Lincolnshire... taken by Julie West...

I have got some new photos up as well taken at the recording session we did a month ago... at Q-Gallery...

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I have also put new photos of Corey Mwamba's New Quintet

As well as some of the documentation I have done for Q-Arts / Quad...
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I am also working on a new project with the running title of Visceral Place part 2 for exhibition next year....

more information to follow...

all the best

G x

Derby Jazz Week exhibition

Hi all, yes the exhibition is going to happen in the Assembly Rooms 21 - 25 March... the Exhibition hasn't been mentioned on their site, but go to Derby Jazz Week for more info here
The image below is of Corey Mwamba whom I photographed for the banners up in Derby at the moment for Jazz week...