Tom’s first film (1971), which I bought from eBay is a bit of a shallow pool which I’ve been thinking about and looking at for some days now… How am I going to make work with the actual imagery? – I can, however, think of several possible ways to play with the object. Once the kids are back at school I will have space and time to take some photographs of the actual film which I wanted to do but goodness knows what to do with the footage…

The film has, alongside other activities, helped to further consolidate directions. And I wonder if the film will part be of the journey rather than anything final.

So far I have made two experiments, here’s one of them. If shown in a live setting, it would be preferable to have the processing running live rather than a screen recording like this. This video is generated by code in Processing  – by randomly relaying screenshots from the film (i.e ‘agential cuts’ into Tom’s amorphous and unformed recording).  The film reminded a friend of a Goerges Braque image in tone and structure, which was encouraging as I stared at it wondering whether it was anything or not (see below). Braque’s is called Violin and Candlestick (1910) and I guess I might call this Processing experiment Camera and Food Processor. I need to ask Simon C. who did the Processing course at the TPG with me how to stop the random placements from all heading in the same direction. I wish I could do the course again to augment some of what we learnt as I am currently picking through old files from the tutors very slowly as I try to figure out how to do things. I might also get the code to record the iterations and then handpick still combinations that are most striking. When its running live, I particularly like the frames where the food processor appears many times at once – with black holes all over the screen.