Happiness Experiment Entries - Finland

23/4/17

Reading 'My Promised Land'

A late afternoon walk through Helsinki in the cool Spring sunshine to meet Noora - the ship building, the post office, the station, all under an azure sky

Bumping into Andrew Missingham by chance at the airport, coming off the same plane - small world

24/4/17

Teaching (short form video at YLE)

Reading in the park above the port after work

Getting my old dual-time watch fixed at Stockmann

Temps Perdu

Loppylugs record shop, Edgware

mentioned in passing on Radio London this morning

David Hockney - Tate Britain 17/3/17

Artist Surrounded by Artistic Devices 65

✓republish on SP4

Rubber ring floating in a swimming pool 71

figurative abstract

cf O'Keeffe

my bro is only 17 1962

cf Boty - cut swear word

cf Basquiat

phrases recur in 

3rd love painting 60

we 2 boys together clinging 61

quite chaste

the most beautiful boy in the world 61

bacon influence flesh

1st Marriage 62

use of bare canvas

chair theme

pool theme

boxes like Bacon

Letraset

Sunbather 64

X water 'devices'

Medical bldg 66

cf Riley

figurative abstract 

cf O'Keeffe - flat on abstract figurative bldg scenes

A Bigger Splash 67 *

X water devices

cf OKeeffe palette

X grass (plant?) devices 

just missed absence of people

the core work

EPICS 

American Collectors 68

paired portraits 90 degrees connections or not btwn couples

por of an artist (pool w 2 figs) 72

another pair

a diff 90 degrees

weird mirror reflection 

geldzahler & chris scott 69

90 degrees

X glass devices

✓ SP4 on devices

isherwood & bachardy 68

90 degrees with head

mr & mrs clark * 70/1

☐ find cane steel chair loft

X carpet devices

2 45s to make 90

regency roots gainsborough

my parents 77 *

flower pot theme

mirror avatar child between them

Tate has all the great ones

cf his shoes in My Mother Bolton Abbey

cubist photography (composite polaroid)

gregory swimming la 31/3 82

those werent water devices - painted on pool

like a compilation of old london exhibs

Nichols Canyon 80

great palette - original

going up garrowby hill 2000

variable pov with distortion

mapness

the 4 seasons, wolfgaye woods 

summer

cubist

extension of polaroids

ipad drawings - process captured

ipad to paint - digital to concrete

(from EN)

Creative Accounting No. 533 - Ghost in the Shell

Ghost in the Shell = Bladerunner + Robocop + Crouching Tiger + Frankenstein

Happiness Experiment entries - Finland

Monday 27 March

Dinner overlooking sea inlet with Noora in Helsinki

Evening walk through Helsinki in the lowering sun

Watching Inferno movie on the plane to Finland, Hollywood nonsense

Tues 28

Successful three hour lecture to 150 YLE staff, punctuated with cinnamon buns

Dinner with Ritva & Raimo at the art nouveau bank building - including Riesling & fish soup

Meeting about Finland centenary TV dance event with Markkus & Ritva - burst of idea generation

Wed 29

Short Form Video workshop at YLE - starting to engage with the ideas

Lunch with Erko talking docs

Run at sunset along the waterfront (with still frozen sea) to a small island

Thurs 30

Reading Bright, Precious Days on the way home from a bright, precious day

Watching more short form with the workshop

Reuniting with U

Fri 31

Creating more ideas with Distillery

Dinner with the Enfants Terribles at Yalla Yalla

Reading the end of Bright, Precious Days

Star Spots No. 656 & 657

17/3/17
Bill Nighy
Tate Britain

16/3/17
Stephen Frears
BAFTA

Cubist Bill

Star Spot No. 655

Emma Thompson
Hampstead Heath 12/3/17

Alex Brooker (The Last Leg)
Northern Line 9/3/17

Marble Arch cinema

Odeon Marble Arch (1963)

Disney Cinema
Robin Hood
Terry Thomas - I sssay sire

Odeon
The Cure in Orange - Tim Pope
Hear My Song - Princess Di

Disney St Martins Lane

Ionic Golders Green

Creative Accounting No. 388

Time Tunnel (1966) = Vertigo (1958)

Happiness Experiment entries 27/12/16 - 3/1/17

Tues 27/12/16

1 Intimate chat with JRT (£0)

2 Country walk with U between Essendon & Newgate Street (£0)

3 Reading Tom Stoppard's Travesties in the garden with water-rock (£0)

28/12/16

1 D's pals round for his 17th (£80)

2 giving D some guitar music (£20)

3 walk to copses & Parliament Hill in the fog en famille (£0)

Thurs 29/12/16

1 Walk in Kenwood in the sunny fogginess (£0)

2 Reading Ali Smith’s ‘Autumn’ in the sunny winter garden (£0)

3 Re-broaching ‘Ulysses’ (£0)

Fri 30/12/16

1 woods walk & talk with Martin - Queens & Highgate Woods (£0)

2 finishing Reasons to Stay Alive (£4)

3 watching Humans 2.0 (£0)

 

31/12/16

1 Matthew’s friendship and compliments (£0)

2 Ian’s warmth (£0)

3 Reading by the Christmas tree (with music) (£0)

Sun 1/1/17 New Year’s Day 

1 Reading TS Eliot (Murder in the Cathedral & The Waste Land) and listening to his poetry read by Jeremy Irons on Radio 4 (Prufrock & The Waste Land) (£0)

2 Watching Agatha Christie mystery in front of fire with U & N (£0)

3 Cake with rose water made by Annie B (£0)

2/1/17

1 Supporting & being supported by PJE  (£0)

2 Visiting George Michael’s house and floral shrine  (£0)

3 Supporting JRT with Dave P - visiting him in Benedict Cumberbatch’s flat with top-floor cinema  (£0)

3/1/17

1 Reading The Affair outside in the freezing garden & by the Christmas tree

2 watching Titanic documentary

3 writing SQT proposal

I will enjoy my day

Creative Accounting #325

Lalaland / Birdman = soulless Hollywood crap X too clever for own good

Creative Accounting #324

Emma Stone (Lalaland) = Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday) - attractiveness

Creative Accounting #323

Arrival = Inception + Gravity + Interstellar + The Day The Earth Stood Still

Creative Accounting #322

Amy Adams / USA = Nicole Kidman / Aus

Boxing Day Happiness Experiment entry

Paying an early morning visit to George Michael's childhood home in East Finchley eight hours after his sad passing was announced

Long walk from Clapton to Victoria Park, Hackney with N under an azure winter sky

Reading in the winter sunshine after my jog (water-rock on) - some Jack Reacher pulp fiction

Christmas Day Happiness Experiment entry

Nighttime tour through an empty London with D & N including Primrose Hill (with its red light punctuated view) & Waterloo Bridge

Cooking a turkey for the family which was just so

Placing some flowers (kindly given by the florist at the end of our road) with U on the memorial for Arlington (Rowton) House, Camden Town, as mentioned by Patrick Kavanagh (a favourite of Bronagh) in 'The Green Fool' - home of many a solitary, lost Irishman

Paul Nash - Tate Britain

1889-1946
pantheistic
Slade

Influence of Blake
Redon - Symbolisme

Wittenham Clumps
13
watercolour ink chalk

We are making a new world 18
from the ashes of destruction...
blown back to prehistory

the menin road
Nature still triumphs

after the battle
18
waterc & ink
Munch

ypres salient at night
18
whistler - palette
nativity - star(burst)

landscape always eclipses figures in these works

Ardizzone

wood on the downs 29/30
saw de chirico in 28 - key influence - uninhabited surreality
ben nicholson palette - mushroom & grey

night tide 22 ink wc
vorticists

winter sea 25-37
full abstraction

the shore 23 leeds
perfect balance of abstract & figurative

nostalgic ls 23-38
ernst
devereux

surrealism
cubism

he has Nature as his core - his whole oeuvre revolves around landscape

Unit One 33-35
exhib touring 34/5 mayor 4/34
edited Herbert Read
Hepworth Nicholson Moore Burra Wadsworth

Tristram Hillier
pylons 33

Wadsworth
dux et comes 1 32
organic abstract forms cf moore

b nicholson
1933 milk & plain choc
scraping/etching powerful
great abstract sense - sculptural
scultpure + collage
Picasso

surrealist objects & poems exhib London Gal 37

eileen agar
ladybird 36
nude in seethru cape

ernst exhib mayor 6/33

forest 36/7
wood
glove stretchers

wood on the hill 37
sculpture transposed to painting

only egg 36/7
box backed by photo
cornell
"boxed assemblage" = surrealism

found objects

landscapes with large foreground object cf okeefe

int surrealist exhib London 6/36 burlington gals

nash V okeefe

equivalents for the megaliths 35 tate
ernst
magritte

ls fr a dream
36/8 tate
magritte
okeefe

battle of ger 44 iwm
bold palette
epic cf John Martin
perfect balance fig & abs

totesmeer 40/1 tate
tate book before school
perfect blend of ls & surr

ls of the briwn fungus 43
spare, stripped down
distinctive palette
clump cf tomb trees h heath Adam Z last wk

pillar & moon 32-42
ls & architdcture

ls of the moons last phase
44 liverpool walker
clumps
rouuseau

equinox = equal day & night

ls of the vernal equinox 43 *
looser command
deeply surrealist

Todays Happiness Experiment entry

Delivering Masterclass on Short Form Video in Site Gallery, Sheffield overlooking the pop domes

Visit to Graves Gallery for small photography exhibition (Street Photos) after which, on the street, I chatted about freemason signs & antiquities with a benign drunkard

Low yellow winter sunlight bathing the red brick and towers of the city (after meeting with Milan)

Street View: Photographs of Urban Life (Graves Gallery, Sheffield)

cartier-bresson
palermo 72
2 boys playing with wheel, hearse in bg
life & death momento mori - dynamism of kids vs parked hearse

garry winogrand
american legion convention dallas 64
ignoring amputee in ground
amputee in iwn dimension like nuck drake in my photo

fountains fell yorks dales 3/8/08
simon roberts
couple picnicing by road
tranquil - watching nature on own terms

colin jones
children c75
skipping along foot of wall
backdrop of solid brick
shadow of house opposite adds mystery

sheffield = city of seven hills
paul nash did photography in last 14 years
martin parr did series on bad weather britain

happiness experiment entries

tues 22 nov

wisdom from roger g at mentoring session in st pancras

chat at october gallery with james birch about christine keeler - kind gift of mayor catalogue

ciggie chat with photographer ray stevenson on stairs by rock archive (on my old stomping ground near carleton rd) about bowie, pistols, who, crosby s&n etc. as I collected my miles & trane photo (which i promptly took down to frameworks to finish)

wed 23

calm chat with N after the storm

shakshuka in HGS strip park

meeting with meagan the pagan at old st about edin tv fest