​Week Two of Kindred Studios Residency for  West Projection Festival.

I have found  many fascinating walks from Kindred Studios into Footscray or across to Spotswood.
The apartment block sized towers of containers and the cranes  that move them and the Yarraville 
Oil Terminal keep turning up in my wandering photos and strike me as excellent but no doubt completely 
impractical ( and most likely prohibited) sites for projection works .. 
but I could not resist creating some messy images on these locations in the virtual domain.
heres two for instance;

Walking Tree...

Always was, always will be....

The start of Week 2 already !--- survived my main project hard drive complete crash last week-after several hours of trouble shooting/desperation found a way to copy the files off--just a quick two day process! 

On the brighter side had three great visitors last week, Klare Lanson, Anthony Lyons and Annie Murray- look forward to what and whoever happens this week and getting busy making and wondering about what Im making :)  Kindred Studios was abuzz with the energy and excitement of three hundred or so Musicians for  APRA's Melbourne Music Sessions. I have studio time booked in here for some new audiovisual performance related research and development for West Projections outcome at Kindred Studios which will be a great opportunity to test some ideas for bending field recordings of image and sound into imaginative hybrid forms.
Capturing many images and sounds of Footscray lots of large layered landscapes of culture, industry, nature and history all at once...also fascinated with detail such as the hidden world inside the so called "concrete jungle"
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 Met with the super helpful Studio Manager,  Dhanesh, set up my co working deskspace, walked around and took in the views of the beautiful park across the road, the container docks, and the numerous interesting co-tennants in the building. My first collaborator Klare Lanson visited and we cooked up some exciting plans for projection film and or live performance. Photos first early morning coffee, and co-working space set up..