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Afterthought

As an afterthought at some time this week I will be producing the Silver Machine tribute blog. Featuring highlights from previous blogs about the making of the machine, and some never before seen pictures of the Fat Bottomed Girls show.

But for the meantime heres a video my flatmate made, because I think it's ace.

H
e did the tune and that as well.

Keeping My Head Down

Not really been posting for a while, against my resolution at the start of the year.

Things have been getting pretty gloomy around these parts, curfews, brick-induced head stavings, Ian Wood. In what hopefully isn't some sort of symbolic foreshadowing, The Silver Machine has been knicked by some Aberdonian opportunist. The shed was broken into on Thursday, I came home to find three tramps in the garden, one of them peeing against the wall, the shed door was open and the bike was gone.

The police did the statement thing over the phone and I doubt if anything is going to come of it. Oh well, onwards and upwards I suppose. Since the last time I've done a couple of more wee video things. Part of ongoing working into ideas and stuff, nothing too solid yet but loads of ideas coming from it.



Part of a longer video, a short clip and part one of four hopefully.

Also built on the last flythrough, still lots of work needed:



Got a few days off this weekend so hopefully going to get around a bit and finish off a bit more of this stuff I've been thinking.

I've also ordered my first arduino, oh yes.

Oh yes I have.

Video-a-gogo

So last week I had to go down to Stranraer, my car was due an MOT and it seemed best to take it down home to get it done. This process involved a two-day there and back trip from one side of the country, so I decided to take this as an advantage and pack a load of cameras and get some experiments.

The first thing I got was this, on the way down in the car.

This is actually something I've wanted to do since the first time I made this journey, and theres much more on the actual tape than the little clip above, that I have been doing some fiddling with, but have no firm results as yet.

I also did a bit more experimenting with my stills camera, high ISO colour film in the dark. I wandered around Stranraer harbour, which was good fun finding things I'd not noticed in 25 years or little parts of the harbour that have changed or that I had forgotten. Heres a couple of my favourites.

Theres more of that stuff on my flickr should you feel the need to have a look. I also attempted a time lapse but didn't really work out, however I did get something more interesting out of it that I am going to have to revisit. 

Boy Racers Stranraer Harbour from Fraser Denholm on Vimeo.

Heading down to swap cars again in a couple of weeks so should get some more stuff, got the same to do again, so it'll keep my occupied.