No. 1 A QUOTE: it's from Iris Murdoch's "Satre" and it goes like this:
"adventures are stories, and one does not live a story. One tells it later, one can only see it from the outside. The meaning of an adventure comes from its conclusion; future passions give colour to the events. But when one is inside an event, one is not thinking it. One can live or tell; not both at once. There are no real beginnings. The future is not already there."
I think that explains why its hard to begin, and if I tried to explain it I could write for 10 paragraphs and not get anywhere. So thanks to that quote... I do have a beginning... I'm going to read the rest of the book now ;)
No. 2 A VIDEO
Its a meditative movie I filmed out of a taxi window riding through the streets of Seoul in heavy rain. I filmed out of the passenger window on a few taxi journeys we made, and this is "A Taxi Ride Through Seoul No.1". we were listening to opera at one point and it went nicely with the traffic jams. I'll post a few more throughout the blog. I remember filming in the middle of the night whilst we were driving 100mph down highways with a cab driver listening to a mixtape he'd made of British and American classics. I can't wait to see that one.
A Taxi Ride Through Seoul No.1 from Jack Barraclough on Vimeo.
No.3
Its some words I'd written for a song by Halo Halo, a band I've started with Rachel, she plays the banjo and I play the drums and we both make a lot of feedback come out of the amps. We never used the words in the end, but I like them and I kept thinking about them in Korea so we ended up using them for something we made together during our time in Seoul. I guess I thought about them so much I spent about an hour drawing and colouring them in nicely in my sketchbook.
