THE CONTINUOUSLY FLOWING THREAD

Surface Stations (2009)

2009-04-17T03:04:00.000-07:00

Some documentation from Flow.

Welcome to my studio!

2009-04-01T08:17:00.000-07:00

As promised here are some pictures of my studio.

All the best,

René

Wonderful example of 3d type

2009-03-25T04:55:00.000-07:00

Just came across this excellent application of corporate identity and the company’s field of work I photographed last October in Venice. The design is always work in progress as nature takes its time to corrode the letterforms.

All the best,

René

The mailbox is full ...

2009-03-23T00:50:00.000-07:00

... with paint. Picture taken around the corner of our flat of someone’s discontent about the Austrian postal service. Have a good week and don’t forget to smile whereever you go :-)

René

Bitter Sweet Irony

2009-03-17T10:21:00.000-07:00

Dear all!

Shortly after getting started with the studio there was the first assignment coming in. It is a closing report for an Austrian Organisation. I was quite delighted but the joy working on the project gave way to the realisation that this wasn’t UNI.

The contact person is quite chaotic, the documents are not well structured and the photographs are a catastrophy. I totally forgot about that during my time in England. So at the moment I try to make the best out of the material I’ve got and try to get it finished as fast as possible.

But I already work on an idea for client acquisition which will be the next project. As I get up with Elisabeth and start in my studio at around 7.30 am this might be a unique selling proposition. I don’t know any graphic designers who are at work that early. Pictures of this project will find their way into the blog ...

Hope you are all well!

All the best,

René

Vienna is up and running …

2009-03-04T03:47:00.000-08:00

Dear friends,

setting up the studio took a while but now I am ready to go. There are some small things missing so you will have to wait for the pix a little longer.

Meanwhile I also continued to train my motion graphics skills and I thought to post one of the completed tutorials because the animation fitted our blog title nicley. I am missing the talk with all of you. Enjoy the video.

All the best from Vienna, René

PS: The tutorial is from www.videocopilot.net

Closing Party

2009-02-16T05:33:00.000-08:00

Time-Lapse

2009-02-06T11:14:00.000-08:00

photographed by Sebastian Edge

Flow

2009-02-04T00:35:00.000-08:00

Thanks to everyone who came to the final closing night of Flow. 100 plus people turned up to celebrate the end of the show. Some time lapse video of the show will be posted soon, but here are some comments from the visitor book:

'Great space and atmosphere'

'Fantastic space. The work compliments one another. Great job'

'Lovely to see the fruition of all your work in this fantastic space - congratulations'

'Interesting to see motion picture film pulled/pushed/streached in directions that not many have thought of before. - Great catering too'

'It's the Maidstone Tate Modern in the making!! Fabulous space - great potential, look forward to the future'

'Great. Long live UCA Maidtone we will sort out the Surrey mafia! Maidstone, your MA students did you proud. Thanks'

There were lots more comments about the how amazing the space was, so thanks to Louise and Laura of FrancisKnight and Dave Manning of the Powerbub Business Centre for letting us use the space.

Show Images

2009-01-14T07:04:00.000-08:00

Cathy Rogers

Sebastian Edge and Dominic de Vere

Assessment

2009-01-14T06:22:00.001-08:00

-Stavros Gangos

Press Kit

2009-01-02T07:54:00.000-08:00

If you would like to find out more about our group go to our press kit.

Thanks for all the support.

Stavros Gangos

FLOW Group!!!

2008-12-31T09:30:00.000-08:00

FACEBOOK GROUP

1 week to go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-stavros gangos

The art of looking.

2008-12-27T09:47:00.000-08:00

Shot on Super8. telecine.

thinking

-Stavros Gangos

Flow - exhibition details

2008-12-27T09:29:00.000-08:00

FLOW

Unit B9, Powerhub Business Centre
St Peters Street
Maidstone
Kent ME16 OST

Artists featured : Rodrigo Boro, Stavros Gangos and Sean Malone, Sebastian Edge, Dominic De Vere and Cathy Rogers

Dates

January 22nd until January 29th 16:30-19:30

closed January 25th and January 26th

Please note: there is no parking on site. Maidstone East train station is a 3 minute walk away and there is parking there.

-stavros gangos

cleaning up space two

2008-12-18T03:36:00.000-08:00

Train

2008-12-17T01:13:00.000-08:00

Shot on super8. Telecine (miniDV).
-Stavros Gangos

Expanded Cinema - BFI Southbank 6th December

2008-12-04T01:07:00.000-08:00

This event looks absolutely amazing ;

"Expanded Cinema is a transitory and unpredictable art form. The live act of projection activates the space in front of the screen and explodes the relationship between the audience and the film. This AHRC Central Saint Martins-supported day of screenings, performances and talks will illuminate the history of Expanded Cinema and explore the tensions between the live event and its record. Performers and speakers will include William Raban, Malcolm Le Grice, Guy Sherwin, Maxa Zoller and Duncan White."

There's also a showing of Michael Snow's Triage and a Casing Shelved at 8.30pm
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/expanded_cinema_live_record

Book now!! if it's not too late.

Big Brother (and Sister, for Cathy's benefit) is now watching you...

2008-12-02T13:14:00.000-08:00

Ok, so following on from a discussion with Comrades Rogers and de Vere earlier today, I have added a stat reporter to the site. The button is right at the bottom of this page (I removed the code for the one we added earlier Cathy). It's a SiteMeter, I can forward one and all login details and what not, however I think you can just click it and see the majority, if not all relevant stats. It isn't blocking any visits right now, so it is tracking all our visits as well of those of random folk lucky/unlucky enough to have stumbled across this blog by accident.

We can remove the count from the button, so it is just the SiteMeter logo, or whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Anyway, I have some more HTML geekdom to get involved with.

As always, much love and kisses,

Sean

P.S. I promise I will post something more artistic and interesting at some point.

Founders book (?)

2008-12-01T03:05:00.000-08:00

Images by George Chiotis

The more I have been thinking abut it the more I feel that a small companion would be a nice addition to my project. A collection of stories and images of this land that would accompany the visual experience I'm trying to make placed in a way that wouldn't impose it self.

-Stavros Gangos

Dymchurch Martellos

2008-11-30T15:54:00.000-08:00

On a cold but sunny day in October I shot a test roll of Ektachrome of three Martello towers at Dymchurch. Method: Alternate frames for each tower in sight along the sea wall at Dymchurch. Riding the aperature and focal length of a cannon 7.5-6omm lens.

Darkvan at Dungeness

2008-11-30T03:06:00.000-08:00

the Darkvan goes to dungeness

We Drove down to dungeness on Friday night in the Van, so as to be up a good hour before Sun up, to film the rising sun. Filming commenced with manually worked out individual exposures time lapsed every 7 seconds throughout the day, of course it was freezing and so we chose to stay in the van, with a cable release going outside to the camera, whilst watching numerous films and discussing the weather over an 11 hour period.

Seb

The Space.

2008-11-28T06:55:00.000-08:00

KITCHEN SPACE

This is the first space we have managed to book for our January show.

We are trying to get a second one.

More news soon.

-Stavros Gangos

Struggling with geekdom and other minor annoyances.

2008-11-27T19:08:00.000-08:00

So, Stavros told me I must post on here, or else. So I am, because the thought of else scares me somewhat.

I have just realised it is 3.10 in the morning, which is my first disappointment.

My second is that I've spent about two hours trying to make a website, which validated perfectly fine in the W3C HTML validator (although granted only using Transitional DTD), display in both Internet Explorer and Firefox with anything approaching uniformity.

Now while I have achieved this I did have to cheat. For example, I had to use an align attribute in a table cell, which whilst being fine under 4.01 Transitional, is not the best coding ever. However, it was the only way I could get my table to center ([sic] all HTML and CSS is written with US English so you get things like center, color, and so on) in Firefox. Well actually I think I could of done it with CSS but it came to a point at which I couldn't give a shit anymore.

Now anyway, this brings me to my next Nightmare on Geek Street. The site is based on a myriad of nested tables. Why so sad? Well I'll tell you! Whilst trawling many forum things and whatnot, I saw one comment posted by a fellow in the same position as myself. In fact identical I think. It was when I read a reply which read something like "Well, if you are going to use tables for layout, you might as well use invalid mark-up code." Or something. Anyway, it was a complete hammer blow to my geek esteem.

It would seem since I was last designing websites, (admittedly at least 7 years ago) when nesting tables was common place and you slapped CSS on for a bit of color (just joking, colour) and style, the world has consigned people of my ilk to the dustbin of history. Either that or 're-education' camps where you knit barbed wire into fencing, with no gloves, to make sure you never inflict such retrograde coding on the internet again.

Anyway, long and short of it is, I now have to brush up my CSS. Then at some point in the future I will re-code this website for my project, and my personal website, so that I can avoid being 're-educated'.

However on the plus side, I validated my CSS style sheet with the W3C and it was fully compliant.

-Sean

P.S. In summary Stavros, this is why you shouldn't have made me post on this thing. See what you've done? Do you know how boring what I've just written is? Seriously?

Hoist

2008-11-25T21:40:00.001-08:00

Hoist-Matthew Barney

"'Hoist' describes the encounter between the two central characters of the film; the so-called ‘Green Man’ and a fifty-ton deforestation Caterpillar truck under which he is suspended. Following the three acts of traditional film narrative, it is structured according to the three phases of description, situation and condition."-Destricted Website

I watched "Hoist" last night on the Destricted dvd. I found it extremely interesting because f the relation it forms around machines, humans and sexuality.

It reminded me a story my grandfather used to tell me when I was younger. He was a WWII Veteran and his job was to be in charge of radio transmissions for 20 Churchill tanks. He used to explain the process with which they would hide the tank at night. They would dig a 4X3 meters wide and 2 foot deep space where the tank would sink in. The soldiers would sleep underneath the tank despite the danger of the tank crushing them.

I thought it was an interesting association concerning the relationships we form with machines whether it concerns life, death, war, getting off etc.

This image of men (or a man in Hoist) underneath a machine just stuck in my mind.

Thought I would share it with you.

-Stavros Gangos

Freezing in the name of Martello Towers

2008-11-25T11:26:00.000-08:00

(image courtesy of Peter Hibbs who has an amazing website all about the towers http://www.martello-towers.co.uk/)

Froze my A@*! off today visiting the Pevensey Martello Towers, all in the name of ..

It was a beautiful day and didn't quite head off as early as hoped but still managed to re-film four towers on a strip of coastline between Pevensey and Eastbourne. This re-shoot is an effort to hone my strategy based on the test film I did and which will form one half of my final project for the MA.

I seem to have a penchant for towers and not wishing to psycho-anaylse the whole thing (although I'm sure George could give me a few clues) I'm adopting the position of one that sees them like sentinels, permanent structures a bit like truncated bodies communicating with each other (there were 74, now only 25, dotted along the Kent, Sussex Coastline, built to ward off Napolean who never arrived).

The idea of them communicating kind of reminds me of a piece of work by Pierre Huyghe "Les Grands Ensembles". Bruegel's vision of the tower built to connect society to the heavens, as depicted in The "Little" Tower of Babel (1563), seems to echo the Martellos' grandiose role which was never fulfilled and now seems somewhat redundant.

The journey continues on Thursday pm - to Dymchurch and beyond!

-Cathy

Space Confirmed

2008-11-25T04:02:00.000-08:00

We have new space confirmed for the January Show. Waiting on news for a second.

More info soon!

Here we go.

-Stavros Gangos

Demolition

2008-11-23T13:18:00.000-08:00

Demolition of Westoe Mine. South Shields, UK

This is a part of my final project on South Shields, my hometown.

-Stavros Gangos

The difficult task of leaving behind.

2008-11-20T07:59:00.000-08:00

Woman talking to herself in a pub. South Shields, UK.

-Stavros Gangos

Website Under Construction // Online Soon.

2008-11-18T05:40:00.001-08:00

-Stavros Gangos

In Search of Space.

2008-11-18T05:00:00.000-08:00

By the end of this week we will probably have the space (s) in which we will be exhibiting this coming January (more info soon) in Maidstone. We have been looking at industrial spaces and vacant shops. We thought about the possibility of multiple spaces creating a sort of satellite gallery system that would lessen the space restrictions imposed from a single area.

We will see how that can work in relation to planning the event and the access the public will have to the individual sites.

More news on this soon.

-Stavros Gangos

Ben Rivers // On Overgrown Paths

2008-11-17T16:00:00.000-08:00

image above / Ben Rivers

Went to see On Overgrown Paths by Ben Rivers last Friday and found the work interesting. I don't want to go into an analysis about the work or criticize it in any way. I recommend seeing it. Its on at the Permanent Gallery (SØRDAL) and The Regency Town House (THIS IS MY LAND and THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES) in Brighton until the 15th of December.

Plenty of time.

More info here.

-Stavros Gangos

The first one.

2008-11-16T06:11:00.000-08:00

Image above by Stavros Gangos.

Welcome to the Continuously Flowing Thread. We are a group of comrades from the University College for the Creative Arts currently finishing our MA in Artists' Film, Video and Photography. In our minds this blog serves as a platform to discuss, document and share the difficult but creative process of putting up a show and making work at the same time. At least thats what I think we wanted to do.

-Stavros Gangos // aka butternut