Saturday, 10 April 2010

Warning Lights In Part

This week I have (liberally speaking) made a whole bunch of stuff: The last thing I made this week was a journey, just from Harlesden to Wimbledon having been to see Love Ends Disaster! in Kilburn last night with Heather and Marc B. and Dr. Pain. The journey was uneventful but LED were good. Earlier this morning though, I made a discovery... I was at a house that Heather is house-sitting - or more accurately cat-sitting in - and found a money plant or Crassula ovata (also known as a jade plant apparently)that had not been watered for a very long time, so dry was the soil that it had shrunk away from the sides of the pot and failed to hold the plant upright anymore. I took it to the kitchen for a good soak and discovered on route that it had started putting out roots from all over the place - it would appear that if the plant is left in dry soil it doesn't just give up and die but uses the energy conserved in its fleshy leaves to seek out water - how cool is that! Look, here's a photo of it:
Also...
I have spent the last couple of days soldiering on with the music video for Quartershade's Warning Lights single. Here's the sequence I've been working on:


And now I'm feeling dissatisfied with the layout of my bedroom and am planning what adjustments I will make... I'll keep you posted... as if you care!

Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Exhibitionism

After a frustrating and discouraging period of nothingness, I suddenly got two opportunities thrown my way at once: 1 To exhibit a sculpture in [Details On Request]'s Launch exhibition and 2 To sing my songs at Laura & Lauren's April Fools Arty Party.

What it all looked like:
1 "Zion is a sculpture, partly made by Matthew James Kay and partly made by the contribution of nature. The cardboard mountain is left to deteriorate and change by the elements as Kay gives up control over the sculpture to the environment and lets the work take its own course." Amber Ablett 2010

2

Laura and Lauren's Arty Party
Photography by Lee Gentry