Just a quickie in passing….
A picture in book led me to draw a quick image of a sphere in a beam of light first thing this morning. As ever one idea led to the next and I quickly made a little animation I liked the look of. In particular it reminded me a tiny bit of the first story in Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics with the moon orbiting so close the ground you could jump up to it. I left it rendering and it came out as this…. (It has a sound track too so turn the sound on)
It seems like a companion piece to this which I made some weeks ago experimenting with sculpting using my iPad and Apple Pencil (something I need to get back to. I might not be great at it but it’s lots of fun!)
These are both quite influenced by my watching the live stream from Nautilus live which I quite like just leaving on when they are exploring. I love the light from the submersible and the things they discover in that little splash of light in the darkness, things looming up that no one has ever seen before. (They also seem like really nice people and the conversation they have while exploring can be quite cool)
The sound track for both come from a long micro sound improvisation that I did ages ago. I used to make tons of micro sound music and a new hardware setup led me back to old spaces which were nice to explore again. I think the ‘sci-fi’ sound works really well here. In particular in this mornings little video.
These feel like they are part of a bigger theme. So I’m counting them as sketches for something that will emerge one day.