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 Ive been looking into concrete n brutalist architecture in relation to my sound work, and been thinking of doing some work with concrete itself, and when i came across this exhibit on social media i knew i had to go!!!!!!! https://the-modernist.org/blogs/news/exhibition-loitering-with-intent

The other week I went to see the play 'Present Laughter' so i thought to write about it on my blog, even though no one reads these things, I thought i could re refer to it in the future. I also saw it a second time last monday, because i wanted to see it again and it was only shown for a few dates. During the summer, I found myself in a research pit of Rimbaud and Flappers and the Naughty Nineties and Noel Coward...... I then found out that one of Coward's plays 'Present Laughter' was going to be showing in the cinema so I made note of it. ALSO Andrew Scott was in it, so even more of a reason to go. The play is funny and flamboyant, while at the same time quite sad and has a tone of loneliness. The melancholic themes are hinted at in the first act and build up until the ending, which silences the audiences laughter with some, quite brutal, real shit. There was a lot about acting and performing which i liked. The costumes were to die for, and the it was ...

Tarnation is a film by Johnathan Caouette where he combines footage from his life that he took on a sense8 camera, over the span of 20 years, to create a narrative on growing up with his schizophrenic mother. From Renee (his mother) growing up being a model, having an accident, getting 200 electric shock treatments, and then following that through onto the affect it had on his life and how he believes the shock treatments are to blame for her mental state. We follow as Johnathan gets older and discovers his sexuality, going to gay bars at 13 and we are shown footage of him filming himself doing a monologue when he was around that age of him dressed as a woman in an abusive relationship. We also see Johnathan begin to be shaped as a person, and even how he got into film with the friends he met who introduced him to it. The narrative is carried by the captions on screen that takes you through like a typical story, as Johnathan refers to himself as third person - which I think works ...