The Shift-Time Blogging Project

From the blogs over the last week:

Monday

Martin is in a “reflective mood” after the debates on Sunday.

Sue Tortoise rounds up her experiences over the weekend with thoughts on Blue Eyed Soul’s TAKE, Umerus, Shift-Life and the speakers at Blast Off.

Sam Moore posts a couple of photos from the Shift-Life project she did the character designs for.

Steve Green recounts his weekend taking photographs around the park which you’ll find in this set.

Blue Eyed Soul thank the photographers who recorded TAKE on Saturday.

Lorna interviews Moya about Blue Eyed Soul for Virtual Shropshire:

Wednesday

Gekko reviews TAKE with photos.

Martin visits ELF at the Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery and finds “not a glimmer of life”.

Gekko announces she’s started a blog for the sheep that participated in Feng-Ru Lee’s performance: Marmont Jacobs, Montgomery, Wales.

Umerus moved to St Mary’s Church drawing much attention and Martin followed its journey with his video camera.

Pride Hill from Martin Smith on Vimeo.

And here it is in the Church:

Thursday

Sue interviews the creators of In Praise of Darwin’s Mistakes, the first part of The Weather Man trilogy.

Friday

Martin is still thinking about Kevin Warwick’s talk on Sunday about upgrading his body. He needs more RAM.

Jess from Blue Eyed Soul reflects on their performance of TAKE with some “backstage” photos.

Saturday

Gekko reviews Opera North’s The Weatherman and other events and pronounces it “an amazing day”.

Sunday

Sue writes with great detail about the science and philosophy underlying Theo Jansen’s work. Recommended reading.

Monday

Gekko reviews Heresy the installation by Andy McKeown and Sue Challis.

Finally…

Sue notices the sparcity of posts on this blog over the week and asks what’s going on with this project. I’ll try and answer that in the next post…

Nice to see a deluge of photos coming into the Shift Time Flickr group’s pool. Here’s a slideshow with the most recent uploads.

If you’ve taken photos during the festival and have a Flickr account please add yours to this group.

An ongoing collection of stuff found online about Shift-Time over the weekend. This is from quick scans of people I’m already monitoring or that come up in searches for “shifttime”. I’ll be doing deeper searches over the next fortnight.

Steve Green did a lovely photoshoot of Theo Jansen last week

Blue Eyed Soul are getting ready and welcome feedback through Moya’s Twitter account.

Danny, aka Flickering Velvet, has posted some photos to Flickr.

Sue Tortoise has a great set of closeup photos of Umerus

Sue checks out ELF: Electronic Life Forms.

I’ve been wielding my Through the Viewfinder camera around the site.

Blue Eyed Soul thought my photos were rather nice. (Hey, I’m just reporting what I find!)

Lorna reports on the launch night with Paul Granjon

Martin Smith is doing daily blog posts. Friday is nice with the setup but Saturday is where the meat happens.

Lovely photo of TAKE from Gekko:

And Sue has a great set of sepia-treated photos of the dance event.

As has Martin, although his as in colour.

Martin Smith has been in Holland witnesing the testing of Umerus before Theo Jansen brings it to Shrewsbury next week. He’s writing up his experiences on his blog but here are some of the first shots he sent from his phone:

Check in here for more

Sue Tortoise has uploaded some photos of the Primordial Soup sculptures that will be on display along the river bank in Quarry Park next weekend. Here’s a slideshow:

Wren Miller, half of Wren and Ray, has been posting photos on her Facebook chronicling the development of The Remembrance Path, a participatory art exhibition in the Quarry Park that’ll be open over the weekend of the 4th and 5th.

She starts with the sketches:

Moves to their “workshop” in the Darwin Shopping Centre…

And finally the construction of the piece itself.

Most of the photos have detailed captions and following them through gives a great sense of what they’re trying to do here. Go check them out.

Lovely to see a Shift-Time Flickr group has been formed without any input from the Shift-Time organisers. It appears to have spun out of the Shropshire Community group and is open to all. If you’re posting photos from Shift-Time to Flickr add them to this group. We’ll be monitoring the group pool and posting the most interesting shots on this blog.

Here’s a slideshow of the most recent photos in the pool. Right now there’s not much there, obviously, but it’ll soon grow.