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Day 93 - Fish and Chips and Happy Birthday Clint - Along the Prom, Aberystwyth

Rimini Protokoll arrived in Aberystwyth for the first time today. At around 9:20pm. I waited for a while in the Shilam, drinking odd tasting Tetleys and reading the Independant. Apparently Clint Eastwood is 80 today (unless of course it was an old copy of the paper). We ended up going for fish and chips before heading to Rummers for a drink. Up early tomorrow. I'm interested to see how they make sense of Aberystwyth, the schedule looks fascinating.


The next ten days…
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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 31, 2010 at 12:10 — No Comments

Day 92 - Standing in the ruins of an abandoned village - Greystones Motel, Near Sennybridge



I stand motionless upon a small patch of concrete. Beside me to my left is… Continue

Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 30, 2010 at 12:00 — No Comments

92.2 - NTW Talk - The Book Festival, Hay-on-Wye

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Day 92.1 - Either end of the military range - Sennybridge to Tirabad

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Day 91 - Remembering SN 868759 - Online

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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 29, 2010 at 3:34 — 2 Comments

Day 90.1 - Anwen Jones (the actual) Interview - Parry Williams, Aberystwyth



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Day 90 - Anwen Jones Interview - Parry Williams building, Aberystwyth

I won't go into great detail here. Part of the interview will go up as a pod cast later today. I will post the link on the blog.



I'm off to the arts centre to meet Gill Ogden in a minute to talk about screening Notes From...Then off to pick up Poppy and back up the hill for a meeting with Carl.



I'm in the corner of the library at present. Lime green wall to my left, an exposed patch of plaster in… Continue

Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 28, 2010 at 1:33 — No Comments

Day 89.1 - Didn't make it Podcast instead - Voices online

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Day 89 - Standing up Plynlimon - Waiting to be picked up, Aberystwyth

About to head up the mountain for a standing... maybe two... even three


I Managed to get myself a ticket to the event in Hay. Just need to figure out how to get there. Might head down with Sam and document some further standings along the way.




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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 27, 2010 at 7:33 — No Comments

Day 88 - Publikumsbeschimpfung - Centre For Visual & Performing Arts, Aberystwyth

Don't ask me to say it. I can't. I did just try and failed impressively. The students at the College put on a cracking show. I haven't been back since I left to commence this research project and it was a strange experience. A bit like returning to school after taking time off ill... terrifying…

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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 26, 2010 at 12:30 — No Comments

Day 87 - 'Its What You Do' - The Basement, My House, Aberystwyth

Band
Practice
Down
Stairs
My
House
Stuart
Brian
Tom
Guitar
Saxaphone
Singing
Beach
Party
Happy
Upbeat
Recording
Listen
OKgo
Marching
Band
Paint
All
Over
You

Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 25, 2010 at 10:00 — No Comments

Day 86.2 - Standing by the Fire - Cnwch Coch

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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 24, 2010 at 12:30 — No Comments

Day 86.1 - Standing on the Map - My House

Thirteen Standings - 13 minutes


Sheet 125 is complete and project two is underway.


Project three will be specifically around the NTW map.


Title: Theatre Map of Wales


NTW 01 - Blackwood Miner's
NTW 02 - The Old Library Swansea
NTW 03 - The New Theatre Cardiff
NTW 04 - TBC etc.
NTW 05
NTW 06
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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 24, 2010 at 1:38 — No Comments

Day 86 - Watching through my window - My House

It's 11:34 am and I am sat by the front window of my house watching people as they pass by. The shop across the road sells bacon and eggs which I have purchased on a number of occasions. Each time I have the same conversation about the eggs in which I am assured that while they are not called free range they do come from hens that are free range in everything but name. Obviously someone has mislabeled them as there is a 3 printed on the shell in red ink. The box reliably informs me that… Continue

Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 23, 2010 at 23:41 — No Comments

Day 85 - On the road again - Back to Aberystwyth

The journey back to Aber was excruciatingly hot. Ben's Nissan Sunny doesn't have air conditioning and that it goes at all is quite a surprise. Wales is looking extremely green at this time of year. Sheep throwing themselves at wire fences to escape the oncoming traffic are in danger of bouncing right back into the road. They look a whole lot hotter than us, apparently they don't get sheared any more as the wool has no value, instead they are left to scrape it off.


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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 23, 2010 at 7:00 — No Comments

Day 84 - Paddling down the Wye - The River Wye

18 miles doesn't sound like a long way to paddle in a canoe. I can assure you that it is. There were only two stretches of water that seemed to be moving, the rest of it was like raking gravel. The Sun was unrelenting so I covered myself in factor thirty and tied a shirt around my head. Harry and I managed to avoid sinking more than once. We had just tried to release the stag's boat into the river but hadn't managed to get away ourselves before our boat was over turned and my flip flops… Continue

Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 22, 2010 at 7:00 — No Comments

Day 83 - Wye Aye Man - Hay

I'm off to Hay to stalk the festival and figure out how the land lies. Last time I was there I was shouting obscenely from behind a microphone at a crowd of Wedding guests. This weekend I will be paddling down the river in pursuit of another friend, pre-wedding. I imagine it will end in tears. His not mine. Though actually quite probably mine too.


Fingers crossed there is space at the talk in Hay next weekend. Still waiting to hear back from John and Lucy on that…
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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 20, 2010 at 22:38 — No Comments

Day 82 - Standing Very Still on Screen - Nant y Moch (well almost)

Sam brought the current edit of the Welsh Landscape work around last night. The images look great but the piece doesn't hang together conceptually. We need to find a way to tighten it up. Looks like its going to involve another 15 hours of standing very still. Thankfully its getting sunny now.


Its time for me to give it a go somewhere else... eventually at the locations for NTW. The images are incredibly pensive. They speak volumes about the places without actively…
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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 20, 2010 at 11:30 — No Comments

Day 79 - Standing by the Lake - Nant Y Moch

It all ended at about 3am with Sam brandishing a replica revolver and me hiding under the table why he shouted something about god knows what. Up to that point we had been quite productive. At least in the planning process.


We managed to collect documentation of 3 more landscapes. And hour and a half of standing by a lake. Or in Sam's case half an hour of standing and half 15 minutes of bouncing up and down.


I remember the sound of the car…
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Added by Dr Tom Payne on May 17, 2010 at 16:00 — No Comments

Day 78 - Running Away - Up on the hill again, Aberystwyth

Despite being very late to bed I managed to extricate my-self from my nest and throw my body into an athletic encounter with constitution hill.


I passed a number of revelers from the night before who looked impressed by my commitment to traveling along the sea front quite quickly. Hundreds of women in pink covered the prom. Either in preparation for, or after, the race for life. Life boats bounced across the waves and for a moment I was fooled into thinking that…
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