The WIP #21: Timenergy
The Week in Photos (18-24 May 2024)
I’d heard the Tron Theatre were cancelling their Saturday night performance because of Celtic fans’ title celebrations. Bad for theatre, I thought, but maybe a good opportunity to take photos. And so it proved.
It was chaos. Fans had been drinking all day in the sun. They were crammed tightly around Glasgow Cross. Every bit of street furniture was there to be climbed. See more here:
I bumped into Simon Murphy who had been at the game. I am a big fan of Simon’s photography and I was fascinated to see how he worked in such a situation. He seemed to be looking for an individual story that would capture the whole drama, looking for characters and moments of joy. Check out his photos on Instagram.
Earlier in the day, I’d been in Falkirk doing the Parkrun and taking part in Caspar’s printmaking workshop.
Before that, in the café, I met Laurence Leask (centre with Irene Leask and Jill Horsburgh) who is famous (in Parkrun circles) as the person in Scotland who has done more Parkruns than anyone else. I love a Parkrun obsessive.
On Wednesday, I visited the Glasgow Zine Library where
was interviewing the crew behind on their world tour. They were promoting David McKerracher’s book, Timenergy (not to be confused with Celtic fans’ Tim Energy). It was a wild discussion that left me buzzing with ideas.
From theory to practice … I was also inspired by Barnabas Calder, Florian Urban, and John Joseph Burns’s presentation at ACAN about how Form Follows Fuel. It was a slightly wonkish investigation into what makes buildings more or less efficient, but they made a strong case for convivial architecture. Calder ended by saying “We are not going to stop people desiring more stuff with a graph.”
Finally, here is another panorama experiment with Anastasia, who asked me last week how I did them.