Indexical Spectre

dust settling over and over

2000

Some how this makes more sense coming from the lips of nick cave. Like a slow dance at a disco that ends in a punch-up.




would you like to meet me maybe,
you can even bring your baby,

The Flight of the Navigator

These are Satelloons, PAGEOS, pictured above before its launch in 1966, and Echo, below, in 1959. They played a role in Stellar Geodesy which was a method to measure the earth by launching sateloons into space, then photographing the mirrored spheres against the stars from several different locations on the surface of the earth.




The practice was later replaced by the development of lasers but there is something very familiar about these images.

an sgurr

A generic term in gaelic meaning rocky peak, but also the name of an actual rocky peak on the Isle of Eigg.



I like places where I've never been.

Burning churches

Luc Moullet

A relatively forgotten french film maker from the french new wave. Essai d'ouverture is a short film that traces his efforts to master the skills of opening a bottle of Coca-Cola.




The english retitling of his film 'Une aventure de Billy le Kid' is rather more exciting i think.