I escaped the drudgery today and drove in spring sunshine out to Tinatgel, N Cornwall. I had a feeling that I needed a session on my own, not sure if I’d lost my ‘mojo’. The evening before I’d prepared a performance score for Rebecca to perform at The Month Of Performance Art in Berlin. I…
Tag: bouldering
Colorado and Joe’s Valley Utah
I’ve been in Colorado for nearly two weeks now, not really sure where the time has gone. Snowboarding for the first time at the beginning of the trip was not such a bright idea. I’m still nursing sore intercostal muscles. Clocked up a few sessions and a look at the famous CATS gym home of…
Llanberis and Ogwen
My first night in a CC climbers hut. I rationalized sometime ago that sitting in a warmish hut was a better option than crouching and squatting in a coldish van. It transpired that I was right. It is though a bit weird, alone in a mountain hut, the wind howling outside, doors creaking and banging,…
between the see-er and the visible
Early January. What does it mean to have a project? I want to call this a curve of possibility. This experience occurred on the project I was on today as I added a move to what was already an existing problem. ‘I really don’t know if I can do it. So much seems to go…
stingray 7B+
Pretty sure this a new problem, starts very low left hand in a pocket, right hand on the lowest rail. Three hard moves then it meanders over into ‘blue ray’. Good news is it stays dry, bad news is that it isn’t very good…actually I like it and it kept me occupied on my visits…
reasons to be cheerful
I guess I must be free [in the way Bukowski rambles about in a depressing manner in the video below] as I scuttle around like a child on a freezing and cold day on a recent trip with Jane to Glendalough, in Ireland. We are free and happy! In very cold and windy conditions, I…
projects and process
Today I went out and had a bright and windy session on a new project, out on the north coast; I’d first checked this problem quite a few years ago. My memory though had played some tricks on me because on revisiting it a few months ago, it seemed very different. It was in fact…
serpentine
It’s amazing how exploration around West Cornwall can turn up new problems. I wouldn’t suggest that this is a great problem, but it would get stars if it had a top out, was accessible for more than a couple of hours at low tide and wasn’t either in the sun or wet! I’ve also been…
the eternal return…Godrevy and Nietzsche.
For Nietzsche active nihilism was the capacity to instill value, for to project meaning is the prime expression of the will to power, the sole underlying motive force of the world. Malcolm Bull in Anti-Nietzsche says that for Nietzsche ‘this final form of nihilism is the point of transition, the moment of metamorphosis into a…
Bits and bobs, from vimeo
Currently putting together a new website and coming across old stuff. Spent a good evening session at Godrevy last week, messing around on cracked pot, sand levels were very low around trigonometry, that and high sand in the bowling alley spoiled my aims of projecting. Its such a fickle spot though, stuff falling down, holds changing. Strange seeing problems…
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