So I happen to look at my YouTube statistics yesterday and was more than surprised to see that my Demonstrating Water With Stones video documentation has gone from around 350 visitors to nearly 2000 in the last few weeks. Who knows from where or why and it’s all the weirder since the few who rated, rated poorly indeed….
Maybe that’s why? ;-)
In any case there was a freshly inscribed comment: How was water demonstrated by stones?
A tad cheeky, but an interesting question nevertheless, perhaps? I’m still feeling mixed about it, and am hesitating to answer in a more explanatory manner. It shows a somewhat blunt first degree view of things; which I recognize as something I tend to do as well and am not all that pleased when it happens. Yet it’s a fact that one is not always as available as one would need to be to have an opened perspective all the time.
And it’s also a fact that in this installation the title came first and for that reason the work itself is twice removed from it; so questioning the link between the title and the installation is legitimate. But it has been a couple of years and my mind’s somewhere else now, so for the moment I’ll wait and see if any more comments develop on there own.
I haven’t presented any new designs in a while so here is one I’m pleased with today. Since I’ve been working on accompanying a harmonica player with my washboard, mouth harps have been on my mind!
This design has an harmonica inscribed with the words Blow the mixed with the word Blues written in large bold letters. I made it vertical and like it that way, but then also decided to propose it in a horizontal version. You never know…
It’s kind of hard to see so I’ve put a closeup here too:
Speaking of Blaise, at the moment we are the only members of the band that are around to practice so we’re working on a few tunes with just harmonica and washboard… Blowin’ Blazes Washboard Band… coming soon out of the blues… ;-)
Next week we plan to go to the P’tit Bison Bar near the airport in Geneva. This joint has an open stage every 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month and next week is the last one before September (!) so we really have to go, meet the crowds and have some fun!
Society’s value are really f***ed! The media was filled ad nauseum with nostalgia about Yves St. Laurent when he passed away the other day, but Bo Diddley? Pretty much nothing, nothing, nothing…
Ridiculous, pathetic, pitiful and lamentable!
May his music live forever in our hearts, minds, hard disks and flashcards…
mouth harps
