From the window of my office in Holborn, I watch the changing light of the London skyline with fascination.
Yesterday, with the help of an iPhone app, I propped my phone by the window for several hours and set it to take pictures six times per minute. I composited these images into video at 24 frames per second using Quicktime, then looped the clip back-and-forth, adjusted the colour, and added a panning and zooming effect using iMovie.
Valerie and I collaborated this morning on some accompanying words and music, combining it all together into another film-poem.
Upon Arrival
Longing dabbles in shadows
as the day doubles back,offering honey and vinegar,
wine to the already drunk.Memory, that bricklayer, stirs
its slush with a trowel.Glazed squares shriek their re-
flected light. It is never enough.Crevices hoard the darkness,
and hiss: never enough.We rub against newsprint
until our thumbs go black.Steam chafes against its pane of sky.
We can never go back.