I have a friend who likes Peugeot cars. Its an odd fetish, I guess, but when this picture also came round on the screensaver (where all my pictures end up) I was thinking about when we stood watching this as a porcupeugeot - a hybrid of animal and engineering. And I was thinking about Lee Skoresby, the aeronaut in His Dark Materials because what happens, all too often, with cinematography, is the images presented are all so nostalgic and old fashioned - and I often think, how would a 21st century Icarus look. I would like to think Scoresby eschewed the traditional, Lee Van Cleef, plus fours and tweed jacket idea of ballooning because, this, to me, looks like a great balloon to fly in. Unfortunately, though, cinematography relies on so much nostalgia (which is a visit to a place that never existed). This picture is actually part of the Sydney Bienalle exhibition and I have been feeling a little nostalgic about it because Sydney and Cockatoo Island and all of that was such a dream for this boy from a coal miner's cottage (cute description) who delivered papers and milk at the age of 13 and has been working ever since, and yet managed to travel right across the world - gawd, 43 years - and yet unsullied by any of it (well, maybe a wee bit) but hey, I am feeling quite good for someone who never flew (in an aeroplane) until he was 23... I am in a wistful mood, the dental drugs are kicking in and i am listening to Sandy Denny, who I posted before, but maybe I will post another version of the same song, why not, after all, who knows where the time goes - the great thing about Youtube is the way it catches people of camera - give this a go from start to finish, where does time go, what does it do... jeez, Nina Simone, wow, turn this up and wallow in her voice, its like swimming in chocolate...
