Hot Rod Biology

. . . the originals.

What I guess I really like about this one is that the hybrid makes it's own connections . . . a non sequitur ñ that makes sense. Elvis sings the Sex Pistols. This could never have happened of course (see my previous post where the ghost of Elvis Presley visits Johnny Rotten), but it requires the viewer to consider that it might have . . . maybe 'could' have? All those song titles make so much sense coming from Elvis. I think Neil Young mentions in 'Hey Hey My My' that "The King is gone but he's not forgotten / Is this the story of Johnny Rotten".

I've tried a few of these today and there's heaps more I'd like to do in this 'xerox-sketch' kind of format. Obviously some will work better than others for the reason I've mentioned above . . . and maybe that's a very important part of what this project is about? (I'd like to try and clarify this through continuing to make work . . . searching for connections . . . non sequitur.) I have an M/M (Paris) qoute here along these lines, "An image never interests us as such. Its relevance lies in the fact that it contains the sum of preceding dialogues, stories, experiences with various interlocutors, and the fact that it induces a questioning of these pre-existing values. This is what makes for us a pertinent image. A good image should be in between two others, a previous one and another to come." Now basically that Bahktin, his notion of the dialogic . . . this is what I was trying to dig out in my seminar but which I just blew completely!

Going from photoshop to the photocopier, I've been really interested in how I can still use and manipulate the drop-shadows, setting things up at ever so slightly different heights, bending up corners, etc. The shadows are visual correspondents to reverb or echo (the relationship to my topic being fairly obvious ñ actually I couldn't help thinking how cool Jason's last title was). . . which kind of relates to my trying to blend my practices in music and design . . .

I've been become borderline obsessed with reverb lately. Our last gig [Friday 13th] I spent ages trying to get maximum reverb without totally losing control of the sound . . . I'm looking for extra reverb units, with bigger springs. I'm only interested in the original (analogue) spring reverb units, and they're really hard to find here! Actually planning to have a good look around Melbourne this week.