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Other / 05.07.2009

Steve posted ten new video clips on my YouTube Channel. also created a new Vimeo Channel for me and posted the clips there too. Six of the clips form a Night Life series and of the others, one introduces Wollubinia Dorsii, the freshwater turtle officially announced to science in January this year and named after my friend Marcus Dorse.

 

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Other / 17.06.2009

I emailed Steve the frames from Tape 27, which I selected today, for him to capture to complete Stills 9, bringing the total number of images to 266. Half the Tape 27 images are night frames (I am still filming Tape 28), so you can see how up to date Stills 9 is.  Christina will be able to select the best images to add to the Gallery. I hope we can create a gallery page just of night images.

 

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Other / 16.06.2009

Today I emailed Steve the material from Tape 27 to be added to the new clips we want to put on YouTube and Vimeo. The email included titles.

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Other / 11.06.2009

This evening Steve and I worked on the Darryl Jones interview at his place. Steve had completed most of the editing and needs me to film a brief cut-away sequence to help finish the edit.

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Other / 03.06.2009

At last Steve and I were able to take up Clive’s suggestion of creating a Peter Kuttner YouTube Channel. We had recently posted the first new video in 18 months, opened up our Vimeo account and several new posts are underway.

 

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Other / 14.05.2009

A couple of days ago I received a phone call from a man who was unsure who I was and who was unknown to me – until, after some stalling on my part and hesitant persistency on his, he introduced himself as Herbert Distel, a well-known Swiss artist whom I had met in Hamburg in November 1968 when I was co-curating an exhibition of avant-garde European art and he was one of the artists. He was phoning from his home near Vienna to inform me that his Museum of Drawers (to which I contributed a piece of multi-coloured bread), was in the process of going online and that next year would be its 40th anniversary. The museum contains 500 artworks by 500 artists housed in a cabinet with 20 drawers

divided into small compartments and can be found at www.schubladenmuseum.com.  The site is still under construction, but should be more advanced and may even be complete by the time you see it. This was a welcome call from the past and a contact that I hoped we would maintain, as I told him in my email.

 

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Other / 09.05.2009

I have received a number of complimentary emails about

Ant pulls leg, all of which have been pleasing because it is nice to have one’s work acknowledged, particularly those from naturalists and conservationists, of which the least expected was from Art Vogel, the Director of the Hortus Botanicus in Leiden who wrote, ‘Dear Peter, it is fabulous.’ Another equally unexpected email was from an Associate Curator of the Queensland Art Gallery. These emails proved a good antidote to the burden of my email to John Caddy a few days ago.

 

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Other / 04.05.2009

The archive is an artwork, but given its running time of 18.5 hours it is unavoidably not as accessible as I would wish; hence my desire to show its scope and essence through video installations. Since March last year I have been exchanging emails with John Caddy, a marvelous poet and photographer who lives near Forest Lake in Minnesota and runs the Morning Earth website. He is profoundly into biodiversity, which he celebrates with a daily photograph and poem emailed to subscribers worldwide. I acknowledged his, in my experience, unparalleled work and unburdened myself to him in an email today, bemoaning the fact that I found that none of the art administrators and hardly any artist in the art and ecology movement as I have encountered it, appear to be onto biodiversity. They are either too urbanized, too interventionist or too limited in their approach to nature to take on biodiversity.

I pointed out that to make biodiversity an artwork requires above all a recognition of what constitutes a life form, plus an openness to the minutest detail, such as his photo of the track of a grub in bark, and… Read Complete Text

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Other / 22.04.2009

For the first time since November 2007, we posted a new video on YouTube and took steps to open a Vimeo account with a 60 second clip of a tiny ant dragging the leg of a King Cricket up a large rainforest tree at night. The leg is many times the length of the ant. What is totally amazing about filming at night is the fact that the creatures we illuminate were going about their business in total or near total darkness. It is truly a different earth at night, still an active if relatively silent one.

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Other / 03.04.2009

Was notified by email that my entry for the Green Screen Festival, The Beauty of Overlooked Things, posted on 20 March, had safely arrived in Eckernfoerde. I received no notification that my entry to FICA 11, an international environmental film festival in Brazil, posted 12 February, had been received. I don’t really regard myself as a filmmaker, but welcome the chance to circulate my work, which such festivals offer. Ideally, I would like film festivals devoted to natural history to include a category for environmental artists.