A Teadrinker at the Coffee Table : A collaboration of NoMilk NoSugar with Blooming Studios, UT
Realising an artistic project is a great thing, but it's even more rewarding when you work with someone who shares the same ideas to unite in a Gesamtkunstwerk. I worked on 'A Thin Line' with Ebrahim Ghaeini, a filmmaker from Salt Lake City, Utah and fellow traveller. Ebrahim is co-founder of Blooming Studios and director of the short movie 'Moments of Clarity.' We met on the Underground Film Festival in Cork, Ireland and he visited me in Scotland a month later. It didn't tak
Poem: Silence Colors Coffee and On Writing in Coffeeshops
There is always something to observe. There is music that is chosen for you, that in the best case you don't know, and there is the ever so inspirational power of coffee. And going there to write is more than a hip fashion. It sometimes give you more than your quiet room could do. Coffeeshops embody the essence of a city. You meet its characters there, or you observe them passing by on the street. You hear its language. Its sounds. You see what it looks like. It is where peop
Mindspaces
On our Vicious Algae soundcloud page, you'll also find a radio drama that we produced last winter. The Trunk Of The Oak Tree will take you to an unknown war zone and the human failures that happen there. Get your blindfolds out and be transported... A few words on radio dramas. Worlds, only made out of sounds - how cool is that? To be precise, it is worlds that I, as a director, build up by throwing different sounds together, but it is the mind of the listener that actually c
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