Starlings by Dennis Hlynsky

Dennis Hlynsky | Starlings take off at 200 fps (still)

I've seen this technique before but never so well used. Technology has finally caught up with the aspirations I had 10 years ago to track bird flight paths. It's wonderful stuff, but part of me still prefers my wobbly window tracings. With thanks to Helen Drever. View the full animation here.

Plymouth Art Weekender

Phil Magee | Intervention HQ | Plymouth Art Weekender 2015

A quick mention for the Plymouth Art Weekender, a multi-site visual arts festival that highlighted the extraordinary wealth of activity in this now buzzing coastal city. Directed by Gordon Dalton and built around a small number of specially commissioned pieces by the likes of Tim Etchells and Serena Korda, it also extended an open invitation to local artists to be part of the programme. There was far too much to see in one day, but what I did experience was truly amazing: from a wonderful large-scale etching by Grayson Perry at the newly opened Ocean Studios to the extraordinary interventions by Phil Magee in a local small-business centre. Visual art in Plymouth has come a long way in the last 10 years.

Plymouth Art Weekender 25/26/17 September 2015.