A scan from my adventures in New Zealand, of which there were many! I was hitchhiking south from Auckland and met these three Aucklanders outside of Picton, near the ferry terminal on the South Island.
April 10th, 2009
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Flashback Friday: New Zealand 1992/1993
April 10, 2009 by Gail
Category Ancient History, Australia/NZ, film photography, Gail at Large, Raconteurism | Tags: Flashback Friday,hitchhiking | No Comments
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Community Art Memorial: Presence of Absence
April 10, 2009 by Gail
Participate in creating a memorial — honour deceased family members and friends.
Click here to add a name to BFO-Toronto‘s Community Art Memorial:
http://www.communityartmemorial.com/
Deadline: April 14th
Anyone can participate and you may add names as often as you wish. Please share with friends, family, networks.
Artist Robin Pacific Makes “The Presence of Absence” Felt — Interactively Online, Broadcast from Downtown Toronto Video Billboards, at Two Indoor Exhibitions, and from an Outdoor Projection Exhibition
Robin Pacific’s latest public art project, The Presence of Absence, creates an ongoing shared urban experience of communal mourning. Using downtown video billboards, a publicly interactive web site, and three public exhibitions, The Presence of Absence combines art and new technology to knit the city back together through our shared losses. It aims to re-invent the social mourning that our culture has relinquished.
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Flashback Friday: France 2004
April 10, 2009 by Gail
Another airing from my video collection on external drive, this one from a brief trip to Normandy in 2004 to visit Nolwenn and Gilles (and baby Chanelle, who is no longer a baby!). I first met Nolwenn in London, 1993. She had been a nanny in Birmingham and I was freshly arrived (and freshly-interrogated) from Thailand. I remember our conversations over breakfast in the kitchen at St. Simeon’s while it was a cold, damp, and grey London winter outside. When we met up again in Normandy in 2004 it was as if no time had passed at all, except she’d been living in the Caribbean, gotten married, and had a child!
I have lots of unedited clips from that trip, but nothing edited, so I chose this one to upload to Vimeo for old times’ sake.
Mont St. Michel, 2004 from Gail Edwin-Fielding on Vimeo.May 6, 2004 – Mont St. Michel. It was a cold, wet, and windy day but the island abbey is something to behold, in any weather. Just make sure you watch the tidal charts so your vehicle doesn’t get washed away!
As you can probably guess, the travel bug has bitten me again because I’ve been digging around in the travel archives lately. I can’t blame it on a rash of spring cleaning — the House of Fielding digital archives aren’t any more organised than before — but an itch to get on a plane and leave the country again. I haven’t decided yet where I’ll spend my birthday this year (37! yikes!). It’s in June, only a couple of months away. Ordinarily I’d have my ticket purchased by now and scouring a guidebook, but this is an unusual year. I think June will be much more impromptu this time.
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