Artists

Home mid-morning from the overnighter at work and straight out back for an alfresco pedal to blow any remaining cobwebs away.

Before heading out down to Leith to see a show at Leith Makers by my daughter's friend/flatmate. We'd seen his film before but it was great to see it again along with some new pieces, and there were a fair few other folk there as well appreciating his work, summat that we duly passed on to him! He's just started a degree course in interactive design at Glasgow School Of Art - good luck Achille.

And then after a really quite surprisingly sunny alfresco pint at The Eastway Tap on Easter Road it was up to Abbeyhill to check out Colony Of Artists. What a lovely event that is, the streets that make up the Abbeyhill Colonies having many of the flats opened up for the weekend for you to wander in and out of with artists taking up residence to showcase and sell their work. Didn't have time to see everything but we made sure to go and say hello to my friend and old mid-90s Cameo colleague Christina Robertson who produces some very-nice-indeed hand-pulled screen prints featuring Scottish themes layered with street maps. We happened to bump into another old mid-90s Cameo colleague there too and...the reason we didn't have time to see everything was that we had to get to Tollcross for a teatime screening of My Own Private Idaho at the aforementioned Cameo. That's a film that was released in 1992. It almost felt like the last thirty years had never happened.

As for the film itself, I saw it when it came out and I may have seen it a second time soon after but certainly not for decades and, whilst the film is certainly messy and rough round the edges (does all the 'additional dialogue by William Shakespeare' stuff *really* work I still wonder?), I hugely enjoyed  experiencing it all again. Plenty to admire for sure.

On Today's Playlist