07/10/2024, Tuesday

*** My first blog post *** 

The start of the Journey. 
Where am I? Where will I go?

THE HERE AND NOW: 


18.55
my office 
3rd floor 
10 Kingscourt Road 
Streatham Hill 
London 
England
UK 
Europe 
Earth 
The Universe

This 'zooming out' reminds me of the Charles and Ray Eames video and book "The Powers of Ten". 
The camera zooms into the skin of two people having a picninc in Central Park. 

Interestingly, it was made in 1977, the same year I was born. A full circle? 




IDEA OF HOME 

Where is home? 
Is home where 'the heart' is? 
Where is the heart? 
What makes somewehre home? 

Home will always be Sofia. 

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ВКЪЩИ / HOME   

Left - the stairs in house where I grew up, Sofia, Bulgaria (shared coridors) 
Right - the house where I live now, London, England                                                                                        

СВЕТЛИНАТА / THE LIGHT

Листата 
Планината 
дървото 
ъгъла с трамвая 

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It is hard to know where to start with this. I know I have to be authentic. So perhaps the only way through would be to  talk about things which mean something to me. 

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Another full circle? 




( I love full circles, physical or figurative. It is a bit of an obsession ) 

*The full circle of living in Fashion St 20 years ago, and teaching there 20 years later 

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<pre class="wp-block-preformatted has-background-background-color has-background">I feel I need to go back to my childhood, where everything stems from, the place to go to make sense of things. 

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My father was a translator. When I was little, he worked at the National Film Centre in Boyana  and did the translation and subtitles for so many of the English language films that came to Bulgaria in the 80's, such as Star Wars, ET, etc. etc. I have a strong memory of countless evenings spent playing in the same room where my parents were working, my dad stretched out on the sofa, dictating the translated film dialogue to my mum, who would type it up on a typewriter. The sound of the typewriter, the look of it, the metal keys, the typeface, the indigo, the paper are all etched in my memory, so it feels relevant to go full circle by looping back to the idea of the typewriter for my blog, at least aesthetically. 

Ideally, I would like to blog physically and digitally, in both English and Bulgarian. I want to buy a couple of typewriters, one with Bulgarian and one with English lettering, and use the typewriter font for my digital blog. 

I will begin the search. 

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I went to a film festival "Altered States", showing experimental films with live scores being performed. The introduction to the festival was done not by the standard way of a welcome speech, but by a person typing the speech on a typewriter, and the typing being simultaneously projected on the screen behind them. 

I though that this was a great idea as it utilised analog technology in a good way, and also broke the cliche of a welcome speech. It made the audience really pay attention to what was being typed, and patiently wait for each word to be revealed.