One Year – Week 5

Project Description

One Year is a project through which the artist intends to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from his study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when he sits down to work.  One Year will annotate each picture with a note of the weather for that morning and the morning’s main news headline from the BBC News site.  In addition, there will be a note taking a key sentence or two from the artist’s daily journal.

For full details and artist’s statement go to Week 1 here

 

 

October 18th 2013

18 October 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Grey cloud
  • Norwegian Kenya attack suspect named
  • Once seen  from bus to Birkenhead, white paint on shipyard wall: ‘People not Polars’.  I lost.

October 19th 2013

In Glasgow

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 20th 2013

In Glasgow

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 21st 2013

In Glasgow

 

 

 

 

 

 

October 22nd 2013

22 October

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Heavy rain shower
  • Syria talks ‘must bolster moderates’
  • Does having the insight to realise you’re a bit eccentric mean you’re not really a true eccentric?

October 23rd 2013

23 October

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Sunny intervals
  • Whiplash targeted in car costs drive
  • Is he still alive?  His lack of any kind of a digital presence suggests the worst

October 24th 2013

24 October 2013

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Sunny intervals
  • Poor care risk ‘at 1 in 4 hospitals’
  • As Billie Holiday lay dying in her hospital bed the police waited outside hoping to arrest her for possession of drugs

About Bobby Seal

Freelance writer, poet and psychogeographer
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8 Responses to One Year – Week 5

  1. David says:

    Mr Seal,

    Brilliant!

    The mid-week pics made me laugh so much!!! Thanks for that; it was much appreciated and unexpected.

    If at some random time you could put a picture of the Beluga into the frame…

    David

    • Bobby Seal says:

      Who do I speak to in order to ask them to change the flight path a bit? It’s always slightly out of shot when it goes over. I’d like it a little nearer 8.00am too!

  2. David says:

    I’ll send you a pic to put in the window if that doesn’t undermine the integrity of your project.

    But it may set an alarming precedent to your other “readers” to adapt your view to their desires.

    Could the Birkenhead grafitti have said Polaris (the ballistic missile system) not Polars as I can vaguely remember something like that on a wall.

    David

    • Bobby Seal says:

      Yes, I’m sure the graffito was meant to say ‘Polaris’ – hence the ‘I lost’ word play! I was a child at the time and only had a vague idea of what it was all about.

  3. Billy Mills says:

    The midweek photos made me laugh, too. Lovely work.

    • Bobby Seal says:

      The pressure is now on to come up with something equally entertaining the next time I go away!

  4. Billy Mills says:

    Or, worse still, not to ho away any more.

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