Max goes swimming in the Thames in Feb
I had some time to myself yesterday so caught up on a few bits and bobs including remembering that I had a folder of images from Feb that I hadn’t done anything with. This also coincided with me thinking I should give my Vimeo account a little more love.
I offered to help Max record this event that he wanted to stage as part of his application for a place at Cooper Union Architecture School in New York. I can’t remember the whole idea but anyway we went down there and set up in an afternoon until the tide came in. Freezing for me but worse for Max. We did a load of stills and I ended up with all these extra shots which seemed ideal for a time-lapse. We drew quite a crowd from the tourists on the Southbank who seemed pretty confused if it was an installation piece or just some idiots with a camera and too much time on their hands.
And this is it – a 20 second clip of him going in for each and every shot and getting completely wet and freezing each time. Suffering for his art.
And with all those photos I also did this really bad stitch of him coming out of the water in flippers which I did share at the time. Most importantly his application was successful and he even got a scholarship too.
