YouTube, as I’m sure you’re all aware, is full of crap. Perhaps not as much as say Twitter but nonetheless you enter the world of YouTube holding your nose. Fortunately as you get used to the stench you start to notice one or two gems floating around and you grab hold of them. These gems lead to other gems and so you build up your own curated patch of YouTube. A patch that other people would consider crap but you don’t. No this is a safe place that reflects what you are interested in; where interesting videos appear as suggestions that you add to your little world and everything is just a little better.

This is how I came to be watching Produce like a Pro‘s documentary about Jeff Wayne’s The World of the Worlds. Now in the past these sort of documentaries were made by the BBC and were available on the iPlayer but I guess that ship has sailed. Fortunately (and I guess this is what the detractors of the BBC would say) there are people who willingly take up the slack and produce interesting documentaries. Perhaps the most interesting fact I learnt from the video was that the hit single Forever Autumn started out as a jingle for a Lego commercial. Strange how things work out.

So what, you might ask, has this got to do with the Rhythm and Geometry exhibition at the Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham? Good question but I’m afraid the answer is somewhat mundane. Since watching the documentary I have been relistening to Wayne’s magnum opus in full, something I first did back in 1978 when it first came out but haven’t done in a long long time, and I realise just how good it was. Still not explained about the connection I hear you few readers saying. Well the simple truth is I have been listening to the music whilst making the images in post. There happy? I doubt it but what can I say?

So if you are in the area then take a look at the exhibition. It is, as usual, very good and informative. Which, I guess, is all you can expect from an exhibition.