the devil’s plantation: update 07Nov09 | 4

De’il’s Plantin

Today is a momentous one. After two years and countless trips – since if I’m honest it took far more than the 33 listed here – finally I’m launching The Devil’s Plantation website. For anyone reading, especially those who subscribe to this blog, I want you to be the first to see it. Naturally I’m quite nervous from several angles – whether the site actually works, or if anyone will look at it and if they do, will they get it? Looking at the webstats for this blog, I’m delighted by the number of people who’ve visited, even if some of the search terms used tell me some visitors are more interested in say, dogging at Gleniffer Braes or Murder in Carmyle than in the Secret Geometry of Glasgow.
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The Devil's Plantation

May Miles Thomas is an award-winning filmmaker and writer based in Glasgow. This is the blog for The Devil's Plantation, a project supported by the Scottish Arts Council's Creative Scotland Awards. The idea: to explore the Secret Geometry of Glasgow and find magic in ordinary places. It's also about a journey in her home city. Dear green place or derelict dystopia? The project: a video-based website inspired by the writings of the late Harry Bell and her fellow fuguers - poets, writers, lost souls, piss artists, dossers and dreamers - that reveals the hidden tracks that cross the city, connecting the old and new. Here May stumbles over the city's myths and stomps on its remains: city of murder, architecture, industry, ill-health, feral violence, petty corruption, neddery, new money, crime and the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Not so much Glasgow as Glasgone.