the devil’s plantation: update 19Dec09 | 6

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My thanks to everyone who has visited The Devil’s Plantation so far, especially those who took the time to comment. I’m heartened by your positive response. The website is live and visitors now have the choice of visiting this blog or the main site. With any luck my efforts won’t dissuade anybody googling ghosts on the M8 motorway or dogging at Carron although they might be disappointed - or downright perplexed - to land on my tiny patch of cyberspace. Not that I should presume anything about who arrives here because the joy of the online experience is often found in random corners and the places chanced upon. Besides, surely the desire to get jiggy in a remote car park is not incompatible with lesser exploratory urges.  [read more]

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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.