Are you ready for this?

This is somewhere between a warm up and potential movement material and has the awkwardness of astronauts sending messages back from space. Delayed by satellite signals and not used to standing in front of cameras. Maybe recording a message for a loved one in case something goes wrong on the mission. Like in sci-fi films like Sunshine. There are also moments where it reminds me of astronauts playing on the moon. Kicking rocks. Throwing objects to see how far they go. There are other moments where I imagine the spinning bone from 2001: Space Odyssey turning into the spacecraft. Some of the text in the video is from a transcription of astronauts on the moon. Mole finds transcriptions of space missions from NASA which he will look at as a text next week. He also wants to listen to the planets by Holst. He says his mum used to play them really loudly ‘to scare off the birds’. I remember listening to them in assembly at school and each time we were shown a model of the planet we were listening to. Today we talked about using fruit to recreate the solar system. A watermelon for Jupiter. A plum for pluto. A pumpkin as the sun. Mole says he wants to consider the objects in the space as planets. The globe. The broom. The vacuum cleaner. He likes the fact that the vacuum cleaner is literally a vacuum in space. There is a logic to it.

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