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R D Wynn fixes me with a steely glare and launches into another anecdote peppered with his own inimitable surrealist images.
For the uninitiated, his colourful prose, which often gets tangled up in itself as it ventures down alleys blind or otherwise, could be perceived as pretentious. But scratch below the surface and it becomes clear he is a character worth further investigation. In fact pretension, along with arrogance and chauvinism, is what this young bohemian film maker fears being pigeonholed as the most; and like most people with creative leanings he just wants to be understood.
"I've always thought if you've got it share it," he explains. "It's this kind of vibe I've disciplined myself into doing."
Strip him down to his bare bones and his basic philosophy is to "make people smile and be themselves."

"It's going to be a post-modern fusion between the travel documentary, a music documentary and a video diary," he enthuses.Part of the film's point is to demonstrate the symbolic nature of the 1990s compared to the 1960s, and draws on classic 60s images and ideas, giving them a modern context.
"It's 1999 man, its a profoundly historical year whether we like it or not. In terms how it will be perceived in the future it kicks the shit out of the 1960s. Not a lot of people have cottoned onto this because not a lot of people dig the vibe of the whole 30 year cycle.
"I know that we've got to do everything within our power to live it and capture it and get everybody we come into contact with to BE themselves."
The tour will climax in Edinburgh at the Jazz/Film festival in August on a day which is being referred to by those involved in the project as 'the gig'(see info),
Buskers Odysee is making more sense than I have heard it described before "What we want to do is take the beatniks and their concept of spontaneity and freedom of expression. Because it was such a cool vibe it inspired the whole hippie generation and this year On The Road is still one of the top ten books in paperback because everyone wants to imitate it in their dreams.
We decided to reinterpret it by, applying the philosophy of the beatniks into a new form by marrying those concepts with engaging modern digital technology. We want to inspire the youth of today and do what the beatniks did, but around Europe at the turn of the new Millennium". Sitting in a box room hidden away in the maze of an Edinburgh tenement block he slumps back against the wall to think and for a second is silent.