My friend Sally has been taking photos of randomness friends gatherings and randomly filming us, we have all been wearing crazy glasses, my idea with all the photographs she has taken is to make a took called spectacles, lots of people wearing these comical glasses, would be a nice humorous gift I think.

Weekend went to Lancaster, was great saw my best pals from home who have all gone to university’s in the north like me and we went there and saw Jon’s portrayal of Othello was great.

Been working on the soundtrack today, and its a lot of fiddling with things and computer gadgetry, but it’s sounding interesting, put Louis Armstrong’s trumpet playing through a filter and it sounds like an atmospheric dance thing, but its good, and I’ve been changing the tones of voices, with octave shifts and just trying to make one coherent song from like 6, but its good fun and I’m learning from the process, need to go full welly, in to something, instead of just dipping my toe in the pool need to swim and all other analogies, need to work well its never work really ha.

Tuesday 9th December 2008

Had tutorial with Jon, seem to be getting on fine as long as I keep everything coherent, and progress each idea then keep with the most successful, keep experimenting.

Yesterday evening, when I hid from my flat mates I made a piece called Mechanics it’s a film of photographed cogs slowly fading in and out, as a soundtrack I Mixed parts of Dark Side Of The Moon, with Filter Happier By Radiohead, it works its so bad to watch, and the sound adds to the experience, I want it to be projected in a huge room in a corner, fill all two walls.

This room will be called Mixed Messages and time, the poem on filter happier is read by a voice that sounds very robotic like Microsoft Sam, and I’ve overlapped sections to create new messages. Want to get an old plastic grandfather clock and cover it in cogs and melt it all together, so it looks all junk yardish, and put it in the opposite corner, maybe with mirrors dotted about, shall experiment if it looks better just alone, shall do tiny experiments with models then scale up with images in photo-shop, see which looks better, then work progressing this idea to a really disturbing film.

This Week I have been watching lifts, filming the awkwardness, and singing in lifts and getting peoples reactions, also have been animating collages.