Eight hours before I left Canada for the UK I discovered I would have to cull and re-pack my significanly over-weight suitcase.* This, despite the fact that I had decided long before that books were not coming with me. I held this one in my hands for a long time before making the “no book” rule, so imagine my pleasure and surprise today at finding a copy for £3.50 at the Tobacco Factory Sunday Market in Bristol.
I also bought a bunny!
It is in the freezer.
*thanks again to background girl for her support during the re-pack. she should also be thanked for: packing my entire kitchen, cleaning my fridge and freezer, making me eat something and speaking gently to me while i lay fetal on the bedroom floor.
tags: boys and girls, superheroes
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/backgroundgirl/
http://www.last.fm/user/tothemaxfersure
G O N E P O S T A L: “Draw Me” Series
Today I wrote to three visual artists: Laura O’Brien, Tyler Landry, and a 13 year old budding illustrator I met when I visited the UK last August. These are excerpts from today’s letters:
“I am doing some initial mail-outs on the Distance Collaboration front. These ones are asking others to 1) do something for me 2) mail me the results.”
“the coat is important. I remember it as wide corduroy* and I remember loving the buttons – actually, I don’t remember the coat at all come to think of it, but…I love corduroy and buttons so maybe part of my brain remembers the coat.”
*I have since learned that this is referred to as “low wale” corduroy.
tags: memory,
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http://clavcity.blogspot.com/
http://clavcityalley.blogspot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corduroy
While I was working in the conservatory this morning both the bunnies and Feral the cat strolled by.
I have been interviewing parents about how they navigate the “what we eat / what we cuddle” story with their kids and thinking a lot about my own narrative with respect to my relationships with cats. I also recently saw an amazing cooking show about preparing rabbit and have not been able to see my conservatory bunnies in quite the same way since.
tags: boys and girls,
What I like about this photo:
-there seem to be implied paths everywhere
-some paths seem to go into the future and others to the past
-the dazzle trailing off into the woods makes me giggle and wish i had ordered anti-glare on my new glasses
-my hands are in the shot
-Rowena described my photos as “quiet” and now i don’t have to write to her to ask her what she meant
tags: i made this, i like this, this works,
http://dspace.flinders.edu.au/jspui/handle/2328/15…
It is hard being new in a place. I feel a little old and constantly humbled by the strangest things. I wrote to Millefiore about it last night…
“-i cried the second week i was here because i was missing a wooden spoon packed away in my shed. at the time my life was made wretched for want of a wooden spoon
-on the first day of school – yesterday – i could not use change to pay for my coffee
-i got on a train going in the wrong direction on the way home
AND…
-for some reason i only brought summer clothes. i am a weather-hardy acadian-canadian and i am freezing and don’t have a hoodie
BUT….
my art-brain is waking up and today i thought about how it may in the end be all about sound. i thought about this first while shooting your “in between spaces” footage this summer, but more about that later.
Soon I will start a new blog. Soon I will wish there were more hours in the day, and soon and now I miss you.
xxx”
tags: super-heroes, storytelling, extenuating circumstances
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