At last, a decision.

I may continue with an old idea. The method is as follows:

1. Take digital photographs.
2. Upload the photographs and paste them into a Word template for Avery L7160 sticky labels.
3. Stick the labels onto matchboxes.

In a short and inexpensive line of hours, I would have a whole series of local landmarks on matchboxes. I could even get portraits and present information or philosophies on the reverse. Merchandise plus utility equals satisfaction.

Recommended dose.

Robinson In Space

Last night I watched a film called Robinson In Space, which is a string of mostly static shots of scenes from the United Kingdom, captioned by a narrator who shared facts and stories. I liked it very much.



Tonight, or at some point over the weekend, I will watch the film Gallivant.



I ordered this book from the online, and three days later it arrived offline on my doorstep; our postman rings once then leaves it to change. I enjoyed my visit to the Caravan Gallery last year, you can learn more about it here.

Working means what?

Work
I am wondering about what project to set myself. At the moment, my eyes are resting upon pretty utility and my brain is baking philosophies about travel and tourism. I will be taking more photographs, but of what? Maybe I should not instill the limits until a pattern emerges in them. I will carry on writing into my small, black notebook and try to fill it before I haul my whole to the tarmac of the continent.

Do thoughts & memories make stories?
I was convinced that someone had appeared in my bedroom last night and stolen my mobile phone. I looked in all the normal places, as well as under the bed and amongst the piles of paper and plastic that decorate my carpet. I was ready to run out of the house this morning, having locked the door to my room, when I thought that I heard a door close upstairs, mine, and sprinted silently up the stairs to listen acutely.

I unlocked the door and prepared, as much as you can, for a baseball bat to fall around onto my eyes. Jaw pressing my teeth into my sinus, in I pushed. Nobody but me. I eventually found the poor handset in bits down the side of the bed, one metre from where I had left it. I remembered then that I was supposed to get to University before everyone else to collect my digital camera. I had left it in the studio, not at the centre, but it only takes one curious head to discover something worth several Amazon stars. I have it now and will insure it today for my time in France, and maybe for my time in Manchester afterwards.

Now
I am going to town. I will buy a pot of 'tea from heaven' at Piccadilly Gardens' Manna Café and add to my little book. I may or may not come to any conclusions about conceptual construction. I would rather do things to feel bargain-smug and unique in the afternoon between the grey-shaved business faces. Goodbye, ouija board.

Gumball facts.

When Hiver and I visited the Science Museum of London last week, I saw mural in the basement area that is made from gumballs which are stacked in tubes. I wanted more information about the artist, so I emailed the museum's help team. Here is the result...

Hello Josh,

The gobstopper mural was part of the redevelopment of the basement galleries
in 1995. Nearly 30, 000 were used to create an image of the garden from
outer space - there are three drawings from three different children in the
mural.

The drawings were pixlellated so that each area was represented by a single
colour then the gobstoppers were dropped in a tube by me and many children,
10 at a time. I put the first 10 in !!

The artists who created it was called Franz Spohn, he is American and has
done smaller ones elsewhere.

Try this http://2000.ideafestival.com/Description_Family.cfm

as I cant seem to find his website.

let me know if you want to know more.

Anthony
Anthony Richards
Head of Content, Launch Pad Gallery
Science Museum
Exhibition Road
London
SW7 2DD

Objects in resin.

You let a layer of the resin dry, in the mold, then place your objects onto the dried layer, then pour the new, wet layer onto the top and let that set, then remove the new whole and take photos of it.

I used keys, Alex used things found on Kentish beaches and Sarah used an assortment of metal things. The wet layer is drying as I type. The finished strips will end up in a Liverpool shopping centre, looking fit. I will glue some photographs onto my next post.