Dee Blind Mice

Here is part one of Moment Capturing, my collaboration with Jaki Levy.

For my Experimental Approaches to Non-Fiction Media class we’re reading Representing Reality by Bill Nichol. I’ve slaved through two chapters and I’m not sure how much more I can take.

The man clearly knows his stuff – every five pages or so he writes something really thought provoking and I’ve definitely learnt a good deal through what I’ve read. But did it really have to be so painful?

The book is written in the language of the academy – it’s unncecessarily dense and difficult to understand. It’s written for other academics who like being unintelligible to people who don’t spend their time reading tiresome pointless crap and building up a vocabulary of jargon and misapplied technical terms from other fields.

One of the reasons I left the academy in the first place was the necessity of reading shit like this. My eyes have been protesting the return of this kind of reading material – they have been steadfastly refusing to look at the page for more than a minute or so at a time.

Maybe his other book Blurred Boundaries will be something better.

Daily Dancer

I do this exact thing when I’m alone in my flat, but I don’t want anyone to see me.

Around Christmas I was playing with some rubber elmo balls I got for the flat. One hit me on the head. It really hurt.

I made this flowchart for the DVD I’m making for my Video for New Media final. It’s pretty simple and it turns out the DVD I’m making will be even more simple as I’ve decided not to do a long glasto or bar them entry piece. I’ll just do short pieces for each of them too and that will mean I have no need of submenus or chapters.