still waiting on the server details to go with my new phone,with which I hope to be able to post pictures remotely.I hope it starts working soon.
Sunday 23 November 2003
Monday 10 November 2003
Botanical Griping
Went up to Bristol's Botanic Gardens today, to take picture as part of my ongoing project to record some part of their current beauty before they're developed into flats. Had a great time recording all the rotting leaves, lichen and fading autumnal glory, and took over 400 pictures, several of them pretty nice. And then came home and, over 20 minutes or so as my USB card reader painstakingly chuntered through my Microdrive, deleted every one of them by accident. I've been trying to find a recovery tool that'll let me get files out of an emptied trashcan, but je suis un cheapskate and I don't want to pay for it. I suppose I'll wring my hands and just give thanks I was using rechargeable batteries to take the pictures. Shame though, I was looking forward to posting them.
Friday 7 November 2003
picture test
Picture test
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Wednesday 5 November 2003
In The Book Repository
It still remains to be seen exactly how any prospective book arts show will pan out at the library regarding invigilation and security, and it still seems that the display will definitely be on the laying-on-a-table end of things. I got a chance to take a camera along and do a few shots to capture some of the mood of the place. It's a historic building with the usual accretions of later building most public institutions acquire after a few decades. The director's room which has been mooted as a prospective space to mount the show tells the same story the building tells. Its fabric largely intact, but stripped of many of its details, it sports a collection of bureaucratic semiotics and clutter.(Though, admittedly. often neccessary semiotics and clutter such as is the case with the fire escape notices and fire extinguishers.) Years of juggling collections around the building have meant that a pair of grey metal filing cabinets sit obstreperously astride one's field of vision. But it's still a fascinating room: there's still a strong resonance of the room's original purpose coexisting alongside its current undecided state as part of a briskly run institution. I wish it were possible to restore the room, but space is one thing this library doesn't have. I take the point, too, that it's a library, not a museum.
Anyway, here are some pictures. I think it's a fascinating place, and well worth putting some work into. At one time I wanted to develop a show that would have book artists responding to elements from the collections, but it proved too complex at the time. Perhaps something simpler as a pilot will help clear the way?
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