updates, studios and more things to do

I spent some time in my eagleworks studio yesterday, I moved some books and cameras over there. I remember watching the long way down/round - Ewan McGregor and Charlie Borman's motorbiking trips that were on BBC 2 a while back - in particular I remember the office they had, filled with various documents, maps etc. Thats the kind of space I want my studio space to look like, a kind of office like base, (or rather my half of the studio space as I share it with Beckie Mayers).

I think I may have to make eagleworks my main studio, because with a new group of first year MA students moving in, space in there is going to be limited. I would still like to maintain a presense in there though, still keep things on the walls, so an idea was to turn my 8 foot of wall space into a free exhibition space that everyone can use. It would have to be curated, but I think it could be really useful for a lot of people, particularly people who mainly work elsewhere. Another option would to be to share a space with my sometime collaborator Matt Black, although I'm not sure how he'd feel about that; it was suggested a while back and he didn't want to do it.

I need to give Emma Purshouse a call sometime today. Emma's a writer and she worked with a fellow MA student back in our first semester, and I, allong with our tutors, really liked the film he made (Emma provided the voiceover, reading a poem she wrote for the film). Since then the idea of using fictional narratives has been lodged at the back of my mind and over the summer Emma and I started exchanging emails and, I think, both would like to work together.

Also I got an email back from my brother, Dan. He says its ok for me to walk to his house from brum new street, should be able to get some good pictures and do plenty filming. Plus he's just bought guitar hero 2 for the wii!