Phew! What a rollercoaster 10 days it has been. We had a spectacular response to our Auction at UCS and something like £2400 was raised to help fund the £7000 costs of going to Free Range. Very special thanks to all the donors of great work. especially to Sam Mellish and David Watson as Sam […]
Herpes Simplex and internecine conflict
I always knew that the last semester would be a tough one. However, I never expected the tiredness and stress of getting the Lux Locus Auction – www.luxlocus.wix.com/luxlocus fund raising activity up to speed would drain me so much. Two weeks ago we had our first break in 4 years for one night courtesy of […]
Andreas Schmidt inspires UCS Students
Today has been a good day. My fellow ‘equals’ founder member Mel Belton had written to Andreas Schmidt asking for support for our forthcoming degree show. Not only did he gift us two books to auction he visited UCS to talk to us, donating his fee to our degree show fund. He was thoroughly entertaining […]
High Tension Shoot
I have never been keen on high tension power lines draping over built up areas and there has been quite a number of reports over the years regarding the affect they have on the poor souls domiciled beneath them. Well, today I got a taster of what it is like. After 22 days of fruitless […]
Bleaching Polaroid type instant film
Tomorrow, I shall be demonstrating the recovery of negatives from Fuji 100C – Polaroid type instant film – to fellow students at UCS. All I need is a handful of saved Fuji 100C ‘chemistry part’ of the instant film sandwich , a bottle of bleach ,masking tape, latex gloves, sheet of glass and a fitch […]
January – a washout?
So January 2014 was the wettest for 250 years. I can honestly say from a selfish perspective that is no bad thing in that I knuckled down to crafting and drafting my dissertation that is now hovering around an acceptable 9500 words. I don’t seem to mind researching and writing whilst the wind and rain […]
All systems go for last semester
Time is a strange dimension. Academic years are a strange dimension. Seasons are strange dimensions. Even when I was a spotty faced youth attending Grammar school back in the 60’s and early 70’s the Autumn term (we had terms in those days) always seemed the longest and after the New Year everything ran downhill rather […]