At this point I put a spanner in the works:
PINEAPPLES
Today I’ve been collecting pineapples.
http://maddypethickpineapple.blogspot.com/
Pineapples have fallen into the work for a long time.
Must write more on pineapples.
I’m back. No post last week when I came back to incubator space after summer holidays and managing childcare. The radio station next door to me (there is a radio station across the corridor) are playing music a bit too loud. Funnily enough they play Eiffel 65 ‘Blue’ and last time on this blog I noted the blue floor. On another blog there is a ‘blue period’.
Duncan (from Blue).
I made a list of rules on a piece of A4 paper:
The Rules:
(written in biro)
Today…I get the train to the incubator space.
The camera isn’t relevant at the moment. I left it at home.
Tools: scissors, the old books, gluestick, handmade scrapbooks.
And some notes:
A spinal tap analysis of the word incubator:
And a drawing: of an incubator. (with eggs in it).
Came up with:
1) eggs (hatching) I’m in an egg. It’s hatching – do you want to see my pebble collection?
2) Illness. LOL.
I wrote in my plan that I should delete this blog tonight. Instead I am back here writing and thinking that this is a good space for writing and thinking.
Focus/isolate/do – were written on the piece of paper.
As were ‘paper’ and ‘pen’.
Why did I delete my pen pot inventory post from another blog?
No blog rule.
No camera rule.
Just the things for themselves.
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On the train. Funny little train which follows the seaside. A one hour and 20 minute train journey. Two sausage dogs on the train. This made up three things I’ve seen on the train in three days.
1) Man with ship painting.
2) Man with long plank of wood.
3) Lady with two sausage dogs.
i tweet this from the train.
Then realise I have FORGOTTEN THE KEY TO THE INCUBATOR SPACE.
*@%^
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Above: a set of chevrons.
I like titles.
Plan B: What you do when you have forgotten the key to the incubator space:
Go and buy some pencils and a pencil sharpener and go to the library.
Exeter library. I came here last week on my ‘incubator day’.
I liked:
The 60s? ‘civicness’.
The huge windows and windowsills where people sit and read. You can sit on the windowsills. Or face a chair towards the window. It’s a lovely sun trap. And nice to see people sitting on windowsills reading. Huge houseplants are carefully placed in sun spots. Some high up on shelves above our heads.
Windowsills are good places for people and plants to hang out.
Encyclopedic categories of books:
Sport, cooking, crafts, gardening, poetry, biographies, maps.
An internet room with internet people.
Photocopier corner.
A childrens’ library where all the books are all over the floor.
A library kind of smell.
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Activity for today: focus/isolate/do.
Collect mini texts. Starting with Elizabeth David French Cookery Book:
Puff Shells.
Written in pencil in a handmade scrapbook.
Nice texts about recipe books – which I share with my friend Helen Pritchard who is writing about Fluxus and stuff.
And then it started. Collecting mini- texts. sitting in various chairs. Under various houseplants. A bit performic. Until 3 books were filled.
The Power of Three.
SOMETHING IS HAPPENING.
coming up next – I have to go to make hot chocolate and go to bed:
What to do with the mini-texts. Thats what I have to work out. Some experiments with materials and tools. This related back to my previous questions/observations.
Now I’ll find two pictures to post – one of the books last week – i tidied the old books up, categorized into cats, plants, crafts etc and started to salvage pictures that ‘punctumed’. I could write about punctum.
And a picture from today of collected text written in pencil. I could write about descriptiveness.
And I forgot: I wanted to say that all along I was in a library, with a lot of books, with a pair of scissors and a glue stick in my handbag.
Some more connecting things to think, read, see and write about?:
Orton and halliwell defacing books at Islington Library (Devon County Council must rest assured that I will not deface books)
http://www.joeorton.org/Pages/Joe_Orton_Life11.htm…
Illich – on libraries and learning webs – people accessing tape recorders and tapes to share knowledge.
End. Here’s that menu thingy:
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OMG there’s an add video option just below this dialogue box. Could I add video next time?
bye
