"Kill your little darlings!"
Fat chance! I gave the rough edit of the video I had agreed ( reluctantly) to make for a friends exhibition in France a week ago and suggested she reduce it by at least five minutes.
No she couldnt bring herself to part with her images, in fact she wanted more added at which point I got all frosty and uptight and said"no way".
Yet this is the stage where you have to be ruthless:"kill your little darlings!" was how one tutor at Glasgow School of Art summed it up; painful but necessary.
Very scary landing at midnight in a snowstorm into Glasgow airport. The plane appeared to "wobble" high over the landing strip – with all 300 passengers fresh from the Sinai dessert on board- then took off again!….A long silence followed. Where was the captain? Eventually his voice came over the inter-com. He said that due to weather conditions he had decided to "make a second landing". Eventually the plane touched down. And the passengers applauded.
There's something weird about sitting in an internet cafe in Dahab checking emails from research information pouring in from Wales regarding an institution that existed 50 years ago.
There's also something comforting in knowing that the world is all linked together, no matter where you are. And I am on the edge of the Sinai dessert.
Will post images as soon as I get back.
Lunar eclipse in the Sinai dessert
Watched the moon turn red last night while lying under the stars out in the Sinai dessert ( OK there were a few dozen other people there as well so it was hardly a solitary experience).
Before we watch the moon eclipse we look at the rings of Saturn through a gigantic telescope. This is extraordinary. It seems "alive", that's the only way I can describe the rings, composed of rock and ice hurtling around the planet.
As for the telescopes, they look like huge sci-fi monsters perched in the dessert. There are six of them.
As the moon disappears in the cloudless dessert sky it's recorded for posterity with much clicking of cameras, mobile phones and camcorders( and yes, I am one of them).
The security guy in the van is a bit of a surprise but we are assured this is essential. 36 folk got killed in Dahab last year in a bombing attack.
Fears that there would be no internet access in this part of the world are groundless.
Have found four internet cafes in Dahab.
Dahab, Egypt
Got internet access but its about to run out of money. Wish I had brought my laptop, every room is WI.FI . Have updated blog: www.craig-y-nos.blogspoot.com
Fantastic light here. Am about to start some photography. Tomorrow there is a lunar eclipse in the desert.
