Diary of an artist writer online

One of the big attractions of You Tube is that it offers inter-activity. You create a piece of work and others comment on it.

Its no longer the perogative of art critics and curators to say what is or isnt art.

In the new digital world we are all critics.

So I was delighted today to find a Canadian performance artist had found my spoof video on "The Conceptual Artist" hilarious.If links work you should find it at:

The Conceptual Artist
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sNa_GL2SX8U

Received my first electronic Christmas card of the season – from Glasgow School of Art. http://www.gsa.ac.uk/

Seems they are cutting back on Christmas cards ( an excellent idea!) and using the money instead to fund scholarships.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MRRzv-APp2U

Will this work? some friends went to the Antartica earlier this year and I put their photos together into a musical slideshow and popped it up on You Tube.

I'm following Anne Brodie's account of her residency in Antartica with great interest.

I was going to show a video in Cafe Flicker last night at the open cinema run by Glasgow Media Access Centre http://www.g-mac.co.uk but decided instead to write the piece for the BBC Wales online site. Have just sent it off.
I cannot speak too highly about Cafe Flicker. It is an excellent community led project whereby anyone, and I mean anyone, can walk in on the night and show a film. Now some are professional ones made by film students and recent graduates from film course, some are properly funded projects , and the rest, like myself are folk who just make short films because we love the medium. It's a very supportive environment. You get to talk about the film and answer questions.. Sometimes this can be a bit intimidating because Glasgow audiences are tough , streetwise and very savvy about modern culture.

A 13 year old boy has just signed up to my videos and I have got a message from a 34 year old guy who found the film I made on Dunblane " Best in Show" under Google. He doesnt say if he has any Scottish connections.
But I am really miffed that the local paper, Stirling Observer, did not carry a story I sent them of my appeal to find the names of all the folk who took part in my photographic project in the Changing Room gallery some time ago. Its up on You Tube and has had over 100 hits in a couple of days. Clearly there is a lot of local interest but can I get the paper interested? no way.