OK, so an opportunity has arisen to do something slightly offbeat, but which will distract me further from the doll proposal until December…..
I have been inspired to create a video for Coldplay's Lost competition.
Coldplay are huge fans of A-ha, whose Take On Me video and comic book imagery formed my Degree Show installation The Unreal God And Aspects of His Non-Existent Universe.
Recently, Coldplay performed their cover of A-ha's Hunting High And Low onstage in Oslo with Magne F, and have collaborated with him in a band called Apparatjik.
So when I read about Coldplay's competition for fans to make a video for them, a vision of a Take On Me style rotoscoped video manifested itself in my mind and wouldn't go away!
Realistically I should probably make Coldplay dolls!
But my son wants to be a rock star, and so I filmed him singing along to Lost and plan to rotoscope him in the style of Take On Me.
I have made a storyboard and will be concentrating on this project for a while until the deadline in December.
Gosh! A whole month has gone by and still I don't seem to be getting any where…. although I seem to have sorted out the babysitting dilemma, and have been successful in other aspects of my life. With half term over the last two weeks, I decided to spend some time doing things with the kids. For the past three years half term has been swept aside for lectures and work….
I've been away for a while, just a break from the monotony, but honestly, it's been 5 months and I'm fighting to banish slight feelings of disillusionment.
Several rejection letters later, and the most creative thing I've done was make a Rubik's cube out of tampons…. I haven't wanted to add to this blog half the things that are going on in my mind at the moment, because quite frankly it's depressing!!
Next week I have an appointment with the lone parent advisor and a trip to a graduate fair in Sheffield, which actually fits in with school hours – hooray! Whoever arranged the timing for that deserves a medal – back in Lincoln to pick the kids up from school at 3pm – genius!
Still the difficulty of finding work that is remotely related to my qualifications, does not require me to work ridiculous hours over weekends or evenings (neither of which I can do due to parental responsibilities), and still allows me time to continue my practice. Is there such a dream job??? Or is it just a figment of my over-active imagination????
I would illustrate all of this in a Take On Me style comic, but I have dolls to make….
