The Soap-Eyed Meddler.

Look at him...all japery and friendship. Who could resist such a figure?

Edinburgh.

Between other things, we visited the Museum of Childhood, ate at Monster Mash, walked the National Galleries of Scotland and became so covered in rain on the way up to Arthur's Seat that our path was set to divert. At the Dean Gallery I saw a Joan Miró painting that gave me access to the emotion of joy, wiping the walls with all else.


Despite the hundreds of exhibitions that I have visited, there is nothing better for me than a Miró. Nobody cuts through the divides and analysis with a cleaner warmth. Nobody else has ever made a painting that could last me forever, simply because this is a living feeling rather than a thought or a description. This painting was alive and I was in love. Sky space infinite. Unlimited. Passive in the giant passive. No conflict. Dead in something outside of our imaginations.


Then there was this.

Raised 'n' Mightily Fused.

I have recorded character improvisations, watched the footage and considered improvements. I have generated more of Sprueman's lyrical script. I have been reading Acting Without Agony. I had a meeting with my VicBat contact and developed a lot of ideas, though the most important thing at present is preparing a presentation that presents the mascot's past/present/future.

For this project I have made a visual list of corporate/educational mascots:


Although VB already have a definite mascot, I was curious to see how others have been used. A wider variety of potential applications. The observations of these salesanimals are so obvious that even thinking them may cause a fire in the IT Drop-In Centre. Art is all illusion and that.

Scratch One Craft.

Back from the Craft Fair which was educational in as much as I have learnt that I need never visit Brighton ever again in my life. Pretty efficient really.

After a wash and dry at Chorlton's Soap Opera, I turned up here for some internet and the Monday Meeting. Later I will be working happily. There are presentations to experience. Words and money are all over the place. There is something funny about Manchester's new bus lane.