TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, February 20, 2003

11:03 PM
Posted by jodi rose

ilk
apparently I am one in a million worldwide blogger users. there you go.
just a quick sketch of the last week, had a visit from bob the spider - he had a big round belly with white spots, hairy brown and white striped legs ( a garden orb-weaving spider, not poisonous, and repels attackers by making his web vibrate - as I discovered on the internet before I could go to sleep with him in the room) who liked to hang on top of my bookshelf from the photo of my great-grandmother, frances redfern, who was a musical comedy actress in such plays as 'prunella, or love in a dutch garden', playing the character of "jolly romp." Fitting, as richard told me when I was freaking out about bob, that a spider in your room in Buddhist teaching means that the spirit of your ancestors, or one of them, is checking in on you. The next evening I managed to catch bob using an icecream container and transfer him out to a hedge across the road, where I hope he will live a long and happy life feasting on bugs.
today I made a nectarine flavoured candy model of the golden gate bridge - it's a bit of a gumby bridge, but gave me great hope as anything else I make can only be better. using material that hardens quickly gives the whole process added spice - next time I'll try it with modelling clay, and hope to iron out the engineering issues such as having to stick the roadway into the pylons, making it impossible for traffic to actually cross the bridge. Visited the hobby shop at lunch time and got very excited about all the wonderful model making figures available - have my eye on some construction workers (! - love a man in a nail-belt!!) and a set of tourists with cameras, hope to find some skater kids doing graffiti as well. so the bridges may be rough, but the little people on them will be gorgeous! need a perspex dome and some re-recordable piezo speaker thingy's too. you'll just have to wait and see for what it will all become - I love making art when you get to play with cool stuff. Enough of this trying to produce serious, meaningful work. let's play!
had a small adventure out to the 'garden of ilk' film screenings, at ilk bar round the corner. such a chilled out, ultra low-key yet extremely stylish place, with two of the cutest boys I've seen since berlin working the bar, but the film wasn't great, and I left before they played... an episode of the sopranos. I could stay home and watch that! anyway, it's good for me to get out on these small soul nourishing escapades and remember there is a big world out there; and that your happiness is in your hands. something which us people seem to need reminding of now and then.
it's making me very happy to snuggle up in bed in about 5 minutes and schlafen. goodnight!