TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, December 04, 2003

12:17 PM
Posted by jodi rose

My life is hilarious at the moment! I'm just quietly meandering along, slept through the biggest storm in a century which actually flooded my street - well I was up until about 2am watching this incredible strobe-lightning flash continually across the sky, if you saw it in a film you'd be going, yeah, storms don't last for that long, but it went for HOURS - fantastic! anyway, after I went back to bed, the swamp that is collingwood totally flooded, people were being rescued in boats from the freeway at the end of my street - which is actually an old creek bed, before it was built up - and all the garbage bins were floating down the street. Amy's Pub on the corner had the cellar completely flooded, the watermark on my flatmate's car is about a foot above the pavement, which means our front garden was also flooded and the water pretty much lapping at the front door. So we've had fire and flood now, but famine is very unlikely!

Anyway, having slept through the storm of a century, I've been just hangin' out, doing 'stuff' - finally replying to the 9 pages of emails that had built up in my inbox - sorry everyone for the delay! - and following up connections and ideas.
I seem to be going off! in Italy now!! Had another email from a journalist interested in writing about the project, for an 'italian tourism, fashion and contemporary art monthly magazine' - bring it on!! and have also been accepted into a very exciting art exhibition in Finland next year. I can't give you any details, as they're not finalised yet, but my lovely friend Mari in Helsinki is going to be 'on the ground' with installation and all the practical stuff, although I am hoping to get some funding and go over for it.

Speaking of which, I was knocked back this week by the visual arts and crafts board at ozco - applied for the PS1 studio, and unfortunately PS1 then decided to withdraw the program for australian artists, so it wasn't a rejection really, but that means I need to find another way to spend a year in new york. Still waiting to hear about the bridge guard in Hungary/Slovakia. Find out in December sometime if Arts Victoria are going to help fund the CD release of bridge compositions and remixes- if not, I may have to set up a save karen style donation box on the site.
In fact, maybe I'll do that anyway - why rely on government funding?! Take it to the people!!! It could be a 'Help the Bridges Sing' appeal, with all money going towards the realisation of a global bridge symphony. I'll talk to the fabulous jonathon about that, anything from a dollar/euro to whatever you feel like giving! That and selling the CD on line, once it gets produced.
The future's looking bright! I love you all,
xxxx jr