TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

10:23 AM
Posted by jodi rose

another electrical engineer

'it takes courages to do what you want.
Other people have a lot of plans for you.'

says joseph campbell in the book on happiness I'm reading between Buffy marathon and visits to collect and test high tech scientific measuring devices. Going out to UQ this morning, then 8 Mile Plain for a variety of solutions to the accelerometer question.

Planning to drop by RAW art space and City Hall for culture and exhibition on political activism in brisbane during the Joh years.

Had a productive meeting yesterday with all people involved in the key aspects of the permenant bridge installation, now we're talking the same language, if slightly different dialects.

Steve and John (Project mgr and head engineer for the bridge) took me to lunch and we ended up at the Forest, vegan restaurant in the West End - unexpected, but they were great company, and completely unfazed by the macrobiotic food and dim loungey atmosphere.

Am feeling very empowered by all these high-level meetings and the extremely concrete nature of the installation, coming to terms with very specialised measurement concepts and really ready to complete the shift from 'artist' to 'director' or 'project manager' of this global bridge endeavour. Think it's necessary, there's an element of humility and hat-in-hand 'please sir can I have some more' when coming from the artist position, whereas once you work up some status and business negotiations credibility, you stand in a much better place for high level trans-national inter-corporation leverage. Here goes...

During all this, am continueing to work on finding a still place amidst constant change and movement. A space to float AND be grounded.
Raqs have great things to say about nomadism - will quote later.

Reading articles about their ideas and work on my way to meet Steve at the UNSW vibration research lab last week, enjoyed the contrast.

It's fun having all these people working to achieve my idea!
Back to the bridge...