TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Monday, March 17, 2008

2:59 PM
Posted by jodi rose

I woke up this morning with words scrambling to get out of my head.
It must get crowded in there :)

Nice to finally get my focus back, after weeks of running on adrenalin and just patching it together. Now that transit lounge is over, the sound constructions event done, and various other side-projects finished, I have all of two weeks left in which to enjoy this rare luxury of a settled workspace in my residency.

Any remaining calm is about to be shattered by the ten or so French artists moving into the gallery today, as part of Sophie, Bertrand and Philip's installation and 'Floating Land' project. It will be creatively inspiring or complete distraction, either way should be fun, and I love their philosophy so am happy to encourage and provide hot water.

http://www.programonline.de/thirtytwofingers.html
http://www.floatingland.com/
http://www.espacekugler.ch/dejodeetlacombe.html

The visit from the French internet radio team was fabulous, we had a great time chatting and playing each other sounds, you can listen to the archive here on a week or so. Planned to visit Jan's studio last night and hear some of his vinyl field recordings, but never did find out the exact address. Have to try and track down Jean-Baptiste and Erik before they leave town, it's been a strangely fragmented few days.

http://www.myspace.com/radiowne
http://www.poptronics.fr/Radio-WNE-Show-fait-le-pont-4-7

This is one of my new favourite things, listening to the ocean here:
www.locusonus.org

Have finally managed to compile and synthesise my ideas enough to articulate them for the next batch of project proposals, and working on fancy diagrams with Mika this week. In exchange for fashion consultation on suit-buying trip (I insist on shopping with sekt to hand) and profile. Which is kind of ludicrous at the moment, this bridge thing is outta control!! In a very good way.

Articles out NOW in Velvet Mag, Athens/London and ALARM in USA.
More to follow soon.

So the really big news, according to February Vogue which I leafed through in the cafe last week, is this: 'Brunette is the new Blonde'.

I kid you not. Three pages devoted to this highly important hair fashion trend. Glad to be au naturelle, and Som is giving me a kitchen trim later today. Tidy up those loose ends, maybe some feathery wisps around the neck, although the straight fringe is never going to work without a lot of product and blow-drying. Oh dear, and it's 5 to 3 and I'm still in my pyjamas. That's what you get for rolling straight out of bed and starting to write. At least I finally finished the Staubgold Profile/article for Loop Magazine in Australia, am getting practical details sorted for Paris/Singapore and submitted the proposal for an extremely cool festival in Spain, which might just slot into the program before flying out into the wild blue yonder again.

Bon Voyage for today
xj