TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Thursday, July 24, 2008

10:59 PM
Posted by jodi rose

all set!
cabinets polished, video's running, sound levels good, text hopefully straight now, lights, camera...

art :)

saw a fabulous collection of signs on the way home today, via queensway for the phenomenally cheap printing service - new name cards and way cool stickers with bridge fm logo - first, I can't remember exactly, it's scrawled across a piece of paper somewhere in my bag 'moral home services' or something like that, then 'corrupt practices investigation bureau', and finally, the 'friendship clinic and surgery'. This friendship needs a transfusion. Actually, mine are doing just fine now.

Thankfully the glitchiness seems to have mainly been transferred to the work, and now only have to wait for the doors to open and people to listen.

Quote somewhere last month, 'I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone'. Yes, genius. Although it's a strange position, doing this kind of gig. You dream something up, have a series of meetings with a team of highly specialised people who ask you what you want in great detail, they go away and make something, come back with it, you go away and make something, change this or that, refine it some more, dim the lights, and there it is. Whatever strange apparition comes from the imagination to be made real - it could be anything, that's the fun part. I can see how artists get into doing seriously demented work, when you just have these kind of resources and validation mechanisms at your disposal. Oh, the fun we can have...