Last weekend I had a fantastic time at the Kindrogan Field Studies Centre on their first ‘Wildlife Sound Recording’ course. We were under the learned and expert instruction of Roger Boughton and Phil Riddett who are both part of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society. Doing the course was justified as work for a new . . . → Read More: Tadpoles sound like sausages
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Another One and Other Blog 22 August 2009 I’ve copied the text below. ‘The plinth has changed my life’ 00:10 GMT, Sunday, 23 August 2009 The Edinburgh Festival has taken over my life. Completely. I have had a show running since the start of the festival (‘Funny’) and on Monday there will be the . . . → Read More: Another One and Other Blog This is a repost of my blog entry on the One and Other website. The original is at: http://www.oneandother.co.uk/blog/2009/07/on-and-off-the-plinth.html 4pm last Saturday (11 July) I did my hour, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I enjoyed walking around the plinth for a while beforehand, the preparations with the hospitable and efficient staff, the journey on . . . → Read More: On and off the plinth On 11 July 2009 I spent an hour on the fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square as part of Anthony Gormley’s ‘One and Other’. During my hour I wrote a ten minute play inspired by the ‘Tank Man’ of the Tiananmen Square demonstrations of 1989. ‘Tank Man’ will be performed by Gillian Lees at the . . . → Read More: Tank Man My blog on the One&Other website. This one is about my plans for the day itself – writing ‘Tank Man’. http://www.oneandother.co.uk/blog/2009/07/tank-man-on-the-plinth.html I’m intrigued by eBooks and I’m sure I’ll have a reader soon. The debate has clearly started about what the new format for words will do to the culture of the book and I find it all fascinating. Although I don’t, yet, have one of the new generation of readers I have often read . . . → Read More: Ebooks All my life I’ve been a coffee drinker. I would even confess to a certain amount of disdain aimed at the ‘tea’ drinkers around me. I could never understand the appeal of ‘tea’ when the oportunity for coffee was also present. As instant coffee began to fade from common practice around the 90s my . . . → Read More: Tea In the late ‘80s I was campaigning against human rights abuse. Around 1989 I was shown a document by a researcher that was very sensitive at the time. It documented the abuses meted out by the UK security services in and had been leaked by an official with inside knowledge and first hand experience. . . . → Read More: Background to ‘Funny’ Download the Artist as Leader Research by Professor Anne Douglas and Chris Fremantle. Weather was bad. Oops. Flights were cancelled and ferries delayed. And we set off for Shetland. For a show the size of Hannah and Harvey the tour company consists of three stage management and the three actors. As this was our first time in Shetland, and was also likely to be a pressurised get-in, . . . → Read More: Hannah and Harvey in Shetland (just) |
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