After
an interesting week at NUA where rooms of nervous individuals wielding black
folders were to be found talking about possible futures - (yes interviews are
underway) the work at Kings on synthetic anatomy continues.....meanwhile ..... today
was another great day at Kings - consisting of numerous elements which
including getting to grips with new software and the physical process of 3D
printing. Pushing a material till it fails is always interesting and making a
piece that explored the space of a book was the first of today's questioning of
systems and a way of investigating materials. The next print will be of a brain
that will explore the interconnectedness within it and create support
structures that look like basketwork - maybe 3D printing is a textile activity and
our department at Norwich should have one. Shelley James and Andrew Carnie ran
a very professional workshop that looked at measuring, mapping and
communicating. Making great connections
with my own and Celia's previous workshops. I loved the rules and general set
up. It enabled the students to find their inner storytelling skills. Feedback
and sharing at the end of the session seems very normal activity within a art
education situation and an experience that is familiar but its excellent to
watch students unfamiliar with this truly engage with the process and be
genuinely interested in each others work.
Woody Harrelson does a great
job in LBJ but maybe you have to be
American to actually care http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4778988/?ref_=nv_sr_1
Phantom Thread is just so beautiful
it melts your eyes and the acerbic tone of the actors is just chillingly
brilliant when in dialogue with each other. "The tea may be gone but the
interruption is still here" is one of my favourite http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5776858/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
and then there is Justice League - a
bit like a CGI infused A team.
