ARTISTS TALKING

# 21 [16 December 2006]

Still have not heard from the woman in Los Angeles, who requested a copy of the film I made in New Orleans which contained some footage of a friend hers. Decided to check up with an e-mail to her but the address bounced. Notice the address is “Hurricane Victim@”. Guess she has moved on.

# 20 [16 December 2006]

Got an e-mail saying the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCrKriXvkLo ) regiment stationed in Canterbury have had a private screening of my video.

Until now You Tube has been free from spam. Now getting pornographic messages from Brazilian sex sites. Keep blocking them but I gather these spammers have some kind of automatic system so it could take some time before I clear them all out.

# 19 [15 December 2006]

Why is it that every time you tell folk you are an artist ( as happened yet again at a party last night) the first question is:"Do you make any money out of it?"

# 18 [14 December 2006]

Footprints

Jack Schofield in the Guardian suggests using the free"crap cleaner" if you want to remove tracks such as browser history, cookies, autocomplete entries etc.

# 17 [14 December 2006]

 Picasso was once asked:"why do you make work" and he replied:"why do birds sing?"

Thursday means IT Guardian. Victor Keegan is writing about the Slingbox.. This is a new gadget that allows you to access your computer and telly from anywhere in the world ...on your mobile phone.

He says:"All of the new social networking sites- from You Tube to My Space- are hosted on the internet so can be accessed directly by phone wherever you are.  So why rush back to your computer at home? Mobilise yourself: the revolution is just beginning."

(I am writing this in order to avoid getting down to doing work...it's the equivalent to finding odd jobs to do, fiddling with paper clips and anything that puts off the evil moment when you start the day working).

Wikia have launched a new site called Open Serving a free server where anyone can launch content and collect advertising revenue.

# 16 [13 December 2006]

BBCMidWales online have posted my story- but we've got problems with the video and copyright music...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/abercraf/pages/annshaw.shtml

# 15 [13 December 2006]

I often wondered what was the attraction of my film on the Bridge of Allan Highland Games this summer. I thought it was nostalgia, all those ex-Scots abroad wanting a taste of their homeland. Now I have just received a comment from a 35 year old man in Israel and the secret of the 2,546 hits is clear: it's the blonde girl wrestling her male opponents!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GncZoKF-v_c

# 14 [11 December 2006]

One of the big attractions of You Tube is that it offers inter-activity. You create a piece of work and others comment on it.

Its no longer the perogative of art critics and curators to say what is or isnt art.

In the new digital world we are all critics.

So I was delighted today to find a Canadian performance artist had found my spoof video on "The Conceptual Artist" hilarious.If links work you should find it at:

The Conceptual Artist
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sNa_GL2SX8U

# 13 [11 December 2006]

Received my first electronic Christmas card of the season - from Glasgow School of Art.  http://www.gsa.ac.uk/

Seems they are cutting back on Christmas cards ( an excellent idea!) and using the money instead to fund  scholarships.

# 12 [9 December 2006]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MRRzv-APp2U

Will this work? some friends went to the Antartica earlier this year and I put their photos together into a musical slideshow and popped it up on You Tube.

I'm following Anne Brodie's account of her residency in Antartica with great interest.