Reprieve

I did my Precursor Project.

Some of it went as expected and much of it didn't. To my sheer delight, almost all of the hiccoughs (that's being generous - video with no sound, missing streaming media and due to this a complete mismatch in my recorded and live delivery plus going overtime and basically getting my tutor to do half of my setup is more akin to absolute failure) ended up adding to the effect I was aiming for - proving that liveness = immediacy.

Pretty chuffed. Everyone there seemed to really get something out of it and it (or at least, my immediacy debate) kept appearing in the rest of the presentations.

Not holding my breath for marks, but certainly happy about the 'immediate' effect generated.

Had a meeting with my supervisors and Ben. We all had a great discussion and split down the middle (as suspected, John goes with Ben and Larissa pairs with me). I must say, I'll be sad to lose that wonderful group dynamic, because Ben and I have similar issues and John and Larissa very disparate action styles, which combined serve to illustrate many more problems and potential solutions than one-on-one interaction.

Regardless, left that meeting with more confidence and direction, particularly when combined with the fortuitous presentation from this morning.

To top it off, I had the extreme pleasure of catching up with one of my all-time best friends. We had coffee, beer (and more to come) and are currently engaged in a debate/consolation session regarding performing arts (he's a fellow clown, but also a comedian), media, academia (his Dad is a Doctor of Philosophy and Psychology - and an accomplished pianist; we've had the pleasure of dining together, playing together and Miles has lectured both myself and my Mother) and the general state of the Earth and its' people.

But tonight is a small reward for much hard work. I managed to draw a further map for Danielle and collate a fist full of references so, while my head may be sore tomorrow, I feel I warrant some reprieve - even if it's writing a blog while 'performing' ablutions.

Performing artists: doing so in the most inconvenient places..