An online version of my new work Paramount Pictures can be seen in the portfolio here: Paramount Pictures

You cant help but be completely amazed as you watch the News at Seven it presents the news in the most original and compelling ways i’ve seen, definately one of the most interesting developments on the web i’ve seen in a long time.

News at Seven is completely automatic, it uses the web to find news for each day, then goes and finds videos and images that are relevant to play along with it, it also searches the blogosphere to find relevant comments on that news story, the whole thing without human intervention. more here.

I gave my first lecture after the Royal College (if you don’t include a seminar at Hull) last Monday 27th March. Daunting, but really rewarding. I had 2 full days of tutoring the students on the Fine Art BA course at Leeds Met. Theres some great work being made there and a real determination amoung the students - can’t wait to back and see how its all progressing.

I’ve just found this on google, they must have updated their satelite imagery, as it is incredibly detailed. This is where i got all the tarmac for my After the Rain piece. After asking a few road workers where i could get as much free old tarmac as possible I was directed to a depot in Greenwich. It was hard to find but i saw this black mountain as I approached the area. It doesn’t look that high from a satelite photo, but it is huge, as is the digger you can see perched ontop of it.

Had to get up at the crack of dawn today to give my work to a man in a van. It’s on route to the Atkinson Gallery in Somerset. I’ve made about a hundred calls to all the tarmac folk in the west country, and i’m vaguely assured that I can get what I want. Now i’ve just got to cross my fingers and see what happens on monday when i get there. With a bit of luck i’ll have a new After the Rain piece set up in a week

Have you ever experienced nature comming so close and so dramatically as this. Somehow with the BBC covering it live and seeing images such as these gave it much more gravity that it otherwise would have. Virtually everyone who saw this was captivated, thousands of people lined the banks and bridges on the Thames as the barge passed. This is possible the most incredible display of humanity i’ve seen in a while, perhaps more so because it was in aid of an animal, not another human.

It’s strange how witnessing the death of a whale so publically can be more moving than seeing human death and tragedy on the news. This must tell us something quite important, though i’m not sure what.

Calyon (Credit Agricole) now own 2 of the routed wooden drawings.

I’m off to see some head honchos at Calyon (part of the Credit Agricole group) later today. They’re interested in one of the routed wooden pieces from the Honey and Almonds work. I’m not sure what to expect, but i’d like to sell one, it would be a first and would definately help sort out that overdraft.

I’ll let you all know the result.