Editorial Team

by Alex Hetherington, 30 Jan 2008

Janie and I decided to ‘exploit’ the Root and Wings Group as our core editorial team, made up of some of the seniors at the Flats, they are already working with the materials we would like to feed into. Lottie’s story about her dentures and the Niagara Falls was hysterical as was her Japanese tourist story from San Francisco. I hope to meet her sister in Manhattan in February. Anyway this team of advisors should be able to help the progress of creating the newspaper and I hope we can get the launch edition to them soon. It’s slow progress I guess.

Meanwhile I developed sound for House/Lights again and am meeting what I hope will be Olga in Edinburgh next week. (the studio was filled with electronic bleeps and that great line from Planet of the Vampires: “And I confess now, to whoever may hear this, that today, now, I am experiencing fear; I must not let my crew know this I must keep them busy. I must not let them know the situation grows more hopeless with each passing day.”

Tonight I’ll work on the video extracts. But then again it’s been raining a lot and Callendar Park seems like many degrees lower than the rest of the country so I may just sleep. Met Kirsdy from Lowsalt on the Subway tonight; she’s a brilliant artist who, with Becky, runs a brilliant space. Thoughts on galleries and institutions seem to be omnipresent having sent out hundreds of copies of the booklet. I still have in mind my Kill the CCA project, it’s never left me. Janie has been working on her Project Ability work today and missed the cross country runners at the Park, freezing in their nylon sports gear, huffing and puffing in the rain and grey, I smoked a cigarette for effect.