Fighting The War Against Boredom Autumn 2007 (light work)

Altering a book for Rich and Strange.
Collaborating with Wes White on writing for the Wellcome Collection's website.
Writing a piece for a film by David Palazón.
Planning a workshop for the British Library's upcoming Avant Garde exhibition.
Filming some ripples that remind me of a heartbeat.
Playing rust bikes of death with J-M and the girls in Dublin.
Starting work as the Heritage Education Co-Ordinator for Brockwell Lido.
Visiting friends and being impressed by pumpkins in Freiburg.
Still thinking about the woods.
Realising it really is autumn.
Going to an acting class.
Drawing a picture for Attack!!!!8.
Learning to surf (that's me standing) with E-N at The Big Blue in Bude.
Watching people set things on fire in Lewes.

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Fighting The War Against Boredom Summer 2007 (grass is greener)

Designing and knitting a snail for Niall.
Setting up my artwork for the Foundation Summer Show exhibition.
Designing tiaras to knit from crepe paper.
Making badges (hand screenprinted on silk) to sell at my show and in the shop.
Visiting the folks in Sligo.
Running an activity for the Wellcome Collection's "Curious Collections" event.
Designing a postcard for Issue 9 of Leisure Centre.
Planning Steal The Show with artists Mat Huntley and Adam Redhead.
Making Afternoon and Be Part Of My Drawing Machine Part II for Steal The Show.
Designing a t-shirt for Brockwell Lido Users (BLU).
Working on the British Library Patterns Summer School.
Running workshops for Gasworks and seeing them put on an exhibition of work made in them.
Thinking about the woods.

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Fighting The War Against Boredom Spring 2007 (colds,water,cold water)

Thinking about swimming pools again.
Knitting a crown out of black crepe paper streamers - adapted Leigh Radford.
Designing and knitting Barnyard Chicks and Garden Birds, producing a limited edition of the pattern and selling it at I Knit London.
Filming myself at Tooting Lido - thank you SLSC and Lido management.
Knitting a pair of tabi socks to wear as slippers with flip-flops - adapted Knitty.
Tearfully making Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Badges and giving them away.
Knitting a hat for my friend Ann - adapted Leigh Radford.
Making drypoint prints of drawings of stills pulled from my pool videos.
Designing a rig for taking simultaneous underwater photographs.
Dying yarn with Kool-Aid with my friend Sarah.
Sewing pretend armbands.
Making special reels to go in Viewmaster toys.
Building a pigeonholed shelving unit to hold those last two things.

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Fighting the War Against Boredom Winter 2006/07 (high contrast)

Getting Sisters '06 off the press - woohoo! Bit close to the wire this year.
Visiting the girls in Stoneybatter.
Developing photographic prints made with acetate copies and a paperweight.
Writing On The Impossibility Of Staying Alive with Wes White and publishing it. Performing it at Pipe and Slippers.
Making compostite photographic prints with old negatives of me.
Starting a Tuesday Knitting Club.
Drawing crows.
Making Hearts for Valentine's day.
Making lino-prints of crows.
Lino-printing crows onto a mirrored-plastic figure.
Stringing mobiles out of paper crows.
Shadowcasting with crow mobiles and filming the shadows.
Working on a piece of writing for Attack!!!! 7.

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