PLEASE VOTE NOW!

So I've come to a bit of a dilemma. My client has cancelled numerous appointments and hasn't given me any feedback in regards to concepts for the video shoots and has generally been pretty reticent about everything. Whilst she was fully supportive in the beginning and believed in the project's aims, I'm beginning to get frustrated by the one way street this has become and it's holding my schedule plan back. I understand that working with someone who is successful is going to be difficult as they are in constant demand, but I'm not in a position to wait around.

It's not essential for this project to have a client as the main focus is the idea of and the actual format, but the benefits of having a client are having a good name to the piece and the unforeseen turns that a collaboration brings.

So people, I ask you,
To drop the client or not to drop?

Joanne K

Christine - updates

Hi everyone,

i've reigned myself in thanks to some feedback from people in the class, i lost my way a bit! I'm back to concentrating on my original project, and here are a couple of things i sorted today.

I handed in my notice to protest (against archaic foundation principles etc) at Charing cross police station today to a nice police officer who chuckled at the reason i gave on my official notice letter. I will be protesting in Parliment square on the 21st April along with Mark Thomas (comedian and activist) and other people. Mark Thomas regularly organises protests, and this one is for a mass lone protest for any cause, There are some interesting ones such as 'diet pills with every burger' and 'brides for trolls' So it should be fun. Taking part in a larger demo in May too.

I've also completed an online petition on the Downing street website, asking the prime minister for a ban on foundation tutors promoting these out of date ideas; i should be informed if it's been accepted soon. If it does, i want you all to sign! All a petition needs is 200 signatures for it to be passed on to the minister concerned. I'll let you know what happens. Working on some other stuff too but too early to give you any details.


Christine

Teresa FMP

Hey guys,

Spam e-mail is a growing practice (90 billion messages are sent
everyday) with which any internet user is familiar. What is not as
well known is the creative effort undertaken by hackers to bypass
anti-spam security systems. The lines below are an example:

"It is this way of it, said she. Either you will go on to speak or
set-off. I left our chambers pretty bare. If we had beds, if
Catriona, Will you not forgive me that time?"

This curious bit of text was designed to elude security software.
It was composed using the modern day equivalent of the cut-up
technique popularized by William Burroughs, by mixing bits
of separate texts (often literary works available online) to create a new one.

I propose to: 1. Actively seek out spam by creating a spam-magnet email account; 2. Select interesting examples to create a book that documents this work; 3. Create a website/mailing list to which people could subscribe to receive their monthly spoem. This would be an inversion of its original role: it would be received by people who actually requested it, and the text would be the main element of the email.
What I find interesting about this is the repositioning of something
that is discarded and is connected to a darker side of contemporary
capitalism (spam e-mail main topics are Pornography,
prescription drugs, sexual enhancement products, fake University diplomas) into a more noble context of art/poetry.


Any feedback very much appreciated!
thanks,
Teresa