"The universe picks the right time for things to happen"

My second session with Annie today led to this blog's title. After a few problems trying to purchase a domain name for the site and with Annie keen to record the exact dates and times of each important point along the way it was decided that "The universe picks the right time for things to happen".

Other than that things are progressing nicely. We went through the pages and gave each one a little teaser to keep people interested until articles are uploaded, agreed on a site design and decided on the way forward for the next session.

I've left Annie organising her articles so she can learn to upload them next time we meet and I've got the task of pointing the domain name to the site, something I've done before but not for a while so I'll need to get my thinking cap on and concentrate on it.

Generally things are going well.

What Goes Up...

FireBox dancers and friends, Gillian and Suzi, have been going to pole dancing classes recently and have really got into the whole thing. As well as being the source of endless anecdotes about clammy palms and upside down spins they have also decided that pole dancing, combined with contemporary, would be a good subject for a dance film.

The idea came to them a while ago and they asked me to get involved in the filming/editing part of it which is scheduled for Monday (26th May). I plan to work with high end and low end cameras to create an interesting quality to the film which will reflect the perceived differences in the dance forms.

What you need is a Toggle!

After a tutorial with Dan and a brainstorming session with Gair on Thursday then hours locked in a room in The Arches I've had a breakthrough with Isadora.

It makes sense.

I get it.

I can't quite convey how happy that makes me and how much of a relief it is (I'm sure it's just as much of a relief to my tutors as well who must have been worried I'd change my mind again) to realise that I'll be able to pull off my ideas.

Anne Whitaker's website

I met up with Annie today to discuss her website requirements. Rather than a traditional website we have agreed that she'd be better off with an online blog which she can update with her articles rather than her sending them to me for the rest of her life.

I'm now looking into the capabilities of different blogs to see which is the most suitable for her needs. She's looking for a multi-page blog so she can write to different sections with different subjects.

So far it's looking like wordpress is a winner but I'm still looking.

Isadora Is Trouble.

It was a bit of a disappointing day at the Arches today. I had 3 of the dancers I'll be using at my disposal and just felt like I was wasting their time as I couldn't figure out what I was doing with Isadora.

I want to be able to divide the space into a grid and activate video clips when someone enters a certain square of the grid. I can get the video to start but stopping it and switching to something else isn't happening at the moment.

We ended up doing class and going home early. I can't use the space next Friday so I have 2 weeks to figure out what I'm doing before I see the dancers again.