at last...

I am DOING rather than just thinking. A rather tentative beginning, but a beginning none the less and now i feel ready to take on the world! Having spent a few days sketching and pretending that was work, I finally went out this morning with ed to bishops park in fulham and did some filming. I haven't finished yet, but i wanted to see how far we'd get using as a script the print-out of the events in the 'kingdom of the candles' on this forum i mentioned before. So ed very kindly took on the role of my alter-ego - the idea of putting myself in front of the camera was just too much when it came to it - in fact i found it quite interesting as i realised that a lot of ed was invested in the construction of the 'wandering minstrel'. So, as in the forum, he entered the 'kingdom' (park) with relative ease and having failed to attract any attention at the gate house, he went to investigate a side gate. The Bishops Palace in the park is currently undergoing refurbishment, so the only other people around in the grounds were builders, who ignored us completely, so ed wrote a note to the queen (following the 'script') and posted it (well, he threw it over the gate), then he went to sit in a tree and wait for a response. Surprise, surprise, none came...

Next i want to look a bit closer at this idea of alter-ego, but I don't want to make this a piece of self-exploration... anyway will continue to build this 3d map of the kingdom of the candles and might look at some element of costume and see if i can do a bit more filming before i give the camera back on thursday

what a relief to be working at last!