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Early Morning Dog Walk (2) 3th April 2008


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Thinking how my early morning dog walk might fit in with using the iPhone and using MacDictate. Basically the iPhone has made it a lot easier for me to record my thoughts because I tend to carry the iPhone as a music player on my walks - so I always have the phone there anyway so I don't need to be thinking about it in particular. The difficulty with the sound is that it isn't really clear enough and it takes a lot of listening to and ideally I would just take this home and translate it directly into text but the technology isn't good enough to do that yet. I played around earlier in the year with the iPod and iListen to translate what I put onto the iPod but that didn't really work - the quality just isn't good enough yet so I guess the other way round to do it - and it would review my thoughts a second time - would be to listen to the recording from the iPhone on Skype - I am doing this with an answer-phone - letting the message go straight onto the answer-phone, and listen to it a bit at a time and re-dictate it into MacDictate so that I have it there as a text form, because once it is in a text form, I can do searches on it, makes it much more useful and when I end this call magically the music just comes up again.

Early Morning Dog Walk (1) 3th April 2008

Walking back up the hill this morning, in the sunshine, which makes all the difference - pehaps my artwork needs sunshine. Having spent four days clearing out my workshop/studio, installing a wood burning stove and sorting out my collection of stuff.

Experimenting with dog walk thoughts again - this time using a skype in phone - line - phoning into this from my iPhone and recording my thoughts on the answer machine. Although the quality is not good enough to transcribe directly it seems to work OK - although I guess for quick searching etc. I shall need to do some amount of transcription - but this acts as a revision of the walk thoughts. I have looked at using the transcription pack with iListen, but the quality of the recording is not good enough. I could just make a summary of the recording, or I could do a typed transcription - I shall experiment with each. The other slight problem is getting the answer machine recording into this blog - it needs re-recording and then translating into a compressed mp3 so that it will play on this blog. Is it worth while?


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The main question to my mind is whether what I am researching in Research Methods is the methods of research themselves or whether I am researching in relation to the school work that I do which is my primary motivation for doing the MA in interactive media or whether the research is towards the artwork that I do in my own practice and whether I am looking at artists that interest me from that point of view and how that then relates back to what I am doing in school because obviously as an art teacher everything that I do and am as an artist feeds back into what I do as an art teacher and what I am enthusiastic about and then that presumably relates back to looking at methodology and who and how I look at. So up until now I have been looking over the Easter holiday at Aardman in particular, reading a book about Aardman and animation, not that I want to be a animator though I must admit that I did have a thought maybe after this MA I should do an MA in animation but that is for the future perhaps. I am definitely thinking that I should be looking at animation although that is not really quite where my own work is. I don't myself want to be an animator, what I work with is very definitely inanimate, more like painting although they are characters, a spoon becomes a person, a fork is definitely anthropomorphic. lots of what I do has that anthropomorphic character. That I am substituting objects for people. So maybe that should be one of the criteria, anthropomorphism, symbolism perhaps, you can't deny that a spoon and a moon are symbolic. And then the playing with words which maybe taps into Ginsberg and poets, maybe there should be a poet on my list somewhere, maybe not Ginsberg, children's books, Lily the Pink, who was the chap that did that? To bring in slightly more of an eclectic mix. There you go enough of that.