Stormy Weather

Another loud thunderstorm during the night sometime around 4am. Velux windows are not good in a storm.

And I've woken up with bites, probably some insect gained while sitting in the park yesterday. Large itchy lumps on various parts of my body and a blood trail down my shin where it has managed to break my skin 3 times in a neat row. And I feel itchy all over.

Straight into workshopping today starting with listening to john Cage's piece for orchestra '4m 33 secs'. It is on YouTube performed by BBC. A must see and more importantly hear! So we had to visually map our own 4mins and 33 secs. I actually quite enjoyed this and started to see the point.

Then we started our 2nd project which involved visually mapping a set piece of music (experimental Polish) and abstract as all this sounds, I really really enjoyed this. I am not thinking about work, I am not thinking about how to teach the next batch of students, I am lost in some other world

Lunch with Ewa, Jan (the Prof) and his wife (who is beautiful and talented and seems a genuinely lovely person) and I absolutely hate her. Turns out she is a solo violinist:http://www.joannakurkowicz.com/.

More workshopping and some group critique. I spent too long trying to remember how to do things in Flash but it may work as a skeleton for several visual experiments. I always have time tonight to do some more.

Finished after 7 and then dinner which involved a walk to the Czech Republic (Cesky Tesin) across a construction site (no H & S again), it is like stepping back in time. About 30-40 years. I opted for a safe dinner by taking the same as the chap from Brno. Conversations ranged from Wolfgang Weingart to communism, Czech lager to (the no longer) Cieszyn film festival.

Feel a lot more relaxed now I'm here and doing something. Just need to work each day and have something at the end of it. Today's projects will be joined together and shown at the event on Saturday (yes, on Saturday there's lectures and presentations - I'm not even getting the weekend off!