Sunday, June 29, 2008

and then there were three



So the monday project has been a little interrupted over the last few months due to both of us moving between homes and being without any space of our own. We are back in action with lots of new things on the way, starting today with the new project. The idea that we will be working on for this month is:

"and then there were three"
Feel free to get involved if you like! Link back to your own blog in the comments or send in photos, stories, paintings, collages, jewellery, drawings etc etc... whatever you can think of, that you have created to do with something along the lines or this idea, or whatever it makes you think of.


(Photo from AtomicP)

Monday, June 9, 2008

Homework

I've started a short course on magazine feature writing at UTS. I thought I'd post up here some of the 'homework' we have to do.

This is an exercise in description from last week's class:

There is an empty glove on the footpath that runs along one side of a small park. The abandoned hand-warming accessory has been shrivelled by the near-constant drizzle from the gloomy sky. Around its water-logged leather puddles form in wells that are otherwise undetectable wells in the large grey pavers. The road running along the other side of the path looks like a large shiny lake with water running over it in sheets. The trees hanging over the path give the illusion of shelter, but really they just work to convert the sleet-like rain into fat, heavy drops; the kind that shock and almost hurt when they land right on the part in your hair.

This evening neatly pressed business shirts and carefully-creased pants, kept crisp all day, have become damp and slightly dishevelled as the people wearing them negotiate the puddle-riddled path, and fight to keep their umbrellas from turning inside out. The people who brave the rain to get home from their offices today will spend part of the evening on a bus or train feeling sweaty, even though they are not hot. Public transport everywhere will be steamy as the combined body heat of many people slowly evaporates the damp from people's clothes and hair.