This is lovely. Jonathan, whose blog I can usually be heard trumpeting on about, has launched into some almighty some song project. He plans to make a song a week. One of his songish tasks involved making a video for his song featuring birds and he gathered pictures of hand-drawn birds from lots of people. In true me-fashion I got very excited and demandedpeople make bird pictures for Jonathan, and then forgot to draw one myself.

I like the result much more than I thought I might. I like the mix of drawings, and I like the way they flash up in front of me. There are different birds and styles and colours, and there is a Robin, and even a duck. Everytime I want to stop it and cry “I like that one most!” there’s another one flashing up that I fickly want to point at too. Song ain’t bad either. (it’s rather good)

I’m practicing rotoscoping (think ‘a scanner darkly’) at the moment. I’m terrible (my drawing skills have slumped since age 9) but getting better. So far I’ve animated a hand and a tap. Luckily for me I shot some slightly more engaging footage after that or I suspect I would have gone mad.

I noticed, in the leap from a point-and-shoot camera’s video function to a handy-cam, the invention of mini DV tapes which surprised me because I quite primitively expect all image and film equipment to use an SD card (luckily our media department comes with some long-haired and technical resident types who are lifesavers). DV tapes remind me a bit of mini-disks, which were peculiar and abysmal things, neither of which stopped me nagging my Mother to buy some so I could make mixes, which were in turn also abysmal.

I like this rotoscoped video. Kids are so informative.

We work in in the top floor of a building that looks like it’s trying to be a warehouse. Perhaps it is a warehouse, and maybe I haven’t met enough warehouses. It has some wooden floors I like, big spaces, some pillars and white walls.

@tobytriumph is coming to draw on the walls. He has a website unsurprisingly called tobytriumph.com and did the illustrations for hopfarm.comwhich are nice. We got asked for suggestions. I would like a diplodocus stegosaurus. I have drawn him with some shoes.