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Monday, February 24, 2003
Oh my god. A week to go before the exhibition and the tantrum trousers are well and truly on!!!
There is loads to do for the exhibition and not enough hours in the day. I have been going to bed at 4 each night which i thought was late enough, leaving the office at 11/12midnight. Last night Yuko-san slept for 3 hours in the office and nao-chan didn't sleep at all. I told them off, it's pointless doing that you can't possibly work on no sleep indefinetly, Yuko-san keeps telling me they will sleep after March 1st. Mad, Mad. Mad, I'm refusing to join in and am overdosing on vitamins, aloe vera and yoga as a healthy protest.
There is an atmosphere of bemused insanity at Muse at the moment, it's a lot of work but pretty good fun and I can only liken it to the insanity of the live TV Swansong broadcast. Everyone has the far away look of beyond tired.
Editing alongside my trusty companion
One of the girls had a hissy fit yesterday and from now on will be known as tantrum trousers, She has been given the job of making projectors for the exhibition in Final cut pro which I have been supervising. She keeps changing the planned edit and doing flashy (japanese style tv edits) which are completely inappropriate for a contemplative installation piece of old photographs. Consequently she has had to restart 8 times now and there have been a lot of tears. After about the 3rd time my sympathy disappeared and I had to restrain myself from throwing my own gai-jin hissy fit. I have too much to do myslef without the added bonus of a frustrated steven speilberg. grrrr.
Ame ga fute imasu, it's really raining
Must stop saying oh my god at Muse because it now sounds like my catch phrase and some of the girls have started saying it, have been careful to not swear extensively while editing as I usually do and that might catch on as well.
The panos are coming together and look pretty different to the uk ones. The main difference is the amaount of stuff in the rooms. There's generally less room here so all avaliable space is used, and I think it shows in the photographs. Content wise there are key differnces like all the japanese images contain ancestors boxes which are buddist shrines to deceased relatives, Although none of the uk images contain religious iconography each uk picture has an abundance of family photographs. I guess the mantlepiece is the uk equivilant of an ancestors box.
Have been told that my japanese is kawai (cute) 3 times today. I guess this means, you're a bit crap but don't stop trying!
Was chatted up by a very cheeky taxi driver who when i told him i had an english boyfriend suggested I needed a japanese one as well. He obviously had his eyes closed as I have bags the size of bin bags under my eyes.
Had another interview with the Yomiuri Shimbun tonight, for 2 hours (the record so far) they are usually around 1.5 hours. In england it's usually 5 mins over the phone. They are going to run a piece about home-maker and interview aiko-san (96) about being photographed. Aiko-san moved into an old peoples home 2 days after I took the pictures so I'm really glad I had the opportunity to photograph her room. I going to get the print framed for her as a presento. She has lent me her doll collection for the installation, to go into the japanese room, complete with glass doll box.
Had my own Madonna tantrum moment when I asked the photographer to not take my picture from the floor looking up, have learned from bad experiences with a certain nottingham newspaper that if this happens you end up looking like mrs Chinface, Madonna would have been proud, she has a no photos from the side rule - shows just how old her neck looks!
Japanese wrestling
Keep the music suggestions coming, much appreciated
my current top 5 ( and will always remind me of this time) is:
Ryan Adams - Sweet Caroline / damn sam i love a woman that rains
serge gainsbourg - bonnie and clyde
dirty timberlake - cry me a river (word from Fann is Timber compared kylie's ass to an onion, so good it makes you want to cry)
jonny cash - i see a darkness / one
calexico
Japanese wrestling
must get back to the edit. - have japanese wrestling pics to post up , the funniest thing I have seen on J TV.
Japanese wrestling
posted by Jeanie Monday, February 24, 2003
