Corporate conspiracies and environmental lip service by WAG

I am sooo frustrated. I want to insulate my home with a natural product called Thermafleece, or something similar. I am eligable for a grant to do this. BUT I cannot use the grant to have this product fitted UNLESS I can provide a doctors letter confirming an allergy to bloody Rockwool - the standard product used. AGGGHHHHH!!! So much for the WAG sustainability / environmental policy. It's all a conspiracy. The grant scheme is run by HEES which is a part of the group EAGA, who are funded by Barlclay's Bank. What's the bet that somewhere there is a link to the Rockwool company. It stinks.
Anyway, for those that can afford it without all the grant crap, here is the lovely Thermafleece site.

Ikon gallery visit

Great wood n harrison show. Plus incredible minute woodcut prints by thomas bewick.

Abundance project

I had the pleasure of listening to and meeting activist artist Anne Marie Culhane at the Nutopia symposium.

Save the vulcan!

Makin a sphere

Fun in the lovely snow

dark and light...

I have been editing video clips all week. Getting to grips with final cut pro and also seeing how completely useless my first attempts at video shooting are. Back to the light box I think..
I have been working with film that I took of 'falling matter' - 21 grms of it to be precise. I like the effect and atmosphere - it is just the filming technique is not good enough, so I am trying to make up for it by edditing. But can't!
Only a week to go to the PechaKucha night and I have got nothing - except I am picking up the badge maker in the morning to do freebie badges with positive slogans onto old newspaper scraps:

Bake bread, muck about, quit moaning, stop consuming, start producing, back to the land, embrace beauty, ignore the state, love thy neighbour, be creative, dig the earth, make compost, be alive, be merry, BE FREE!!