Alasdair Watson

My goodness, I feel rubbish. That’ll be the drink, then. Two months off it come January, though.

In other news: I have done the slides at the Tate Modern. I am now convinced that yes, they absolutely are Art, and that really anyone talking about how modern art is rubbish, and not really art at all, is just in dire need of a really big slap. Importantly, they are also a lot of Fun.

The Tate Modern’s bookshop proved the terrible trap I knew it would be, but in the end, I got out only spending a tenner, even if there are a few new new books of photography on my Amazon wishlist. Also, the Proud Galleries “Best Of” exhibition is marvellous as well, and I would like credit for not spending several thousand pounds on two or three prints.

Now, I must have food, and possibly some more sleep.

1) A Trip To London In Maps. Highly recommended. You can see what it did to my head here.

2) Dead Air and Digitalia now fire a notification of to my Twitter stream whenever they are updated. This sort of thing is irrelevant bollocks to most of you, but I feel a certain professional obligation to play with web services like this, just to see how I wind up using them, so that I can point clients/employers at them when relevant.

3) In a similar vein, I have updated my aggregator site, so that it pulls in my myspace blog, althought naturally mpsacks don’t do anything so considerate as provide a full content feed, despite the fact that the content is mine…. I’ve also added some what we are apparently now pleased to call a “lifestream” to the site. It seems like a logical fit with the general purpose of having that site, and again, it may have possible professional uses.

4) I’ve made a start on the first serious post for my myspacks account, and will get on with more on Wednesday. In case any of you are wondering what I’m suddenly doing with all this myspacks nonsense, I’m over there for purely self-promotional purposes. I’ve got some plans for next year that will mean I want to try to build an audience for some work, and I think myspace may be useful in doing it. The blog there is going to be a load of waffle about Art, at least to start with.

5) I’ve gone through the few shots I’ve taken recently, and generally sodded about with photos.

This holiday business is all quite tiring, really.

I’m out all day tomorrow, so if you could all try not to do anything interesting that I’ll need to know about until Wednesday, that’d be ace.

I don’t know anyone who’s so crack addled as to be seriously complaining about the lj update page re-design, do I?

Sorry, just test an rss-related device, and I need to cause an RSS feed to update. Move along, nothing to see here.

Anyone else using Twitter?

I’m on it at the usual predictable place.

Things I want to see next week:

• Carsten Höller’s slides at the Tate Modern.
• London in maps at the British Library.
• The Best of Proud collection at Proud Central. (That’s a load of classic music photography. I may have to leave my wallet at home so I don’t accidentally spend a few thousand pounds.)
• The Photographic Portrait Prize 2006 at the national portrait gallery.

All of the above are free, or one or two quid. (Assuming that you don’t make the suggest voluntary donation.)

I’ll be doing the above Monday, Tuesday and possibly Thursday, and yes, I expect to also spend time in the rest of the respective museums (where there is a “rest of the museum”) as well as the specific exhibitions.

Who’s interested in what, and free when?