My Creative Space

My Creative Space is nice. I found Kootoyoo @ Loobylu.

Works like this: take a pic of the contents of your work space and give it a little blurb. Reminds me of those articles in girlie mags where a star spangled female empties the contents of her handbag under a lens and it somehow tells the viewer all about her day/life/psyche/boyfriend. . I like how this wee web game tells a story, in a doco/reality mode, but we all know that it's kinda set up.

Did I set this up before I took the pic? Yes.

I tried to hide the contents of the budget that I'm working on because we all know that all budgets are a form of a kinda set up reality, innit?

My Creative Space has been chaotic of late, and now it feels truly easy and light. I'm balancing a budget for a job that finished a wee while ago. It was a commercial video job, with briefs, clients and subcontractors, shit to push up hill and a complicated budget that I'm trying to placate.

I've a pink ext-hard drive to back up the data because if I lose it, I'm rooted. I've fave sennheiser headphones for company and a calculator that I can barely understand. Who knows who it used to belong to, because sure as hell I didn't buy it.

Y'see, I'm no number crunching biatch so this creative space feels like prison, but on the plus side it makes me think of my mum. She often had ledgers and calculators, nice pens and neat piles of formal looking papers in front of her at the kitchen table late at night. She ran my father's bricklaying business. She'd roll over in her grave if she saw me being such an "i" dotter and "t"crosser. If she were still alive she would have had this element of post production all nailed up (for me/on behalf of me) and tied together in a cocky clever smile by now (flinger click).

I've all data ready and raring to put into the EXL doc to balance this baby, but I'm labouring over starting that phase. All items on the Budget-to-do are crossed, but the final: the one that tells me how successful, on paper/in the bank, this project has been. That's why my screen save image can be seen. My screen is saving me. I'm procrastinating over opening the telling software, Microsoft Excel, EXL. Eiw.

I'm pleased that I'm becoming proficient in the commercial sides of creativity ... but I still lack confidence. I'm afraid of EXL-ing, are you?

PS

This weeks favourite creative space of another's. This is Frederick the Architect's blog blurb:

Frederick Biebesheimer FAIA
Restoration Architect Specialization in the restoration and adaptive use of significant historic structures. Currently living in San Ginesio MC Italy

His blog chronicles the restoration process of his homestead in Italy. I love his work! Love it.