{"id":2203,"date":"2014-11-20T20:49:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T20:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2016-05-19T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T17:02:30","slug":"barns-and-stars-shooting-at-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/news\/?p=2203","title":{"rendered":"Barns and Stars – shooting at the moon…."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"barnsandstars\"<\/a>Finally got five minutes to sit down and catch up with myself and all the threads I have started off…<\/p>\n

I have not had a chance this week to\u00a0read and critique a short story as I have been doing because of so much else going on. Busy is good but not when it gets this busy.<\/p>\n

Today I managed to record a version of the Edwin Smith poem for RIBA. Still have no idea how they going to use it. Perhaps as a board and a pair of headphones in the show?<\/p>\n

I also recorded a bonkers new song as the recording studio set up. This song ‘Dark Grey Clouds’ (see below) I wrote Wednesday and shows the fiction classes having an effect even if not directly on my fiction. I struggling with the fiction work-shopping as I feel I have a lot of ground that I probably will not make up as most of the other students either been writing fiction for years or are straight off Creative Writing B.A.’s. As a beginner in this area at least I learning. The whole point of doing this course has not been to get another M.A. ( I have one already that enough) but to generate the necessary pressure to do something rather than sit on my arse for a \u00a0valuable year off.<\/p>\n

That it certainly doing. Happenstance gave me the Edwin Smith commission in week one which upset my studying a bit but been thoroughly enjoyable and produced what I think one of my best poems. When able will share.<\/p>\n

I have now been asked next week to perform\u00a0‘visual scribing’ (live cartooning) at a Product Design Research workshop…basically drawing ideas for vacuum cleaners:-)<\/p>\n

The money handy but again distracting. I also in early stages of drafting a PhD proposal for the NTU Vice Chancellor’s Bursary in ‘Phenomenology of Drawing’ which logically builds on my art and design research. It a snowball in hell but just writing it makes a point after this summer’s events. Again I will share full story when able….<\/p>\n

I have also this week made first tentative steps towards two projects alongside Creative Writing ( I hope over next two years to produce at least one book of poetry tentatively entitled ‘The Dark Horses’ and get one short story published as I said I a newbie there…) and\u00a0an LP\/CD joint\/collaborative or\u00a0solo called ‘Barns and Stars’ (see above and below).<\/p>\n

Finally I started to plan a solo painting\/drawing show late 2015-2016 that rounds up the work shown at Drawology\/Nottingham Open and make me paint again as the studio sitting there waiting….<\/p>\n

That’s all folks….I ain’t getting a wage but I happier than been in years as long as I keep the light\/heat on Emma happy and if I win lottery I agreed to buy her a horse.<\/p>\n

So on we go….so here a little tune of\u00a0Lo-fi weird americana…Jim White without a band Skip Spence on a suburban lawn..David Lynch’s Berkshire cousin…<\/p>\n

He He<\/p>\n

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