Welcome back everyone

Just letting everyone know I am back in the office and putting information together to email and post to everyone for the new academic year 2014-15!

I had a great holiday seeing family in Illinois and got to see Chicago briefly. I have also put together some research ideas that I will be getting on with this year... the break has helped to clear my head so I hope everyone was able to have some holiday some time during the summer. I have also just gotten involved in Second Floor Studios as a practitioner - http://www.secondfloor.co.uk - I will have to watch my time this year!!!

I have now changed offices from The Grove building. I am now in the College House at the University- I am not quite sure where yet - but I will keep you posted. The office address is C248.

Adesola and I are looking forward to working with everyone - it was great to see people in their gowns for graduation. I am going to both my daughters' graduations next week -  History of Art (Visual Studies) and Media and Communications (specialism Illustration) - incredible!

We have a few Inductions coming up - and people are already starting to get in touch - so phone or Skype. I will try to put schedules up asap.

Dance event - the Elixir Festival - with Anne Donnelly and Chris Bannerman at Sadler's Wells

http://www.mdx.ac.uk/news/2014/09/elixir-festival

Update Sunday 14th September

The performances at Knowbody were spectacular - really relevant to hw dance can be a lifelong pursuit. Words that came to mind were "profoundly funny' and 'intimate' and 'silly purity'. Sitting down next to a younger dance student/performer who said he said as a joke that at first he was a bit worried at first that the older performers might be more inclined to injury - I said I was not a dancer but was there from Middlesex University where some of the dancers were academic staff - and he said he understood and that I was there to learn about "the knowledge of dance" which was a fantastic way to put it. More later...

Performance Times

KnowBody
Fri & Sat at 7.30pm

http://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2014/elixir-festival/gallery

Democratising the web?

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/24/internet-lost-its-way-tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web

I wonder if reading a menu is like reading a CV

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/jul/28/tricks-restaurant-menu-boost-profits

designing - even with a template - or on a blog - means content can be 'read' with the audience in mind!

good article boys in dance

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28129203

new illustration museum

http://www.houseofillustration.org.uk

Facebook and research??

http://chronicle.com/article/In-Backlash-Over-Facebook/147447/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en