PhD Blog
mountains and complexity
August 30th, 2010
Tags: complexity, feeling good
I have spent a great, and super long, summer holiday with my family in Italy and France. The five books that I took with me for once did not stay in my luggages… strange enough I managed to read them!!! This is obviously the sign that my kids are growing enough so that I can [...]
shooting, framing and cutting out
May 31st, 2010
Tags: frame, production, shooting
I have spent the last two weeks shooting interviews for a project on parenting that I am doing with two friends… It has been really exciting and refreshing to be back in action, on the side, or behind the camera again… One part of me feels much more at ease there than in front of [...]
Interruption
I have been away for a long easter break and I need to go back to work as quickly as possible! The problem is that once I get out of the mood, and full immersion, of writing it takes me a good week to get back into it… oh gosh… going on holidays is great, [...]
writing mode
March 25th, 2010
Tags: excitment, frustration, mood, writing
I am writing.
7.00 am, alarm clock. 7.30, get the kids ready. 7.45, breakfast. 8.00 kids to school. 8.30, I do my jogging. 9.00 shower. 9.30, cappuccino plus start writing till the kids are back from school. It is not exactly a 9 till 5 job, but nearly… I have to say that there is a [...]
The rethorics of PhD writing
February 4th, 2010
Tags: frustration, writing
I am reading DeLanda and Deleuze because I’ll might use the idea of “assemblages” to analyse interactive documentaries. I know that if I use such concept I will have to defend the way I use it – to be inspired by it is not enough. This is what I find very difficult in PhD writing: [...]
