Friday, 18 November 2011: Working on focus paper one.
Thursday, 17 November 2011: Working on focus paper one.
Wednesday, 16 November 2011: Working on focus paper one.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011: 6-7PM Working on focus paper one. There was a Museum Studies Hall Meeting Seminar; I missed this session.
Monday, 14 November 2011: I have acquired my University library card! Also, was visited by a Raven this morning. I believe it was a male, so I shall say ‘Mr. Raven’ had a huge piece of breakfast in its beak; it tilted its head at me and I could almost swear that it winked at me. I ran to get a camera device but by the time I had returned to the skylight, the raven was gone. The monitors are averaging a little colder and drier than they have been of late. Today I found some fascinating seminar videos based upon film footage from 1970s about interpreting ritual.
Weekend: Research at home--review of online resources. Scheduling for recording monitor readings. The above image is from a documentary called 'Buck' that is about a man that survived an abusive childhood to become, well, essentially a 'Horse Whisperer'. In the documentary they discuss the idea that the activities with learning how to cooperatively train the horses amounts to training for the human on the other end of the lead rope. Buck travels across the country giving workshops in the non-violent management of horses but all of the participants are very clear about how participation in the programme changes them as much as the horse. What they learn about cooperative behaviour transfers to all of their other relationships and work tasks. It seems to me that this type of change in being may also happen to people when they experience objects in museum context or when they contribute to the knowledge-base for a museum exhibition.
