gear update

Well, my laptop is functioning, so I could paint over Marama and Debbie's films, but I've got reasons for thinking it's best to keep those as live-action, which has to do with the concept of wairua. In Māoritanga, the wairua of an image or artefact is different to personal wairua; if I painted them, it'd be like I stole their souls, fully aware that's superstition ... Te Ao Māori is superstitious, much like the Irish. I read a chapter today on tapu of the person in my Tikanga Māori book. - I don't have a camera or sound equipment, so that's limiting me re: making films. Mum's finally coming around on that, though, so Pippa might give me money from my trust - Mum holds the keys to that because I'm bipolar - to buy a new DSLR. I'm thinking of doing some long, deep interviews. Amber wants me to interview her Grandad, who is an old-school Labour guy. - I'm up-to-date on all my AI payments, so those images are all my copyrighted material. Deep Dream Generator and Runway ML. Those are my engines. - I need a year's worth of guitar strings as well. But that's not critical: I'm taking a year off. - I really miss the legal pads that I used to write on ... where do people buy those in NZ? Now, my little notebooks are ok, but they're like jotting books: they're crap for good copy. It's funny: I'm ok with computerising notating music, but I write lyrics by hand, with very rare exceptions (the bridge of the Beach Song: 'as the anthropocene grinds on' .. that was my iPhone 4). I make decisions as I notate stuff, so I intend to notate my song scores myself. One of my mistakes was that I didn't write out my metres when I devised them, because those were crystal-clear when I made those demos, then I forgot!