Looking in

**Not for sensitive readers**

In Tom Robbins’ “Jitterbug Perfume” the chief “nose” of a large purfume company delivered a theory on why dinosoars went extinct at a perfume convention. He mantained that that they died out because they refiused to eat plants that displayed their genitalia in public. Now this is an old story but I love it.

How generous of flowers to spur evolution forward beyond dinosoars by inviting the world to enjoy their private parts. Is this offensive? Flowers don’t think so. Perhaps this says something about our tangled moralism and inability to celebrate the sensual without getting caught up in a host of taboos and shibboleths that we unconsciously subscribe to.

Today

Well it was two days ago actually but I just got round to it now, tearing open a little space in my day of changed arrangements and overdue projects. This is a spontaneous set of visual thoughts:

How,why? just because. But actually because I had just bought a vertical grip for may camera and was trying it out. Nic in one of his blogs said something about a new instrument sparking some new creativity. In this case a new relatively trivial acessory set off a pleasing contemplation. Perhaps its worth adding that as with Julia Cameron’s morning pages serving as an unblocking process – just finding images around my working space does the same for me.

When I used film I used to set myself a little exercise of finishing off the roll on whatever I could find in the room I was in or whithin 5 paces of where I was standing. So? should I say something about the images? Launch off on an accompanying narrative? No. I think thats it.