It's Easter weekend and the chocolate bilby has almost been eaten. I haven't eaten chocolate in a number of weeks and the chocolate buzz went straight to my brain. I would like to say that as a result I came up with a number of cool ideas for the website and worked super fast but I'm afraid it didn't happen. Thanks to a friend who took the time to test my website I now have another idea to implement and that is a secret brick. :)
This weeks version of the website. Looking at it compared to last weeks, there is little change but I have been working on it pretty much consistantly. The only way I can describe it is that its like a duck, alot of work happening under the water.
http://www.sharyne.co.uk/test_site/websitev11.html
On Wednesday we had our last Contextual Studies lesson before the two weeks off. This weeks speaker was Dave Haslem. A very interesting man, even if he does wear some gold thing on his shoes. Dave spoke alot about the "consumer of culture to producer of culture" attitude that Mancunians have. This trend in DIY attitude has been traced back by Dave to the birth of Manchester in the 1800 during the Industrial Revolution and detailed in his book Manchester England. His idea of consumer to producer of culture has been proven in the success of bands like Sonic Youth, Stone Roses and Oasis. It is not just in the music industry that has produced talent but also writing and television. At first I felt that he was just a lucky guy, being at the right place at the right time to become a well known DJ and associated with the Hacienda. But I take his point that it was his drive, determination and skill that got him to the right place. Dave started his journey with a fanzine and had the opportunity to interview Morrissy before he became well known, started promoting bands until he was told that some of the bands were terrible and that was the catalyst for his DJing career. I very much appreciated Dave coming to speak to us. Thank you Dave.
Still can't get into the Headstart website....Grrrrr!!!
