There’s nothing like strutting around nude after a good bath. Listening to the Beatles further enhances the experience. I tried a smidge of Chris’s aftershave and my face has been ignited by menthol. Ouch.

Almost no one* comments on my vids and I still haven’t figured out how to read my webstats, but I do them for my own enjoyment and artistic satisfaction so it’s not a problem. However, if you watch one and have any sort of (non-craptastic) response, please do comment — I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Today, I’m going to make a vid, perhaps using generative ideas from Eno’s diary. This passage ties in with my approach to 011, which process** I very much enjoyed:

Yesterday, before the meeting with U2, I took the precaution of putting tiny sections of each of the 44 pieces of music we have in hand on to a single tape. All this means is that when somebody says ‘Drum Look 14′ and someone else says ‘Which one was that?’ I can readily go to it without having to change tapes (whcih takes only a few more seconds but is annoying). This little precaution (which however took me nearly three hours to put together beforehand) expedited the whole thing so much, and changed the whole quality of the decisions being made. I tend to spend more and more of my time thinking how to set up situations so that they work — so that they can actually take less and less time. My ideal is probably based on that story I heard years ago of how the Japanese calligraphers used to work — a whole day spent grinding inks and preparing brushes and paper, and then, as the sun begins to go down, a single burst of fast and inspired action.

• Dad, once: ‘I don’t get it.’ ** Actually, I recall now that I used an organizational method inspired by Walter Murch in The Conversations. I made a bin of the clips I planned to use, gave each a descriptive name, and set their poster frames so that each clip’s icon showed the frame that had fired me up. Then I took a screenshot of the bin to use as reference. As with flashcards, the process of writing them was more valuable than their later use.