{"id":2121,"date":"2020-06-15T16:52:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2020-06-15T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T15:52:08","slug":"lockdown-eight-too-busy-to-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/15\/lockdown-eight-too-busy-to-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Lockdown Eight (Too busy to think)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another lazy post, been too busy gardening and prevaricating since the last one.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2120\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2120\" data-attachment-id=\"2120\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/fox_jaw_social_gif\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fox_jaw_social_gif.gif?fit=700%2C467&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,467\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"fox_jaw_social_gif\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;small painting with withered rose and fox jaw&amp;#8217;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;small painting gif &amp;#8216;fox jaw&amp;#8217;&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fox_jaw_social_gif.gif?fit=584%2C390&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2120\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/fox_jaw_social_gif.gif?resize=584%2C390&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"390\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2120\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">small painting gif &#8216;fox jaw&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I made this small painting, and I entered the last one into an online competition&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2123\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/15\/lockdown-eight-too-busy-to-think\/capture-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture.jpg?fit=1247%2C676&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1247,676\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Ian Latham&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1592237239&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Capture\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture.jpg?fit=584%2C317&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2123\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture.jpg?resize=584%2C317&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture.jpg?w=1247&amp;ssl=1 1247w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture.jpg?resize=300%2C163&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture.jpg?resize=1024%2C555&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture.jpg?resize=500%2C271&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Capture.jpg?w=1168&amp;ssl=1 1168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s there on the right, you can click this link to vote for it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doncasterartfair.com\/?pgid=kb84pw6k-c20b0fd7-b161-42b3-ac0a-0086832b9f2e\">https:\/\/www.doncasterartfair.com\/?pgid=kb84pw6k-c20b0fd7-b161-42b3-ac0a-0086832b9f2e<\/a> but I don&#8217;t really stand a chance, the final 30 are picked through the online vote and half an hour in some of these had 500+ votes. I don&#8217;t know enough people online. It was free to enter though.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been continuing to work on the &#8216;gardens&#8217; project, tentatively titled &#8220;et in arcadia ego&#8221; the viewer moves through a series of gardens, all the gardens I&#8217;ve spent time in. I think its about the pursuit of quiet spaces, the expanding and contracting nature of safety &#8211; mental and physical &#8211; and the chimeric nature of confidence (for a start).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 584px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-2121-1\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/glover_stret_2.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/glover_stret_2.mp4\">https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/glover_stret_2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>This is the first space, the back yard at Glover Street in Birches Head, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. The spaces will eventually lead to the garden I used for geranium and I&#8217;m working on a post explaining the concept fully for a new funding bid (small funds but tech support).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m building sculpture this week, I&#8217;ll post it next week or on the internet as I go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another lazy post, been too busy gardening and prevaricating since the last one. I made this small painting, and I entered the last one into an online competition&#8230; It&#8217;s there on the right, you can click this link to vote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/15\/lockdown-eight-too-busy-to-think\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[10,30,20,7,26,37,16,32,48,47,35,34],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-2","tag-3d","tag-garden","tag-gardens","tag-painting","tag-prevarication","tag-studio","tag-tech","tag-thinking","tag-virtual-reality","tag-vr","tag-wip","tag-workinprogress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2me3G-yd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ian-latham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}