Meeting with Ben Prothero, artist blacksmith to make drawing machine – also more reading, writing and amending animation.
Interesting to work with Ben in the context of making; I was particularly aware of how much he relied on making fine judgements by eye.
As part of the process I bought some drive belts in a specialist shop in Gloucester (AC Belting) and had an interesting conversation with the shop keeper about standardization and deskilling of sales people – “they don’t know anything about what they are selling and just look at computers.” This thread of ideas about making, real/unreal, standardisation is reflected in the reading and writing.
