2 years at uni nearly over! Some different descisions would have been better but I can't judge, it's been a valuable and very happy experience though also dissapointing not making more of such a perfect opportunity, oh well another year to create yet

2nd June - I found my friend Simon’s journal entry [link] in which he mentions the Tool album '10,000 days'. I'd heard of the band but not the album. Then the day after next I went to a photo machine to get a photo of myself and found a package addressed to 'Christopher Swann' on the seat with a can of beer on top of it. The package was only held closed with one piece of selotape so I opened it and found the 10,000 days album! It has artwork by Alex Grey [link] (whos book 'Sacred mirrors' containing some of his paintings I have) in it and individual photographs of each band member in a room with different objects around them such as a large bird of prey and a picture of the Tree of Life. There is other artwork such as a drawing of a man where you can see parts inside his body like some bones and nerves e.t.c, he is looking upward towards you and leaning back, spiraling out of his heart and towards you is a snake made of fire. The really cool part is that each image is printed twice next to each other with slight variations between the spacing of the parts in each which represents how in real life the further away something is the less it moves in relation to things closer to you when you look through each eye alternativly, therefore by focusing one eye on one of the images and your other eye on the other image by looking through the lenses attached to the album case your brain combines the two images and has the depth information to produce a third illusory image which looks 3D. Well that's how someone called Garth told me it works, I can notice slight differences between the images and he easily created two images in Paint with slight differences which when combined into a third with the lenses or by going cross-eyed became 3D like in the album. Then we took two photos facing in the same direction but with the camera moved the distance between my pupils (64mm) to one side for the second photo. By going cross eyed it's possible to combine the images forming a third which is 3D like really looking at the scene! I like the music, the lyrics are interesting and it's good to have something that I can move my head to compared to the brilliant music without guitar that I like particularly much - Shapeshifter.

The 'The Lord of the Rings - The return of the king' music is great!
Also wow - 'Prana manna pulse' the last part of the Rejuva album by Shapeshifter.

23rd June - Today I got the money from the guy next door for the fire extinguisher I used on their oven when it set on fire. He said 'better than the house burning down' which I thought was funny as that would be a very big disaster!

'In the second that the hammer hits
Reality runs up your spine
And the pieces finally fit.

And all I ever needed was the One
Like freedom fields where wild horses run.'