sorry i've not blogged for a week or so but i've been a bit head down with the end of the digital advent calendar and making sure i had all that finished up in time.

was quite a drain on the brain that, but worth it. another block of work, daily videos that i can talk to potential future clients regarding daily content retainers.

currently sitting on the cardiff train at five to eleven listening to norah jones with a one though process in my head -- seeing my daughter and having a fun day, which actually is quite a challenge, had a few lovely bottles of wine last night.

so my christmas came and went and it was everything i enjoy about serenity -- dan and cj went to their folks respectively and i just did nothing. opened one present, made soup and just had the moment chilled out day.

christmas is a nice full stop on a working year but i can only do it for a few days before i have to be up and out in the studio or working, planning or sketching -- those ideas just keep coming and existing projects need organising and pushing forward.

that's not to say that my mind is all over the place because it is. i'm thinking about transport, housing, ark project, studio and money to actually get ahead rather than maintain.

i dislike just maintaining a level of normality, i always want to push myself to do more. life is too enjoyable not to be present in it.

so christmas day two with bella today opening presents and generally having a textiles and sticking and gluing kind of day with her. expect pictures and videos in the usual channels. you know she is my little star.

then i actually feel like getting straight back into work, the redesigns i think and structure of the show output are really important things for me to start concentrating on as well as the widget and coding things i have going with labmediauk.

very keen this next year to push forward on the shows and building up some more advocate work from other companies, i think a lot more businesses will start to come online with social media, i just hope that they realise when they start it looks lames if you stop.

very keen to get some kind of housing early on in the first quarter of 2012 and i'm absolutely desperate for some transport to get me over to the ark location regularly until we hear news of any funds release for the project.

hoping you all had a fantastic christmas, i've been watching and looking at all your path and instagram content over the last week seeing you enjoying yourself. that's awesome. glad you had an awesome time.

oh, not sure if i've really posted about it that much but we are coming to the end of the digital advent calendar for the month of december. if you haven't seen it yet you might pick up some good tips in it!

you can check it out at http://watchdottv.fibrecamp.tv or subscribe on itunes if your that kinda of connected digital kittah.

the one most excellent thing to happen weekly that puts that 'cherry on the cake' - i've not got that much cash to spend this weekend on treats and doing stuff with bella but that's ok too - we will find ways of doing something.  i'll probably take her to one of the many places across notts that we have not been too yet - anything visual and knowledge and input and she is away.

hoping we might be able to call into LOVE photography tomorrow and see how her pictures have turned out.  not totally sure if they have been looked as yet as i bumped into the team last night on the way back from the broadway advisor/charity gather (which was excellent btw) and they said they had been busy.  you never know - they might have gotten inspired at the last minute.

must push the rest of these videos up before i leave tonight.

see ya tomorrow bella.  love you.

just gotta rattle out these videos over the next few hours and get into a pipeline so i can be ready for producing the many 'shows' and series we will be outputting from the studio once things are setup and running. 

some people feel weird about posting pictures and videos of their kids online. i get that, i understand it. i also know that i need to get my daughter (who i'm so proud of btw) ready for the digital barrage of media intrusion of cameras, gps and mobility - all those things that will look radically different in the next ten years.

i want my daughter to know what the differences are and how to validate that the information that is presented to her is correct. the faster we hurtle into the matrix with the locked down eyecandy consuming based ui the more i want to increase her digital spacial awareness so she can navigate her journey through it - assisting her when i'm not there.

my ella will be ready. she's already a video blogger. ;)