Diary for March 2010
31st A Plea from the Heart
I've just put the phone down from one of those 'with regret' conversations; a client that's not sure ... has some doubts ... and is being hassled by the contractors for lighting layouts. The job's due for completion in July - I suspect there are already delays - so what time can there possibly be to develop a decent and meaningful lighting design for what is quite a complex space? The answer to that is - very little, verging on none at all, so the client falls back on the old tried-and-test...
23rd A Tragedy of Errors
I'm a person who prefers to see the best in people - one who believes that our species' evolution stretches ahead into the future, peppered with the brilliance of human invention. It also means that, when things don't go according to plan, I assume that its down to someone's capacity for deceit, rather than simple incompetence. In other words, I prefer to think that things go wrong as a consequence of conspiracy, rather than cock-up. Things do not go to plan as a result of someone being del...
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