Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 23:38:53 +0100
Subject: Dear Diary (was re:eno)


Heiko wrote
>Reminded me very much to some topics of this list, links to some english
>activities of the thirties: a book with 100 people who say exactely how they 
>get their money and how they spend it

Around 1988, in the latter days of his Dundee-based Data Attic project,
Pete Horobin distributed data sheets asking various artists (and other
people operating on the margins of the economy) to document a typical
day's activities (economic, body maintenance, inspirational, whatever).
These data sheets were printed in a short-run pamphlet distributed to
the participants and to visitors to the Suicide exhibition which he
organised at Dundee Unemployed Workers Centre.

That project was more focussed on the economic problems at the margins
that the 1930s Mass Observation project to which Heiko was alluding.
Incidentally, I submitted some notes on how my day was spent to a recent
projects, on May Day 1998.  My notes concerned a day spent with my son,
doing home education, discussing our local football team's ongoing
struggle to avoid relegation (which failed), etc - resolutely avoiding
any pretence at epiphany and hence not, I think, used on the collated
and edited web pages...

-- Alastair Dickson, Stirling, Scotland
-- <adickson-AT-stirmargrev.demon.co.uk>


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