Just finished 6 solid days of documenting the James Weir Building for the University of Strathclyde which went on fire 2 weeks ago.  Every square inch of every room on 7 levels with every piece of equipment and personal belongings had to be documented with stills and video, under close supervision from Estates Services.  Very eerie!  It was like a time capsule in places with items still sitting where they'd been left, except in areas that had been accessed by the fire services and members of staff who collected private belongings.

Now I've got to sift through, log and edit over 8gb of stills images and 2 hours of video footage (after washing out the smell of smoke from all my clothes!).  I cannot share any of these images, as with all other Uni documentation I've captured over the past 6 years, but I hope you get some idea of the scene from my hurried description.

When it comes to working to unavoidable, short noticed deadlines which works better?  1/ Processing until 5 in the morning, like I did last night, or 2/ going to bed really early and working from 6am?  I guess this ultimately depends on how busy the following day is planned to be - I invariably fall for the former of the two (and suffer for it) but there is something more fulfilling about having the night ahead with only your work, perhaps a couple of glasses of wine and absolutely no distractions.  The latter option usually has me lying awake for hours and being anxious about getting the work tied up before breakfast - perhaps there's either 'night-owl' or 'early-bird' genes that people possess and I think I know which category I firmly fall into, when it comes to tight deadlines...!

In this fast paced age of tweets, myFace &c., I've finally brought MotionAndStills into the late 20th Century by introducing a blog.  So welcome to this, my first entry into the blogosphere, and I'll keep this updated and controversial as regularly as possible (promise!)