On the drive in to Wolverhampton I went down the route past Shifnal and Albrighton and when I got closer to Wolves I could see a huge cloud of smoke up in the air, travelling across the city. I diverted to aim in the general direction and once I’d found the location I stopped in a safe place and got out with my camera. The fire and rescue services were there, along with the police who had taped off a section of road that would be the staging post for the services dealing with the fire.
A couple of people told me that it started at 7:30 am and the West Midlands Fire Service website also said the same. It was a factory fire on Sunbeam Street and looking on Google Maps I could see a costume clothing factory but not a lot else. Two different bystanders told me it was a Clothing factory and a Car Parts factory so I guess it’ll wait ’til it’s on the news.
Arriving into the university, I headed up to the 7th Floor to look out of the art studio windows to see what was visible. A plume of thick dark smoke was rising and spreading across the city so I guess it is still ongoing.
The image below is taken from the WMFS Website at 11am.
Into the studio
Down into the Studio and I sat down at the scanner after a quick chat with Gavin, Sam, Euripides, Dan and Andy. We discussed briefly the new Grade II Listed status of the School Of Art building and what might happen in the future but it’s all up in the air.
Putting on my lovely white gloves and cleaning out the scanner flatbed and the negative holders, I pulled out my redscale film of my shoot at the Barbican in London last week and started scanning, there was an awful lot of dust spots and small fibres on the scans though.
After scanning in the redscale film #122 I banged in the film #119 which is a redscale 120 format film with 645 photos of Shirehall on it, but when I’m scanning the photos it is showing them as correct colours, weird…
After finishing this film I started on the next, which was an expired Fujicolour Pro. As I took the film out of the Kenro sleeve I noticed that it appeared to look like a redscale film. I worked it out as soon as I saw this and then confirmed it when scanning. The images came out as I would have expected looking like redscale images. I figured out that I have written the wrong film number and details on the Kenro sleeves, I’d confused the two when putting them in the binder.
The files were saved to my university Onedrive so they would be there when I got home, only now I’ve just connected at home and the files have not synchronised across. So I’ll have to log back into the same computer and see if I can get it sync’d across.
666 The number of the beast!!!
After I finished at university I checked out the film times on at the Wolverhampton Cineworld as 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple had been released, so I popped by on the way home to see that. What a film. Some bonkers things in it, and some tense sequences as well as som ereally British humour. Worth going to see it if you get the chance.
Next week is the first proper teaching week when we’ll be learning about what is to come in Semester 2. I will not be participating in the degree show so I don’t yet know what I’ll be doing. I do know that my draft dissertation that I handed in before Christmas should have been read and some feedback (or feedforward) provided so that I can polish it as much as possible before the main hand in date in the start of May. Let’s see how we go shall we!!
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