2011 Project365 (days193-194)
Categories: teaching, photography
Tags: film review, photos, marking, Open Uni, project365
Date: 13 July 2011 21:41:18
13th July:
This evening after work we went to a preview screening of this amazing documentary. It's not a great photo, but it's an amazing film - please please if you get the chance to see it, do. Though it is liable to make you very very angry. Not just about the vile Trump, though he is more than bad enough - I am horrified by the actions of the police and particularly by the lack of action on the part of the planning authorities in Aberdeenshire. There's more information about the film here and more information about the Tripping Up Trump campaign here. After the film they had a Q&A session with the director, Anthony Baxter, plus a representative from the NUJ in Scotland and Glagsow University geomorphologist (and expert on coastal erosion) Dr Jim Hansom, and closed with our hero Alastair MacIntosh reading from his poem O Donald Trump, Woe Donald Trump. It's long (he didn't read it all, but did read a good chunk of it), but well well worth the read. And, in case you didn't notice earlier, I really really really really recommend the film. It gives a voice to the locals threatened by Trump and his cronies, and moved me to tears.
12th July:
Having said at the end of May that I wouldn't be marking any essays till October, the other week my manager at the OU phoned to ask if I could take on some marking for a group whose tutor was off sick. No rest for the wicked. I just finished one lot, I have one more set of essays to mark which I will do by the weekend. Then that will be it till October (haven't we heard that somewhere before?).