My day started off with more image research using the online databases of two photo agencies I couldn’t log onto yesterday – IDS and Retna. Both were packed with great material and very useful, so helped to expand what I had already achieved yesterday. This took me up to around lunchtime, so went for a bite to eat and returned to the office shortly after to read the Feb 2010 issue of Vice magazine that was lying around on the desk. Whilst browsing the pages of Vice, the graphic artist sat next to me asked if I could pick out some lyrics (from a list he had already made) and write it on a piece of paper. He was getting various people in the office to do the same, in order to scan in the writing to put onto his designs for the next issues lyrics page. I felt quite gratified that my handwriting might end up the magazine.
When Zoe returned from her lunch break, she showed me to the archive room, which was quite small but filled with so much stuff that I’m surprised it didn’t start cascading from the room when she opened the door. Shelves upon shelves upon drawers between cupboards…full of transparencies, prints and CD archives. And what wasn’t properly archived was in boxes on the floor. It was an absolute mess, a nightmare to find anything. Zoe asked me to see how much Muse stuff I could find, which I was more than happy to do, but I also wanted to organise the shit out of that room, which would have taken days. I found a limited amount of Muse slides and some content on CDs, but couldn’t find a folder of prints as it had probably been put away somewhere stupid. Regardless, I suddenly felt really at home in there, spending time with photographic prints and transparencies. What was even more exciting was getting to look at all the images, not just of Muse, but pretty much every other band I have ever enjoyed. I could have lived in there.
For the final part of the day I scanned some rather ancient NME spreads from a giant A3 book, which meant I had to scan each page in two halves with the A4 scanner on the desk. Pretty annoying, but it was something to do until I went home. I would rather have hung out with the archives though…
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