Archives for Jennifer Mills

Jennifer Mills and Sean Williams talk to Sonja Dechian

Producer Sonja Dechian followed writers Jennifer Mills and Sean Williams for the duration of  The Subjects. Listen to the podcast here: http://www.killyourdarlingsjournal.com/2013/05/sleep-study-the-subjects/

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Aftermath :: Fee :: the photos are online

// i have also posted a slightly edited version of this on my own blog at http://reallybigroadtrip.com/thesubjects-adlww // I’ve just uploaded a whole bunch of the photos I took during #TheSubjects. I sent some of them through to ANAT be uploaded while I was ‘inside’ but they didn’t seem to make it onto the blog, sadly. I’ve been […]

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Sketchbook

As promised, i’ve uploaded all the drawings i made while in the lab, in the order in which i made them. WordPress won’t let me embed a flickr slideshow, so it’s here. Or you can view the set on flickr.

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The Subjects at Adelaide Writers Week

After a week inside the CQU Appleton Institute, we’ve released The Subjects into the real world. They blinked in the sunlight, ate some chocolate and then scurried away and back to their real lives – or did they? You can find out how The Subjects have been readjusting to daylight and normal hours at their […]

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The freedom to sleep

It took a week of false starts, insomniac nights and madly early mornings, but I have finally caught up on my sleep and normalised my caffeine intake. Flying to two funerals and three states probably slowed the recovery down a bit. It was a shitty way to land but it certainly cemented any thoughts I’d […]

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Ask the Subjects :: Are you having microsleeps?

Are you having microsleeps? Once when sleep deprived I had them, and also kept seeing people who wanted to look after me. People kept asking me if I was okay, and I wondered whether to tell the extent of my hallucinations. Are you irritable? I dont think I was creative at all, except for my […]

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Day 6.5 :: Jen :: Honest Clocks

If I’m not trapped in a time loop, there will be soon be a when. A when of time words, honest clocks, the polite consensus of day and night. It will also be the when of schedules, demands, deadlines, appointments and being pressed for time. And I’ll be grateful for all of it. The eternal […]

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Day 6 :: Jen :: Swiss Cheese composure

It felt like Saturday morning for a long while. Time-befuddled, I kept falling victim to a creeping fear that we’d looped back to last Saturday morning and were about to begin the week again.

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Ask the Subjects :: I can’t do without my…..

At this stage of the game what’s the one thing you have with you that you feel you really couldn’t do without? hmc Music was the biggest thing that saved my sanity and the other ‘band members’ in the subjects. They made it an enjoyable experience and if I didn’t have that camaraderie it would […]

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Ask the Subjects :: Willing compliance?

I’ve noticed that the theme of compliance has been mentioned many times and obviously everyone went into this being willing participants but I’m curious though how that compliance is filtering into your creative mediums? Additionally, is it making you reflect on how much control you have in the ‘real world’ over your creative processes? Kristy […]

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