I wanted to talk a bit about my role in the project, and maybe a bit more about what I'm wanting to achieve.  My 'official' title is Artistic Director.  If only it were that simple.  I suppose if I were to make a list it would go something like this - I'll attempt chronological order:   Initiator, researcher, fundraiser,  head of human resources,  planner, organiser,  head of marketing, designer,  webmaster,  shepherd, diplomat, ringmaster, technician, nervous wreck, documenter, and very probably cleaner... This is not uncommon.  Most artists these days have to take on a similar multitasking approach when making their ideas become real.  That in itself is what we constantly attempt, to make the ideas and concepts we make within our heads translate into reality.  This is, in fact, an impossible task, whatever the idea 'looked' like within the confines of our skulls, it will always look different when we are finally standing before it (whatever 'it' may be).  The task is actually to come as close to it as possible, to find some sort of cut-off point where you can say, 'well, I'm 80% there (or 99, 25 or whatever percentage we are happy with), and that's as close as I'm going to get - lets do it.
O f course ideas always mutate in the translation to the real world, often something that seemed fantastic in thought can prove impossible (or indeed, crap) in practice.  In fact, that initial idea is usually just that, something that initiates the real thing, a building block to take you towards something that is really incredible.  You can usually spot art that is completely based on that initial idea, and it's a trap that artists often fall into.  Concepts are like most things, they need to develop, to be nurtured to reach their full potential.  The most successful projects I've been involved in have been those that have taken the longest to mature.  This is not a hard and fast rule, sometimes things appear in the world fully formed and ready to go, but it is unusual...
I think that was a digression, but an important one, as artists our concepts, our ideas, are a currency, it's what we have to offer to the world and needs to be acknowledged.  Kettle's boiling - back in a bit.