London Town

OTP's 'It's Grim Up North' Exhibition at Reebok lounge Wed 2nd Dec, http://anotherexistence.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/escape-with-otp/#comments

(me and my bros legs lookin arty)

http://www.thedailystreet.co.uk/2009/12/%E2%80%98it%E2%80%99s-grim-up-north%E2%80%99-exhibition-recap/

Really good night, everyones work looked amazing! Went wayyyyy too fast though!

I extended my stay for the weekend, and fitted in some street art spotting and gallery visiting..

Love Space Invaders way of tagging by helium balloons...god knows how he/they attached them to the lamp posts, they're so high up!

All i remember from thurs is a massive plate of sausage and mash and cauliflower cheese at this place http://www.sandmcafe.co.uk/.
Friday, we went to Saatchi Gallery and the NPG for the Photographic Portrait Prize.
We wandered around town, got a bit lost, but eventually found the shop selling OTP's limited edition Tee's. They had all but one sold out the day after the exhibition. woop.

My favourite piece at the Saatchi Gallery. 'Kiss Tras Kismet' by Sterling Ruby http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/sterling_ruby.htm.en?section_name=shape_of_things. I loved how glossy and oozing it was, I wanted to touch it. I also loved the awkwardness of the type on the really nice old quality wood. Yummy.

I wasn't that impressed with the NPG Photographic Portrait Prize though..been looking forward to it all year. What got my goat was the photo of a girl in her underwear in a toilet looking guilty and scared of the packet of chips in the sink. A very posh couple next to me were discussing it "Oh look she must be anorexic and maybe feeling guilty." The woman, "Oh yes she must be feeling guilty for eating the chips..". Oh brilliant, another cliche of the female form and anorexia and media and wanting to be thin, yada yada ya. Someone pointed out that the girl is the photographers friend, and it seems it was a staged image. I dislike staged images. It won the Elle award and another award...personally its very easy to digest, what you see is what you get, which is why its won awards..but photography shouldn't be that lazy and straightforward.

On the other hand, I loved 'Circe' by Nathan Small. A photo for a mens magazine of a topless woman in the desert. It was taken with little and disappearing natural daylight so the shot is quite shadowy and cold. I really liked it because the quality of the print and the environment it was taken in is as shady and dark as the purpose of the image for a mens magazine.

Meant to go to FABRIC on friday night, but failed. Went to a pretty sweet warehouse apartment party on Saturday...more pictures to come when my photos are developed!

Blood and Guts

Think I'm going to try see the Anish Kapoor Exhibition in London on Thursday.
http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/anish-kapoor/

Boosh

I have fallen in love with the Mighty Boosh after watching Series 3 Episode : The Strange Tale of the Crack Fox. It is so so funny, and visually exciting.
Fave fox quotes:
(in a deep rushed voice) "I'm gonna make you wear a little dress and hurt you"
What was that?
"Nothing. Just a funny funny funny sound."

hahahahahaha

i realise it's not funny me retelling it..

here's the next episode on iplayer http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b008h3rk/The_Mighty_Boosh_Series_3_Party/ GO WATCH

Christmasssss

Mother Jane has bought me a years subscription to IdN Magazine. ( http://idnworld.com/ )

I got a copy in Borders back home in York, but they are notoriously difficult to get hold of.

They come with a CD too to feast your eyes upon.

Lots of design goodness in these bad boys.

AND you get a book with the subscription tooooo - 'Hijacked 1: Australia and America' - http://www.bigcitypress.com.au/?id=7

It's Grim Up North - OTP Exhibition @ Reebok Lounge

Poster poster pill

For a series bringing attention to the contraceptive pill and problems with it, side effects people don't talk about and raising general awareness of womens choices.

Its unfinished. Need to finish text, border and text behind the large 'WRONG'. But yeah, this is it in progress. Took aaaaages but very rewarding! I like posters.

Library Magazine time

From Next Level Collectors issue,
Petros Chrisostomou - 'Petros Chrisotomou Skatospore (II)'

I've pretty much gone off conceptual installation work as most people at college do it...but this is amazing. It's made entirely out of huge mushrooms. Cool.

Sandrine Pagnoux's multi layered images are sweeeeet.

Contraceptive Pill

I'm doing two posters on things you may not know about the delightful hormonal tablets...

will post more when finished.

here's a stencil for one of them, for the poster 'What is WRONG with you?!'.

Hmm, well lets hope it goes well tomorrow.

I've come back to the amazing Netsky Studiomix - http://deepgoa.wordpress.com/2009/02/05/netsky-studiomix-february-09/  really really incredible.

Ghostpatrol, Melbourne, Australia

Magrela, Sau Paulo

Man, I want to travel again.

This is from Unurth, a really good street art blog. http://unurth.com/

this song breaks my heart

Rosyln - Bon Iver & St. Vincent

spotify:track:1vsFzbhQXTqKJ3YSWxWxmJ

and yeah, yeah it is from New Moon.

haha

Why Does Sex Sell?

The topic for our CVCS Presentation.

'Three Way Kiss' - Terry Richardson

1950s Fashion

American Apparel Ad Campaign

Paul Smith

 

 

V Magazine

We desire what we see, we desire the product to make ourselves desirable.

it's cloudy today

play

'Play' is a week long project where we brought in one image that inspired us, then randomly switched photos with one another. I got some decorative old doll style cut outs.

This is my play...

 

 

should have a final piece tomorrow..

Enid Blyton

Until I watched Enid on BBC4 (starring Helena Bonham Carter), I hadn't realised what a troubled and nasty woman she was.

Families are messy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nxkm8/Enid/

15. First Leeds Fest.

 

lust for exploration

I was scrolling through this really interesting blog ( http://artsponge.wordpress.com/) during a really dull Referencing lecture, and I found myself stuck on this image by David Montes.

it reminded me of the landscapes I saw in Peru and Patagonia. Particularly two lagoons at the top of a very steep (at very high altitude) mountain in Peru.

It brought me back to the awe of nature I felt whilst out there. It's so easy to flip back into normal everyday city life that its easy to push these memories aside, but it's magnificent when something makes the memories light up again.

Photography is magnificent.

The summit of the Salkantay Trek, Peru.

That orange was juicy juicy delicious, especially after walking uphill at high altitude.

wamp wamp what it do what it do

Went to Glasgow last night to chill with Joe, Hannah and Felix. We went to a really nice little tea/shisha place hidden behind some houses. I had Fairy Berry Bush tea..hah. yum.

On the way I got a new idea for a project after seeing lots of sheep with blue bums, those who had been 'rammed' by the ram. I was looking for one that hadn't been done. Then thought this would make an amusing poster.

ok you can't see the sheep..

Hopefully it's gna be a series of posters titled 'Are you satisfied?'.

If i get my arse into gear, they will appear here shortly..

Today (Sunday) I walked up Arthur's Seat to get the blood pumping.

 

I can see the sea.

big is better

these are really cool projections of etched slides by Armsrock ( http://armsrock.blogspot.com/). woweee.

http://unurth.com/

reminds me of the entrance to Solar bar in Kreuzberg. It was really dark and had high ceilings with different coloured paper jelly fish lights. Wunderbar.

I love Berlin I love