Saturday, 26 February 2011
More of this please.
He also did a talk on how he thinks schools are killing creativity. Quite an enlightening watch if you agree with me in thinking that our eductional system is in a shambles.
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." Malcolm X.
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Birds really ARE musical, and who says you need to buy a guitar?
This was a nice little leaving present from our lecture on Tuesday. The video was an example of new ways of creating in our contemporary society. It shows that enable to create, we do not need any grand manifestos anymore, we can use the available sources around us. There is a less dictated approach and new models illustrate we now build our own knowledge. Amen to that.
It reminded me of the film 'It Might Get Loud' where Jack White makes a guitar in a field. Always remember Jack White everyone, he is a genius.
The lecture ended on the note 'it's the way we do things, not necessarily what they are.' which i felt quite liberated by. Anyone can create something today, art has become for everyone. Who'd ever thought birds could play guitar?!? Maybe it will become a recording and sell for millions?? Get Simon Cowell involved and there's your answer.
Sunday, 9 January 2011
Canine Christmas.
Christmas cards. For them but mainly against them. At school, giving out Christmas cards was a nightmare. Do i send them to my whole class? or just my year? What about teachers? Will i be 'sucking up' if i do that? If i put 'love Lucy', will he think i fancy him? Will anyone notice i gave the best cards to the people i like the most? I hope i spelt their name right..etc.
Above all this, you're mainly thinking: 'i hope they don't just chuck it away the next day. I spent ages choosing your colour and writing 'and a happy new year!' in bubble writing i learnt that day from art attack.' Some do, some don't but for a young avid doodler/handwriting copier/paper collector, it was a horrible thought all your efforts were dumped with the rest of the lunchbox leftovers.
But when you get into secondary school, everyone becomes 'too cool' to send them and it's not an issue anymore. If you still did you'd send them to your best friends, which still bodes uneasiness. What about your new best friend? Do they count? Oh and Dave sent me one so surely it'd be rude to not send one back? School is weird.
I've always enjoyed making cards. I remember spending whole Sundays making birthday cards out of whatever i had in my junk shop of a room. I got really excited about the thought of giving it to them, seeing their faces and having some attention for my creation at that moment. They weren't always necessarily cards; birthday banners, birthday booklets, boxes. As long as the words 'Happy Birthday' was on it, surely anything goes? I have no documentation of those creations, i wish i did, i hope they still remains as a trigger which helps the receiver remember that particular time.
But hey, blogs are now here to project your snippets you want to share. These days, i can't help thinking 'ooh if this picture turns out alright, blog it is!' which is an exciting thought. It has influenced my sketchbook work as the 'roughs' are diminishing and the more 'finished' work is being produced. Well ain't that good.
So these are my 2010 Christmas cards. Firstly i have to apologise for the poor quality photo's. I'm not getting on with my current digi cam and my room is dimmer that dim. I will do better next time. The theme being 'Small Dogs'. Why? Because they are simply quite hilarious. Look how big there legs are?! I hope everyone enjoyed them. I have received some positive feedback already: "The best Christmas card I've got this year". That one comment made my Christmas. Screw you new shoes!
Here's some finely wrapped presents too.
Above all this, you're mainly thinking: 'i hope they don't just chuck it away the next day. I spent ages choosing your colour and writing 'and a happy new year!' in bubble writing i learnt that day from art attack.' Some do, some don't but for a young avid doodler/handwriting copier/paper collector, it was a horrible thought all your efforts were dumped with the rest of the lunchbox leftovers.
But when you get into secondary school, everyone becomes 'too cool' to send them and it's not an issue anymore. If you still did you'd send them to your best friends, which still bodes uneasiness. What about your new best friend? Do they count? Oh and Dave sent me one so surely it'd be rude to not send one back? School is weird.
I've always enjoyed making cards. I remember spending whole Sundays making birthday cards out of whatever i had in my junk shop of a room. I got really excited about the thought of giving it to them, seeing their faces and having some attention for my creation at that moment. They weren't always necessarily cards; birthday banners, birthday booklets, boxes. As long as the words 'Happy Birthday' was on it, surely anything goes? I have no documentation of those creations, i wish i did, i hope they still remains as a trigger which helps the receiver remember that particular time.
But hey, blogs are now here to project your snippets you want to share. These days, i can't help thinking 'ooh if this picture turns out alright, blog it is!' which is an exciting thought. It has influenced my sketchbook work as the 'roughs' are diminishing and the more 'finished' work is being produced. Well ain't that good.
So these are my 2010 Christmas cards. Firstly i have to apologise for the poor quality photo's. I'm not getting on with my current digi cam and my room is dimmer that dim. I will do better next time. The theme being 'Small Dogs'. Why? Because they are simply quite hilarious. Look how big there legs are?! I hope everyone enjoyed them. I have received some positive feedback already: "The best Christmas card I've got this year". That one comment made my Christmas. Screw you new shoes!
Here's some finely wrapped presents too.
Saturday, 1 January 2011
Sunday, 19 December 2010
Education Cuts.
What an exciting yet financially terrifying time for students!
When i joined the socialist students union, the cut backs and tuition fee rises was the hot topic of discussion. I'm not at all well informed about politics, so i joined to learn from other people and to meet others that had the same concerns as i do. I felt abit useless at meetings because i didn't know the ins and outs of the political structures, but i do try to contribute by expressing my opinions about social issues i feel need to be heard.
I also wanted to use illustration to communicate ideas that were being presented. I thought it'd be a good opportunity use my skills to help raise awareness, practice working with a deadline and gain feedback from the public. I had a week to design it, bearing in mind a had another deadline the following week! i feel quite proud i managed to do it all in time. This book helped me along the way...
Here's some pics from a protest that happened on the of 24th of November. Noseying around Cardiff unis fancy building was an additional plus...
The latest news concerning Cardiff students was the annoucment of the proposed cuts of the sculpture pathway in Fine Art. Last Tuesday, the 14th of December, i popped along to the protest which was conveniently at the campus round the corner from my house. It was so good to see a diverse range of people there, not just anarchic art students! there were tutors, ex students and members of the public who came along to see and listen to the current concerned sculpture students. It was liberating to hear ex students talk enthusiastically about how the course has shaped and affected their lives. I liked it when he said this:
"Some of the best people i've met in my life have been art students, you guys are awesum!"
This was led by a big cheer, i even did a little one too. Another person who stuck out for me was a mum who expressed her anxieties for her daughters educational future. She quoted she said 'When i'm older, i want to be an artist.' awww. So she made the point of if they're making cuts to the arts now, will there be art courses by the time she grows up? Everyone should have the choice to study what they want. Here here!
Here's a delightful animation by David Shirgley about saving the arts. Genius.
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Seasonal Inspiration.
Bottle from Kirsten Lepore on Vimeo.
This is the best piece of stop motion animation I've seen in a looong time. I love the simplicity of it. It proves with a little imagination and ambition, you can create something beautifully heart warming using earths elements as your medium and inspiriation. I especially like the part where they send each other hair!
ANNNNND RELAX.
For days and days I have been waiting to not feel up to my ears with work. It has been my only priory for the past two weeks! Having the leave-it-to-the-last-minute spontaneous ooh-look-what-I-finished-at-5am style, staying up in a jittery caffeine fuelled flux has been an regular occurrence!
It felt all too much at one point; essay to write in 2 days, 5 week project hand in, puppet show to perform, and on top of this, the Christmas was lurking round the corner, agitating me, waiting for me to start sporadically flapping about the expectations I felt to meet. Christmas is nice yeah, but I dislike the one-week-till-xmas stint as the day itself is usually a quiet one, so when all the worrying and pointless spending stops, the day can sometimes feel like a strange come down of it all!
A snippet of the Shadow Play, here's the King peering from his castle window, more pics to come!
19.41 and I should be sprawled out on my living room floor, next to the fake wood burner (the worst interior choice my parents ever made, the ‘wood’ resembles human shit and there is red glitter, YES GLITTER, to emulate a roaring fire), with my over fed dog in the company of the Parkers.
BUT NO, darn pretty white cold stuff had to fall from the sky at the time all us students want to be at home. Home and ready to do nothing but watch tele on real tvs, eat non-blue-and-white-label food and reunite with your sorely missed buddies. So this weekend I’m staying put in lovely Llandaff, enjoying being able to walk into civilisation and observe city life in the snow. I’m sorry Bratton Fleming but you’re pretty boring to be stuck in. especially minus the pub. Now we shall have to revert to drinking in our houses, pretending we’re enjoying life watching x factor.
Notice the yellow sky.
'shroom head LOL.
Today, I trawled through the parks and over the mountain to partake in what we humans call 'shopping'. I thought I’d help me get ideas for gifts, but it just made me want clothes that would make me look cool. Yes you little leather snakeskin boots. And floral hip flask.
On my second ever visit to urban outfitters; I saw they were selling Keri Smith books. An illustrator turned Guerrilla artist who s work and writings I simply adore. I brought ‘The Guerrilla Art Kit’ during my art foundation year, 2008, and have ever since thought of it as my saviour. It was defiantly a bookmark that opened my views to what illustration could be, or what you want it to be. Mail, d.i.y, post its, stickers, badges, stamps; woweee all my collected fetishes can finally become something!
New books! Perhaps the prefect gift for Lucy Parker?
‘Extol the virtue of the negligible and overlooked’….is what tutor Chris Gylnn keeps scribbleing down in my tutorials, and that’s exactly what I aim to do.
So for the past hour or so I’ve found the online existence of Keri smith and thoroughly enjoyed looking at blog and flickr. See here!Goes to show how a little trip into town can surprise you by turning the concept of the day around. I now plan to get scribbling and start making some the most radical xmas cards you’ve ever seen. No pennies required: )
It felt all too much at one point; essay to write in 2 days, 5 week project hand in, puppet show to perform, and on top of this, the Christmas was lurking round the corner, agitating me, waiting for me to start sporadically flapping about the expectations I felt to meet. Christmas is nice yeah, but I dislike the one-week-till-xmas stint as the day itself is usually a quiet one, so when all the worrying and pointless spending stops, the day can sometimes feel like a strange come down of it all!
A snippet of the Shadow Play, here's the King peering from his castle window, more pics to come!
19.41 and I should be sprawled out on my living room floor, next to the fake wood burner (the worst interior choice my parents ever made, the ‘wood’ resembles human shit and there is red glitter, YES GLITTER, to emulate a roaring fire), with my over fed dog in the company of the Parkers.
BUT NO, darn pretty white cold stuff had to fall from the sky at the time all us students want to be at home. Home and ready to do nothing but watch tele on real tvs, eat non-blue-and-white-label food and reunite with your sorely missed buddies. So this weekend I’m staying put in lovely Llandaff, enjoying being able to walk into civilisation and observe city life in the snow. I’m sorry Bratton Fleming but you’re pretty boring to be stuck in. especially minus the pub. Now we shall have to revert to drinking in our houses, pretending we’re enjoying life watching x factor.
Notice the yellow sky.
'shroom head LOL.
Today, I trawled through the parks and over the mountain to partake in what we humans call 'shopping'. I thought I’d help me get ideas for gifts, but it just made me want clothes that would make me look cool. Yes you little leather snakeskin boots. And floral hip flask.
On my second ever visit to urban outfitters; I saw they were selling Keri Smith books. An illustrator turned Guerrilla artist who s work and writings I simply adore. I brought ‘The Guerrilla Art Kit’ during my art foundation year, 2008, and have ever since thought of it as my saviour. It was defiantly a bookmark that opened my views to what illustration could be, or what you want it to be. Mail, d.i.y, post its, stickers, badges, stamps; woweee all my collected fetishes can finally become something!
New books! Perhaps the prefect gift for Lucy Parker?
‘Extol the virtue of the negligible and overlooked’….is what tutor Chris Gylnn keeps scribbleing down in my tutorials, and that’s exactly what I aim to do.
So for the past hour or so I’ve found the online existence of Keri smith and thoroughly enjoyed looking at blog and flickr. See here!Goes to show how a little trip into town can surprise you by turning the concept of the day around. I now plan to get scribbling and start making some the most radical xmas cards you’ve ever seen. No pennies required: )
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