8th January 2011

I seriously think I'm risking RSI writing 80-pages of text for this timeline, ah well, the stuff I've wrote makes me laugh so hopefully it'll make other people laugh too. Heres an example:

1933

In 1933 a man had a dream (no, not Martin Luther King) his name was Richard M. Hollingshead and his dream was to build a drive-in movie theatre. By combining his love of cars and his love of movies he achieved this dream. Nothing compares to the drive-in movie experience, not even siiting in by yourself with a tub of Haagen-Daaz crying about being dumped and watching a chick flick. We salute you Richard M. Hollingshead, no doubt many American teens have lost their virginity thanks to you. Now, time for me to combine my love of eating and my love of swimming...

Black Balloon

When I was 5 I was given a black balloon

We had matching smiles and matching faces

The bitter winter weakened its fragile frame upon my grasp

From a beautiful form came a horrid diseased creature

That black balloon changed while this one will forever remain

Farewell my black balloon...

All in a days work

Wrote my words or, if your posh, article for the Leeds-based zine The Debacle. I tell you, that poo lastnight didn't want to come out. I'm going to give it the nickname Collossus, if on the news they talk about a brown whale stranded in the River Thames, it won't be a frigging whale, it'll be my pal Collosus. I really need to give up the coffee, can't sleep lately, or when I do it isn't till silly o'clock.

Blood and Milk magazine #1

In which Braden Webster drew some pictures and I wrote an article.

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Christmas. Mine was crap, but at least I didn't spend it with my family. Next year I'll spend it with friends, the only reason I didn't is because we never organised anything and the Christmas mood didn't arrive. Knowing my luck i'll probably feel christmassy in March and by then it's very well pointless. Ah well, New Year soon, the resolutions are as follows stop drinking, stop smoking, get a job and have sex. I might as well make a resolution to go to the moon, after all that'll be more likely.
It's occured to me that this blog is filled with more text than visuals, okay, I resolve to put more pictures up, there I've said it. I also need to write something longer and more engaging on this thing, it probably feels neglected, poor thing.

-2°C

Two of my prints have been accepted for exhibition, pretty exciting. Hopefully it'll warrant an orgasm, Lord knows it's been a while. This snow is doing my chuffing head in, although i seem to be creating some good work and a couple of interesting books. Apparently according to my tutors I need to write more and produce more work, but after my tutorial I've been given some direrction and once I can get into the print room I intend to have my way with the silk screens ;) white on white seems like an interesting avenue to approach, so onwards and upwards.

summer project: book of me

Haven't wrote on here in a while, neither have i posted any work on this thing. Finally taken pictures of my summer project, to be honest sooner or later this book was going to be written. Chuffing glad I've got it written, kept putting it off for ages. The pictures i illustrated seemed to turn out really well too, i enjoyed this excursion down Memory Lane makes me realise how much I've grown up in the past three years, I have even if I don't act like it at times :)

Front Cover

The majority of things i read over the six weeks seemed to focus a lot on God, i.e. William Blake, Douglas Coupland, Life of Pi, Carl Jung etc. so this idea was born from that. Kind of based on William Blake's The Ancient of Days, but with the Goddess Durga as the central character.

Why I Wrote This Book

My Mum

My Dad

Wayne Hunter

Steve Hunter

Johnny McDermott

Alex Clayton

Mel

Aimee Green

Tom Howarth

Laura Parker

Me

Work is just a four letter word

I scrapped the idea for the children's storybook and settled for wallpaper design/wall murals. This seems like a more interesting and open project to work on. Using my sense of humour I hope to create a piece of work that reflects my personality.


I love ice-cream and to be honest, I think the idea of having a room filled with ice-cream wallpaper would be pretty cool indeed.



I cannot stand dirty toilets, so the idea of having this as wallpaper in a toilet strikes me as funny and daft. Who says wallpaper has to be dull, lifeless and boring.

Father and Son

I painted a picture of my Dad for The Book of Me, he hasn't read it yet, but he's the only person from my family who ever will see it. It's strange how something so personal can be shared with people I have just met, but not with relatives.



My first ever self-portrait. It turned out well to say I only used HB Pencil, I'm picky about having my photograph taken, and even more so about drawing one. I prefer been able to have a say in whether I keep or delete an image.

29/9/10

When I started this blog the idea was to update it regularly, didn't really happen did it? Heres my second attempt at keeping to this blogging thing. Started Art School about two weeks ago, everybody gets on really well and the course is better than i expected it to be. I wonder how many people dropped out of Universities because the course is absolutley dire? After panicing unnecessarily I came up with some really interesting ideas for my first module so it's full steam ahead ;)

I should really put more artwork and visuals on here it's looking pretty bleak with all this text. Show and tell went well, i finished the 'Book Of Me' summer project so i'll put up the snaps inabit. Oh and I secured one and a half days employement (go me!) at the solicitor's manning the phones and typing letters, should be fun, having a meltdown could well be likley but at the end of the day it's more money for materials and i get to sit in a sexy swivvel chair and drink cup after cup of coffee.

Perhaps i should start brainstorming ideas for that children's story, if it comes to me as easily as my graphic novel did i should be laughing. If it doesn't, well then I won't be.