Ok, well i haven't really done any artwork for a while now, which has depressed me quite a bit, and am now intending to get back into it, doing some t-shirt designs, and album cover art. I'm not going to do artwork for anyone or thing in particular, just randomly create designs and see how they go.
I have to admit I am loving the massive amount of black and white photography, as well as sepia photos, that I'v been seeing around at the moment, they are so much more interesting than just colour images, it works your brain more and makes me think of how much more can i do to push the boundaries of b/w photography.... so to just mess around and experiment, this summer I will be taking quite a few pics, and seeing what happens. I might purchase a Lomo Fisheye2 camera too.....
Meet me on the equinox.....
Wow, this is my first post since like May. Hmm, disappointed, as i was trying to keep a regular upkeep of this.
Anyway, i have just been working full time, still at Sainsburys, and yes, still on the booze section. I havent really done much artwork lately, have done a couple of little tattoo designs, and am going to have a piece of artwork, named 'Duel In The Sun', displayed and exhibited at the Courthauld East Wing Hang, at the Courthauld Art Institute, a university in London, where my sister is currently studying for her degree. So to have my art in the open, and could lead to some commissions, which would be pretty sweet, and makes it also good as other artists such as Yinko Shonabare and some other student artists are also being exhibited. When the catalogue gets posted to me, i will link the picture.
Other news, my mate James and his band Kill 'em Dead Cowboy, supported We Are The Ocean, in a wicked gig at the Wedgewood rooms, and got a record label signing, which is very cool, and wish them all the best. My life in general has just been really samey lately, but 2010 is looking like it could be an interesting year, with some changes, as Mikki is most likely to be moving house with her mum and sister, and i am going to buy a new car, as i am saving up for it at the moment, proving tricky with the christmas period coming up, gotta get those bloody presents. And me and Mikki are hoping to either go to Disneyland Paris, or a big holiday, like African Safari or something, depending on how much money we can accumulate.
My team at Roko are doing really well, there's 2 games left for this season, and we're currently 4th, and could finish in top 3 if results go our way, so thats pretty cool. My hair is now almost as long as it was last christmas, finally, as i missed that long fringe i had. Still a bit to grow, but its looking good though. Mum keeps wanting me to go back to that old short-back-and-sides style, oh hell no am i doing that.
Thats it for now i think, til next time.......
Anyway, i have just been working full time, still at Sainsburys, and yes, still on the booze section. I havent really done much artwork lately, have done a couple of little tattoo designs, and am going to have a piece of artwork, named 'Duel In The Sun', displayed and exhibited at the Courthauld East Wing Hang, at the Courthauld Art Institute, a university in London, where my sister is currently studying for her degree. So to have my art in the open, and could lead to some commissions, which would be pretty sweet, and makes it also good as other artists such as Yinko Shonabare and some other student artists are also being exhibited. When the catalogue gets posted to me, i will link the picture.
Other news, my mate James and his band Kill 'em Dead Cowboy, supported We Are The Ocean, in a wicked gig at the Wedgewood rooms, and got a record label signing, which is very cool, and wish them all the best. My life in general has just been really samey lately, but 2010 is looking like it could be an interesting year, with some changes, as Mikki is most likely to be moving house with her mum and sister, and i am going to buy a new car, as i am saving up for it at the moment, proving tricky with the christmas period coming up, gotta get those bloody presents. And me and Mikki are hoping to either go to Disneyland Paris, or a big holiday, like African Safari or something, depending on how much money we can accumulate.
My team at Roko are doing really well, there's 2 games left for this season, and we're currently 4th, and could finish in top 3 if results go our way, so thats pretty cool. My hair is now almost as long as it was last christmas, finally, as i missed that long fringe i had. Still a bit to grow, but its looking good though. Mum keeps wanting me to go back to that old short-back-and-sides style, oh hell no am i doing that.
Thats it for now i think, til next time.......
Pushing The Senses
If I do this once a month will this technically be considered an "active" blog? Hopefully my life and job will be picking up enough soon that I will actually have something to write about. In the last month basically all I have achieved is written a thousand emails, gave up on growing out my beard, cleaned the hell out of my room, fixed some poorly neglected car parts, resized file after file after file, played "Last Summer" repeatedly on my ipod, watched horribly rubbish dvds, tried to sneak around the new skate park to tag it, read the first part of Pride and Prejudice again (and by again, I mean for the 18th time), changed my ringtone to the Mighty Morphin Power Ranger's, listened to Jack Johnson albums on repeat, and sat in front of the computer unblinking for hours on end. The fact that I can summarize a month's worth of activity into a horribly long sentence is proof that I don't really deserve to have a blog.
Started a bit of drawing this week, for my mate Ryan's tattoo. This was the first time in a long time that I actually had FUN drawing. Unfortunately I lost a lot of detail after scanning and altering the image. I think my poor old scanner that has to have books put on top of it to scan things well is finally starting to give out. I also FINALLY finished this poster for my DJ mate that I had started months back. I ended up doing this whole thing entirely in Photoshop, and while normally I am not pleased with the end results of doing this sort of thing...I am super happy with the way this ended up. The gleam on the text was such a happy accident, that I have been trying to breakdown how I did it in hopes of replicating it again and again. I also realized while making this that I have been using the same basic texture over and over again, that I made for a bit of uni illustration about 2 years ago. This is the sort of thing that leads one to having external hard drives stacked on top of each other, but im taking my computer to the limit, whilst making it unbearably slow.
Summer's coming, the light is brighter for longer, the warmth stays in the air for more length of time than thought possible for England, which means i can finally deck out my camo shorts again, i'v missed those things. Thought about getting a new car for the last week or so, sharing it with my best friend, but we've decided to stick with my current one until she passes her test and then can get a car herself, and i'l just keep mine until it runs into the ground. Think I'm going to clean it up as well, bring it back to top condition and maybe include a good sound system to blow the cobwebs away. That'll do for now, till next time........
Started a bit of drawing this week, for my mate Ryan's tattoo. This was the first time in a long time that I actually had FUN drawing. Unfortunately I lost a lot of detail after scanning and altering the image. I think my poor old scanner that has to have books put on top of it to scan things well is finally starting to give out. I also FINALLY finished this poster for my DJ mate that I had started months back. I ended up doing this whole thing entirely in Photoshop, and while normally I am not pleased with the end results of doing this sort of thing...I am super happy with the way this ended up. The gleam on the text was such a happy accident, that I have been trying to breakdown how I did it in hopes of replicating it again and again. I also realized while making this that I have been using the same basic texture over and over again, that I made for a bit of uni illustration about 2 years ago. This is the sort of thing that leads one to having external hard drives stacked on top of each other, but im taking my computer to the limit, whilst making it unbearably slow.
Summer's coming, the light is brighter for longer, the warmth stays in the air for more length of time than thought possible for England, which means i can finally deck out my camo shorts again, i'v missed those things. Thought about getting a new car for the last week or so, sharing it with my best friend, but we've decided to stick with my current one until she passes her test and then can get a car herself, and i'l just keep mine until it runs into the ground. Think I'm going to clean it up as well, bring it back to top condition and maybe include a good sound system to blow the cobwebs away. That'll do for now, till next time........
My Heart's Not Broken And I'm Not Dead
Oh, the ways of the modern world. Did you know they send turtles through the mail? This seems incredibly risky, and I will be stunned and amazed when I receive a package with a turtle that hasn't been dead for hours. I promised myself I wouldn't talk about music nobody wanted to hear about on here, and now I am rambling about turtles. I had a dream the other night that I converted all of my money to US dollars. I guess I was planning for a trip. There are few things that would make me happier at the moment. This week has been a culmination of many many things. I will have more to say about it next week, along with a handful of new work both professional and personal. But regardless, I think I am finally on the road to being happy. It is a refreshing feeling.
Whoever you are out there, thank you. My prayers were finally answered today when I turned that corner at the petrol station, and saw an old friend that had been missing for years. I don't think I have laid eyes on Werther's Originals since at least 1998. It is and always has been by far my favorite candy. So thank you whoever you are, thank you. And on a side note; there are big things in the air. HUGE things. Most of them happening before this week's end. The least of which being my dream of owning a ticket to the Boardmasters, finally coming true. HUGE things, Boardmasters, AND Werther's Originals? I might just die of happiness.
Whoever you are out there, thank you. My prayers were finally answered today when I turned that corner at the petrol station, and saw an old friend that had been missing for years. I don't think I have laid eyes on Werther's Originals since at least 1998. It is and always has been by far my favorite candy. So thank you whoever you are, thank you. And on a side note; there are big things in the air. HUGE things. Most of them happening before this week's end. The least of which being my dream of owning a ticket to the Boardmasters, finally coming true. HUGE things, Boardmasters, AND Werther's Originals? I might just die of happiness.
Restless Heart Syndrome
Well, its Saturday afternoon, and I have a weekend off work! Lovely. Iv been relaxing the past few days, went out a couple of times, lots of good laughs with wicked people.
Got asked to do another poster for Nathan Johnson, the DJ, for his Surreal night at Venus, in Portsmouth, after the success of the last one. So here we are, thought I would go for a brighter, more summery look for this one, and it looks pretty sweet.
Going out tonight, dressed up in some random collaboration of clothes, should be good fun!
Got asked to do another poster for Nathan Johnson, the DJ, for his Surreal night at Venus, in Portsmouth, after the success of the last one. So here we are, thought I would go for a brighter, more summery look for this one, and it looks pretty sweet.
Going out tonight, dressed up in some random collaboration of clothes, should be good fun!
I Light My Own Fires Now
I have an odd memory. I remember exact times of occurrence, but can't even remember my own phone number that I have had for almost 2 years. I remember sitting in the library during second period on a Wednesday in late January of 2001 when a teacher pulled me into the hall. I remember receiving a phone-call from my ex, while playing an emulated version of Super Mario Brothers on my shitty old laptop in my room. I remember a thousand phone-calls, a hundred smells.
Yesterday I received a text message that Mikki's uncle died. As much as it shouldn't really have affected me, it did, because I was the one that was there for her, the one she can talk to about it all. He had cancer, and in a way its better that he's moved on to a better place so he's not suffering anymore. But he did have the nicest and best family around him, so he must be eternally grateful. I never met him, but R.I.P Trevor.
Today, I was listening to Dashboard Confessional at full volume, and finishing a rush job on a poster design for a friend of mine's media project: The piece is an elaborate sketch of a clown, with scripted text sprawled across and credits. I don't read a lot of what people have to say about my work, but several months ago I ran across somebody saying that the "soul" had been taken out of my work since I had started taking on more clients and doing less personal work. No, the soul isn't gone...it's just hiding for when it is needed.
Spent a bit of time relaxing and chilling recently on my days off work, spending it visiting awesome friends who never cease to make me smile and laugh, listening to new bands and artists as recommended by certain people, such as Metro Station and Taylor Swift. Also been doing some real deep thinking about the future.
P.S. Had the Comic Relief gig the other day, was really good, did about 15 drawings of people, all greatly appreciatted, and did a spot of face painting, which to my suprise, was very successful!
Yesterday I received a text message that Mikki's uncle died. As much as it shouldn't really have affected me, it did, because I was the one that was there for her, the one she can talk to about it all. He had cancer, and in a way its better that he's moved on to a better place so he's not suffering anymore. But he did have the nicest and best family around him, so he must be eternally grateful. I never met him, but R.I.P Trevor.
Today, I was listening to Dashboard Confessional at full volume, and finishing a rush job on a poster design for a friend of mine's media project: The piece is an elaborate sketch of a clown, with scripted text sprawled across and credits. I don't read a lot of what people have to say about my work, but several months ago I ran across somebody saying that the "soul" had been taken out of my work since I had started taking on more clients and doing less personal work. No, the soul isn't gone...it's just hiding for when it is needed.
Spent a bit of time relaxing and chilling recently on my days off work, spending it visiting awesome friends who never cease to make me smile and laugh, listening to new bands and artists as recommended by certain people, such as Metro Station and Taylor Swift. Also been doing some real deep thinking about the future.
P.S. Had the Comic Relief gig the other day, was really good, did about 15 drawings of people, all greatly appreciatted, and did a spot of face painting, which to my suprise, was very successful!
So Here We Go Again.....
Hey haven't written for a while, but just thought I'd write an update. Recently been doing work of the money earning kind, so I haven't really had the time to do anything remotedly artistic due to extreme tiredness and early mornings.
Just been looking at fisheye cameras, seriously thinking about doing some proper photography, going around and looking at the everyday, but doing it in black and white, as well as colour, but just messing about, seeing what happens.
Just been looking at fisheye cameras, seriously thinking about doing some proper photography, going around and looking at the everyday, but doing it in black and white, as well as colour, but just messing about, seeing what happens.
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