some nice posters

Went to see the Malcolm Guest collection, after he died hundreds and hundreds of british transport posters in his house. Kind of pointless but nice to look at and now they're auctioning them off. So I went to have a looky see and pretended that i might indeed buy. Here ares some photos I took until they stopped me.









And here are some off the website. They just don't make posters like this anymore you know, it's a shame. They're very sweet.

hot

This is the absolute tastiest hot chocolate ever. I found loads of these packets when I moved out of my flat and this was the last one ohhh my days.

C'est fini!

Finally finished my scarecrow with the help of lovely dana!



I think he's very scary, I wouldn't want to cross him in a dark alley waaargh

i love this guy

He's called Soju Tanaka and has just graduated from Illustration at Camberwell and is well worth mentioning. You can't follow his totally awesome blog which is annoying so I thought I'd link it up here. CLICK CLICK CLICK

Success!

On my ~last day in London~ before I moved home for the summer (ahh tears just thinking about it!) I went to the Rag factory to see Camberwell's BA Graphic Design external exhibition. Basically I wanted to check out the competition and there wasn't that much that stood out to me but I still felt a bit jealous of them as there stuff is so self directed and experimantal rather than more commercial like at LCC. Anyway me and my lovely friend Ruby sat up in a boiling 'cinema' for ages and watched every single short film, commenting on how we could definitely do a much better job. Secretly I liked them I thought them conceptual and interesting and longed to do something like that. So here it is, my first ever attempt at a short film with a bit of constructive criticism from my brother Xavi and much help from the iMovie online tutorials. Anyway the point is my hat goes off to all the students from the THOSE THAT MOVE show.

A tradgedy about a time, about people, about a place, about stupidity.

British Folklore Short Film

Another success which I want to congratulate myself on is this superb chocolate cake I made yesterday, it was simply perfect and totally delicious! I made hummus from scratch for the first time last week but it was not so good, little too much tahini.

On another note I've started making a scarecrow for my mom's allotment, only actually made the head so far, we had to go to to a gardening centre and three farms before someone gave us hay.. effort! Will post up more photos when it's finished.

Hello summer. Hello hedonism.. I wish. I hate this fucking drawing.

i've been living like a mess

CORNERSHOP ft SOKO Something Makes You Feel Like

Too much drinking, not enough thinking. Too much relaxing, not enough action. Far too much blank paper and not nearly enough work.

Soko: It's Not Going To Work

This one too. I think this is exactly how I feel in summer, when I see a pretty boy that is.

Soko - Dandy Cowboys

Soko is so sweet I can't stop listening to this song lately.

three stupid people

Ah balmy summer nights set in and there's nothing better than a good old bit of british folklore, right? Maybe not. Earlier this year I had a lecture from an unusual man named Simon Costin who apart from a passion for taxidermy and a longstanding career as a fashion-show-set-creator... or something, he is also head of The Museum of British Folklore. Which hasn't quite materialised itself as a museum yet due to lack of funds, but instead a caravan. Anyway it's a fantastic caravan and although I didn't enjoy the lecture (was massively hungover and watching videos of people burning and drowning things and calling it tradition just made me feel more ill) but somehow it has since giving me a niggling interest in british folklore. I figure it's all we have. I've just come back to Yorkshire for the summer and not having had me, my brother and sister under one roof since Christmas we decided to make a short film based on this folk story, just for fun..

three wise men from gotham

went to sea in a bowl

if the bowl was stronger

this tale would have been longer

I will post up the film when it's edited. Warning: I intended it to be experimental and conceptual but somehow it just ended up as three stupid people running around the woods.

If you want to see people doing it properly check out the link-

www.museumofbritishfolklore.co.uk

gay pride tshirt competition

I entered this competition about two months ago thinking it was a solid effort. I can know see how completely rubbish it is. Still I was very busy at the time trying to do a fuckload of work and hardly sleeping, that shit makes you crazy.

postcards to pass the time

A prerequisite for the magic boat yard I intend to make pretty soon. I hope it's amazing, it might be shit.

A celebration of pea & ham soup. Enough said.

LCC BA GMD SUMMER SHOW

Also known as 'POWER OFF' yeah? This was the degree show for the course I'm on, I'm going to be taking the Print pathway but it was a sorry state of affairs and is barely worth mentioning. I thought there was a lot of rubbish I'm not going to lie but the illustration stuff was freakin sweet, though I did notice a lot of the kids had a very samey style and colour scheme which kind of lead me to feel like I had already seen all this work before out in the vast and unfortunately generic world of wanna be famous illustrators. It's like these students hadn't developed to a point where they had found a style of illustration individual to them, they just tried to do what they think is big right now, which is a massive shame. Still they put on a great show. As for all the graphic design, I don't think I really appreciate or understand graphics therefore I don't have the right to comment on it. But there was lots. Here's some of the illustration work both good and bad in my opinion.

I think what made this show stand out was that there was obviously a lot of effort put into getting it together, the shop, all the fun stuff going on outside in the crates, the live screenprinting and the fact that the college has a whole bunch of galleries built into it so it's just a good exhibition space.

I went to the Camberwell degree show and I was properly just disappointed. For some reason I've built up Camberwell art college in my head to this God like status and that the kids who go there are kings among men. This probably isn't true. The show was pretty shabby and although there was some real good stuff the exhibition didn't do it justice, it was confusing trying to find your way around and so freakin busy you couldn't even see the art! Like I have literally never seen so many artists in one place, it was really surreal and I basically understood that you don't go to the Camberwell exhibition to see the work, you go there to get seen. And then does this not just prove my preconception that even with minimal effort and Camberwell's we're so arty we don't give a fuck attitude they still hauled a massive crowd. It all appeals to me enormously I just can't help it.

'Best Of' New Blood

Hello everyone I haven't posted anything for ages, not that anyone probably cares! But now summer is upon us I'm not so busy and am determined to get back on top of it. So I've been to a whole load of exhibitions lately which is me avoiding getting on with my own work but it's been lots of fun and I've seen so much amazing stuff I'm sure it will have subconsciously affected me I'll be like ten times more inspired to do great stuff than ever before!

The best one I went to was the D and AD New Blood exhibition, like actually amazing! I picked up like a million cards of illustrators I want to follow and yeah just generally realized that I need to ~up my game~ if I want to be there in a couple of years. Here were my favourites...

And this, I don't even know who it's by but THIS is without a shadow of doubt the most fantastic thing I have ever seen, not just at new blood, but anywhere, ever.

Basque in its glory.