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.