I have formed a band and in a week we played our first gig, we're recording on monday, ha, its been a little crazy, I'm doing artwork for The Maids which is being performed on tuesday, and I have been volunteering at Noise on Market Street, which has been cardboard crazy. And worked on an exhibition in Sheffield.
So I have been busy, which has been good I shall explain all this in detail now.
Friday 4 December 2009
Tuesday 24 November 2009
The Archive of Edwyn Butler.
He will be performing in the university Lift in Chatham building, from 12 on wednesday, and in the Link gallery is an archive to explain, why there is a strange man in a lift.
I'm showing a work in progress, a back story of things, that I have just started to explore, then I can get on with my essay on found footage, and the set design for "The Maids".
I'm going to do a very detailed plan, for what I envisage to do. Micheal Landys drawings really inspired me and so have Wallace and Gromit and lots of quirky inventions, and doodles.
I'm showing a work in progress, a back story of things, that I have just started to explore, then I can get on with my essay on found footage, and the set design for "The Maids".
I'm going to do a very detailed plan, for what I envisage to do. Micheal Landys drawings really inspired me and so have Wallace and Gromit and lots of quirky inventions, and doodles.
Arty Programmes.
Some of these expire today part of BBC's Modern Beauty series
Not available on the iPlayer but available here
Where Is Modern Art Now?A documentary from historian and art expert Gus Casely-Hayford, whotakes a
journey to discover the state of British art today on BBC Four.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nxm6s
Anish Kapoor- Alan Yentob meets Anish Kapoor, one of Britain's most accomplished and popular
sculptors.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p00f2/Imagine_Winter_2009_The_Year_of_Anish_Kapoor/
Ugly Beauty.Art critic Waldemar Januszczak flys the flag for modern art in UglyBeauty, arguing that
art today is as interested in beauty as it alwayshas been on BBC Two.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p4g60/Ugly_Beauty/
The Art on Your Wall.Sue Perkins will contextualise the debate by looking at the art we hangon our
walls, tracing back some of the most popular prints of our timeon BBC Two.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p06c4/The_Art_on_Your_Wall_with_Sue_Perkins/
and while you are there check out Matt Frei's Berlin documentaries
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p2986/Berlin_Dangerous_Ideas/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p4fl4/Berlin_Ruined_Visions/
Not available on the iPlayer but available here
Where Is Modern Art Now?A documentary from historian and art expert Gus Casely-Hayford, whotakes a
journey to discover the state of British art today on BBC Four.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00nxm6s
Anish Kapoor- Alan Yentob meets Anish Kapoor, one of Britain's most accomplished and popular
sculptors.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p00f2/Imagine_Winter_2009_The_Year_of_Anish_Kapoor/
Ugly Beauty.Art critic Waldemar Januszczak flys the flag for modern art in UglyBeauty, arguing that
art today is as interested in beauty as it alwayshas been on BBC Two.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p4g60/Ugly_Beauty/
The Art on Your Wall.Sue Perkins will contextualise the debate by looking at the art we hangon our
walls, tracing back some of the most popular prints of our timeon BBC Two.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p06c4/The_Art_on_Your_Wall_with_Sue_Perkins/
and while you are there check out Matt Frei's Berlin documentaries
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p2986/Berlin_Dangerous_Ideas/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00p4fl4/Berlin_Ruined_Visions/
Saturday 21 November 2009
Radio. South Manchester All FM 96.9.
I did a session on radio and spoke about all sorts, getting interviewed getting names muddled up I strangely enjoyed the experience and met a drunk alabama 3.
www.myspace.com/edwynbutler
I'll leave this up, for ages I hate myspace, need some one to do all that promotional stuff for me, management would be nice.
www.myspace.com/edwynbutler
I'll leave this up, for ages I hate myspace, need some one to do all that promotional stuff for me, management would be nice.
Friday 20 November 2009
Half year reviews.
I have a review next week and I have had a few idea's they basically combine all these aspects
Found poetry, like books I have edited, performance, collage and madness, trying to show reactions to scenarios.
They combine these ideas
Performing in Lifts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxef8AfVQg
http://www.zefrank.com/v_draw_beta/index3.html
Automatic Drawing,
Combine somehow with automatic music
http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html
Found poetry, like books I have edited, performance, collage and madness, trying to show reactions to scenarios.
They combine these ideas
Performing in Lifts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjxef8AfVQg
http://www.zefrank.com/v_draw_beta/index3.html
Automatic Drawing,
Combine somehow with automatic music
http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html
Thursday 19 November 2009
This is Sculpture or is it?
Wayne Hemmingway and co, curated a club enviroment with sculpture, a light show and a dance floor, enough said, amazing with the head phones, could be at a silent disco living sculptures all that, with out head phone's was like being in a creepy collectors house, so it shows music can change space, atmosphere and enviroment Rapidly.
I did like looking at the classics listening to Mo Town, was ace.
DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture takes an ambitious and revolutionary look at the history of modern and contemporary sculpture. This new Tate collection display continues to examine and question the trajectory of artistic innovation in twentieth-century art and beyond.
Sculpture in the form of object, installation, assemblage and ready-made will sit alongside more surprising forms, such as painting, video, photography, language and performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUJ02LY7j9k&feature=player_embedded#
In addition, key figures from the cultural arena have been invited to co-curate selected sections of the display. Artist Michael Craig-Martin, designer Wayne Hemingway and his son Jack, and artist, director and writer Tim Etchells offer their own inspiring interpretations of the Tate Collection. Reflecting their own specialist practice, they present us with new ways of seeing and appreciating sculpture.
DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture includes artists such as Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Arman, Yayoi Kusama, Gilbert & George, and Cornelia Parker.
Liverpool. and Kinetics.
This is my favourite piece of Kinetic Sculpture, Rebecca Horn "Concert for Anarchy" I think; but, seeing Joyous Machines exhibition at Tate Modern has made me vastly question my opinion: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, was simply Joyous, performative, mechanical almost chaotic, but a planned chaos, Michael Landy's homage and work about Jean Tinguely seminal Auto destructive sculpture "Homage to New York", is quirky it's like being in an inventors work shop.
It has relevance to day with Kenetic Master's like Rebecca Horn and her falling Piano "Concert for Anarchy" a witty surprising cieling decoration., and Michael Landy's collage or complete attack on consumerism,
I liked the complete ingulfing, involvement and enthusiasm. Michael Landy has fanatically, produced, collected and studied some fascinating work, how it works in mysterious ways, when it shouldn't work at all.
Break Down Michael Landy's most famous piece is a reaction to consummerism. and has very close links to the machine of destruction in a way, its a way or organising and destroying almost starting a fresh, the machines Tinguely worked on were machines to make things automatic, like automatic writing drawing music, just producing with out using any traditional artistic talents, but a lot of mechanical genius and imagination, starting a fresh.
Wiki says.
Break Down, the work which put him in the public eye, was held in February 2001 at an old branch of the clothes store C&A on Oxford Street in London (C&A had recently ceased trading, and the shop had been emptied). Landy gathered together all his possessions, ranging from postage stamps to his car, and including all his clothes and works of art by himself and others, painstakingly catalogued all 7,227 of them in detail, and then destroyed all in public. The process of destruction was done on something resembling an assembly line in a mass productionfactory, with ten workers reducing each item to its basic materials and then shredding them.
Break Down, which was a joint commission from The Times newspaper and Artangel, attracted around 45,000 visitors. At the end of the process all that was left was bags of rubbish, none of which were sold or exhibited in any form. Landy made no money as a direct result of Break Down, and following it had no possessions at all.
So I will still research automatic thing's consumerism, and all sorts, but Liverpool today you enlightened me.
Spearfish Trombones.
I have a busy three weeks, an essay to do about found footage film making, a play to do some props for and exhibition in sheffield.
I shall be producing four canvases for this commision.
Simple and to the point, making them with the curators, so its all a team effort.
I shall be producing four canvases for this commision.
Simple and to the point, making them with the curators, so its all a team effort.
a mini art-exhibition looking at the myths and misconceptions surrounding self harm.
Time:Thursday, 10 December 2009 11:00
Location:Council Chamber in the Octagon Centre (Sheffield University)
The play "The Maids" by Jean Genet, has a few themes to me there's definitely evidence for the ideas of time, and surviellance and the set having a character for it self. I am working with some collegues on this, we're using Niels Moustache couch, and a lot of Knick Knacks and ornaments, clocks, i'm somehow melting them, maybe old record's or rubber casts of old clocks, eyes for surviellance, will have an artist meeting that play is on 7th December 2009, so I'll be busy, The lamp, table and phone are key items and I'm working together on them.
I had an Interview, a very casual interview, hopefully it went ok, its for a community arts and festival company called Spearfish, Ben the nice man I spoke to, was saying he would like to get students involved more, and said if I could get a group of Interactive Arts students involved and currated an exhibit had a theme they'd oversee it and give it a budget.
I like the space, of Sound Control, could do a theme of manchester's music heritage and open it up to the class, produce works of performance, collage etc, all on the theme of music heritage.
Sunday 15 November 2009
Painting.
I havn't done any painting for ages, so I went in to our empty more like a call centre than a studio, studio and did a few canvases Just big expressionist textured pieces, was thinking about printing on top, collage etc, I like mixed messages.
The character of the work having a story behind the work, its made me more excited, and given it some purpose really an outlet of ideas etc.
They always turn in to Willem De Kooning or Frank Auerbach angry messes, but I do like the layers.
Frank Auerbach
Portrait Style.
Willem De Kooning.
I could possibly do a portrait of this picture, including the painting in the back ground.
The character of the work having a story behind the work, its made me more excited, and given it some purpose really an outlet of ideas etc.
They always turn in to Willem De Kooning or Frank Auerbach angry messes, but I do like the layers.
Portrait Style.
Willem De Kooning.
I could possibly do a portrait of this picture, including the painting in the back ground.
Fuel and work.
I was researching In to the Wild and loved the heartbreak in the story, and started thinking about his calls for help, I have created some abstract collages which could be calls of help from a madman, I'm also making a film with empty tins and bottles etc doing a percussive film, then putting effects on it to sound like its being played in an open wilderness, so empty that you feel lost ,almost claustraphobic, because of the varse space, I guess the opposite, but a horrible sensation no people around to interact with
The collages I'm blowing up with photocopiers, screen printing, and doing digital work seeing which works best, the results will be shown as three collages and a film I am really excited about this and will be busy.
The artists I have been researching aren't particularly contemporary, but Its my favourite work really.
Robert Raushenberg Retroactive 1 1964, is almost a combination of abstract expressionism and pop art, but he looked at a more political angle he also did lots of performance, film all sorts, but I love the layers its amazingly vivid, basically like a time capsule of the era.
Martin Kippenberger I am too political,
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Every aspect of Martin Kippenberger’s practice was a self-contained act of decadence, designed to add to the myth of the artist as a whole. In I Am Too Political, Martin Kippenberger paints an image stripped of direct content: six canvases joined together as one form a billboard-like design, bolstering a grotesque nude. Kippenberger’s painting operates as an anti-advert for itself, poking fun at the tradition of painting and the way it’s been historically and ideologically subverted. |
I want to do the work of a different person a character almost.
My phone died or is dead, or is paralysed anyway, I was caught in the storm and I have lost a lot of ideas I saved in there, and poems I was working on whilst wandering hopefully it will work again just for an hour so I can regrasp those Ideas put them in my notebook, I mean I'm not sure If there masterpiece ideas but.
I will attach photographs of my half year review show soon.
I have hopefully got an interview with spearfish the company that do Eurocultured festival for an internship, They do festivals in manchester and Belfast and further afield I have connections with both of those cities either with family or a general fondness.
I performed at Fuel for the new up and coming poets like Lauren Bolger, at there night Paradox, I was one of three musical acts, I got a great reception and reaction to all the new songs, and covers of The Smiths, I seem to get a lot of attention from thirty something women when I perform, any reception is good but when I started out didn't really know what my target audience would be.
I am doing a live session on All FM, and hopefully going to be allowed to keep the recording then I shall send that off to other record companies and radio stations hopefully BBC introducing will like it.
Just think there might have been a break through, I know exactly what I want to do really, music but not in the straight sense I like troubadours and odd balls like Tom Waits so If I had that character when I performed ace.
We have our review next week, half year all the work we've done so far, I know what I'm doing now.
Thursday 12 November 2009
Networking.
I need to get a move on doing work so shall contact lots of festival organisers about possible placements, etc.
Like these guys.
http://www.versionfestival.co.uk/
Today I met a lass called Abbie who is a performance and music student at Manchester University, she wants art work her ideas for the play "The Maids" by Jean Genet, are very good, I'm currently researching and shall attach all that on here, Studying a script and doing set design, collaborating with other artists.
I will discuss what the play is about and how I can produce work, I have some guidelines which are helpful, not limiting, which is good, There are notions of people watching you, and some glam and cheating and all sorts, its dark surreal, has elements of comedy somewhere, I have been asked to make twisted furniture, and did some skip diving earlier so think I have found somethings.
Like these guys.
http://www.versionfestival.co.uk/
Today I met a lass called Abbie who is a performance and music student at Manchester University, she wants art work her ideas for the play "The Maids" by Jean Genet, are very good, I'm currently researching and shall attach all that on here, Studying a script and doing set design, collaborating with other artists.
I will discuss what the play is about and how I can produce work, I have some guidelines which are helpful, not limiting, which is good, There are notions of people watching you, and some glam and cheating and all sorts, its dark surreal, has elements of comedy somewhere, I have been asked to make twisted furniture, and did some skip diving earlier so think I have found somethings.
Jon is a lovely fellow and he sends us lots of links and events.
I shall go to this sounds amazing.
Hi!
I'm Sally Olding, Programme Manager for mintsource, The Whitworth Art
Gallery programme of activities for young people.
I'm just emailing to tell you about an event we're hosting on Saturday 14th
November, 2pm-5pm. It's called LIGHT FANTASTIC and is all about drawing with
light. There'll be hula-hooping and poi with LED lights, light graffiti and
black-light drawing. We'll be hosting photos from the event on our Flickr
blog:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mintsource
The event is free and there's no need to book - just drop in on the day! I
hope that LIGHT FANTASTIC will be of interest to your students and that you
can forward them this message.
Best wishes,
Sally.
--
Sally Olding
mintsource programme manager
The Whitworth Art Gallery
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M15 6ER UK
Telephone: +44 (0)7768 317387
Internal calls: 77 59504
Fax: +44 (161) 275 7451
***mintsource online***
POPPED!: FIFTY YEARS OF TEENAGE OBSESSIONS: http://www.wearepopped.com
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/_mintsource_
JOIN US ON FACEBOOK: search "groups" for "mintsource"
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BLAKE TV: http://blake-tv.blogspot.com
Hi!
I'm Sally Olding, Programme Manager for mintsource, The Whitworth Art
Gallery programme of activities for young people.
I'm just emailing to tell you about an event we're hosting on Saturday 14th
November, 2pm-5pm. It's called LIGHT FANTASTIC and is all about drawing with
light. There'll be hula-hooping and poi with LED lights, light graffiti and
black-light drawing. We'll be hosting photos from the event on our Flickr
blog:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mintsource
The event is free and there's no need to book - just drop in on the day! I
hope that LIGHT FANTASTIC will be of interest to your students and that you
can forward them this message.
Best wishes,
Sally.
--
Sally Olding
mintsource programme manager
The Whitworth Art Gallery
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road
Manchester M15 6ER UK
Telephone: +44 (0)7768 317387
Internal calls: 77 59504
Fax: +44 (161) 275 7451
***mintsource online***
POPPED!: FIFTY YEARS OF TEENAGE OBSESSIONS: http://www.wearepopped.com
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: http://www.twitter.com/_mintsource_
JOIN US ON FACEBOOK: search "groups" for "mintsource"
WATCH US ON FLICKR: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mintsource
BLAKE TV: http://blake-tv.blogspot.com
Tuesday 10 November 2009
Collage.
I generally collage, to get idea's formed I'm going to start making more mixed media work in the studio from now on, progress some of my strongest idea's and collages.
I have also been taking apart some books and making new stories, and collages a similar lark to this fellow,
Tom Philips, its a book in the special collections gallery at Manchester Metropolitan university, lots of layers, I want to try and unscramble the chaos of my work looking at this might help me .http://humument.com/
I have a gig on saturday where I will unveil some new material I have been working on, from my beatknick way of writing collageing poems together to make new work, I will also get in contact and see if I can exhibit some work at the bar FUEL is the place, its a friendly vegetarian cafe in withington.
I went away to cornwall and took a fair few photos of the sea and lots of other things, I want to connect my writing with photo's, try and combine everything really, get more focused on one thing.
I have also been taking apart some books and making new stories, and collages a similar lark to this fellow,
Tom Philips, its a book in the special collections gallery at Manchester Metropolitan university, lots of layers, I want to try and unscramble the chaos of my work looking at this might help me .http://humument.com/
I have a gig on saturday where I will unveil some new material I have been working on, from my beatknick way of writing collageing poems together to make new work, I will also get in contact and see if I can exhibit some work at the bar FUEL is the place, its a friendly vegetarian cafe in withington.
I went away to cornwall and took a fair few photos of the sea and lots of other things, I want to connect my writing with photo's, try and combine everything really, get more focused on one thing.
Saturday 7 November 2009
In To The Wild
Its a film about survival, it basically sum's up a lot of things, that we don't need material things really, but you do need relationships, and that is what killed him, (or was it don't want to spoil the film) the lack of human connection, he got stranded trapped because of the river breaking his crossing, he went to Alaska alone, its amazing a very sad story.
The ironic thing about making a film about it is, that it probably costed millions to make, and he believed on living with no money if you can.
It also does show, that we need certain things, he found a life with out music almost soul less it seemed, you do need knowledge to survive, you also need people.
Its a great though very sad story.
The ironic thing about making a film about it is, that it probably costed millions to make, and he believed on living with no money if you can.
It also does show, that we need certain things, he found a life with out music almost soul less it seemed, you do need knowledge to survive, you also need people.
Its a great though very sad story.
Thursday 5 November 2009
Survival Research.
Since I was younger I have always had an appreciation for the documentaries of Ray Mears, a survival expert, In this latest series he's in North Canada.
I love the idea of a desert island survival like Robinson Crusoe, or The Swiss family Robinson a version of that tale.
The film "Cast away" I love also, not sure I could live on a dersert island my self, was wondering about it, living away hidden from culture for a year what work as well as survival would I develope, what skills I would have to learn.
How Crazy would I get, Bring a tape recorder and thats it.
Here is Bear Gryll's
I love the idea of a desert island survival like Robinson Crusoe, or The Swiss family Robinson a version of that tale.
The film "Cast away" I love also, not sure I could live on a dersert island my self, was wondering about it, living away hidden from culture for a year what work as well as survival would I develope, what skills I would have to learn.
How Crazy would I get, Bring a tape recorder and thats it.
Here is Bear Gryll's
Ardal O Hanlon.
Commented on King's Lynn on the One show, its a quiet suburb, full of odd balls. Where I spent my adalecent years.
Sunday 25 October 2009
Money, Money No Money OXJAM Freegan Living.
I wasn't able to play OXJAM, as it rained buckets, so couldn't busk for the event, so avoided it, I am traveling to cornwall next week, and doing a little photography project, try and connect my poetry, with images.
Money "That's what I want".
Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AutxFgxTshM&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_anbEJsr6s
I am using these songs, and a collection of original Monopoly Money hand printed that we have at home, I shall frame up to make a project Some how. It's an arguement against greed and a reaction to Billionaire Artists not using there money, such as a certain Mr Hirst sueing a fellow, for a box of pencils, he stole from a Ten million pound instilation, for Fifty thousand as its part of the exhibition, silly greedy Damien, if he see's this he may sue me, I like your work leave me be.
I attempted to live a freegan life, but scavenging was quite hard, I went to some friends houses, got free meals, I'm making brownies from all the chocolate left overs, from the cafe I volunteered at, like slightly stale cookies, but have had to raid the larder, basically you either live it or you don't I guess I'm just not up to the totally cut off from convenience.
Looking at how the 1980's created a recession because of excess living and we didn't learn and had an even bigger recession recently 2009, Got me thinking about survival, how some things we don't need, how we throw away so much food, and pay for heating and silly things.
I quite like Polar Bears and the environment, so I try to be quite ecological I'm not quite on the level of Dick Strawbridge yet, and living in a house of seven its tricky to please everyone, but we spend money we don't really have.
And In the future, we'll get cars and mortgages and have kids get credit cards pay for heating pay taxes.
Basically I felt like all I was thinking about was money and the implications, so thought I'll do an exhibition which will be a humourous look at how we don't need all that much money, make top hats out of news papers, cheap alcohol.
Take quite a nostalgic look at technology to use for it, if showing films, use Tv's that people may through away soonish.
Money "That's what I want".
Ihttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AutxFgxTshM&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_anbEJsr6s
I am using these songs, and a collection of original Monopoly Money hand printed that we have at home, I shall frame up to make a project Some how. It's an arguement against greed and a reaction to Billionaire Artists not using there money, such as a certain Mr Hirst sueing a fellow, for a box of pencils, he stole from a Ten million pound instilation, for Fifty thousand as its part of the exhibition, silly greedy Damien, if he see's this he may sue me, I like your work leave me be.
I attempted to live a freegan life, but scavenging was quite hard, I went to some friends houses, got free meals, I'm making brownies from all the chocolate left overs, from the cafe I volunteered at, like slightly stale cookies, but have had to raid the larder, basically you either live it or you don't I guess I'm just not up to the totally cut off from convenience.
Looking at how the 1980's created a recession because of excess living and we didn't learn and had an even bigger recession recently 2009, Got me thinking about survival, how some things we don't need, how we throw away so much food, and pay for heating and silly things.
I quite like Polar Bears and the environment, so I try to be quite ecological I'm not quite on the level of Dick Strawbridge yet, and living in a house of seven its tricky to please everyone, but we spend money we don't really have.
And In the future, we'll get cars and mortgages and have kids get credit cards pay for heating pay taxes.
Basically I felt like all I was thinking about was money and the implications, so thought I'll do an exhibition which will be a humourous look at how we don't need all that much money, make top hats out of news papers, cheap alcohol.
Take quite a nostalgic look at technology to use for it, if showing films, use Tv's that people may through away soonish.
Friday 23 October 2009
Art of Nurture competition
Entering - What To DoOur aim is to involve art colleges and their students in a commercial environment, through sponsorship of an art competition. The winners and runners up of the competition will see their art featured as part of our advertising campaign.
What do you need to do to win?
Provide a piece of visual art that would support and illustrate one of the following themes
Leading the way - we are the leader ahead of our competitors and provide industry-leading products for our clients - we are "ahead of the game.
Working together/support - we team-up with advisors to provide their clients with the right financial solution for their growing business needs - partnership, teamwork and positive relationships.
Innovation/Originality - we meet the ever-changing demands of growing businesses through providing innovative solutions to complex problems.
Flexibility - our financial solutions are flexible and adaptable to meet the individual requirements of our client's financial needs and their future businesses growth.
Sustainable relationships - we have maintained relationships with our clients over long-periods of time - in fact some up to 20 years - we are always there for our clients and are constantly maintaining our relationships.
Expansion - we are constantly widening our range of products and services.
2012 Olympics - we are promoting the 2012 Olympics and showing how we can help prepare athletes and businesses for the opportunities that will come.
Industry sector specialisation - we already have a specialist team for temporary Recruitment companies and will soon have a specialist team for the Haulage/Logistics [road/rail/air freight sectors]
Guidelines
What you produce should be a visual piece that would reproduce effectively in print.
There are no restrictions on technique, materials or style (however work must be 2D and non photographic).
Submissions should be in a form suitable for commercial use in media (both press, direct marketing and online) and dimensions should be A4 minimum, A1 maximum. (Please note work will not be eligible for the competition if smaller than A4 and larger than A1). Existing work completed by the entrant, that meets the brief, can be submitted as an entry.
Art submitted must not have already been displayed in a commercial environment including commercial galleries and must not be submitted for other display or work commercially.
Students are permitted to submit a maximum of two pieces of art into the competition.
The Winning students, original Artwork will remain with Lloyds TSB Commercial Finance as part of their art collection for a period of one year, (from date of the formal agreement which will be issued to winning students). (See terms and conditions).
Submitting Your Work
Entries should be submitted online using the entry form. All submissions must be a digital photograph of your work, no larger than 5Mb (file size). We accept the following file types - JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP and PDF.
All entries must be submitted via the entry form with the following details:
Your name
Your term address
Your e-mail address
Your telephone number
Name of College/University
Your lecturer's name
Your lecturer's telephone number
Theme of submission
Medium
Dimensions
Your 100-200 word statement
By entering the competition you will be accepting the Terms & Conditions.
What do you need to do to win?
Provide a piece of visual art that would support and illustrate one of the following themes
Leading the way - we are the leader ahead of our competitors and provide industry-leading products for our clients - we are "ahead of the game.
Working together/support - we team-up with advisors to provide their clients with the right financial solution for their growing business needs - partnership, teamwork and positive relationships.
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Tuesday 20 October 2009
Realising what I have Done since being back in Manchester.
I came back to Manchester the last week of August, I went to Leeds on the weekend of Leeds festival, to see some friends played Pinyata Heard Radiohead in the distance, a good day had by all.
Then I Handed out C.V's to all the bars and places I would like to work, avoiding corporate industries like Primark or supermarkets, as being Bi-polar I would rather put my head in an oven(ok that was slightly dramatic.
I have been writing about 4 poems a day some days I'll write like 20 "epic"poems some days none, but when I don't write I get really depressed. So when I'm going on walks to clear my head, or getting the bus I save my thoughts and song ideas as text messages, then when I'm home I will figure out how to edit them make good songs out of them, I played a few open mics whilst job hunting and recording demo's and doodling, and entered a competition to do art work for a band I like called TEN BEARS.
http://www.myspace.com/tenbearsmusic
My artwork is in the final four of the competition.
I went to some meetings about Free for Arts Festival and practiced with Dafydd and James on some very noisy idea's.
www.freeforartsfestival.co.uk
Also Did some work with Gesampt collective, which is James, Daf and some other Interactive Arts Students, friends all sorts.
http://www.ges.freei.me/
I have recently been working for OXJAM, doing promotional busking and a PR launch and I will be performing on Sunday 25th October 2009. In Various venues in Northern Quarter.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/fundraise/oxjam/aud_event.php?ref=3870&back=aud_search_results.php%3Fday%3D25%26month%3DOct%26year%3D2009%26range%3D3%26event%3D%26postcode%3DM14%2B5JT%26venue%3D%26region%3D%26genres%3D%26types%3D%26offset%3D0
Its been "IN THE CITY" music conference, and I didn't get chosen to play, when I applied I wasn't ready I know that now, I have been doing all sorts of mingling with bands and a couple of promoters, and giving CD's to bands I'm friends with so I can get some slots at gigs.
http://www.inthecity.co.uk/showscreen.php?site_id=30&screentype=site&screenid=30
I went to a lot of the free fringe events, and as soon as I ran out of Demo's I bumped in to Huw Stephens outside Midland Hotel, I'll send him a CD when its good and radio ready and remind him who I am a good press pack, pretty photo of me etc.
I am going on holiday to Cornwall, to see family and whilst I'm there shall go to some galleries, take a lot of photo's that reminds me today I need to buy a camera, I will interview a couple of artists as cornwall is where all the modern artists go to retire.
Lovely stuff, now off to lectures seminars tutorials, busy tuesdays.
Then I Handed out C.V's to all the bars and places I would like to work, avoiding corporate industries like Primark or supermarkets, as being Bi-polar I would rather put my head in an oven(ok that was slightly dramatic.
I have been writing about 4 poems a day some days I'll write like 20 "epic"poems some days none, but when I don't write I get really depressed. So when I'm going on walks to clear my head, or getting the bus I save my thoughts and song ideas as text messages, then when I'm home I will figure out how to edit them make good songs out of them, I played a few open mics whilst job hunting and recording demo's and doodling, and entered a competition to do art work for a band I like called TEN BEARS.
http://www.myspace.com/tenbearsmusic
My artwork is in the final four of the competition.
I went to some meetings about Free for Arts Festival and practiced with Dafydd and James on some very noisy idea's.
www.freeforartsfestival.co.uk
Also Did some work with Gesampt collective, which is James, Daf and some other Interactive Arts Students, friends all sorts.
http://www.ges.freei.me/
I have recently been working for OXJAM, doing promotional busking and a PR launch and I will be performing on Sunday 25th October 2009. In Various venues in Northern Quarter.
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/get_involved/fundraise/oxjam/aud_event.php?ref=3870&back=aud_search_results.php%3Fday%3D25%26month%3DOct%26year%3D2009%26range%3D3%26event%3D%26postcode%3DM14%2B5JT%26venue%3D%26region%3D%26genres%3D%26types%3D%26offset%3D0
Its been "IN THE CITY" music conference, and I didn't get chosen to play, when I applied I wasn't ready I know that now, I have been doing all sorts of mingling with bands and a couple of promoters, and giving CD's to bands I'm friends with so I can get some slots at gigs.
http://www.inthecity.co.uk/showscreen.php?site_id=30&screentype=site&screenid=30
I went to a lot of the free fringe events, and as soon as I ran out of Demo's I bumped in to Huw Stephens outside Midland Hotel, I'll send him a CD when its good and radio ready and remind him who I am a good press pack, pretty photo of me etc.
I am going on holiday to Cornwall, to see family and whilst I'm there shall go to some galleries, take a lot of photo's that reminds me today I need to buy a camera, I will interview a couple of artists as cornwall is where all the modern artists go to retire.
Lovely stuff, now off to lectures seminars tutorials, busy tuesdays.
Nostallgic technology.
I have been looking at the history of technology recently, How things have evolved, looking at Nostalgic things like BBC computers from the 1980's, and remembering my primary school days, we didn't upgrade at school for years, had an animation game on the BBC acorn PC and a game called Nanas garden which was basically a Y/N game like maze, but somehow you always got stuck by the witch.
Looking at all of the history, made me feel like I must have had aspergers, being able to program a computer at 5 years old.
All the games, the bleaps the sounds its amazing.
Think there must be a theme at the moment at the BBC because a lot of open university programs are about the old ways of technology
This program looks at a very middle class gadget mad family, attempting to embrace life with out all Mod cons, goes from the 1970's, and they go up a year every day till 2000.
It reminded me how we all thought the apocalypse was going to happen because computers would die the milenium bug all that kind of thing, it sounds rediculous now.
When I was younger my auntie won a Nintendo 64, I ran around the house very excited about getting it for christmas, I also got an original BUZZ lightyear, but that is no longer in my possession, I could have made some money from those things.
I think my love of Nostalgia happened when my sister downloaded a Zelda Ocarina of time for her Nintendo Wii. the original N64 version I was so happy, I'm actually terrible at playing games, but was a good bonding exercise or something.
http://bbc.co.uk/i/n90xc/ This is called electric dreams.
I also got in to looking at Synths and how Kraftwerk, re-invented music, and basically having that lack of personality, robotic quality, had a charm all of its own. Gary Numan, "Cars" is one of the best songs and evidence of synths in music and though it sounds historic now, imagine how revolutionary it all was, then.
But a lot of it ended up being watered down pap, The 70's My Dad said he felt embarrassed to be alive, I think If I was born a decade earlier, I would have really not enjoyed the 80's would have attempted to cling to The Smiths, and avoid all that Synth Britania but looking at it in a new light and not having to live through it, you can have a pretend sense of nostalgia, just remember the good bits, if there were any
The 1980's a predominately shameful decade.
http://bbc.co.uk/i/n93c4/
Looking at all of the history, made me feel like I must have had aspergers, being able to program a computer at 5 years old.
All the games, the bleaps the sounds its amazing.
Think there must be a theme at the moment at the BBC because a lot of open university programs are about the old ways of technology
This program looks at a very middle class gadget mad family, attempting to embrace life with out all Mod cons, goes from the 1970's, and they go up a year every day till 2000.
It reminded me how we all thought the apocalypse was going to happen because computers would die the milenium bug all that kind of thing, it sounds rediculous now.
When I was younger my auntie won a Nintendo 64, I ran around the house very excited about getting it for christmas, I also got an original BUZZ lightyear, but that is no longer in my possession, I could have made some money from those things.
I think my love of Nostalgia happened when my sister downloaded a Zelda Ocarina of time for her Nintendo Wii. the original N64 version I was so happy, I'm actually terrible at playing games, but was a good bonding exercise or something.
http://bbc.co.uk/i/n90xc/ This is called electric dreams.
I also got in to looking at Synths and how Kraftwerk, re-invented music, and basically having that lack of personality, robotic quality, had a charm all of its own. Gary Numan, "Cars" is one of the best songs and evidence of synths in music and though it sounds historic now, imagine how revolutionary it all was, then.
But a lot of it ended up being watered down pap, The 70's My Dad said he felt embarrassed to be alive, I think If I was born a decade earlier, I would have really not enjoyed the 80's would have attempted to cling to The Smiths, and avoid all that Synth Britania but looking at it in a new light and not having to live through it, you can have a pretend sense of nostalgia, just remember the good bits, if there were any
The 1980's a predominately shameful decade.
http://bbc.co.uk/i/n93c4/
Saturday 17 October 2009
That Green Room Gig was awesome.
Box Kid we're Immense, like quirky pop, gave them a CD to bag some gigs with them possibly, they may hate my CD, but it's networking.
Louis Barrabas and The Bedlam Six, Very good performers, in that Nick Cave, Tom Wait's, Troubadour vein, Gave them a CD, they run a very arty lovely independent label called Debt records based in Manchester, so May give me some nice studio, there all great lads and lasses also, Networking....
Another CD to the very nice Promoter Stuart Avery
And one to my mate and Disco Nasties singer Freddie, who has died his hair pink, there a great local band, maybe they'll let us support them at some point, networking.
Box Kid, used what was good from the eighties, like the jangly pop of The Cure, and put a contemporaryish spin on it, I also loved them because they looked like cartoon characters, The guitarist/singer, could of come out of any New york Jewish Gangster film, a lovely guy though,
Singer like A blond betty boop, blonde individual and Beautiful, the Bassist Like JAWS or the late swayze, then you had Art Garfunkel on Keyboard and SAX, drummer had an amazing curly mohawk and liked to beat the jazzy hell out the skins, I think my image of the band, sounds like a band everyone would want to see, by the way they are all Handsome Beautiful people, who all have charisma, and make beautiful catchy music, and cover dance anthems, everything is right with the world...............
Except! TRAINS, PLANES, AUTOMOBILES, MOBILES, and BURN'T TOAST, oh a lot of diceases and government arguements, I liked my Paraphrased Betjeman quote, read a lot of his poetry and prose over summer, Dad has for some reason changed our living room in to Library, most people in the mid life crisis buy sports cars, join tribute bands, " I will build a Library" Well I guess its a good thing got me reading. HA!.
Louis Barrabas and The Bedlam Six, Very good performers, in that Nick Cave, Tom Wait's, Troubadour vein, Gave them a CD, they run a very arty lovely independent label called Debt records based in Manchester, so May give me some nice studio, there all great lads and lasses also, Networking....
Another CD to the very nice Promoter Stuart Avery
And one to my mate and Disco Nasties singer Freddie, who has died his hair pink, there a great local band, maybe they'll let us support them at some point, networking.
Box Kid, used what was good from the eighties, like the jangly pop of The Cure, and put a contemporaryish spin on it, I also loved them because they looked like cartoon characters, The guitarist/singer, could of come out of any New york Jewish Gangster film, a lovely guy though,
Singer like A blond betty boop, blonde individual and Beautiful, the Bassist Like JAWS or the late swayze, then you had Art Garfunkel on Keyboard and SAX, drummer had an amazing curly mohawk and liked to beat the jazzy hell out the skins, I think my image of the band, sounds like a band everyone would want to see, by the way they are all Handsome Beautiful people, who all have charisma, and make beautiful catchy music, and cover dance anthems, everything is right with the world...............
Except! TRAINS, PLANES, AUTOMOBILES, MOBILES, and BURN'T TOAST, oh a lot of diceases and government arguements, I liked my Paraphrased Betjeman quote, read a lot of his poetry and prose over summer, Dad has for some reason changed our living room in to Library, most people in the mid life crisis buy sports cars, join tribute bands, " I will build a Library" Well I guess its a good thing got me reading. HA!.
A New Exhibition in Sheffield
Ok So I got a little lost but heres what that exhibition is actually about.
exhibiton thingy
Jo Coleman 17 October at 21:41
Hey edd,
The exhibition thing i'm doing will be held in december time- about the 12th i think.
what i'm doing is taking the idea of self-injury and looking behind the myths to do with it. I'm trying to challenge peoples' conceptions of self-injury and what it really is.
i'm trying to get Luton Church Education trust to lend me some of their artwork that they had from an exhibition a couple years ago, to get some more artwork in.
What i'm planning on doing is using art/photos, quotes from self-inurers and facts dotted about a room to create an "exhibition" feel. i'm also going to try use some music videos and possibly song lyrics to dot around aswell.
Anyway- what i want from you, is for you to help me create a piece of art that is quite "contemporary" in its style. actually a couple things.
i'm thinking i might also try to a collage with statistics written in it or something too.
However, the main idea is to get a piece of canvas and try do something like the album-art from manic street preachers' album Lifeblood.
you still up for helping me?
pretty please- i promise i won't bite you again *angelic face*
jo
The exhibition thing i'm doing will be held in december time- about the 12th i think.
what i'm doing is taking the idea of self-injury and looking behind the myths to do with it. I'm trying to challenge peoples' conceptions of self-injury and what it really is.
i'm trying to get Luton Church Education trust to lend me some of their artwork that they had from an exhibition a couple years ago, to get some more artwork in.
What i'm planning on doing is using art/photos, quotes from self-inurers and facts dotted about a room to create an "exhibition" feel. i'm also going to try use some music videos and possibly song lyrics to dot around aswell.
Anyway- what i want from you, is for you to help me create a piece of art that is quite "contemporary" in its style. actually a couple things.
i'm thinking i might also try to a collage with statistics written in it or something too.
However, the main idea is to get a piece of canvas and try do something like the album-art from manic street preachers' album Lifeblood.
you still up for helping me?
pretty please- i promise i won't bite you again *angelic face*
jo
Edd Butt 17 October at 17:26
Yep Got lots of ideas, collage is well up my street its all I do best, so can combine messy canvases and nice framed collages, I'll buy some paints canvas square, and picture frames like clip frames, and bring glue scissors and buy some varnish, and shall take over for a day.
I need this for networking so we're doing each other a favour.
I need this for networking so we're doing each other a favour.
I Know its not an easy Life.
Yes. But I think I'd love it me and a few friends travelling about, would be a hoot.
IN THE CITY. which hopefully If I'm persistant and do some good recordings and gigs shall play one day, then get a nice record deal and have a lovely life in the suburbs, and work all the time doing stuff I love.
I'm going to a gig this evening for my friends Birthday I shall pass out some CD's to my favourite bands and the promoter Stuart Avery hopefully make some new friends, and have a good time with old ones, One of my favourite local Manchester bands are playing this evening called Louis Barrabas and the bedlam six, shall review the gig, later. http://www.myspace.com/bedlamsix
Forgot to take Photos.
But Don't Threat here's a different tea party of some delights me and my friend Helen made a year or so ago.
Friday 16 October 2009
If you ever have time to kill then play... or Bake.
Play on Audiotool http://www.hobnox.com/index.1056.en.html, Its so much fun, my new band and good pals James and Dafydd- forgive my spelling hes welsh, use it a lot as well as looping all sorts of things, we used a bontempi, toy keyboard for mainly percussion, and the pick up I used liked to feedback was fun.
Controlling feedback with an array of guitar effects and other things, trying to mold sound art noise feedback in to good pop music, soon enough when they've finished there huge 3rd year essays, shall be amazing, we'll make rooms vibrate have films projected and make the shows spectacles.
I have a huge grub crawl event happening this evening friday 16th october 2009, I have made a lot of amazing ginger biscuits, and Brownies, photos will be put up as evidence for this event, I made loads I have been busy.
This idea of survival, well food as performance and event is also happening this evening, its a meet and greet for christian union social.
Next Blog I'll show photos maybe films?
Its In The City this weekend,
I think I'm gonna go to the Midland hand out Demo's maybe, To all the performers at venues and promoters, a lot of networking this weekend, I have a few contacts there, so I'll just say think of the potential, because the demo is rough, I think the songs are good, afew James Daf and me will muck about with and make a proper demo, anyway I shall give a demo to BBC introducing see If I can go and do a session.
There's a film Called "Once" Its a simple love story, a film of lost souls and friendships, You could say what its about on the back of a post card "Man Busks, Meets nice cleaning Lady, boosts his confidence, about his songs, about a girl friend he lost, goes to London after her, chases after record deal buys new friend a piano" It's well good thats as you Imagine a paraphrased very simple version of the film.
Controlling feedback with an array of guitar effects and other things, trying to mold sound art noise feedback in to good pop music, soon enough when they've finished there huge 3rd year essays, shall be amazing, we'll make rooms vibrate have films projected and make the shows spectacles.
I have a huge grub crawl event happening this evening friday 16th october 2009, I have made a lot of amazing ginger biscuits, and Brownies, photos will be put up as evidence for this event, I made loads I have been busy.
This idea of survival, well food as performance and event is also happening this evening, its a meet and greet for christian union social.
Next Blog I'll show photos maybe films?
Its In The City this weekend,
I think I'm gonna go to the Midland hand out Demo's maybe, To all the performers at venues and promoters, a lot of networking this weekend, I have a few contacts there, so I'll just say think of the potential, because the demo is rough, I think the songs are good, afew James Daf and me will muck about with and make a proper demo, anyway I shall give a demo to BBC introducing see If I can go and do a session.
There's a film Called "Once" Its a simple love story, a film of lost souls and friendships, You could say what its about on the back of a post card "Man Busks, Meets nice cleaning Lady, boosts his confidence, about his songs, about a girl friend he lost, goes to London after her, chases after record deal buys new friend a piano" It's well good thats as you Imagine a paraphrased very simple version of the film.
Thursday 15 October 2009
Exhibiton about Youth Culture.
My good friend Joanne, has asked me to produce some big square pieces, that can be connected to crime, and youth culture, and how music can be a positive way forward for some people, I am painting for an exhibition, shes putting together in Sheffield shes a music student so there will be all sorts of different work, some sound work, but its a collaboration between a lot of students, so think I'm bringing the colour, she said use The Manic Street Preachers albums as Influence, and the work of Jenny Saville, She also wants big Abstract Pollocks, as Image The Manics have also used, I think she's a big fan, but loves the political messages, also, the exhibition will be exciting as I'm going to be staying In Sheffield quickly doing the work which will make it organicish, as I will be planning it with consultation with her to find out what she actually means, This story came to my attention also.
Manic Street Preachers album cover censored by supermarkets
Journal for Plague Lovers is to be stocked in plain slipcases because its artwork, which features a painting of a boy's face apparently splattered with blood, is deemed 'inappropriate'
There's always arguements, I have a Kinship with the Manics as one of there B side EP singles was my first CD I think it was "Bangkok Novotel, the only music I heard before that was Britney Spears really, I missed Brit Pop and avoided NU metal, so this random CD I bought just because I liked the album art, The song Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel, is freaking awesome, I shall speak about this exhibition, which uses the Manics as an Influence in more detail when I know what is actually going on.
Ten Bears Competion,
I am In the final four for a competition I entered to have my work on an up and coming Manchester band TEN BEARS single for there song BRACES, about the teeth straightening things you often have to wear as a teenager.
I like the quirky flaming lips sound of the band and they're lovely people one of the Handsome fellow's works in TROF fallowfield.
I hope I win, mines the one that apparently looks a little like Konnie Huq. from Blue Peter fame.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/album.php?aid=154272&id=17472221353&ref=mf
I like the quirky flaming lips sound of the band and they're lovely people one of the Handsome fellow's works in TROF fallowfield.
I hope I win, mines the one that apparently looks a little like Konnie Huq. from Blue Peter fame.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/album.php?aid=154272&id=17472221353&ref=mf
Networking.
In this art lark its who you know, and how you make oppurtunities for yourself.
So I played the Free For Arts Festival PR launch, and then got chatting to OX-JAM, I also got featured on the Blank media blog, getting good reviews. I gave a CD to OX-JAM, and they asked if I wanted to play there press launch and festival, so I did the PR launch on the 14th October, and it went great, played three gigs in a day, one two hour show, an hour then a little open mic with some pals.
I met a magazine and some other lovely people at the PR launch, the magazine editor for 4Q, I'm going to see If I can get some work experience, with them, a very a nice chap.
The open mic was the now derelict S U Bar the huge light boxes empty, making me think, about having a whole exhibition there canvases up using the light boxes.
An empty space at university, they have to let us use it for free, I shall enquire.
So I played the Free For Arts Festival PR launch, and then got chatting to OX-JAM, I also got featured on the Blank media blog, getting good reviews. I gave a CD to OX-JAM, and they asked if I wanted to play there press launch and festival, so I did the PR launch on the 14th October, and it went great, played three gigs in a day, one two hour show, an hour then a little open mic with some pals.
I met a magazine and some other lovely people at the PR launch, the magazine editor for 4Q, I'm going to see If I can get some work experience, with them, a very a nice chap.
The open mic was the now derelict S U Bar the huge light boxes empty, making me think, about having a whole exhibition there canvases up using the light boxes.
An empty space at university, they have to let us use it for free, I shall enquire.
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Survival,or Consumption.
I wanted to look at our natural urges, and why we eat, and how we survive, I got thinking about some family friends who live in Norfolk, pretty self sufficcent, almost like Fregans, People who mainly live from food they produce, or by the food that everyone else wastes, like supermarkets throwing out food that has reached its sell by date, Its a political ideal that has some almost romantic ideals, living off the land.
It almost has a family relevance as we live on a small holding, and have an orchard, I am going to do a documentary, based on the predictable 1970's sitcom "The Good Life" and try to collage them together interviewing my eccentric family friends, try and get an interview with Dick Strawbridge from the program "Its not easy being Green"As my auntie works for the BBC so I should have some contacts, there,
The group work meetings want us to show some visual work.
It almost has a family relevance as we live on a small holding, and have an orchard, I am going to do a documentary, based on the predictable 1970's sitcom "The Good Life" and try to collage them together interviewing my eccentric family friends, try and get an interview with Dick Strawbridge from the program "Its not easy being Green"As my auntie works for the BBC so I should have some contacts, there,
The group work meetings want us to show some visual work.
Monday 12 October 2009
Sunday 11 October 2009
Food. Research
Well we have to research food, this is going to sound strange, but Food annoys me..... quite a lot.
I can bake really quite amazingly, I'll prove it soon enough;my Brownies are immense, and Gingerbread men are grand, but I'm so fussy, that meals for me are awkward, meat and veg, simple food I like.
I tend to hate tomatoes, actually despise them, and only recently started eating food with sauces, like Indian food, its hard to avoid as I live on Curry Mile, so have fought some demons.
So doing a food diary, looking at my diet, only showed that I need to cut down on the bacon, really, and drink less.
Because its the recession all T.V is showing are food programs, because there's no money to do anything else, or they think as its the recession all we do is Eat and Shag, well....
I'm going to look at the food project quite differently I've got some ideas, Film ideas maybe humourous around how terrible my cooking is, burning down houses, and music that could be extremely different Like Ja temme playing whilst I ruin another meal or something like that.
Cafe Culture
I like sitting in Cafes writing eating Cake, living outside my means, pretending I'm cosmopolitan or something.
I can bake really quite amazingly, I'll prove it soon enough;my Brownies are immense, and Gingerbread men are grand, but I'm so fussy, that meals for me are awkward, meat and veg, simple food I like.
I tend to hate tomatoes, actually despise them, and only recently started eating food with sauces, like Indian food, its hard to avoid as I live on Curry Mile, so have fought some demons.
So doing a food diary, looking at my diet, only showed that I need to cut down on the bacon, really, and drink less.
Because its the recession all T.V is showing are food programs, because there's no money to do anything else, or they think as its the recession all we do is Eat and Shag, well....
I'm going to look at the food project quite differently I've got some ideas, Film ideas maybe humourous around how terrible my cooking is, burning down houses, and music that could be extremely different Like Ja temme playing whilst I ruin another meal or something like that.
Cafe Culture
I like sitting in Cafes writing eating Cake, living outside my means, pretending I'm cosmopolitan or something.
Thursday 8 October 2009
Edwyn and Toy Orchestra
This evening I am playing at Gesampt at Mint Lounge for Free for Arts festival, I went to Dafydd and James place and they had a toy keyboard, so they got me thinking about manipulating things to make music with. I researched the Modified Toy Orchestrahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erkV7gOv09M&feature=related and they buy toys for less than £1 and circuit bend them to make music with them, this clip shows it amazingly, Mine will be a little more low key, using the Bontempi keyboard from James and Dafs place, and a Ukulele and afew other things, shall go on the hunt and, well improvise with what I have collected today, going to search Early learning centre, music shops and querky places in Afflecks palace, and then we can muck around with my findings.
I'm also trying to make a film for the event I have one for the thing we did at Sand Bar when we planned an event called 3 minutes, and I banged a drum and screamed performing Be Your Husband by Nina Simone really cut down and tribal, I painted myself white and projected a film of the guiness add backwards, so it was little like drowning, I did the same performance for the PR launch for Free for Arts Festival, just without the film.
So I'm thinking I will start my slot with a couple of films to lets us set up, then bang the drum sorted.
So I'm thinking I will start my slot with a couple of films to lets us set up, then bang the drum sorted.
Wednesday 7 October 2009
Now back at University.
Back to things and we have been set the project- Food I decided to research Café culture, performance with food and weird cults.
In the same day we went to the Cornerhouse, to the Bloomberg new contemporaries exhibition, a few pieces were good some bad, some ugly, some trying to break taboo's, Like Paul Knight, on first glimpse, you think thats been done before, Andy Warhol, used to film that in his factory etc etc, but then you see the titles, saying perhaps how long his relationships have been with these people, which is humourous, He says there about sex and the human relationship, I like that they don't look beautiful that you almost feel embarrased when looking at the photographs, and that it looks like the same guy with three different people in long term relationships, one being with a man, so hes experimenting I doubt he's the performer, The reason I find it funny is that there like memories or he got bored with women maybe, not sure..
Was that the best relationship because hes counting the days.
I liked Sam Burford's work which was basically embraseing materials, shape and form, trying to be very simple, or mysterious. In the programme he says "I really can't think of anything to say that would support the work adequately.It is what it is". Either mysterious pretentious or lazy, but I liked the work so.... I shouldn't judge really.
In the same day we went to the Cornerhouse, to the Bloomberg new contemporaries exhibition, a few pieces were good some bad, some ugly, some trying to break taboo's, Like Paul Knight, on first glimpse, you think thats been done before, Andy Warhol, used to film that in his factory etc etc, but then you see the titles, saying perhaps how long his relationships have been with these people, which is humourous, He says there about sex and the human relationship, I like that they don't look beautiful that you almost feel embarrased when looking at the photographs, and that it looks like the same guy with three different people in long term relationships, one being with a man, so hes experimenting I doubt he's the performer, The reason I find it funny is that there like memories or he got bored with women maybe, not sure..
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I liked Sam Burford's work which was basically embraseing materials, shape and form, trying to be very simple, or mysterious. In the programme he says "I really can't think of anything to say that would support the work adequately.It is what it is". Either mysterious pretentious or lazy, but I liked the work so.... I shouldn't judge really.
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