In my presentation, I'm not the clearest thought, my brain is complex and a road of havock, so my projects being on awkwardness, was rather apt, for the presentations made me feel horrible, I mean I wasn't clear, and seems pointless if people want to find out why not freaking read!
But I guess speaking has to be done, what could I have done better? We'll I planned and prepared, so probably do that better, but as I have a condition, that means anything I do seems complex, and a trouble, then how will I improve.
So I'm Giving up, but going to read lots of poetry and Oscar Wilde, get audio books as words dance around like daisies in a breeze, read my Bible more, play Tetris less, as I have Tetris Addiction ( a painful affliction that happens to many a procrastinating student), Watch less television, work more on things I enjoy like Filling books with random thoughts and collage. Which I shall link to this new project doing art work for bands and my own music which my thursday will be full of. Recording this new strange stuff I would like to progress Edwyn Butler.
Also a band is learning my pop songs, so we're gonna get together and jam out ideas play gigs probably be called The Rough Sea's.
Hazel said she was trying to get her head round all my projects, but they're linked in some form, just because I don't want to make conventional work for stuffy rich gentleman to buy in galleries, but strange stuff that keeps me busy and fills up shelves in HMV and those arty book shops you browse in, but only ever buy something in once a year.
Saying all that would like to have huge spectacles in places like modern galleries, but never conventional work.
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Sunday 25 January 2009
Oscar Wild Child Pete and Tink.
In collaboration with the band oscar wild child, to produce art work for there album, think along the ideas of kisses, because of Oscar Wildes grave in paris, its covered in kisses.
The idea is called Pete and Tink because of how troublesome a romance, it may of been a play on height a witty observation created by the singer Chris Dyson, so combining an etched photograph so it looks like old childrens book maybe?, lots of ideas spinning round thinking il finish all my other projects to a high standard then concentrate solely on this, but if i ever get bored doing all my other little things, I can come back to the OWC idea.
The idea is called Pete and Tink because of how troublesome a romance, it may of been a play on height a witty observation created by the singer Chris Dyson, so combining an etched photograph so it looks like old childrens book maybe?, lots of ideas spinning round thinking il finish all my other projects to a high standard then concentrate solely on this, but if i ever get bored doing all my other little things, I can come back to the OWC idea.
Saturday 17 January 2009
Its not hard thats the way you do it play the guitar on the MTV.
So This last week I have made contact with an artist, who works in illustration which is something I would like to do, Have recorded some demo's with my friend mike, found out about Chris Cunningham the director behind some Aphex Twin Video's and Square pusher, probably most famously bjorks All is full of love.
Because one of my main aim's is to make some sort of music videos. I have been researching this field a Little bit but I'm going to research heavily 5 Music Video Directors animators, basically artists who work in the fields of music publicity, music videos and Album Art that kind of malarky. Then attempt to make contact with bars and bands see if I can make posters for venues and bands, make little books in random places like Odder and Font for people to find and contact me if they like the stuff, also as I will probably be doing a work placement, I need to contact artists in the area.
Also have put a notice up looking for a band and have enquired about joining a band they want a singer song writer, and applied for a job at Font which will be opening in Fallowfield.
How was your day? good? mine was ok ate to much chinese and it all tasted the same, tommorow I see Liz and others at church which will be good, and I'm expecting an email from my Student authority in norfolk, to tell me what goodies im eligible for from DSA, hopefully combining a casual manner with actual substance isn't to disconcerting.
Because one of my main aim's is to make some sort of music videos. I have been researching this field a Little bit but I'm going to research heavily 5 Music Video Directors animators, basically artists who work in the fields of music publicity, music videos and Album Art that kind of malarky. Then attempt to make contact with bars and bands see if I can make posters for venues and bands, make little books in random places like Odder and Font for people to find and contact me if they like the stuff, also as I will probably be doing a work placement, I need to contact artists in the area.
Also have put a notice up looking for a band and have enquired about joining a band they want a singer song writer, and applied for a job at Font which will be opening in Fallowfield.
How was your day? good? mine was ok ate to much chinese and it all tasted the same, tommorow I see Liz and others at church which will be good, and I'm expecting an email from my Student authority in norfolk, to tell me what goodies im eligible for from DSA, hopefully combining a casual manner with actual substance isn't to disconcerting.
Thursday 15 January 2009
I realised the song I want played at my funeral, Jeff Buckleys i know its over and hallejuyah medley, if I was struck down dead now, or whilst wandering sqaundered by terrorists, that would be my final wish, to make people think, if I die happy make people happy, play something else.
Any way, I emailed Oliver West, who did Elbows art work for the album seldom seen kid, to find out some information this is what it contained.
hello there, It came to my attention that you did my course afew years ago, BA hons interactive arts at manchester met. One day I would love to produce art work for bands albums singles etc, and was wondering how you got involved with working with bands such as elbow, please reply thanks very much
Edd Butt .
hi edd, i did the elbow thing because the band are friends of mine and they asked me to do it, but i couldn't have done it if i hadn't been working hard on my practice for years. i'm not a trained illustrator so i can't offer you any advice regarding getting certain briefs and clients.
what i started off doing was to create black and white comic books of my work and gave them away for free to people who came in the bar i managed at the time (The Temple, Elbow's local). this cost me about £80 but meant 100 people saw my stuff. people like free stuff. after three of those, when people new what i was about, i started printing in colour and charged a fiver for them. self publishing your work is an excellent way to get your stuff 'out there' and seen by people you want it seen by. the internet's all fine and dandy but people love being able to hold something in their hands.
from doing this for three years i now have a book publisher who've published two books and want another two off me. some animation and record companies have seen these books and have asked me to do work for them.
work as hard as you know you can and you'll be half way there, but you also need a bit of luck as well i'm afraid. i happened to be managing Elbow's local when they were recording that album, and a competition i entered was being run by someone setting up a comic book publishers.
learn by doing stuff, don't wait till you've learnt it; if that makes sense.
hope that helps. if you've any other questions i'd be glad to help
Thats great thanks, thats a lovely peculiar place the temple, thanks for all the info and advice and il try and find your books around, good stuff, thought id follow a whim, righto thanks for the help.
Any way, I emailed Oliver West, who did Elbows art work for the album seldom seen kid, to find out some information this is what it contained.
hello there, It came to my attention that you did my course afew years ago, BA hons interactive arts at manchester met. One day I would love to produce art work for bands albums singles etc, and was wondering how you got involved with working with bands such as elbow, please reply thanks very much
Edd Butt .
hi edd, i did the elbow thing because the band are friends of mine and they asked me to do it, but i couldn't have done it if i hadn't been working hard on my practice for years. i'm not a trained illustrator so i can't offer you any advice regarding getting certain briefs and clients.
what i started off doing was to create black and white comic books of my work and gave them away for free to people who came in the bar i managed at the time (The Temple, Elbow's local). this cost me about £80 but meant 100 people saw my stuff. people like free stuff. after three of those, when people new what i was about, i started printing in colour and charged a fiver for them. self publishing your work is an excellent way to get your stuff 'out there' and seen by people you want it seen by. the internet's all fine and dandy but people love being able to hold something in their hands.
from doing this for three years i now have a book publisher who've published two books and want another two off me. some animation and record companies have seen these books and have asked me to do work for them.
work as hard as you know you can and you'll be half way there, but you also need a bit of luck as well i'm afraid. i happened to be managing Elbow's local when they were recording that album, and a competition i entered was being run by someone setting up a comic book publishers.
learn by doing stuff, don't wait till you've learnt it; if that makes sense.
hope that helps. if you've any other questions i'd be glad to help
Thats great thanks, thats a lovely peculiar place the temple, thanks for all the info and advice and il try and find your books around, good stuff, thought id follow a whim, righto thanks for the help.
Monday 12 January 2009
Back Log from September
I havn't been able to edit, and this will be alot of repeatition, because I have many a orginisation problem. but heres alot of babble but full of little nugets and insights.
Year 1 Interactive Arts Journal 2008-2009
September
Basically fresher’s week was full of going out to chavy clubs full of plastics, being dragged along by my flat mates, wasn’t actually too bad.
And played an open mic at the deaf institute, which was great everyone loved my voice.
Starting on course doing a summer fete kinda thing, was a hoot, we had a ride, was basically a office spinning chair, that we used as a ride, created scenes, then Around the world in A tea Daze happened, was dead good fun.
Just watched a film on www.storyofstuff.com
It’s throwing up so many economical idea’s watching that film kinda changed my life; I guess, learning about how the American government ruined the planet, its making me think how can I live in away that can save the planet, being a student we don’t have recycling facilities, but if I buy from butchers and markets for food won’t be using plastic’s, and if I can recycle what ever materials I use on a day today basis in Art either by collaging or anything, I mean fresher’s fair was such a waste of paper and every leaflet and flyer we get, is killing our planet, seriously I am turning in to a hippie!
www.storyofstuff.com
My idea to make my blog of everyday life interesting was to pretend it was an Indiana Jones tale, think I’ll use that might put a smile on your face.
Date 9th October 2008
Realised the differences with people and seem to have a lot of ideas about how we can improve our lives and some political idea’s. But you can’t go in to Political Idea’s with out a lot of research.
I had my tutorial with John and he spoke about a student who always re-invented there work in a very clever way by progressing it by using the same idea as the project before so either subject matter or the material of the work, so never did a piece of work similar, because she was making gradual steps to a new place, not huge gigantic leap’s. So say looking at the first project to her last, it would be a huge change but getting there took small ambitious little steps. I work very quickly, and produce a lot of work, if I did this it would mean I’d be reviewing my work and always improving.
So Paint
My idea is to link my dancing with paint, to another piece, where I have dancers and throw paint, and it will be about silhouettes and shadows and never forgetting what’s been there before. It will be similar to a piece of mine called the way young lover’s do, where I painted in rhythm to music and filmed it then projected it. I shall do two films similar to this in a prepared area. The Other will be a band playing trying to miss the paint, then the instruments, will form part of an instillation, I like always recycling everything that I have done, always improving idea’s trying not to be repetitive for to long, so when I get comfortable mix it up a bit!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pVfQrIoygVs
Watch You tube far to much, watched a film called Mogwai, Punk Rock don’t know who made it, but is quite poignant if you just have a starting point on the internet and follow you can get to very interesting places, like I’m trying to find gigs so searched that in Google then you can end up at things about cat milk and how to make the perfect space cakes and all sorts, I shall have photo’s!
10th October 2008
Lecture’s, Hazel’s made sense though I didn’t fall asleep in the big lecture this time I wish I had, I mean why if you have said a point, nail it in, if you have nailed it in more than 16 times its excessive, I know its all about looking at the bigger picture, but really Barred Wire!! Then in seminar we dug deep in to something about beards because of one of my throw away trying to be funny comments, and also spoke about Cult Icon’s, so obviously Marylyn Monroe popped up.
12th October 2008
An Intriguing figure is Thom Yorke, An environmentalist and a voice for a generation, at the moment I am just trying to learn about the evils of the world the dark under belly of everything, and the lies and hypocrisy that surround us all.
When we sweeded 21st October 2008
Now week before last we made a crazy golf Volcano our theme being spiral up. This time a different group project
It happened last week Scary Poppins, was our theme playing on the film Mary Poppins, which we watched then saw a version called Scary Mary and sweeded that instead, was a hoot, dressing up jumping out of tree’s dancing penguin chocolate bars, was great, think we embraced the whole ethos that is sweeding.
Just Looking?
The Lectures on Friday, were interesting shall find out again what they were about, and it dawned on me today, that what didn’t feel like a proper degree is one with a lot of work which is good, an essay that needs to be done for a month away shall be good if it just flows out of me.
I think I’m to much of a dreamer some times, there is a thin line between thinking and dreaming, don’t just have pipe dreams finish the plumbing is a little cheesy saying, that kicks me in to gear.
In the lecture’s I tend to dose, but listen but miss vital part’s, need to sort out learning support, for my dyspraxia and dyslexia, basically the essays are scarring me I enjoy writing if I can, but my mind doesn’t think coherently it jumbles every thought turns it on its head then before the thought figures its self out its on the page, which sometimes ends up as a joyful read, and other times will cause a traumatic migraine; for the reader usually my disturbed little machine, can unravel nonsense .
On Monday 20th October, 08
We got a talk from Steve Harvey, now honestly not many people found it interesting, but it gave me some idea’s I mean I’m idea mad, but need to get in to the zone of progressing idea’s more. Apart from being the head of things in art at M.M.U he is a film maker, and main idea was to use narrative in different way’s, try to make assessments of life in unusual ways, the job of an artist is to make the world weird was something that was said in the lecture a couple of times and its true!
An arrogant man but a genius is Morrissey, because of watching his dry wit in action on interviews on you tube, I found out about john betcheman. I like the idea of hearing influences finding out there influences and so on and so on, you can’t just go I like Radiohead with out finding out a bit of there history. Or say the white stripes jack white just went back and listened to early bluesmen, then find out who they were influenced by and the further you go back the darker and more interesting the results are, so those bluesmen who were just building guitars were influenced by the slaves shanties and native music, that came from the troubles, basically music is inside everyone but its how we unleash it that matters, everyone will play a C chord differently, everyone will sing a note, everyone can sing just some aren’t as appreciated as others its to different or its not different enough or its flat, there’s a home for all sounds.
Like everyone has a certain fetish, in life in either film’s sex, relationships, everyone loves different ideals, if you just follow the way things go, stay in the same routine how will things change for you? If you stay in the same minimum wage job with out progressing for 10 years obviously it’s not your calling. Even if you didn’t work in school there are ways to get to your dream job, the problem with people today is money, money is on everyone’s minds, that is what is killing imagination, that is why all artists are producing repetitive work’s, when they’ve found what sells there to scared to change it. I don’t believe in if its not broken doesn’t fix it, even if its not broken it can still be improved. Maybe not by you, but by an expert take a telephone, if it works fine, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a camera, video camera text messaging and portability, its all about the gradual evolution and gradual progression of invention.
They say because I’m a Christian how can I believe in evolution, well its only the blind people believe every word the preacher says doesn’t ask questions doesn’t research things deep south (I Know a big put them in a barrel term) Christians that don’t understand, its pure stupidity, there are plenty of un answered questions in the bible, that’s half the fun.
When I’m writing my grammar is basically forgotten I just type what comes in to my head so it may digress, or go on a bit of a journey, so tends to be vague and not answer the question need to fix that.
Figured out project, need to progress idea’s and do bits of research look at some books, but I shall doodle for a while do some collages then do some experiments with conversations, like recording over people, recording conversations at the end of classes and things secretly then try working it in to film. Like little shorts using the conversations, and hearing them and not meaning to that kind of situation will feature a lot, like sitting in a café with a tape recorder play back the conversation whilst the people are in the room, and film the reactions, then play the original sound track, over new film, then little films about the techniques, layers always feature, if its layers of medium or layers of meaning, that the viewer will think of.
24th October 2008
Well what’s this journal “ I hate the confusion”? I’m reviewing my idea’s and my day, well today got in and watched, Tom Waits interviews to find out how is character always changes, yes sorry to break it to you, a lot of what you see of Tom Waits is an act, anyway a conversation with him by him will be a challenge, but will get done one day.
I’m getting ready to play some gigs in the city, so just practicing music doing weird covers is my bag, the target this time is either pat benter of 80s cheese fame or Stevie Knicks same reason.
Just watched a film I made last year called “The way young lovers do”. My idea was what effect would trying to show the emotion of the song in imagery have to audience, it was a big multi media experiment combining layers, I liked area’s where I danced and my rhythms were in time with the songs my brush strokes works in one part really well, but there is a lot of faffing around in places, should pick a shorter clip and get it all in time so its like I am painting the music, would be almost magical or comical if it didn’t work, any way shall write soon Ugly Betty is on I know my priorities. (It wasn’t even on)!
Monday 27th October 2008
On Sunday I went to church, and it gave me some idea’s for my conversation/lack of communication project, Christians speak in tongues like a language that is prayer filled, I don’t understand it fully my self, but it seems to provoke an atmosphere, (a God is in this place) feel. The idea I have is to place a microphone in the church that would pick up all the voices so would sound almost musical, very lyrical and choral, the sense it provokes but placed out side of a church, in a new space intrigues me.
The only thing is that I would have to learn about the history of speaking in tongues and would have to do the piece very carefully and tastefully, so it’s not sacrilegious or blasphemous, which I think I could do, as long as the speaking in tongues was spontaneous and sounded right for the idea.
Shall read through diary every week to see where I can review things.
Here’s a query is it diary or dairy I know one is milk but which one!
Sunday evening I messaged everyone asking to come to the Deaf Institute for my open mic, I ended up going on lonesome and blew away the random Trof Locals; the staff said best performance they’ve seen for a long time, which pleased me.
When I got back I felt as sick as a parrot so went to bed, then sleep all morning oh dear.
Liverpool Biennial 28th October 2008
We ventured off to Liverpool and bluntly I got lost but did witness some good art work, some films that I Shall view again in the month and a piece by Yoko Ono in an Abandoned Cathedral that gave me some idea’s, she recycled pipes and barrels and wheel rims to make instruments, the wheel rims in the church tower worked as bells, I shall view the work again and buy the guide so I have some more information there is so much work to look at it needs a few visits shall go on the weekend. The rain added to the atmosphere of everything.
We saw the piece on the beach by Antony Gormley, the aging sea damaged statues looked very impressive but also vulnerable, it’s a great idea, seeing statues purposely placed in places where conditions will effect how they look in years to come, the sea weed covered things look ancient already.
29th October 2008
We watch hours of Television we listen to Radio’s we try to work on computers but just fall in to the trap of watching film clips, and browsing auction sites, we don’t pay attention to when we watch television and zone out; then zone back in when we hear something that takes our attention again.
A two-minute concentration span is average for the people of today, me included. Even if we overdose on Omega 3 tablets and do sudoku puzzles night and day your concentration will only improve slightly. The idea that we don’t seem to concentrate intrigued me.
I have been watching numerous amounts of interviews from Jeff Buckley to Morrissey to Tom Waits, all iconic people Dead and Alive. One of the interviews I watched was from Damien Rice, all these hero’s, seem poetic, and are caring. The main thing that they say is most people are ignorant and greedy, which is the truth.
(Well actually Morrissey how ever poetic he doesn’t like people and is arrogant.)
I like to live spontaneously, not have much of a plan, I mean life has its own path it flows and weaves, it trips up and confuses you, so you should really pay attention and not watch hours of day time TV but actually have a life! Sing, dance, make, big, loud, banging the walls all night, fun, and find love. What is life for?
It’s not to do a 9-5 and pay the bills and then the mortgage and get a house and a car and a family, its to find love, and live happily, hopefully I don’t have to resort to an office job, well I’m actually never going to. I’m at university to learn and progress, not to go out to commercial night clubs with names like bird cage, and drink my body weight in alcohol to enjoy my self, but to find relationships and a career that means I can live with a smile not grimace day to day, which I do at the moment.
Back to the point of my project, I shall make basically my dream interview, but shall experiment with lots of other conversational and film things before and change the idea and figure out the progression of the idea, anyway need to get working.
Its Halloween this weekend, a holiday I personally hate but shall embrace, I’m playing a basement party shall record it visually and sound wise and review them and use them as part of the project.
I have a week to do a poster explaining everything I plan to do and what I have done so far, I’m starting that I tend to start projects by doing lots of angry collage piece’s, doodling over them just thinking out how to do things, what I’m going to do.
I’m going home this week to take apart electrical things and study them see my animals and family, they’ll inspire me, it should be readers week but all my noisy flat mates are around so I’m going to get my essays done at home and collect some recordings I have done, so can use them in my project, feel a bit behind compared to my colleagues but its just how I work, in a chaotic fashion as long as I do a diary and say what has inspired me and what exhibitions I have been to, what interesting exciting things have happened.
Well at the party I was at the kitchen went on fire so have tried to capture that hysteria but not quite sure if it has worked, if not, sure I can replicate it.
Just watching some old films I made and it’s weird how your tastes change the ones that I spent hours on don’t look half as good as my mock documentary I made its all about the film tone I love the black and white, its weird how some people like Robert Frank can make photography look beautiful and other people can make film and photography look like crap, its all about creativity, tone, passion and money to much its to polished or over polished or it lacks anything, no money and it looks like a home movie, which still has its charms I guess.
Reading Week?
I went home for a week, back to the quietness of Norfolk, to get some perspective, its a good transition the journey I went on, on the train doing my essays, then thinking up idea’s. I spent my time at home, taking apart old technology and doing satirical collages, using the idea of combining text with imagery, By overlapping the collages I had been creating photocopying them one on top of the other it showed new mixed messages almost like an argument. I’m still working with conversation’s, I still need to record an event and then perform surgery on it, too get two different results, I’m going to take you tube films and reverse them and collage them together to make new films that is the end idea, the subject matter and progress shall happen.
On Monday we have an across class critique, and I’m supposed to make a A4 poster for it, I have never really done home work, essays that mean I won’t pass unless I do them, I do.
Its not laziness, its just why do work that I know won’t be beneficial for the overall scheme of things, if I don’t know my plans in life why then should I learn about algebra. In year 11 I said to my Maths teacher do I actually need any of this to be a conceptual artist she said, we’ll there is actually no hope for you is there, teachers don’t understand dreamers, even if that isn’t the plan for me.
Back to the poster this will be beneficial, as it will outline what I’m planning to do Il show the Complex collage with a doodle on it, and some text saying what I shall do, it will be done in a rush as I’m on the train writing this and won’t get home till 10 but chaos can be beautiful, and mistakes make the best invention’s and if you have been working on it in a meticulous fashion that sometime’s produces beauty, but usually just produces engineering, which sometimes can be beautiful, I mean you wouldn’t want a train carriage to be made half arsed, so I shouldn’t do my work half arsed, but have been busy watching far to much television and socialising, as well as covering my sick sisters Coffee shop shift, so haven’t had much time.
I know what I want it to look like so I’ll get on that; it will look well how everything I do ends up looking.
Not quite sure what to say in a group critique, may do what Diana did in X factor, -well she was actually ill, but may loose my voice as I hate public speaking, but may do it as a song just sing a song made from other songs to show my point.
I shall scan my collages when I get home and I’ll plug all my gadgets back in, and hope my ice cream hasn’t been eaten, when I scan all imagery in I’ll Photoshop and illustrate them then print them out work on them again then scan it and remove all the layers to see, differences, my old graphics tutor said, “ create something then see what its like naked with out all the make up with out all the gimmicks, if it still looks good when everything has been removed, then its good, and if you work layer by layer you can usually cut the crap”
Back in Downham a little town back in Norfolk they do printing on a huge scale for pence, so if its more economical to travel down and do that, I shall do big digital prints and then print on them and work back into them, then when happy mount them up and frame them.
Just killing time on a train journey!
Finally starting messing with film clips today, filming the films playing on my laptop it’s got a home made quality I like. The Tom waits interview is working well, I am experimenting with just throwing the clips together or working to get a smooth almost coherent style, the abstract all over the place interview might work better I shall review, them both see which is better. I get a bit compulsive and work all the time till its perfect, obsessed I guess.
Tuesday 11th November 2008
Some would find it boring but studying the conversations and then sowing them together I find extremely intriguing, Il start doing the recording experiments I’m buying a Dictaphone and experimenting with recording conversations in awkward places, and also unusual places.
Wednesday I shall do these essays, I also need to find the dyslexia place.
We had a huge discussion today, about blogs and journals but instead of clearing up confusion it added more, I think I have grasped the idea, this what I am writing basically reviewing what I have done said my thoughts and feelings is a journal, including plans for what I shall do, the blog is like a summary like the best bits of the week, and links to websites, for me it shall archive my contextual links and research so I don’t have to print out loads, it’s so straight forward maybe I have the wrong idea.
I have made a start on essays need to read more, and I find it so difficult, I behold the concentration of a dancing nat.
Alan Yentob (the splitting image of my Dad, well my Dad in a few years), does incredibly interesting documentaries I am watching the one about artists who use light a medium that intrigues me lets find out why.
It was incredible seriously so good. I write my blog weekly and try and write in this daily just about what I have been doing.
Recently, I purchased a Digitech Whammy and I have a Looper pedal, and today I have been covering Underworlds classic Born Slippy, it sounds good shall play it at the open mic on Sunday.
If I don’t remember, it didn’t happen, was the theme of the taxi ride home and regret not having my Dictaphone at the time would have been great for my conversation project.
I think I’m probably looking at conversations because I have multiple personality, like slight bipolar, sometimes I will be confident, other times I will have none I melt when people speak, when I play gigs, sometimes it’s a huge theatrical confident affair, other times I’m a quivering vulnerable state which is sometimes good to see, depends what your in to if you want to cry go see that guy. Back to the point so the reason conversations struck me was, because the awkwardness of meeting new people killing conversations, I usually create that, I ‘m not someone many people like straight away, like old ale an acquired taste that takes time.
These essays have been the vein of my life I’m finding it very difficult, poetry and imagination I have but my opinions aren’t that interesting really, well I don’t think so, I like what I like and have lots of things I hate and love but its usually general like, I hate war why, bush, why, environmental crisis, money crisis why? Because the American government said spend after the terrorists attacks not think about security, so now we’re approaching recession, well maybe my opinions are interesting though the same as everyone else, well most people.
Reviewing Tom Wait’s film, lots of mistakes should try and download films instead of filming them off the screen, it reflects lights which doesn’t look to bad, but there is a mouse cursor on the screen on some interviews I shall work on them on the new “imovie maker” or final cut, to use special effects on film’s shall use original as evidence.
Not sure of the length if the film, interviews on the BBC are usually 7-13 minutes, so there guest has enough time to speak, n plug their item, but not bore an audience, Radio is different, I guess radio causes less distraction, so interviews are longer.
Essays/Drive:
Need to go through this journal and edit get the best bit’s, the essays are coming along nicely, think everything is coming together, my effort and drive comes from, thinking I need to work hard to get at least a 2.1 grade so I can go on the Erasmus or study in New York or other parts of America.
I would really love to go to Canada loads of my favourite bands the dears, arcade fire Broken Social scene I think all come from the same place in Canada so a dream would be to document the bands, make video’s write interviews with them then have a package for an exhibition.
If I do go to New York, I would document everywhere with a pin hole camera, I would gig in places around New York, little café’s just like my heroes, photograph other poet’s and use digital camera’s and photo-shop, if I could acquire a Polaroid camera then make a little book would look lovely.
I tend to plan to far ahead, have very final idea’s but when I look through this, my idea will have developed and changed in to something new, which I will document, probably with this one if I do end up living with all my poet friends in Brooklyn New York, then the idea will be almost finished but not completely things can always be changed. Don’t see why I can’t photograph people at open mic nights in Manchester, I think I will start a mini project that I can link to Tom Waits call the show Conversation and Cafés. Then if I do end up in New York the comparison, the 6 best shots from open mic nights in Manchester and then the best from New York.
South Bank Show
Well like usual I’m pretending to be cultured and watching the south bank show with interviews with Sam Taylor-Wood, she has many opinions, I’ve missed part’s of it so missing lots has made me a bit lost, but her work looks great, very interesting, so I shall try and watch it in full on ITV online.
Fight-club
Basically, I need to read more, and watching Fight Club some great lines, making me think that would be a good start, a great narrative, reading is so influential.
Lectures:
Today in creative methodology, we learnt about how to develop our idea’s shown some examples, was very helpful, hazel explained each way.
Then in the images and things lecture, it was all about what is realism?
For how do we know what’s realistic? It went in to talking about looking at the world in new lights in new perspective, how everyone will see the same image differently, and have a different opinion, though I did day dream a lot, he ended talking about artists I liked that document the world in weird ways, there my favourite, like Robert Franks photographs, his portrayal of America is beautiful it captures the age, and shows a melancholy, when other photographers could find other more interesting parts, he tried to find the interesting moments with people in America, showed mundane scenes, but they look so beautiful, and strange there no more mundane, a little saying that seems to go round Manchester School of Art is “An artists job is to make the world weird”.
So how does this relate to anything, well I have figured out what I’m doing, its all about conversations, the abstract nature so, I have been collecting weird conversations and will record them and make a soundtrack to an animation of collages that show messages, there will be harmony in places, but in other places a strange juxtaposition, these are just practice piece’s for a more refined piece, I’m still doing waiting for waits, and using a interview of Tom Waits to influence my conversation project, but the party scene idea that I have spoken about in my blog shall go ahead, but a development is that at Christmas at home I will take loads of photos at gatherings and then animate them collage on top, then develop this idea to show celebrities and strange goings on.
Links Osbert Parker, Christian Marclay, both collage in weird ways using film, or animation mixing them, I shall combine.
Watched a Brecht film, wanted to see what the fuss was, then looked at his influence, Metropolis, that’s what the fuss was, its futuristic but ancient, my new favourite word juxtaposition love it, then saw an artist who was commissioned to make a homage to Brecht in a film collage, it didn’t grab my attention it was to pretentious, didn’t speak to me wasn’t inspiring, made me review my idea, I need to have an interesting change of pace, and have a good sense of tension light and shade, let it breath, change the sound track try to keep peoples attention, I would love to be able to create a spectacle.
25th November 2008
Okay stage one of creating this collage animation spectacle, creating 40 collages in basically 4 days, I'm going to do as many as I can, then I’m going to photograph elements and almost animate them by make a slide show but have things changing on the screen, it’s just something visual to go with my sound art pieces of weird conversation recording, and creating music out of weird noises. The collages have similar themes of pop culture, politics and technology, imp juxtaposing certain elements you wouldn’t imagine in harmony, and using text to create almost submissive, accidental messages. I have been doing the 40 collages in well; thinking about it 2 days really, and have just been quickly doing them some are thought out others just stuck in, and its good to see what works best, sometimes it’s the accident’s, like when looking at a collage then the best says a message that is witty and in context to the political collage, but when making it, it was complete accident. I’m progressing this by, making collages now, but photographing every change to make an animation that builds layer’s, these will look more mechanical, and will be thought out, the sculptures of Eduardo Paulozzi are an influence for, these I want them to look like a machine working, like a broken clock being fixed or something, it may work, I’m going to photocopy imagery from books about mechanics, and also ones about the human body, and entwine the two, these are still just visuals for the sound art pieces, but I would love them to be a spectacle.
Still using Osbert Parker, but looking at his influence Terry Gilliam who did the animations for Monty Python, they look cut and paste, I have the idea of what it could all be in my mind.
The other idea’s I had about the conversation, was maybe it could be a mother, have a huge projection of an ultrasound with a string quartet and its mother talking over the top, a big theatrical piece, the idea of combining folio artists, video screen and acting has always interested me. We went to see a play called Waves a play of a Virginia Wolf Novel, my class all hated it, I’m not a Virginia Woolf fan, a bit dark and confusing, but the effects were intriguing if it was used in a different play maybe a set of short plays, it could be so much better.
The work was devised by Katie Mitchell, who is loved and hated in equal measure by critics, it’s possible to contrived or ahead of its time, but if say you had a play that had light and shade and used the cleverness, it could be brilliant.
I'm still working on Waiting for Waits had a few problems learning how to use new software at college so kind of started again but its going ahead, shall be 7 mins long and won’t be as random, but more of collection put together lovingly as a portrayal of Tom Waits.
Well I’m organised one of our deadlines is in two weeks I want to get all collage animation done, and have progress on the tom waits film, and loads of recorded conversations shall hopefully come together nicely.
Today im animating my 40 collages in 40 days and creating the soundtracks, I have been scanning all the collages in and shall cut and paste parts, the rest of the book, will be created step by step taking photographs of mechanics,
Currently watching a documentary on the sculptor Richard Serra, who creates huge steel walls, that use the idea of verbs crease, bend etc, they terrify and mesmerise at the same time, it interests me because of the idea he’s not a narrative artist but likes new idea’s, the idea of a verb list has resonance with the previous lecture, to give you ideas use that idea, he is friends with Chuck Close an incredible painter. As soon as Jasper Johns things noticed him started to happen for Serra, Jasper Johns work was relevant to my old work. So it’s all connected.
Controversial 1985 he was asked to remove his sculpture tilted ark, a site specific sculpture in front of the new York legal plaza, lots of letters of complaint, cutting a long story short, it was removed and killed the sculpture, because it was no longer in site, because it was so expensive to the governments funds to build it when they removed it, it caused as much for when it was there. It was divisive; love it!
40 Favourite sounds, using the idea of tom waits what are mine, make my work from these.
1. Crackling Jazz records of Billie Holiday Nina Simone, Django Reinhardt.
2. Pentecostal Churches speaking in tongues
3. A wine Glass Ringing
4. Out of tune church Bells
5. Dad Playing the organ/piano
6. The Chord Change F- Emaj7
7. Flamenco Guitar
8. Theremin/Retro sci-fi theme tunes such as DR Who and Star Trek
9. The Xylophone
10. Those Pipes that go ZOOOSH, like a slide guitar
11. Reverb on everything
12. Fender Twin Amp
13. My cheap pre-owned Dan electro, that sounds as good unplugged as it does amplified
14. Digitech whammy making guitars sound like aliens
15. The song strange fruit, but when its mellow,
16. Smokey sounding jazz singers, like Tom Waits playing mellow minor Jazz
17. Tom Waits when he’s insane
18. Star spangled Banner only the Hendrix version
19. The opening Riff on Electioneering by Radiohead
20. When I sing in a certain way that sounds as good as it does in my head
21. The Voice of Jeff Buckley and his shy interview Manner Buckley’s Halleluiah Jeff Buckley Live at Sin’e
22. Rustling Papers
23. A Record Player, being used like a guitar such as Christian Marclay emulating Hendrix
24. The Backwards part in Damien Rice’s album O
25. My old friends singing epically Sally Molineux and Louise Lay
26. A cat meowing
27. Jenny my sister belting in the early hours
28. My Mothers Irish accent
29. Percussion that’s incredible, Drumming that’s just mind blowing like an octopuses co-ordination afro-beat stuff
30. Live music that fills a room like Tom Baxter, The chord change in Tell her today that sends shivers down my spine
31. A silent room when I play a gig and I send the room silent
32. The Smiths
33. The percussion from house hold objects, such as rattling keys, Type Writers, Dripping taps
34. An amazing powerful voice, that’s not pushed just, happens, like Mo town.
35. Laughter
36. Weird Keyboards
37. A phone box ringing when its only you there
38. Surprises
39. Roaring Fire
40. Guitars played like liquid
With these all I shall make music hopefully it won’t be to over the top.
These may change whilst making the song and certain idea be compromised or modified.
I’ve been attempting to animate today will have to ask for help, I have a vision in my head of what it will end up as, animating collages so it looks like its been made layer upon layer I think I should be able to figure it out, these will be the visuals to sound art pieces, I have experimented with a short Tom Waits rhythm based song just a simple basis to get clips in time, it looks crazy, can imagine it on a huge wall doesn’t suit the music, and somehow my imagery has ended up looking like bunny rabbit’s; but it’s a start. Can change it, thinking my sound track will involve a conversation that’s very odd, between me and my friends where I changed the subject on to Motorbikes, and because we used the internet, there’s image’s we’ve been talking about so will have to get them in there somewhere, I want it to be humorous, but not throw away, so maybe that conversation isn’t a good idea, When I put telephones together nothing to special happened, think if I use a radio might work call someone up and put the radio as person would work better anyways.
The work I’m doing at the moment is very crafty but my final idea sounds a lot more impressive.
Realised haven’t spoken about my little trip to Liverpool, went to the biennial, and saw some great work at the new contemporaries, was like a labyrinth, of art studios full of junk, was like heaven for me, old pianos and old books all over the place, because I went when it got dark it was so atmospheric, and silent so had to sing to myself to feel safe.
That was my highlight, and a Piece by Rodney Graham at the Tate Liverpool, called Dance! I love it it’s a photograph on a Light box so looks like an old master oil painting I love it, its composition is great.
Its how id love my Party piece to be shown when its developed and made after Christmas, but thinking about that idea isn’t killing these other idea’s on conversation.
Rolf Harris.
A national treasure, but a joke really.
Today I went to the Emory Douglas Exhibition at the Urbis gallery, about the Black Panther movement he was involved in, it was good to find out about, the mix of history and art was good to see, it was a good exhibit, how it outlined the point, and showed the matter of racial injustice, it showed suffering which links to the seminar on suffering we had, why would we want to see suffering, I think its probably so we know what’s wrong in the simplest way, but there are so many complex ways at looking at the subject, why do people enjoy watching gore, the drama I suspect, that things can feel so terrifying, but aren’t happening to us, but its fictional, how far can we challenge ourselves, until we’re sick ?. But the News shows suffering, to show the injustice in the world, that it’s trying to teach us a lesson, what can we do about all this possibly.
I also went to the Christmas market then queued up for a drink and cake in a horrible commercial coffee shop but Café Nero doe’s these amazing Mint Milk shakes, and I had a free one, so it’s all good had a time of contemplation whilst dreaming about the beautiful girl near me, or something along those lines, day dreaming really, then doodling and noodling, the only way I tend to be able to concentrate is to be doing at least something else whilst listening which sounds odd, but eyes scare me, I’m strangely shy, possibly have a multiple personality disorder or just mood swing’s.
We’re all getting on well on the course got some good mates, going to a Jazz club for drinks and general shenanigans for a friend’s birthday.
Reviewing my work, I seem to have done a lot, but don’t feel like I have yet, so I’m either worrying for nothing, or no one else has done anything,
Week Plan December 1st 08 PLAN!
Next week I’m filming weird conversations with strangers around art school, the collating them in to something, also continuing with the piece of sound art, but it’s harder than imagined, think my version will be a little clumsy, but shall all work in effect, towards animations ace.
Monday: The meeting, then after film people one-word conversations, get lift and is really strange say odd things, for an hour up and down, be awkward. Wear different masks, say, ask where obvious things are, may have to wear disguises.
Tuesday:
Edit Films made, and recorded conversations, think about extracting audio from film and using it in new ways.
Wednesday: Animate Collages and continue making sound track,
Thursday: Prance around in studio doing messy painting, to show off in front of perspective students, and actually do the reading for the lecture.
Friday: Lectures, seminars and hanging, then off to Lancaster to see Jons play.
We’ll I’ve found where I feel most comfortable, Matt and Phreds Jazz club, was a great night with course mates, a couple of friends from home, had a great time, get on with them so much better than flat mates, that’s why I’m always in studio, its usually quiet or theres creativity going on.
Animating collages, then doing work on mechanics, layering drawings, using perspective and scale then animating them it’s of telephones to link to the conversation idea. Do a doodle, then progress it, to a proper analytical drawing then layer the results then do a photograph and combine all together.
Shall project animated collage as a back drop for folio artists SFX then film that and project it so it’s a sound collage and film all in one, maybe use as a performance piece.
Monday: Tutorial with Jon see, if I have been doing enough work, I’ve been trying all sorts so hopefully… it’ll be ok.
Tuesday: As having problem making soundtrack do that,
Wednesday: Personal Observation, reviewing lift films working on them extracting conversations.
Thursday: Access Summit meeting about my Dyslexia/Dyspraxia
Friday: Lectures then going home to Norfolk. I think?
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My friend Sally has been taking photos of randomness friends gatherings and randomly filming us, we have all been wearing crazy glasses, my idea with all the photographs she has taken is to make a took called spectacles, lots of people wearing these comical glasses, would be a nice humorous gift I think.
Weekend went to Lancaster, was great saw my best pals from home who have all gone to university’s in the north like me and we went there and saw Jon’s portrayal of Othello was great.
Been working on the soundtrack today, and its a lot of fiddling with things and computer gadgetry, but it’s sounding interesting, put Louis Armstrong’s trumpet playing through a filter and it sounds like an atmospheric dance thing, but its good, and I’ve been changing the tones of voices, with octave shifts and just trying to make one coherent song from like 6, but its good fun and I’m learning from the process, need to go full welly, in to something, instead of just dipping my toe in the pool need to swim and all other analogies, need to work well its never work really ha.
Tuesday 9th December 2008
Had tutorial with Jon, seem to be getting on fine as long as I keep everything coherent, and progress each idea then keep with the most successful, keep experimenting.
Yesterday evening, when I hid from my flat mates I made a piece called Mechanics it’s a film of photographed cogs slowly fading in and out, as a soundtrack I Mixed parts of Dark Side Of The Moon, with Filter Happier By Radiohead, it works its so bad to watch, and the sound adds to the experience, I want it to be projected in a huge room in a corner, fill all two walls.
This room will be called Mixed Messages and time, the poem on filter happier is read by a voice that sounds very robotic like Microsoft Sam, and I’ve overlapped sections to create new messages. Want to get an old plastic grandfather clock and cover it in cogs and melt it all together, so it looks all junk yardish, and put it in the opposite corner, maybe with mirrors dotted about, shall experiment if it looks better just alone, shall do tiny experiments with models then scale up with images in photo-shop, see which looks better, then work progressing this idea to a really disturbing film.
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September
Basically fresher’s week was full of going out to chavy clubs full of plastics, being dragged along by my flat mates, wasn’t actually too bad.
And played an open mic at the deaf institute, which was great everyone loved my voice.
Starting on course doing a summer fete kinda thing, was a hoot, we had a ride, was basically a office spinning chair, that we used as a ride, created scenes, then Around the world in A tea Daze happened, was dead good fun.
Just watched a film on www.storyofstuff.com
It’s throwing up so many economical idea’s watching that film kinda changed my life; I guess, learning about how the American government ruined the planet, its making me think how can I live in away that can save the planet, being a student we don’t have recycling facilities, but if I buy from butchers and markets for food won’t be using plastic’s, and if I can recycle what ever materials I use on a day today basis in Art either by collaging or anything, I mean fresher’s fair was such a waste of paper and every leaflet and flyer we get, is killing our planet, seriously I am turning in to a hippie!
www.storyofstuff.com
My idea to make my blog of everyday life interesting was to pretend it was an Indiana Jones tale, think I’ll use that might put a smile on your face.
Date 9th October 2008
Realised the differences with people and seem to have a lot of ideas about how we can improve our lives and some political idea’s. But you can’t go in to Political Idea’s with out a lot of research.
I had my tutorial with John and he spoke about a student who always re-invented there work in a very clever way by progressing it by using the same idea as the project before so either subject matter or the material of the work, so never did a piece of work similar, because she was making gradual steps to a new place, not huge gigantic leap’s. So say looking at the first project to her last, it would be a huge change but getting there took small ambitious little steps. I work very quickly, and produce a lot of work, if I did this it would mean I’d be reviewing my work and always improving.
So Paint
My idea is to link my dancing with paint, to another piece, where I have dancers and throw paint, and it will be about silhouettes and shadows and never forgetting what’s been there before. It will be similar to a piece of mine called the way young lover’s do, where I painted in rhythm to music and filmed it then projected it. I shall do two films similar to this in a prepared area. The Other will be a band playing trying to miss the paint, then the instruments, will form part of an instillation, I like always recycling everything that I have done, always improving idea’s trying not to be repetitive for to long, so when I get comfortable mix it up a bit!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pVfQrIoygVs
Watch You tube far to much, watched a film called Mogwai, Punk Rock don’t know who made it, but is quite poignant if you just have a starting point on the internet and follow you can get to very interesting places, like I’m trying to find gigs so searched that in Google then you can end up at things about cat milk and how to make the perfect space cakes and all sorts, I shall have photo’s!
10th October 2008
Lecture’s, Hazel’s made sense though I didn’t fall asleep in the big lecture this time I wish I had, I mean why if you have said a point, nail it in, if you have nailed it in more than 16 times its excessive, I know its all about looking at the bigger picture, but really Barred Wire!! Then in seminar we dug deep in to something about beards because of one of my throw away trying to be funny comments, and also spoke about Cult Icon’s, so obviously Marylyn Monroe popped up.
12th October 2008
An Intriguing figure is Thom Yorke, An environmentalist and a voice for a generation, at the moment I am just trying to learn about the evils of the world the dark under belly of everything, and the lies and hypocrisy that surround us all.
When we sweeded 21st October 2008
Now week before last we made a crazy golf Volcano our theme being spiral up. This time a different group project
It happened last week Scary Poppins, was our theme playing on the film Mary Poppins, which we watched then saw a version called Scary Mary and sweeded that instead, was a hoot, dressing up jumping out of tree’s dancing penguin chocolate bars, was great, think we embraced the whole ethos that is sweeding.
Just Looking?
The Lectures on Friday, were interesting shall find out again what they were about, and it dawned on me today, that what didn’t feel like a proper degree is one with a lot of work which is good, an essay that needs to be done for a month away shall be good if it just flows out of me.
I think I’m to much of a dreamer some times, there is a thin line between thinking and dreaming, don’t just have pipe dreams finish the plumbing is a little cheesy saying, that kicks me in to gear.
In the lecture’s I tend to dose, but listen but miss vital part’s, need to sort out learning support, for my dyspraxia and dyslexia, basically the essays are scarring me I enjoy writing if I can, but my mind doesn’t think coherently it jumbles every thought turns it on its head then before the thought figures its self out its on the page, which sometimes ends up as a joyful read, and other times will cause a traumatic migraine; for the reader usually my disturbed little machine, can unravel nonsense .
On Monday 20th October, 08
We got a talk from Steve Harvey, now honestly not many people found it interesting, but it gave me some idea’s I mean I’m idea mad, but need to get in to the zone of progressing idea’s more. Apart from being the head of things in art at M.M.U he is a film maker, and main idea was to use narrative in different way’s, try to make assessments of life in unusual ways, the job of an artist is to make the world weird was something that was said in the lecture a couple of times and its true!
An arrogant man but a genius is Morrissey, because of watching his dry wit in action on interviews on you tube, I found out about john betcheman. I like the idea of hearing influences finding out there influences and so on and so on, you can’t just go I like Radiohead with out finding out a bit of there history. Or say the white stripes jack white just went back and listened to early bluesmen, then find out who they were influenced by and the further you go back the darker and more interesting the results are, so those bluesmen who were just building guitars were influenced by the slaves shanties and native music, that came from the troubles, basically music is inside everyone but its how we unleash it that matters, everyone will play a C chord differently, everyone will sing a note, everyone can sing just some aren’t as appreciated as others its to different or its not different enough or its flat, there’s a home for all sounds.
Like everyone has a certain fetish, in life in either film’s sex, relationships, everyone loves different ideals, if you just follow the way things go, stay in the same routine how will things change for you? If you stay in the same minimum wage job with out progressing for 10 years obviously it’s not your calling. Even if you didn’t work in school there are ways to get to your dream job, the problem with people today is money, money is on everyone’s minds, that is what is killing imagination, that is why all artists are producing repetitive work’s, when they’ve found what sells there to scared to change it. I don’t believe in if its not broken doesn’t fix it, even if its not broken it can still be improved. Maybe not by you, but by an expert take a telephone, if it works fine, but wouldn’t it be nice to have a camera, video camera text messaging and portability, its all about the gradual evolution and gradual progression of invention.
They say because I’m a Christian how can I believe in evolution, well its only the blind people believe every word the preacher says doesn’t ask questions doesn’t research things deep south (I Know a big put them in a barrel term) Christians that don’t understand, its pure stupidity, there are plenty of un answered questions in the bible, that’s half the fun.
When I’m writing my grammar is basically forgotten I just type what comes in to my head so it may digress, or go on a bit of a journey, so tends to be vague and not answer the question need to fix that.
Figured out project, need to progress idea’s and do bits of research look at some books, but I shall doodle for a while do some collages then do some experiments with conversations, like recording over people, recording conversations at the end of classes and things secretly then try working it in to film. Like little shorts using the conversations, and hearing them and not meaning to that kind of situation will feature a lot, like sitting in a café with a tape recorder play back the conversation whilst the people are in the room, and film the reactions, then play the original sound track, over new film, then little films about the techniques, layers always feature, if its layers of medium or layers of meaning, that the viewer will think of.
24th October 2008
Well what’s this journal “ I hate the confusion”? I’m reviewing my idea’s and my day, well today got in and watched, Tom Waits interviews to find out how is character always changes, yes sorry to break it to you, a lot of what you see of Tom Waits is an act, anyway a conversation with him by him will be a challenge, but will get done one day.
I’m getting ready to play some gigs in the city, so just practicing music doing weird covers is my bag, the target this time is either pat benter of 80s cheese fame or Stevie Knicks same reason.
Just watched a film I made last year called “The way young lovers do”. My idea was what effect would trying to show the emotion of the song in imagery have to audience, it was a big multi media experiment combining layers, I liked area’s where I danced and my rhythms were in time with the songs my brush strokes works in one part really well, but there is a lot of faffing around in places, should pick a shorter clip and get it all in time so its like I am painting the music, would be almost magical or comical if it didn’t work, any way shall write soon Ugly Betty is on I know my priorities. (It wasn’t even on)!
Monday 27th October 2008
On Sunday I went to church, and it gave me some idea’s for my conversation/lack of communication project, Christians speak in tongues like a language that is prayer filled, I don’t understand it fully my self, but it seems to provoke an atmosphere, (a God is in this place) feel. The idea I have is to place a microphone in the church that would pick up all the voices so would sound almost musical, very lyrical and choral, the sense it provokes but placed out side of a church, in a new space intrigues me.
The only thing is that I would have to learn about the history of speaking in tongues and would have to do the piece very carefully and tastefully, so it’s not sacrilegious or blasphemous, which I think I could do, as long as the speaking in tongues was spontaneous and sounded right for the idea.
Shall read through diary every week to see where I can review things.
Here’s a query is it diary or dairy I know one is milk but which one!
Sunday evening I messaged everyone asking to come to the Deaf Institute for my open mic, I ended up going on lonesome and blew away the random Trof Locals; the staff said best performance they’ve seen for a long time, which pleased me.
When I got back I felt as sick as a parrot so went to bed, then sleep all morning oh dear.
Liverpool Biennial 28th October 2008
We ventured off to Liverpool and bluntly I got lost but did witness some good art work, some films that I Shall view again in the month and a piece by Yoko Ono in an Abandoned Cathedral that gave me some idea’s, she recycled pipes and barrels and wheel rims to make instruments, the wheel rims in the church tower worked as bells, I shall view the work again and buy the guide so I have some more information there is so much work to look at it needs a few visits shall go on the weekend. The rain added to the atmosphere of everything.
We saw the piece on the beach by Antony Gormley, the aging sea damaged statues looked very impressive but also vulnerable, it’s a great idea, seeing statues purposely placed in places where conditions will effect how they look in years to come, the sea weed covered things look ancient already.
29th October 2008
We watch hours of Television we listen to Radio’s we try to work on computers but just fall in to the trap of watching film clips, and browsing auction sites, we don’t pay attention to when we watch television and zone out; then zone back in when we hear something that takes our attention again.
A two-minute concentration span is average for the people of today, me included. Even if we overdose on Omega 3 tablets and do sudoku puzzles night and day your concentration will only improve slightly. The idea that we don’t seem to concentrate intrigued me.
I have been watching numerous amounts of interviews from Jeff Buckley to Morrissey to Tom Waits, all iconic people Dead and Alive. One of the interviews I watched was from Damien Rice, all these hero’s, seem poetic, and are caring. The main thing that they say is most people are ignorant and greedy, which is the truth.
(Well actually Morrissey how ever poetic he doesn’t like people and is arrogant.)
I like to live spontaneously, not have much of a plan, I mean life has its own path it flows and weaves, it trips up and confuses you, so you should really pay attention and not watch hours of day time TV but actually have a life! Sing, dance, make, big, loud, banging the walls all night, fun, and find love. What is life for?
It’s not to do a 9-5 and pay the bills and then the mortgage and get a house and a car and a family, its to find love, and live happily, hopefully I don’t have to resort to an office job, well I’m actually never going to. I’m at university to learn and progress, not to go out to commercial night clubs with names like bird cage, and drink my body weight in alcohol to enjoy my self, but to find relationships and a career that means I can live with a smile not grimace day to day, which I do at the moment.
Back to the point of my project, I shall make basically my dream interview, but shall experiment with lots of other conversational and film things before and change the idea and figure out the progression of the idea, anyway need to get working.
Its Halloween this weekend, a holiday I personally hate but shall embrace, I’m playing a basement party shall record it visually and sound wise and review them and use them as part of the project.
I have a week to do a poster explaining everything I plan to do and what I have done so far, I’m starting that I tend to start projects by doing lots of angry collage piece’s, doodling over them just thinking out how to do things, what I’m going to do.
I’m going home this week to take apart electrical things and study them see my animals and family, they’ll inspire me, it should be readers week but all my noisy flat mates are around so I’m going to get my essays done at home and collect some recordings I have done, so can use them in my project, feel a bit behind compared to my colleagues but its just how I work, in a chaotic fashion as long as I do a diary and say what has inspired me and what exhibitions I have been to, what interesting exciting things have happened.
Well at the party I was at the kitchen went on fire so have tried to capture that hysteria but not quite sure if it has worked, if not, sure I can replicate it.
Just watching some old films I made and it’s weird how your tastes change the ones that I spent hours on don’t look half as good as my mock documentary I made its all about the film tone I love the black and white, its weird how some people like Robert Frank can make photography look beautiful and other people can make film and photography look like crap, its all about creativity, tone, passion and money to much its to polished or over polished or it lacks anything, no money and it looks like a home movie, which still has its charms I guess.
Reading Week?
I went home for a week, back to the quietness of Norfolk, to get some perspective, its a good transition the journey I went on, on the train doing my essays, then thinking up idea’s. I spent my time at home, taking apart old technology and doing satirical collages, using the idea of combining text with imagery, By overlapping the collages I had been creating photocopying them one on top of the other it showed new mixed messages almost like an argument. I’m still working with conversation’s, I still need to record an event and then perform surgery on it, too get two different results, I’m going to take you tube films and reverse them and collage them together to make new films that is the end idea, the subject matter and progress shall happen.
On Monday we have an across class critique, and I’m supposed to make a A4 poster for it, I have never really done home work, essays that mean I won’t pass unless I do them, I do.
Its not laziness, its just why do work that I know won’t be beneficial for the overall scheme of things, if I don’t know my plans in life why then should I learn about algebra. In year 11 I said to my Maths teacher do I actually need any of this to be a conceptual artist she said, we’ll there is actually no hope for you is there, teachers don’t understand dreamers, even if that isn’t the plan for me.
Back to the poster this will be beneficial, as it will outline what I’m planning to do Il show the Complex collage with a doodle on it, and some text saying what I shall do, it will be done in a rush as I’m on the train writing this and won’t get home till 10 but chaos can be beautiful, and mistakes make the best invention’s and if you have been working on it in a meticulous fashion that sometime’s produces beauty, but usually just produces engineering, which sometimes can be beautiful, I mean you wouldn’t want a train carriage to be made half arsed, so I shouldn’t do my work half arsed, but have been busy watching far to much television and socialising, as well as covering my sick sisters Coffee shop shift, so haven’t had much time.
I know what I want it to look like so I’ll get on that; it will look well how everything I do ends up looking.
Not quite sure what to say in a group critique, may do what Diana did in X factor, -well she was actually ill, but may loose my voice as I hate public speaking, but may do it as a song just sing a song made from other songs to show my point.
I shall scan my collages when I get home and I’ll plug all my gadgets back in, and hope my ice cream hasn’t been eaten, when I scan all imagery in I’ll Photoshop and illustrate them then print them out work on them again then scan it and remove all the layers to see, differences, my old graphics tutor said, “ create something then see what its like naked with out all the make up with out all the gimmicks, if it still looks good when everything has been removed, then its good, and if you work layer by layer you can usually cut the crap”
Back in Downham a little town back in Norfolk they do printing on a huge scale for pence, so if its more economical to travel down and do that, I shall do big digital prints and then print on them and work back into them, then when happy mount them up and frame them.
Just killing time on a train journey!
Finally starting messing with film clips today, filming the films playing on my laptop it’s got a home made quality I like. The Tom waits interview is working well, I am experimenting with just throwing the clips together or working to get a smooth almost coherent style, the abstract all over the place interview might work better I shall review, them both see which is better. I get a bit compulsive and work all the time till its perfect, obsessed I guess.
Tuesday 11th November 2008
Some would find it boring but studying the conversations and then sowing them together I find extremely intriguing, Il start doing the recording experiments I’m buying a Dictaphone and experimenting with recording conversations in awkward places, and also unusual places.
Wednesday I shall do these essays, I also need to find the dyslexia place.
We had a huge discussion today, about blogs and journals but instead of clearing up confusion it added more, I think I have grasped the idea, this what I am writing basically reviewing what I have done said my thoughts and feelings is a journal, including plans for what I shall do, the blog is like a summary like the best bits of the week, and links to websites, for me it shall archive my contextual links and research so I don’t have to print out loads, it’s so straight forward maybe I have the wrong idea.
I have made a start on essays need to read more, and I find it so difficult, I behold the concentration of a dancing nat.
Alan Yentob (the splitting image of my Dad, well my Dad in a few years), does incredibly interesting documentaries I am watching the one about artists who use light a medium that intrigues me lets find out why.
It was incredible seriously so good. I write my blog weekly and try and write in this daily just about what I have been doing.
Recently, I purchased a Digitech Whammy and I have a Looper pedal, and today I have been covering Underworlds classic Born Slippy, it sounds good shall play it at the open mic on Sunday.
If I don’t remember, it didn’t happen, was the theme of the taxi ride home and regret not having my Dictaphone at the time would have been great for my conversation project.
I think I’m probably looking at conversations because I have multiple personality, like slight bipolar, sometimes I will be confident, other times I will have none I melt when people speak, when I play gigs, sometimes it’s a huge theatrical confident affair, other times I’m a quivering vulnerable state which is sometimes good to see, depends what your in to if you want to cry go see that guy. Back to the point so the reason conversations struck me was, because the awkwardness of meeting new people killing conversations, I usually create that, I ‘m not someone many people like straight away, like old ale an acquired taste that takes time.
These essays have been the vein of my life I’m finding it very difficult, poetry and imagination I have but my opinions aren’t that interesting really, well I don’t think so, I like what I like and have lots of things I hate and love but its usually general like, I hate war why, bush, why, environmental crisis, money crisis why? Because the American government said spend after the terrorists attacks not think about security, so now we’re approaching recession, well maybe my opinions are interesting though the same as everyone else, well most people.
Reviewing Tom Wait’s film, lots of mistakes should try and download films instead of filming them off the screen, it reflects lights which doesn’t look to bad, but there is a mouse cursor on the screen on some interviews I shall work on them on the new “imovie maker” or final cut, to use special effects on film’s shall use original as evidence.
Not sure of the length if the film, interviews on the BBC are usually 7-13 minutes, so there guest has enough time to speak, n plug their item, but not bore an audience, Radio is different, I guess radio causes less distraction, so interviews are longer.
Essays/Drive:
Need to go through this journal and edit get the best bit’s, the essays are coming along nicely, think everything is coming together, my effort and drive comes from, thinking I need to work hard to get at least a 2.1 grade so I can go on the Erasmus or study in New York or other parts of America.
I would really love to go to Canada loads of my favourite bands the dears, arcade fire Broken Social scene I think all come from the same place in Canada so a dream would be to document the bands, make video’s write interviews with them then have a package for an exhibition.
If I do go to New York, I would document everywhere with a pin hole camera, I would gig in places around New York, little café’s just like my heroes, photograph other poet’s and use digital camera’s and photo-shop, if I could acquire a Polaroid camera then make a little book would look lovely.
I tend to plan to far ahead, have very final idea’s but when I look through this, my idea will have developed and changed in to something new, which I will document, probably with this one if I do end up living with all my poet friends in Brooklyn New York, then the idea will be almost finished but not completely things can always be changed. Don’t see why I can’t photograph people at open mic nights in Manchester, I think I will start a mini project that I can link to Tom Waits call the show Conversation and Cafés. Then if I do end up in New York the comparison, the 6 best shots from open mic nights in Manchester and then the best from New York.
South Bank Show
Well like usual I’m pretending to be cultured and watching the south bank show with interviews with Sam Taylor-Wood, she has many opinions, I’ve missed part’s of it so missing lots has made me a bit lost, but her work looks great, very interesting, so I shall try and watch it in full on ITV online.
Fight-club
Basically, I need to read more, and watching Fight Club some great lines, making me think that would be a good start, a great narrative, reading is so influential.
Lectures:
Today in creative methodology, we learnt about how to develop our idea’s shown some examples, was very helpful, hazel explained each way.
Then in the images and things lecture, it was all about what is realism?
For how do we know what’s realistic? It went in to talking about looking at the world in new lights in new perspective, how everyone will see the same image differently, and have a different opinion, though I did day dream a lot, he ended talking about artists I liked that document the world in weird ways, there my favourite, like Robert Franks photographs, his portrayal of America is beautiful it captures the age, and shows a melancholy, when other photographers could find other more interesting parts, he tried to find the interesting moments with people in America, showed mundane scenes, but they look so beautiful, and strange there no more mundane, a little saying that seems to go round Manchester School of Art is “An artists job is to make the world weird”.
So how does this relate to anything, well I have figured out what I’m doing, its all about conversations, the abstract nature so, I have been collecting weird conversations and will record them and make a soundtrack to an animation of collages that show messages, there will be harmony in places, but in other places a strange juxtaposition, these are just practice piece’s for a more refined piece, I’m still doing waiting for waits, and using a interview of Tom Waits to influence my conversation project, but the party scene idea that I have spoken about in my blog shall go ahead, but a development is that at Christmas at home I will take loads of photos at gatherings and then animate them collage on top, then develop this idea to show celebrities and strange goings on.
Links Osbert Parker, Christian Marclay, both collage in weird ways using film, or animation mixing them, I shall combine.
Watched a Brecht film, wanted to see what the fuss was, then looked at his influence, Metropolis, that’s what the fuss was, its futuristic but ancient, my new favourite word juxtaposition love it, then saw an artist who was commissioned to make a homage to Brecht in a film collage, it didn’t grab my attention it was to pretentious, didn’t speak to me wasn’t inspiring, made me review my idea, I need to have an interesting change of pace, and have a good sense of tension light and shade, let it breath, change the sound track try to keep peoples attention, I would love to be able to create a spectacle.
25th November 2008
Okay stage one of creating this collage animation spectacle, creating 40 collages in basically 4 days, I'm going to do as many as I can, then I’m going to photograph elements and almost animate them by make a slide show but have things changing on the screen, it’s just something visual to go with my sound art pieces of weird conversation recording, and creating music out of weird noises. The collages have similar themes of pop culture, politics and technology, imp juxtaposing certain elements you wouldn’t imagine in harmony, and using text to create almost submissive, accidental messages. I have been doing the 40 collages in well; thinking about it 2 days really, and have just been quickly doing them some are thought out others just stuck in, and its good to see what works best, sometimes it’s the accident’s, like when looking at a collage then the best says a message that is witty and in context to the political collage, but when making it, it was complete accident. I’m progressing this by, making collages now, but photographing every change to make an animation that builds layer’s, these will look more mechanical, and will be thought out, the sculptures of Eduardo Paulozzi are an influence for, these I want them to look like a machine working, like a broken clock being fixed or something, it may work, I’m going to photocopy imagery from books about mechanics, and also ones about the human body, and entwine the two, these are still just visuals for the sound art pieces, but I would love them to be a spectacle.
Still using Osbert Parker, but looking at his influence Terry Gilliam who did the animations for Monty Python, they look cut and paste, I have the idea of what it could all be in my mind.
The other idea’s I had about the conversation, was maybe it could be a mother, have a huge projection of an ultrasound with a string quartet and its mother talking over the top, a big theatrical piece, the idea of combining folio artists, video screen and acting has always interested me. We went to see a play called Waves a play of a Virginia Wolf Novel, my class all hated it, I’m not a Virginia Woolf fan, a bit dark and confusing, but the effects were intriguing if it was used in a different play maybe a set of short plays, it could be so much better.
The work was devised by Katie Mitchell, who is loved and hated in equal measure by critics, it’s possible to contrived or ahead of its time, but if say you had a play that had light and shade and used the cleverness, it could be brilliant.
I'm still working on Waiting for Waits had a few problems learning how to use new software at college so kind of started again but its going ahead, shall be 7 mins long and won’t be as random, but more of collection put together lovingly as a portrayal of Tom Waits.
Well I’m organised one of our deadlines is in two weeks I want to get all collage animation done, and have progress on the tom waits film, and loads of recorded conversations shall hopefully come together nicely.
Today im animating my 40 collages in 40 days and creating the soundtracks, I have been scanning all the collages in and shall cut and paste parts, the rest of the book, will be created step by step taking photographs of mechanics,
Currently watching a documentary on the sculptor Richard Serra, who creates huge steel walls, that use the idea of verbs crease, bend etc, they terrify and mesmerise at the same time, it interests me because of the idea he’s not a narrative artist but likes new idea’s, the idea of a verb list has resonance with the previous lecture, to give you ideas use that idea, he is friends with Chuck Close an incredible painter. As soon as Jasper Johns things noticed him started to happen for Serra, Jasper Johns work was relevant to my old work. So it’s all connected.
Controversial 1985 he was asked to remove his sculpture tilted ark, a site specific sculpture in front of the new York legal plaza, lots of letters of complaint, cutting a long story short, it was removed and killed the sculpture, because it was no longer in site, because it was so expensive to the governments funds to build it when they removed it, it caused as much for when it was there. It was divisive; love it!
40 Favourite sounds, using the idea of tom waits what are mine, make my work from these.
1. Crackling Jazz records of Billie Holiday Nina Simone, Django Reinhardt.
2. Pentecostal Churches speaking in tongues
3. A wine Glass Ringing
4. Out of tune church Bells
5. Dad Playing the organ/piano
6. The Chord Change F- Emaj7
7. Flamenco Guitar
8. Theremin/Retro sci-fi theme tunes such as DR Who and Star Trek
9. The Xylophone
10. Those Pipes that go ZOOOSH, like a slide guitar
11. Reverb on everything
12. Fender Twin Amp
13. My cheap pre-owned Dan electro, that sounds as good unplugged as it does amplified
14. Digitech whammy making guitars sound like aliens
15. The song strange fruit, but when its mellow,
16. Smokey sounding jazz singers, like Tom Waits playing mellow minor Jazz
17. Tom Waits when he’s insane
18. Star spangled Banner only the Hendrix version
19. The opening Riff on Electioneering by Radiohead
20. When I sing in a certain way that sounds as good as it does in my head
21. The Voice of Jeff Buckley and his shy interview Manner Buckley’s Halleluiah Jeff Buckley Live at Sin’e
22. Rustling Papers
23. A Record Player, being used like a guitar such as Christian Marclay emulating Hendrix
24. The Backwards part in Damien Rice’s album O
25. My old friends singing epically Sally Molineux and Louise Lay
26. A cat meowing
27. Jenny my sister belting in the early hours
28. My Mothers Irish accent
29. Percussion that’s incredible, Drumming that’s just mind blowing like an octopuses co-ordination afro-beat stuff
30. Live music that fills a room like Tom Baxter, The chord change in Tell her today that sends shivers down my spine
31. A silent room when I play a gig and I send the room silent
32. The Smiths
33. The percussion from house hold objects, such as rattling keys, Type Writers, Dripping taps
34. An amazing powerful voice, that’s not pushed just, happens, like Mo town.
35. Laughter
36. Weird Keyboards
37. A phone box ringing when its only you there
38. Surprises
39. Roaring Fire
40. Guitars played like liquid
With these all I shall make music hopefully it won’t be to over the top.
These may change whilst making the song and certain idea be compromised or modified.
I’ve been attempting to animate today will have to ask for help, I have a vision in my head of what it will end up as, animating collages so it looks like its been made layer upon layer I think I should be able to figure it out, these will be the visuals to sound art pieces, I have experimented with a short Tom Waits rhythm based song just a simple basis to get clips in time, it looks crazy, can imagine it on a huge wall doesn’t suit the music, and somehow my imagery has ended up looking like bunny rabbit’s; but it’s a start. Can change it, thinking my sound track will involve a conversation that’s very odd, between me and my friends where I changed the subject on to Motorbikes, and because we used the internet, there’s image’s we’ve been talking about so will have to get them in there somewhere, I want it to be humorous, but not throw away, so maybe that conversation isn’t a good idea, When I put telephones together nothing to special happened, think if I use a radio might work call someone up and put the radio as person would work better anyways.
The work I’m doing at the moment is very crafty but my final idea sounds a lot more impressive.
Realised haven’t spoken about my little trip to Liverpool, went to the biennial, and saw some great work at the new contemporaries, was like a labyrinth, of art studios full of junk, was like heaven for me, old pianos and old books all over the place, because I went when it got dark it was so atmospheric, and silent so had to sing to myself to feel safe.
That was my highlight, and a Piece by Rodney Graham at the Tate Liverpool, called Dance! I love it it’s a photograph on a Light box so looks like an old master oil painting I love it, its composition is great.
Its how id love my Party piece to be shown when its developed and made after Christmas, but thinking about that idea isn’t killing these other idea’s on conversation.
Rolf Harris.
A national treasure, but a joke really.
Today I went to the Emory Douglas Exhibition at the Urbis gallery, about the Black Panther movement he was involved in, it was good to find out about, the mix of history and art was good to see, it was a good exhibit, how it outlined the point, and showed the matter of racial injustice, it showed suffering which links to the seminar on suffering we had, why would we want to see suffering, I think its probably so we know what’s wrong in the simplest way, but there are so many complex ways at looking at the subject, why do people enjoy watching gore, the drama I suspect, that things can feel so terrifying, but aren’t happening to us, but its fictional, how far can we challenge ourselves, until we’re sick ?. But the News shows suffering, to show the injustice in the world, that it’s trying to teach us a lesson, what can we do about all this possibly.
I also went to the Christmas market then queued up for a drink and cake in a horrible commercial coffee shop but Café Nero doe’s these amazing Mint Milk shakes, and I had a free one, so it’s all good had a time of contemplation whilst dreaming about the beautiful girl near me, or something along those lines, day dreaming really, then doodling and noodling, the only way I tend to be able to concentrate is to be doing at least something else whilst listening which sounds odd, but eyes scare me, I’m strangely shy, possibly have a multiple personality disorder or just mood swing’s.
We’re all getting on well on the course got some good mates, going to a Jazz club for drinks and general shenanigans for a friend’s birthday.
Reviewing my work, I seem to have done a lot, but don’t feel like I have yet, so I’m either worrying for nothing, or no one else has done anything,
Week Plan December 1st 08 PLAN!
Next week I’m filming weird conversations with strangers around art school, the collating them in to something, also continuing with the piece of sound art, but it’s harder than imagined, think my version will be a little clumsy, but shall all work in effect, towards animations ace.
Monday: The meeting, then after film people one-word conversations, get lift and is really strange say odd things, for an hour up and down, be awkward. Wear different masks, say, ask where obvious things are, may have to wear disguises.
Tuesday:
Edit Films made, and recorded conversations, think about extracting audio from film and using it in new ways.
Wednesday: Animate Collages and continue making sound track,
Thursday: Prance around in studio doing messy painting, to show off in front of perspective students, and actually do the reading for the lecture.
Friday: Lectures, seminars and hanging, then off to Lancaster to see Jons play.
We’ll I’ve found where I feel most comfortable, Matt and Phreds Jazz club, was a great night with course mates, a couple of friends from home, had a great time, get on with them so much better than flat mates, that’s why I’m always in studio, its usually quiet or theres creativity going on.
Animating collages, then doing work on mechanics, layering drawings, using perspective and scale then animating them it’s of telephones to link to the conversation idea. Do a doodle, then progress it, to a proper analytical drawing then layer the results then do a photograph and combine all together.
Shall project animated collage as a back drop for folio artists SFX then film that and project it so it’s a sound collage and film all in one, maybe use as a performance piece.
Monday: Tutorial with Jon see, if I have been doing enough work, I’ve been trying all sorts so hopefully… it’ll be ok.
Tuesday: As having problem making soundtrack do that,
Wednesday: Personal Observation, reviewing lift films working on them extracting conversations.
Thursday: Access Summit meeting about my Dyslexia/Dyspraxia
Friday: Lectures then going home to Norfolk. I think?
(Pasted to Blog)
My friend Sally has been taking photos of randomness friends gatherings and randomly filming us, we have all been wearing crazy glasses, my idea with all the photographs she has taken is to make a took called spectacles, lots of people wearing these comical glasses, would be a nice humorous gift I think.
Weekend went to Lancaster, was great saw my best pals from home who have all gone to university’s in the north like me and we went there and saw Jon’s portrayal of Othello was great.
Been working on the soundtrack today, and its a lot of fiddling with things and computer gadgetry, but it’s sounding interesting, put Louis Armstrong’s trumpet playing through a filter and it sounds like an atmospheric dance thing, but its good, and I’ve been changing the tones of voices, with octave shifts and just trying to make one coherent song from like 6, but its good fun and I’m learning from the process, need to go full welly, in to something, instead of just dipping my toe in the pool need to swim and all other analogies, need to work well its never work really ha.
Tuesday 9th December 2008
Had tutorial with Jon, seem to be getting on fine as long as I keep everything coherent, and progress each idea then keep with the most successful, keep experimenting.
Yesterday evening, when I hid from my flat mates I made a piece called Mechanics it’s a film of photographed cogs slowly fading in and out, as a soundtrack I Mixed parts of Dark Side Of The Moon, with Filter Happier By Radiohead, it works its so bad to watch, and the sound adds to the experience, I want it to be projected in a huge room in a corner, fill all two walls.
This room will be called Mixed Messages and time, the poem on filter happier is read by a voice that sounds very robotic like Microsoft Sam, and I’ve overlapped sections to create new messages. Want to get an old plastic grandfather clock and cover it in cogs and melt it all together, so it looks all junk yardish, and put it in the opposite corner, maybe with mirrors dotted about, shall experiment if it looks better just alone, shall do tiny experiments with models then scale up with images in photo-shop, see which looks better, then work progressing this idea to a really disturbing film.
I hate printers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You buy a printer it's nice but the ink is so expensive I now can't take it back hopefully my DSA can cover the costs £30 for a yellow ink cartridge ! its rediculous! I'm not spending that.
Source List: Rough *
Robert Frank- The American’s, photography book a melancholic look at America
BBC I-player in October
• BBC documentary Imagine, themes of Light, Love and The History of the Guitar
• Mark Lawson Interviewing Quentin Blake, Rolf Harris, artists who share no similarity to my work, so interesting to research the basic opposite,
Youtube November
Tom Waits on Letterman, Australian interviews also, the main project influence is his change of persona through out the decades.
September
Contemporary textiles at The Whitworth Art Gallery,
Liverpool Biennial December 2008
Tate Liverpool
New Contemporary’s
Bloomberg Gallery
Etc.
Artists that have been an influence
• Christian Marclay, Video Quartet
• Douglas Gordon, 24 hour Psycho
• Eduardo Paolozzi, Any mechanical Work, prints and sculptures.
• Osbert Parker animations
• Robert Rauschenberg
Artists that combine all techniques to create big spectacles.
www.storyofstuff.com
www.lpcoverlover.com
The national Archives
Robert Frank- The American’s, photography book a melancholic look at America
BBC I-player in October
• BBC documentary Imagine, themes of Light, Love and The History of the Guitar
• Mark Lawson Interviewing Quentin Blake, Rolf Harris, artists who share no similarity to my work, so interesting to research the basic opposite,
Youtube November
Tom Waits on Letterman, Australian interviews also, the main project influence is his change of persona through out the decades.
September
Contemporary textiles at The Whitworth Art Gallery,
Liverpool Biennial December 2008
Tate Liverpool
New Contemporary’s
Bloomberg Gallery
Etc.
Artists that have been an influence
• Christian Marclay, Video Quartet
• Douglas Gordon, 24 hour Psycho
• Eduardo Paolozzi, Any mechanical Work, prints and sculptures.
• Osbert Parker animations
• Robert Rauschenberg
Artists that combine all techniques to create big spectacles.
www.storyofstuff.com
www.lpcoverlover.com
The national Archives
Thursday 1 January 2009
Alex Steinweiss
He was probably the 1st person to create album art, he was the art director for Columbia records, a job I would love to have, Its an idea i've been thinking about, maybe next year I should write loads of letters to people in my dream jobs and see if i can understudy just get there teas for them or something like that would be a great experience.
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