..in the Chelsea Hotel.
Tribute to my future home & Cohen/Joplin
Tribute to my future home & Cohen/Joplin
Showing posts with label posters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label posters. Show all posts
Mandalas
Gig! Next month! Gunna be a goodun!
A short poem:
Find me at the front,
very drunk
and i'll try not to spit on you
like the punk (that I am at heart)
If you can't wait that long to see the boys get down theyre's a gig on next weekend in Exeter and I hear there may be a surprise appearance by the mysterious Fifth Mandala himself...
A short poem:
Find me at the front,
very drunk
and i'll try not to spit on you
like the punk (that I am at heart)
This one was fun because I got to mess with some of my cousin's photography work. Check her out BECKY MAYNES dot COM
If you can't wait that long to see the boys get down theyre's a gig on next weekend in Exeter and I hear there may be a surprise appearance by the mysterious Fifth Mandala himself...
Nietzsche & more
Finally got back into reading Nietzsche, here's a sketchy-painting to celebrate.
Quote from Beyond Good & Evil.
Note - it is traced (so no congratulations please)
The quote is a little out of context but I like it. He was talking about how regardless of the path of the way out (in his example stoicism), the necessity of a way out is what is important.
If you wanna learn more about Nietzsche, turn no further than my number 1 dinner party guest, Alain De Botton!
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Also, Art Show! Happening in Torquay in two week's (24th). Come on down!
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Lastly, a couple of good articles, first on GTA 5. I've said it many time's, the only games I really play are Fifa and anything Rockstar makes. Safe to say am looking forward to this one. Don't expect to see me for a week or two.
& thought this was interesting. I like Cartoon Brew but there overarching cynicsm of anything Disney do is tiresome. I think this could be a good idea, who's to say movies have reached their highest formula? I like how left-field the idea is too, perhaps it (not this, but the idea) may lead to some better film 'experience' (as is the catch word). I also think its playfully defining of this generations (not mine, but those who are bumbling onto the interenet aged 5) mind frame; we've already become aware of a shortening lack of attention span, perhaps this (sort of thing) is the icing on the cake - when it stops being a bad thing & we start to discover new virtue in it. The 'Shock of the new' (fear) to 'The shock of Excess' (gleeful acceptance).
Recent bits
My eulogy to young love & the dole & being laid back and happy.
Expansion on a picture I did a while ago.
(Go HERE & scroll down 4 images)
Also a game of 'spot the references!' Theres 5 in total.
Quite like this. Here's the original I did, took a while but wasn't feeling it - ten minutes later, had turned it into the above & was happy.
Poster
Poster for ma boys in the Mandalas. Gig at end of this month, come! Feel free to print em & stick em up round the Bay.
Band practice:
Torn n Frayed
Did these two paintings the other week of the Rolling Stones. There done on massive bits of paper (bout half my height). The Keith Richards one is for me aunty and the Mick Jagger one is for my sister. I love Exile on Main Street so both photographs are from '72.
I've been getting a projector out over Easter, and for a while had been thinking it'd be good to try tracing an image off it onto the wall. The Keith one I did first, and I just straight up traced it. Altho I like the pic it felt a bit pointless doing it. Might aswell just print off a large picture of the photograph. So by the time I got round to doing the Mick one I wanted to do something a little different, hence the multicolour. I really like the colours, very fitting to my memory of the Stones.
I've been getting a projector out over Easter, and for a while had been thinking it'd be good to try tracing an image off it onto the wall. The Keith one I did first, and I just straight up traced it. Altho I like the pic it felt a bit pointless doing it. Might aswell just print off a large picture of the photograph. So by the time I got round to doing the Mick one I wanted to do something a little different, hence the multicolour. I really like the colours, very fitting to my memory of the Stones.
Fashion illustration
Bought some ink the other day & have been trying my hand at fashion illustration. From a Richard Avedon photo:
Messed with the colours too, but to be honest think I prefer it without. The first of many.
Also on the theme of fashion, have been updating me girlfriends website. Take a look: www.francescadenega.com
Update on flim
Song:
Yo. Work on the films going pretty good. I've got almost 2 minutes of animation done and am quite proud of myself getting through that much in less than a month. It's not perfect, its not all lovely and smooth, but it's getting there and it's good enough for what I want, which I guess is the reality of making anything. I haven't done any of the backgrounds, am gunna do them all in one swoop when i'm home.
Am very thankful to have recruited a few helpful hands from the course. You know who you are. It feels good to be able to use those around you as aids when needed.
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Got into David Lynch films recently after happening upon Blue Velvet. Just watched Mullholland Drive, and have got a stack more to go. I really like the way he juxtaposes the 'All American' normal people with the crazy situations that are only fitting in a dream: The young couple is Blue Velvet who get lost in a whirlwind of bad-crazyness. Mullholland Drive does a simillar thing. It kinda feels like one of them films you'd happen upon on a bored wednesday afternoon, skipping school on the settee. Its got all the makings - the sappy music, the plastic dialogue - but then its like its been dipped and coated in this crazy world of David Lynch. I really love it. It goes from being this B-movie, to suddenly being blown away. Its a clever juxtaposition that exemplifies him as a director. For example, the back to back scenes of the two girls rehearsing the scene for her casting audition, then Naomi Watt's actually performing the same scene in the casting audition (warning - spoiler vid) =
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I've got a week left in America now. Arrive back on the 20th, couple of days in London and then back to good ole' Fal.
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Am gettin' really into the way the internet is being used to push things forward. It allows freedom. Check out this post from Ricky Gervais:
Yes. Genius.
It seems certain people have the right idea.. Mike Skinner (of the Streets) making music and putting it straight on the web. The South Park guys not caring that the show's been ripped illegally and put on the web - they like it, it means exposure, more people get to see the show, great. & Ricky Gervais there.
There's a whole world of it out there, but what's noticeable with this bunch, is that they're established television people who are pleased to utilize the web. And not just for gimmicky 'tentpole' blogs and webisodes, but actually for pushing it for what it and discovering everything it can be used for.
It seems to me the web & post-modernity go hand in hand. Our generations got a real chance to push things forward. The wealth of knowledge literally at your fingertips. Learn about art movements, learn about forgotten history. It's all out there. The work of this generation is going to be so layered and saturated with meaning and we're all gunna be able to get it.
The net's really gunna push things forward for our generation, and it's gunna be so interesting to watch. When people ask the old fabled question, 'If you could be born in any time period, when would it be?' The futures answer may just be the noughties. Naughty noughties.
Yo. Work on the films going pretty good. I've got almost 2 minutes of animation done and am quite proud of myself getting through that much in less than a month. It's not perfect, its not all lovely and smooth, but it's getting there and it's good enough for what I want, which I guess is the reality of making anything. I haven't done any of the backgrounds, am gunna do them all in one swoop when i'm home.
Am very thankful to have recruited a few helpful hands from the course. You know who you are. It feels good to be able to use those around you as aids when needed.
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Got into David Lynch films recently after happening upon Blue Velvet. Just watched Mullholland Drive, and have got a stack more to go. I really like the way he juxtaposes the 'All American' normal people with the crazy situations that are only fitting in a dream: The young couple is Blue Velvet who get lost in a whirlwind of bad-crazyness. Mullholland Drive does a simillar thing. It kinda feels like one of them films you'd happen upon on a bored wednesday afternoon, skipping school on the settee. Its got all the makings - the sappy music, the plastic dialogue - but then its like its been dipped and coated in this crazy world of David Lynch. I really love it. It goes from being this B-movie, to suddenly being blown away. Its a clever juxtaposition that exemplifies him as a director. For example, the back to back scenes of the two girls rehearsing the scene for her casting audition, then Naomi Watt's actually performing the same scene in the casting audition (warning - spoiler vid) =
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I've got a week left in America now. Arrive back on the 20th, couple of days in London and then back to good ole' Fal.
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Am gettin' really into the way the internet is being used to push things forward. It allows freedom. Check out this post from Ricky Gervais:
What do you think of this?
A live 3 hour podcast during The Golden Globes. Me and a few chums (like Louis CK, Chris Rock, Karl Pilkington, John Stewart, Larry David popping in and out) doing our own alternative commentary.
People at home can have the telly on with the sound down listening to us online say things that no broadcaster could get away with.
No one could do a fucking thing.
The biggest live webcast ever? Who knows? Who cares? What's fun is the shit we might come out with. No money. No sponsor. No guide lines. Fuck me I can't wait.
Maybe I'll do a non-broadcast practice with The Emmys to see if it works. I'll let you know.
Yes. Genius.
It seems certain people have the right idea.. Mike Skinner (of the Streets) making music and putting it straight on the web. The South Park guys not caring that the show's been ripped illegally and put on the web - they like it, it means exposure, more people get to see the show, great. & Ricky Gervais there.
There's a whole world of it out there, but what's noticeable with this bunch, is that they're established television people who are pleased to utilize the web. And not just for gimmicky 'tentpole' blogs and webisodes, but actually for pushing it for what it and discovering everything it can be used for.
It seems to me the web & post-modernity go hand in hand. Our generations got a real chance to push things forward. The wealth of knowledge literally at your fingertips. Learn about art movements, learn about forgotten history. It's all out there. The work of this generation is going to be so layered and saturated with meaning and we're all gunna be able to get it.
The net's really gunna push things forward for our generation, and it's gunna be so interesting to watch. When people ask the old fabled question, 'If you could be born in any time period, when would it be?' The futures answer may just be the noughties. Naughty noughties.
New York City
Bin to NYC today. Really liked it, good city. The people aren't rude (as they say in the movies..) infact it's quite a friendly city. It's got alot of character, infact all of America (that i've seen) has. America feels very 'tongue in cheek' to a Johnny foreigner (like myself) alot of the time, you feel it when you look at the signage on the streets, the yellow fire hydrants, the individuality & 'surburbaness' of the buildings.. I think it's because we're so used to seeing the country in films that it's almost as if you're walking on a movie set.
Funnily enough, have been watchin alotta films recently, and just so happens a bunch of them have been set in NYC - On the Waterfront, The Warriors, Mad Men (tv show).. America is one big movie set.
Anywho here's a little poster in honour of NYC and ma boy:
Funnily enough, have been watchin alotta films recently, and just so happens a bunch of them have been set in NYC - On the Waterfront, The Warriors, Mad Men (tv show).. America is one big movie set.
Anywho here's a little poster in honour of NYC and ma boy:
PS - Sorry, but I seem to be the only one clogging up the uni thing with blog posts. Sorreh about that..
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