Stalking Panda Power

Pandas that were in the Design Museum in Laaaandan near tower bridge. My favourite restaurant is 2 minutes walk from there, awesome views of the bridge at night time and did a gorgeous steak. I remember once though a pie had to be sent back due to being slightly too cool. They stack chips like Jenga.

Beware Wet Paint 68&69

From the book Beware wet paint, a collection of works by Alan Fletcher. Just made me smile!

Collar me, I walk far

I am developing the 8 page website now, done in flash mainly using the trace function. Hardly advanced stuff but I'm thinking of making it like a flick through website as you would a book. This is actually one of the images I produced for the printed booklet which is now ready to print and bind. Student elections yada yada is going on right now, I was sat on a table next to them all for the quiz night in the SU and one of them went to the bar to accuse me of cheating when in fact I was booking tickets for the megabus...now do I want to vote for petty people? Or people that bang their feet on the floor and their hands on the table just for 'the laugh'. Don't these people get paid money for those positions? Yes, they do. Should I vote for any of them? No I shouldn't. Did I vote?Yes, I did. Confusing world, we beat them in the quiz anyway, all 13 of them - justice.

Hello, meet said person, let said person talk

Most people I hear talking about Art or anything Design related I usually presume have some knowledge of that area, something that I have not thought about or cannot connect with. Something about my grammatical mind makes me think Art and Design as words should start with capitals. They are nouns, unique and singular perhaps? The more people I meet who are involved with the 'creative' industry make me feel like there is nothing unique about these words at all, nor the meaning behind them. The existence of artists such as Damien Hirst pain me, simply playing a target market. All the time I studied fine art, although I took a lot from it in terms of reference and ideas, it always seemed to me that unless you had people with money to buy into your 'ideas' you would not become much of a 'artist'. Perhaps I am overly critical, perhaps I over think things. All I can really say is there are systems, there are ways of working, and understanding these systems, and that is far more important than creative idea generation. That is what I took from todays talk anyway from David Burrows as I have it noted. Fair play he is successful, I just wonder when did he last sit back and enjoy life for what it is, technological advancement is great and I applaud it, but now and then, hug a tree, walk bare footed on the sand for fuck sake, life isn't a computer screen. Less of this.

Jenny Holzer, you old sage!

Little did I know on attending the Baltic that I had already experienced Jenny on a trip to Venice. The above blurred image shows the exact installation I witnessed at the ripe age of 18. The difference between then and now? I actually bothered to find out what her work is actually about this time, and I find her slightly dated. That isn't to say i don't appreciate her work, or her intent. Her work to me said, very good for her time. Still very engaging and holds a depth that very much made me believe she was an impressive artist (unlike Damien Hirst who is just a terrible exploiter of the modern art world - he can go away soon please)
Looking at her work as a way of presenting her thought paths, her ideas recognised in such a fashion, I actually thought I took quite a lot from her exhibition. The human bones coupled with engraved metal rings, once I understood they referenced rape victims in the Yugoslavia war, and that even the position of the rings meaning you could only read a little of the text, represented how not all the information from these victims had been portrayed/released. Hmmmm....I'm thinking. I have seen many things in my time design wise, experienced lots, now I am seeing how Interactive Media Design (whoop) linked with Artistic thinking (Hmmm) can almost form the ultimate creative design. Is anybody following that? Certainly makes me think anyway.

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

Something I don't usually do on a Saturday is sit in a bar and work on my Uni projects, it's true, that is just damn right rude to my friends! Buddies and pals! But still, I think I've made reasonable progress. The image white on black, I can't help but feel I have lifted the idea from somewhere or at least acted upon some influence, but what it is I have no idea because I just...did it. All I can think about is the scream paintings by Edvard Munch...never mind, I think it is about time I ate or got drunk, liquid dinner.