disposable

I have a flickr which i don't actually use since most of my pictures are pretty bad but after not having gone on for a while i think there are some quite nice ones from hackney city farm when the disposable was at the end of it's tether and made some rather lovely marks on the film.

The top one was from the end of a horrible day, pouring with rain all day where our group traipsed around east london moaning. The one under that was from just before the friday crit at cafe otto in dalston and i love how saturated it looks in comparison.

Shoreditch wants to meet you

This is what i finished and printed last monday for the crit on tuesday. It went pretty well, only that i should try to change the main type to a gill related one and try it out on letterpress. For the "Live East London like a local brief", my idea was to promote the idea adopting language used in personal/lonely hearts adverts. I had three variations on copy, with each focusing on area around Columbia Road Market as i think this is the most fascinating part of Shoreditch; one for the area of Shoreditch as a whole, one focusing on the flower market and one for the venue ' The Flea Pit'. Most applicable to print, as most things i do: posters/ billboards/ flyers/teaser 'business cards'.

(these are the examples when modified)

Brain like a Sieve

Nothings happening. Its awful. I have a crit on friday where we have to show 5 objects/drawings/collages etc. based around the east london line. i've found out some really interesting facts around the area but the thing is that they all have to be based around ONLY ONE of the stations (haggerston, hoxton and dalston junction). All my potentials are spread around east.

I'm looking at artist's work and stuff hoping it'll trigger SOMETHING, but alas no. shit.

And what makes it worse is that this is the stuff that i love doing! Making stuff. Nicey fabric. Pretending im old. i don't want this to be shit, but i dont know what to do.

Probably about time to pour over the Art of Looking Sideways in the hope that something will happen.....

Those little guys are the only thing pulling me through it seems.