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I've moved my blog to a tumblr here, please follow me there, Thanks for coming this far.x

into it

This little gem popped up during some research in the Anthropology library today. Credited to an Inuit artist named Kiakshuk

Fresh News

PICK ME UP is open!





We're running a project called 'Fresh Ones' - creating one-off, hand-crafted objects for everyday living. There will be a limited range of blank objects, such as pots, book-ends, dolls, paper-weights, tote bags & t-shirts, which we will be hand embellishing in our shaker style workshop. We also have a set of special items; Pumps, Throw, Cap, Ukelele & Vase that we have got some friends to make for us. Participants include; Espen Friberg & Jessica Williams, Qubik & Workshop, Nathaniel Russell &, Tom Hudson. Matt Hodson will also be joining us Sat 19th painting a lovely vase.

Come Say hello!

We'll be documenting all our activity regularly over the week here.

Pick Me Up Website



Kibbo Kift is soon!


























This will be the first show of my new band, alongside Nicolas of Nous Vous and Glaciers and Laurence of Yayyei and The BRoken Chairs.

It will be a revelry of music, poetry & art
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Performing: Glow-Wing, Nick White & Andrew Rae, Yule Bringer and Supermundane + Kibbo Kift Chorus

Djing: Marcus Oakley, Nervous Stephen, Dudley Smarts + Kibbo Kifters
+ Zineswap stall
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£5 (in advance) £6 on the door
Saturday April 9th 2011 5pm - 2am
The Victoria, 451 Queenbridge Road, Dalston E8 3AS


Doors are at 5pm with the first act on at 6pm. Djing from 10:30pm - 2am

More info here


The Joy of Living!



















We got asked to be a part of this show,for which I completed a piece. We went to the opening and it was a lovely affair, it felt great to be a part of the project and our piece sold. Lovely! Thanks to whoever bought it!

I will reveal my piece after the show finishes as all designs are remaining anonymous at present.


Joy of Living is a charity project that unites over 100 leading lights in the design community to galvanise support for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. Design author Max Fraser has set the challenge to a cross-section of new and established UK designers to create a desirable artwork that expresses the Joy of Living – all starting from a simple sheet of A4 graph paper. The signed works will be exhibited and on sale in London’s inspiring space for art, culture and creative exchange, Somerset House, from 15 – 21 March.



Tic Toc Pop Up Shop

























Efdeay Collective have popped up a pop up shop by St Pancras station in London. They asked me, alongside a whole host of illustrators to contribute so you can buy the print below as an A3 riso. Get down there.


More info here

I had a cold

Now I'm back in my window in the sun, discovering things that disprove assumptions. good day.x

Backed up for some time

Found this gem at the Anthropology library today

























Hope to post some things I've actually made soon...

Holiday

I found this at my pottery class last night. I think it was from one of the children's pottery classes. It is beautiful. It is splattered with clay.

Yesterday

Yesterday, which is now the day before, a French girl called me from Germany but I said I was having my photo taken and couldn't help her. I half climbed a set of aluminium step ladders and pretended to read a volume of Moomin cartoons. I thought of skidding on my knees along he dusty wooden floor but instead slowly threw two cardboard boxes printed with my initials into the air. Time moved quickly but contained the correct number of minutes and hours and after a familiar supper we blew on whistles and pulled words out of a wooden bowl that made pictures in our heads and joy in our breaths. Relaxed, we read as the windows sung a wheezing drone till we climbed the stairs to the attic where we slept well until the morning, dreaming of islands forgotten by boats but never by the waves which lap them.

Heavy Pencil

Another photo of snow...

but look at the colours man, just look at the colours

South Titaly

A small hand grab of gratuitous photo snaps from my recent trip abroad.x

Last week

Last week was the first 'Bro-Case' in London. It was the first coming together of Hair-Piece acts Glaciers and Now Owl and new kids YAYYEI. It was also the debut performance of YAYYEI (myself and Laurence's pop drone and moan) and Now Owl. We made three bands out of three people. I guess it was also the first gig of Glacier in this formation. A first of firsts. More soon. Bro time

Hair-Piece are:


















(a couple o goons)

Now Owl:



















Also we trecked over to Bristol for the opening of the Howies illustration show at the Howies store. It's on for a month and it looks amazing, Thanks to David Sparshott and Nick Saunders for sorting it. Good stuffs.


















solo goon:

Seen recently

I visited the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Oxford Botanical Gardens a little while ago with Nicolas, Hugh and George. The Pitt Rivers is incredible, if almost completely overwhelming. A great, dimly lit room with balconies houses tens of tiered glass cases that collect anthropological oddities that span cultures and centuries, organised by practical use rather than by the people who made them. This results in creating a celebration of human development and resourcefulness rather than a cold study of a particular time or place.

The Botanical Gardens is also a fascinating place. I saw huge cacti, an abundance of succulents and beautiful cabbages (what colour even are they, some kind of green purple, my favourite vegetable, aesthetically, surely).


















































Afterwards we went for noodles, where I found this guy in what was meant to be my vegan dish.

























Other potentially interesting things I have seen recently, but with less attachment to my working life include a beauty parlour where you can beautify your finger waving, the chub your dog will love and a super heavy log.

Friday funday

Huh Magazine

Curated a list of bros, friends and would like to be friends here today:

Devon = weekend heaven

The many faces of Santana

super tight summer fete

On saturday we had a stall at the East London Printmakers summer fete. It was such a lovely day, there was sun, bros, ciders, games and dudes.

We sold our bits and also ran a memory game, we made paper maché shapes and covered them with a cloth, contestants had 10 seconds to see what was under the cloth and then draw what they could remember. A few teams conquered the game and we had some good runners up/runner ups(?), so some lucky people may be receiving a print in the post soon, thanks if you came down and said hi, took part or thought about us. Thanks to Nick Morley for getting us involved, and also props to the giant lino cut that was printed using a steam roller on the day!

Evidence: