Re:Kern

Rekerned my Truth/Happiness piece. I didn't want to at first but think it looks much better now.

Secret Panda

I've been working on my delicious XLA for a bit and thus have neglected my poor blog. Still plenty to do where XLA is concerned so have this really good video to tide you over. One of mine and Capstick's personal favourites. It's impact and affect on mainstream culture will speak for itself. Absolute tearjerker, kids.



"In the middle of making love we notice the time, we both get nervous 'cuz it's way after nine..."
Was there a better lyric ever written? I think not.

[insert anger here]

Ever have one of those days where you just hate everyone? It's not particularly something someone said or something someone did it's just that today, today you just hate everyone. You can't help it. And it's ok. It's ok. It's not a choice. You can't help but want to projectile vomit all down yourself when you hear overly positive people describe everything as "amazing" and "fantastic". You can't help but want to throw your brew over them and see if they find this event "amazing" and "fantastic" also. You can't help but want to tear somebody's throat out because they nag you like they birthed you. You can't help but "accidentally" flatten the chunky scouser who purposely keeps tredding on your toes as you try to keep goalside of her. You can't help but want to scream at the ejit who gets in the lift with you and goes down from the forth floor to the third. You can't help but want to smush your sandwich in the face of the overly greasy teenager who's displaying his manliness to us females by yelling obscenities across Tesco to his even manlier friend. You can't help but want to cry when Everton beat your boys in the ninety second minute. You can't help wanting to push someone off the sofa when they come home and put the central heating on when it's already hotter than the Sahara desert in your abode. You can't help but want to flick the ears of the asshat who pushes in front of you at the shop to demand they recount his change as you idly stand by waiting, watching your overpriced brew going cold in your hands.

But it's ok.

Breathe.

Right. So maybe it is things people say and things people do that make me hate everyone. I can't help it. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. Sometimes I do wish I were both stupid and ignorant so I wouldn't get annoyed by the slightest little things like "official" documents that use Comic Sans and "funky" clipart.

Breathe.

I love you all really.

Truth/Happiness

Back working with my OxyMoron list, wanted to develop the initial idea of a series of posters into something more visually stimulating. The coloured circles are used to represent the overlapping between the words; how hypocritical they can be. Here's what I came up with.


Also working on a series of small, snappy quotes (not always my own words, though) which I am turning into posters. This is what I have so far.


Anybody that watches Lie to Me will recognise the quote ;-)

Ragstick

(Blogger being a douche about uploading images properly so excuse it looking all odd)

Kind of obsessed with letterpress at the moment, here's a collection of images which I did last week.


Finished my embossing piece but it's really hard to get a decent image of it. Might try using the copy stand thingy-ma-jigger.

Value

Dunno where this really came from but I kinda like it. An ode to the inner hypocrite in myself/everyone.

Sticky Rag

Had a play about with letterpress today. Very nice getting my little mitts off the keyboard and into some ink. This is what I'm printing, by the way.


Was a bit of a pain to lock-in as I'm not overly familiar with the process. Oddly I enjoyed doing it though, spoke to my OCD nature.
[Note: ragstick means umbrella in "Northern", not tampon like everyone is thinking it does]

Don't have any images of the actual prints yet, leaving them in uni over the weekend to dry properly. Some work better than others, but I'm generally really pleased with the outcome. Again, it was just kinda nice to get my hands grubby (although I'm paying for it now, damn eczema). Admittedly I get very bored, very easily and sometimes just have to do something spontaneous and different to get creativity flowing again. I don't know if it's something that all creatives find themselves doing or if it's just me and my short attention span.

Embossing is finished, not photographed that quite yet. Will try to get around to it tomorrow.

At a bit of a crossroads where my writing is concerned. I think/know that my better pieces are those that are personal, they mean something to me and aren't just random drabble and this is why they're better than all my other stuff. But this poses me with a bit of a problem. These personal pieces, well I'm just not sure if I want to share them with everybody. I'm an incredibly private person, I don't know why, just am, putting myself out there as I do with my writing makes me feel a bit vulnerable to be honest. So this is my problem. How do I put myself out there if I don't want to? Random musing over.

Oh and decided to do the LifeInstructions piece in lino instead of letterpress. Not enough letters/space for it. Poop.

Fashionista

Well I've had a fun filled morning trying to figure out how to make clipping masks work in InDesign. It was so enjoyable I nearly threw my laptop into the wall and then curled up in a ball and cried myself to sleep. After many a trip through Google I managed to figure it out, my own sanity thanks you Mr Google. Anyway I've gone back to my LifeInstructions list, I had the idea of creating a set of beermats with my instructions on and placing them in pubs to (hopefully) create more stimulating conversation than normal pub banter. (Perhaps it's just me that gets sick of all the beer and shagging talk) This was supposed to be a quick task and I was supposed to have a lot more than one done by now, however InDesign decided to try and fight me so it took longer than planned. The rest of my day will be spent pummelling InDesign's face into the floor :-) (Not sure why the black one's type seems to have some sort of white stroke around it?)