4 posts tagged “art”

kinder happy hippos are really the best things ever. but look how deformed my hand looks! it's not really like that but i can bend my hands into strange shapes... and that's my weak thumb - i fell on it one day and bent it right back and it's never been the same since. now it bends in a direction that it's not supposed to. sometimes (like you can see in the picture) when i'm giving a shoulder massage or something (which i haven't done in aaaaaages) it will collapse again and it really hurts.

well that was random.

i did have lots of random non related things to talk about over the course of the week but i've forgotten them all so i'm just going to ramble.

my audrey kawasaki print arrived this morning and it's soooo gorgeous, i really need to go frame it. also  need to frame my ogi prints and my lily pirri print and my kozyndan prints.... argh! need to know someone with a framing business who'll do it cheap for me!

star kitty managed to get himself trapped in next doors yard the other night and i had to rescue him by standing on my wheelie bin and hanging over the (high) wall holding a chair for him to jump onto. and i thought pocky was the dumb cat! I'm reluctant to let them out again now, can't keep rescuing them all the time!

www.kumoma.com is the start of a new project that i'm working on with my friend helen. we're going to sell tshirts/prints/buttons and other cool stuff and possibly start up a freelance design business on the back of it. i do web and she does print so it all works out really. it's making me want to draw lots more too which i have been doing but i get frustrated because i can't draw as well as i used to. and i keep putting dvds on to watch while i draw but i have an annoying habit of picking foreign films so i actually have to pay attention to the subtitles and can't draw at the same time!

umm.... i've been ringing round for quotes for our cuba holiday and it feels like the planning is actually getting somewhere now. i'm so excited! i really really need to get another definite holiday on my calendar so i have something to look forward to. still thinking i want to go somewhere in the summer but i'm not sure where... possibly russia, or a friend from work is renting an apartment in shanghai for a couple of months so i could stay with him for a bit. didn't really feel like i got to see much of shanghai when i was there last and i was ill for half of it too. my mum is also quite keen for us to go to hong kong at xmas so there are lots of possibilities on the horizon.

anyway i'm sure there's more randomness to talk about but i have to go to the post office and then buy shampoo and cat litter. what an exciting life i lead!!

Went to see kozyndan's playstation exhibition at the baltic last night. Finally got to actually say hello in person (third time lucky!). i feel kind of bad though 'cos i just chatted for 5 minutes and then drifted off and didn't come back to say goodbye. i'm hopeless in social situations. oh well! I've been into their artwork for quite a few years now so it was nice to finally meet them in person even if it was only for a few minutes. I also bought a spooky calendar from the shop which is good because i've been looking for a replacement for my yoshitomo nara calendar. i loooove the baltic shop. i think could spend days in there.

I've been feeling out of sorts all week. unmotivated at work, eating crap food and i've only been to the gym once (although that's mainly because i've not been getting my lift). going to drink some wine and play on my ds tonight and then try to pull myself together over the weekend... i've been getting lots of ideas of things i want to do but not actually doing them... need to give myself a kick.

I've been thinking about starting up a blog for all the pretty things i find - shopping and illustration and design and such. It'll take a bit of setting up but maybe it will help satisfy my need for shiny things rather than just crying because i can't buy them :p. i did relax my budget a little this week and treated myself to some goodies from spicybrown now that they've started shipping to the uk, and the wallpaper guide to copenhagen. I needed cheering up and i have been bringing in a load of cash from ebay and I'm getting £50 for signing up for a new bank account... but now only xmas presents until i get back from thailand!

I've also been thinking about how much I miss japan and all the coolness that is there. i think after i've been to cuba which is definitely next on my list for probably winter 2007, I'd like to go back to tokyo just for a week or 10 days by myself and shop and go to design festa. we missed out on design festa both times we went - went to the international anime fair instead, and i've been longing to go for years. I can just imagine doing what i like, shopping in loft, drinking matcha latte in starbucks. it'll be great :) a while off yet but the idea that i'm going back at some point makes me feel better.

I went to a preview of the spank the monkey exhibition at the baltic last night. Kozyndan were one of the artists exhibiting and Dan had invited me along because I missed them when they were in Newcastle last (busy moving into my flat) and I'd helped them out with some reference photos for a piece they'd been commissioned by the Baltic. Anyway of course by the time I got there there were too many people and I had no hope of finding them. Shame we seem to keep missing each other but it was amazing to see the finished piece anyway - it's Newcastle Gateshead quayside filled with random strangeness in their usual style I could look at it for hours. The whole exhibition is full of some really cool stuff. Lots of japanese artists and the style I really like. They even had some kind of anime dvd playing. On one floor there's an indoor skate ramp and they had a dj playing so there were skateboards flying and music pumping and people everywhere - the place was packed. I'm dying to go back and spend a couple of hours there and look at everything properly. The shop's got even better too. I was practically hyperventilating over wanting too many books and postcards and tshirts and arty stuff. ha. I still sometimes kind of regret not doing some kind of art degree and just not being around people who are interested in this sort of stuff - computer science is the opposite side of the spectrum really (mind saying that i'm sure i recognised someone there who i met at a lecture i went to about accessibility by molly holzschlag and Andy Clarke... I never know when I'm imagining things anymore).

Now Iceland is ticked off my list of places to go (stories and pictures still coming, i promise!) I've been thinking where to go next. I'm still planning on thailand at xmas and possibly a weekend to copenhagen if i can afford it (not that i can afford anything! but never mind). After that i'm thinking cuba. Damnit, must make more money!

Anyway i have a pile of japanese homework so i must go get on with it.