Killer, Killer Bees.

Swarm., originally uploaded by AllOfUsAreLost.

Where did summer go!!?! I’m talking the clear-skies, hot sun at 9am summer we had a few weeks back. Check out the bee-swarm i saw not too long ago, engulfing the pavement, taking in the great day!

I mean sure, it’s a lot warmer still, but the torrential downpours, and irritating winds of recent have really hampered my plans. I tend to do most of my work in the evening, and so my days tend to drag unless i’ve got something i can be doing. Odd chores, copying to be done, supplies needing to be grabbed from town etc. or even just a bike ride to the supermarket, all these things aren’t getting done because of the damned weather!

If i had the money i’d grab my rucksack, get my bike on the train, head to Liverpool Airport and grab the next flight to whereversville, somewhere not necessarily blazing hot, but you know, warm, calm, maybe with a great forest or something. Mind you, i suppose this is what everyone in England says at one point or another.

I should just make the most of the crap weather by going out and causing mischief while everyone’s stuck indoors, maybe…

Production line.

Production line., originally uploaded by AllOfUsAreLost.

Been out trying to find the best, cheapest photocopy-enlargements around Southport this week, as i had a pretty productive burst of creative energy last weekend.

Quite a few new sketches and images to be scaled up, detailed, and generally fleshed out into full finished works, and so i’ve had to bit-by-bit tidy areas of my studio in order to get anything done.
I started with my desk, because i needed my printer first things first, and it being clear really allowed me to get quite a few images produced in fairly rapid succession.

So yeah, gathered about 10 hq images ready to be full-sized, then i just need to scope where to stick them! That’s the fun part. Check the busy desk, and plenty of other images at my Flickr (links at the side, but the url is http://www.flickr.com/photos/allofusarelost/ )

Fun projects aside, i’ve finally dug out all my power tools etc. and so can begin on all the sculptures that are littering the far corners of my sketchbook. Rumour has it that the Gas Tower will be non-existent within the next fortnight, and so first on my agenda will be a series of smaller, but equally as epic Tower-pieces, which i’m pretty excited about. No idea where they’ll end up, but if you can imagine a cross between: Lifeguard towers from Baywatch, an AJ Fosik piece and a Treehouse made from scrap wood, then that’s half–way there!

Laters.

Well, haven’t we been busy.

Shico, more detail., originally uploaded by AllOfUsAreLost.

So here we are again, it’s the start of my summer break, which means that i’ve got around 2 months to try and fill!

Been a few weeks since the “I Art Southport” degree show, and i must say that it went pretty great, if i do say so. It was all very last minute, for me at least, rushing around trying to get everything perfect, looking like more of an art show than a room full of random objects. I think i pulled it off, just about… The Installation went up (and more importantly stayed up) with time to spare before everyone arrived, and once people were encouraged to actually step inside, i think it was a generally positive reaction. Most of the prints for my “Y So Azureus” piece, which i’d left for the taking, were snapped up. Still got 4 or 5 left that i could probably bundle in with anything i sell this summer, perhaps.

Anyway, the installation is since no more, tore it down in under 3 hours, which was satisfying after the months of labor that went into it! Managed to salvage a few scraps of wood, some of the better paintings, and more importantly, The Piano. Which is currently cluttering up my studio as we speak.

Tracking back, yes, it is summer now, officially for me. Gotta stave off the boredom / creative cobwebs, so i’ve been making my way through the stockpile of wood, panels, old paint and junk in the hopes of finding some beacons of inspiration. As yet, i’m still in a semi-lazy mood, but have some ideas which i think will turn out really great, if not at least be fodder for when i head back to Uni in September.

Recently i’ve been dabbling a fair bit in some ideas for actual street art, and while i’m not, and do not really care to be, a part of any graffiti scene, i am partial to some well executed wheat-paste pieces, and signage. So with that in mind i’ve been sketching up a selection of images for the streets, so keep a look out! I’ll post the odd image, but not any that i think will get me in trouble, gotta stay sensible. There’s plenty of wheat-pasters / fly poster-pasters around that manage to get stuff out without too much of an issue, so it can’t be too bad really.

But yeah, keep your eyes peeled for new wheat-paste characters / pieces around Southport, chances are you’ll know which ones are mine if you peek at my Flickr occasionally.

I’m gonna go back to working on some larger scale full-paintings, of which you can see an image of at the top.

As usual, check the Flickr, it gets updated a lot more frequently than my WordPress!!!

RIP Michael Jackson.

I don’t think that Michael Jackson’s death really hit me, until i watched his Memorial a few days ago.

The man was a living legend, perhaps the last of them. I never really cared for Elvis Presley, and the Beatles bore me to tears, but MJ was a hero, a superstar. Like they said, the worlds greatest entertainer. I’ve never been one of those insane fans, that’s just not me, but through all the crazy, crazy shit the guy pulled, i always considered myself on his side, and frankly i don’t regret it one bit. If people think that he was loved by so many because Thriller was awesome, or because he turned into a giant robot at the end of Moonwalker, well, you’d be half right, but if people were loved because of their ability to sing, dance, or turn into a robot, then the death of Optimus Prime would have been memorialised also.

I’m getting off track, but i just wanted to add what i had to say to the infinitely growing opinions scattered around the internet now. But these words will all live on, via some server somewhere holding them probably, but they’ll always be somewhere.

Anyway, yeah, the world seems an emptier place without Michael in it, probably more so once the whole shebang has died down in the media. I was lucky enough to witness the man in his prime, and be affected by what he brought to the world, and i’ll never forget him.

There’s a few MJ pieces that i’ve been putting together, as somewhat… public displays of my feelings. Keep your eyes peeled for some wheatpaste pieces around Southport, that may or may not have all been me, but i certainly approve of the message.

“For Dimensionalies.”

"For Dimensionalies."

Originally uploaded by AllOfUsAreLost

And so, i guess i made it to the end of another year of education!

This year has been pretty great, the sheer amount of weight from my shoulders from returning home for a year has made ALL the difference to me. Not to mention, the benefits of getting a student loan whilst being home are pretty awesome too.

Those factors, plus having a bunch of great, and trusting tutors has given me a *shitload* of freedom creatively, which i reckon i’ve used to good effect, or at least experimented accordingly!

I’ve never been much of a painter, always drawing things, or jamming bits and pieces together, but i got to stretch my painting skills quite significantly this year, not to mention printmaking and sculpture techniques. All of which i’m really jazzed about, because now that Summer’s here, i can get on with some of my own work (and actuallly have the time and energy to upload images on blog posts!)

So yeah, without further rambling. There’s a bunch of new images from my Degree Show, which was last Monday. Both Installation, and separate piece photographs, so you can sort of see how the puzzle/shack was put together. Just click through, and get onto my photostream! Apologies if you see anything that you might’ve thrown into a skip recently ^_^

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

A Distant Enemy.

A Distant Enemy.

Originally uploaded by AllOfUsAreLost

It’s still there, as is now a crane.
Clearly it was never meant to be my Everest, or if it was, there will never be anything again, so i missed it, and that saddens me.

I guess my search starts again.
I saw an abandoned building with a broken door the other day. It is my Everest now, and i’m pretty sure that it has a giant, beating heart inside, that maybe i have to kill, or at least draw on. You wanna go?

2009 Lives!

2009 Lives!

Originally uploaded by AllOfUsAreLost

Resolutions:

1. Clean shave ——————–DONE!!!
2. Try take 2 photos a day —–SO FAR SO GOOD!!!
3. Eat 50% less red meat —–ATE A SAUSAGE ROLL TODAY, OOPS!!!
4. Paint more ———————ROLL ON MONDAY!!!
5. Stop (Mum) smoking ——–FAILING!!!
6. Cheer the fuck up ————HELP ME, VIDEO GAMES!!!

2 days in, early days yet. Doing ok though.
Check out my 2009 mascot, Choegal!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3125/3155268523_69b46664dc_b.jpg

R.I.P. Woolworths.

R.I.P. Woolworths.

Originally uploaded by AllOfUsAreLost

Goodbye England’s rip-off Rose.

What he said.

What he said.

Originally uploaded by AllOfUsAreLost

Everyone have a good one?

Not updated on here for a while, the adapter for my Macbook FINALLY bit the big one and overheated/melted, and so i was sans-internet for the majority of the Holidays. Not to mention that my digicam was backed up more than i was from Christmas food!
(Go look at the digital-bukkake of my Flickr stream!)

Anyway, back now, and also back to classes on Monday, so plenty of photos and pictures of *actual work*, that’s right. I’ve been working on a series around “the blues”, not the music genre, the mood, sort’ve..
You’ll see, i think i’ve found a bit of niche imagery that could be real serious or a lot of fun. Hopefully both?
Stay tuned!