MH 001

Over the next few days I am working at the MH sample sale, so will be away from school work, however to keep things fresh, I made this mix CD, to listen to throughout the long few days. The tracks are as follows...

BRUCE GILDEN - 08/03/11

Bruce Gilden is a street photographer from New York. Yesterday he came into school to give us a talk about his work. Gilden is an unusual character, who is very loud and outspoken, with a think bronx accent, but never the less a very interesting and clearly clever man, who knows what he wants and go's and gets it...

TATE MODERN 06/03/11

Yesterday I made a trip to the Tate Modern to see what was going on there as I hadn't been for a little while. The first thing I wanted to see was the Ai Weiwei Piece Sunflower Seeds, which is made up of over 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds all handmade and the same, but each individual at the same time...

DUSTIN YELLIN - OSIRIS ON THE TABLE

Last week I went round a few galleries in the Hoxton area of east london, the first of which was the 20 Hoxton Square Projects which as the name says is located in Hoxton Square which was launched in 2007 by Alex Dellal...

TIME FOR TEA

Yesterday the unit 10 mid terms were looming, however the pdf was sent away and the presentations are this coming Thursday, now going to start thinking about next possible self initiated work, to move on from 'The Modern Gentleman' series.

B O A S

Blogging On A Sunday... Here we are, on a sunny sunday afternoon, today has been a successful day so far, in terms of work and in terms of finding things. Our resident sculptor BH has found us a new table and chairs for outside which in the words of Jean Paul Sartre is 'tres bon', means we can sit on something other than the floor now. ARR is producing bright objects left, right and centre. NF is eating some lovely home made sunday dinner somewhere in the depths of london, so all in all a good sunday so far.

BASQUIAT

The late Jean Michel Basquiat was an unknown graffiti artist living on the streets of New York, rising up to being the darling of New Yorks art critics in 1981. I have been looking at a lot of Basquiat's work recently, everything thing he did from being the graffiti artist samo to the critically acclaimed artist Jean Michel Basquiat...

BEAUTIFUL LOSERS

This is a documentary film about that focuses on the careers and work of a collective group of artists who since the 1990s began a movement in the art world using D.I.Y. aesthetics from skateboarding, graffiti and underground music such as punk rock and hip-hop. The artists discussed and interviewed in the film include...

BANKS VIOLETTE

Banks Violette is a artist based in New York, his style is amazing, intergrating his stark, clean output, compared with his dark subjects that he bases his work upon. His work is such a nice thing to look at, with the range of lighting and usually some form of glossy black surface and ghostly white areas.

2011

2011 the year to concentrate on all things design, art, fashion, life, politics, health and anything that is anything. Its going to be an exciting few months, with hopefully a great outcome, here we go...

METAL RESTORES

I walked past this shop sign a few weeks ago now, I almost forgot about it, but i was looking back through my photos and there it was. I found it walking down a road in Camden, it is a wonderful street, with lots of little houses along a cobbled road, think they must be artist spaces, however this sign is fantastic. Done by...

ANTONY CROOK

Antony Crook is a great photographer based in manchester, he has taken some amazing photos, both of people and places, he captures a real atmosphere within these photos which is amazing, he shot all the new stuff for a new magazine called the rig out and the photos are on his website, there is just one displayed...

CY TWOMBLY

Cy Twombly is a great artist from america, I really like his fluent style of work, it looks so haphazard, however there is a flow within it, great work, quite graphic within its style too.

SARDINES

Here is the second piece of great packaging to an ongoing list, this is a really strange one, due to the fact you find it in Sainsburys, and pretty much with every other piece of packaging they do they have made it into something very commercial and either boring or garish, however they have kept the essence of the...

DARK DAYS

A while ago I watched a film with a few friends called Dark Days directed by Marc singer, it is a documentary about the lives of these squatters who live in the underneath the subway in New York, next to the train tracks, and films their stories of childhood, jail time, losing loved ones, drugs and many other things, at the...

LOUISIANA

I was just looking through some past flyers and things i have picked up over the last year or so, and one of the things that was there, was this great little booklet from a museum in Copenhagen, called the Louisiana I was there with friends at easter, Copenhagen is a fantastic place and good times were had there, anyway...

FILOSOFO

Was out yesterday around Roman Road, just trawling the pound shops, as you do... and the market was being cleared up, I saw on top of one of the bins this great box, which was left by one of the fruit and veg stands, I was drawn to the logo on the side, so decided to pick it up and take it home, it lead to a...

SARAH CHARLESWORTH STUDIO

When i was in New York this summer i went to the Guggenheim Museum which is a fantastic building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, however when i went it was a show called Haunted, which was connected to contemporary photography and video and how it seems to be haunted by the past, by ghostly apparitions that...

BREAKING THE MOULD

I find this picture fascinating, not only because the man in the photo is a very interesting looking man, but the way his face has been dissected by these red lines and circles with handwriting all over the place, not dissimilar to something you would see in a butchers. However i think the contrast of the black and white photo...

APOLIS VIETNAM

Here is a company named Apolis, they are a company that are all about empowering people through oppotunity instead of charity, they co create products with manufacturers which directly allows the market to determine the future of each item. So for each season they go somewhere new in the world and collaborate with...