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Winter

I wish I cared about christmas this year. But I don't.

Infact I wish I cared a bit more about everything this year but I don't.

These ducks were nice. That's about it.

Thanks?

So my mum recently went to Dubai and brought me back a present. These two Salt and Pepper holders. Interesting. I especially like the one on the right. Elton John with a tea-towel on his head. They'll be the first thing I see when I wake up every morning.

Louis Khan

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

future us. future dust

Head Section

London Wall Site Sketch Model

1:20 sketch model of my site at London Wall. It's a really rough sketch model it was a long process of creating it and I want to use a more aesthetic material and spend more time being more precise with the measurements. It was just a model to show the tutors I have experimented and looked into my site context.

London Wall Site

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Open Wide

Performance

This is serious art, try not to laugh. Our HomeKit performance consisted of 5 groups with a 15 minute time slot. We rehearsed all day monday and worked out entrance times for each person within our group, as well as adjusting the sound track and lighting. Although we had 15 minutes performance time I personally felt our performance would be more effective if condensed into 5-10 minutes. It took several goes for us to all to agree on how long it should be but it ended on roughly 7 minutes. Although extremely scared all morning, and dreading walking around with my cheeks pinned back dribbling toothpaste everywhere, when it came down to it it was really enjoyable and everything went to plan.

Home Kit Final

Finally finished my Homekit device. After many deisgn faults, trials and testing, it actually works. Introducing my multifunctional teeth and ear cleaning device. Using a cheek retractor to pry open my cheeks, water is forced through a small tube by a squeezing right hand motion, whilst the left hand uses a forward and back motion to lever the brushes in and out of my mouth, and back and forth along my ears. (The ear motion unfortunately doesn't quite 'clean' to my original expectations but I think people will get the gist). Our performance is tomorrow afternoon, and am cringing already at the thought of people watching me look like (to be honest) a bit of an idiot. It wasn't my plan to make people laugh (at me) but I cant change it now! I'm photographing the device this week where photos of it in motion will be shown my clearly.

Materials: 1mm steal sheet metal, 8mm steal tube. 3mm metal rod. Plastic tubing and teeth cleaning materials.

Homekit

Some REALLY basic photos of my design process in the workshop.

Watch this space for a final product.

So I really like this. Weird. But nice.

Columbia Road

After moving into our new house a few months back, I've led a very sheltered life in the borough of Hackney, trying not to venture down roads I don't know, afraid of the chance of being approached by a group of vertically challenged teenagers with hoods and a dirty potty mouth, I tend to stick to what I know. Last weekend I went with a friend to Columbia Road Flower Market, which was quite possibly the nicest Sunday I've had in forever. The back roads weaved onto a busy streets full of little vintage shops, buskers, antique stores and furniture shops. It was like we'd stepped into another city. It was amazing.

Miwa Matreyek

thanks Elliot.

To my beautiful Jess

This picture doesn't do you justice, and the more I stare at it, the more I think it doesn't look like you. Happy Birthday. Your my angel. My guardian. Thanks for being my number one fan.

Polytechnic

Went to a really nice exhibition the other day at Raven Row. The current exhibition Polytechnic is a collaboration of video, installation and slide works produced between the seventies and eighties by artists experimenting and trying to understand the different relationships of narrative. The works ranged from autobiographical accounts, TV, diaries, history, sexuality and murder. I found it a really interesting cinematic experience. Above are some stills that stood out more. Susan Hiller (2nd down) portrays 'monument' through an audio guide and a visual installation of victorian gravestones. Each slab gives a brief description of how they died, all of which died saving the lives of someone else. One slab read 'Strive to be your own hero'. I really liked this piece. The audio was captivating and I found myself sitting there for ages staring at the slabs in a trance. The other works below Hiller's are Catherine Elwes, Stuart Marshall and Ian Breakwell.

Chirs and Viv.

Sunday 10th October 2010- 3.17pm

Conversation with two homeless guys Chris and Viv sitting on the Church green.

Chirs I need to pee. where can I pee. I'm bushing it.

Cackles

you like bruce sprinstein? Neil Young? did you go to Glastonburry?

Chris come with me to pee and watch for me

Cheers mate. You know Tony Wilson was a wanker. Joy Division? Don't get me started on Joy division. I havnt had enough alcohol yet, people like us don't normally wake up till 6pm, well I don't anyway. Us hackney people talk differently to Camden people. Hackney's a shithole.

Where are you from? Essex?

Yeah how did you know?

Just a guess. Cackles. What about you? Scottish? You got any Scottish in you?

Yeah I have actually

Scotland. Multicultural city. English are more racist than the Scottish. Everyones got money in Hackney.

Hackneys a shithole. Id rather live in Manchester than hackney.

I think your an orphan.

Why?

You wear orphan colours. Do you not ever think that your parents arn't your real parents?

No I've seen photos of my dad and he looks exactly like me when I was a child.Yyou know you should be in mental health, we need people like you.

All mental patients are short. have you noticed that?

It fucks you up. The chemicals. The workers drug our food with chemicals. Make you kill. You hears in your ear chop chop chop. The workers chop off peoples fingers.

Do you play drums?

Yeah I used to.

Does your dad play drums? He plays drums doesn't he.

No hes not that exciting i'm afraid.

You should be in a band. Call it OutCast city.

Why?

When your in the city your an outcast. When your in the rural your cosmopolitan. No not cosmopolitan you political. Political.

Joe Strummer was a good friend of mine. They planted a tree for him in Glastonbury.

You got the face of a footballer. you play footballer? You look like Steven Gerard. I fancy Steven Gerard. He's my Idol.

Chicago Boys. Serpentine.

really cute.

"why cant you just rock down the street with your cheeseburger hat its fun and it makes you feel good so why doesn't everyone do it"

topcat

This cat sits on these torn newspapers everyday round the corner from my uni. I love it.

HomeKit*

We have just joined our Chosen Platforms and our week task was to create an archive of A6 sketches and photos of everything to do with our topic. Our group was cleaning. I analysed my flatmates cleaning habits and what they did as their everyday routine. These are a few pieces I did. Our next task is to create a HomeKit device that incorporates all different aspects of cleaning into a compressed device/installation.

Rebecca Horne

Rebecca Horne is an artist I have looked at with her links to performance through sculpture and spatial installations. In the first performances, the body-extensions (above), she shows the equilibrium between body and space. Her later pieces, she replaces the human body with kinetic sculptures which take on their own life. Her new works define and cut through spaces with reflections of mirrors, light and music.