A short piece I designed & directed at Picasso Pictures for Reach Out - one of several shorts using the experiences of real teenagers dealing with various issues.
Produced by Melissa Venet at Picasso Pictures
(huge thanks to Sophie Lodge for CGI & motion tracking)
You can see it in higher quality here
http://vimeo.com/15625083
Friday 8 October 2010
Thursday 7 October 2010
Live painting @ Graffik 6th October
The exhibition at the Graffik Gallery on Portobello Road concluded with a really fun live painting session in the backyard where myself & Lewis Campbell shook paint at each other & generally had a great night. Big thanks to Lewis for letting me show some work in his exhibition, everyone at Graffik, & everyone who came along to see the work!
You can see more of Lewis' work here
http://www.lostmonkey.eu/
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Saturday 2 October 2010
The Guardian - Michael Holden's All Ears 2nd October
I seem to have been drawing a lot of animal / bus concoctions of late...must be something in the air...I research my demographics very thoroughly you know*
(*possibly a fib)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/oct/02/michael-holden-all-ears
(Article by Michael Holden)
At a bus stop around 5pm two women, acquainted by their journey home, were discussing the lateness of the previous day's transport, a trip that one of them had missed out on and whose details the other eagerly relayed.
Woman 1 "Well it was packed."
Woman 2 "Because of the delay?"
Woman 1 "Because of the delay, so I had to go upstairs."
Woman 2 "I can't get up there any more. My legs won't have it."
Woman 1 "Well I'm not keen, but of course, once you get up there, the view looks very different, you see all kinds of things."
Woman 2 (sceptical) "Maybe."
Woman 1 "Up by London Road, you can see into one of the gardens, and there's two Shetland ponies kept there!"
Woman 2 "No!"
Woman 1 "Just there in the garden."
Woman 2 "You'd think the RSPCA would get involved."
Woman 1 "Well you wonder. I wondered if maybe the person had some land somewhere and they were just resting them there, I don't know."
Woman 2 (having none of it) "You'd think the animal rights would be on to them."
The bus arrived.
Woman 1 "We can sit upstairs if you like, maybe they're still there."
Woman 2 (after due consideration) "No."
I went to the upper deck, scanned backyards for tiny horses and saw none. And by the time my stop came the women had gone, too. Still, I have my mission for the autumn now – find the ponies. Exactly the kind of futile obsession that makes life bearable.
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Monday 27 September 2010
Saturday 25 September 2010
3 day art exhibition
I'm showing a couple of pieces of work as part of this group exhibition at the Graffik Gallery 284 Portobello Road, London from 4th - 6th October
If you're interested in coming e-mail guestlist@graffiklondon.co.uk for entry
More details on the Facebook page here
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=119175494804077
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The Guardian - Michael Holden's All Ears 25th September
as they say...It's all done with computers these days, I just press a button then f*** off for a massage & a cocktail usually...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/sep/25/michael-holden-all-ears
(Article by Michael Holden)
It was All Ears' good fortune to be in New York last week, feeding bread into a rotary toaster at a breakfast buffet, when two young lions of the leisure industry – all shirts and laptops – joined the queue behind me.
Man 1 (clearly in awe of his subject) "We have quarterly meetings, and he's nothing but questions."
Man 2 (of the same opinion) "That's why these guys are who they are. He was an account manager at Morgan Stanley. They see things we don't see."
Man 1 "He's way down in the weeds. We were meeting and he starts asking how the chambermaids know when the room is checked out."
Man 2 "Shit!"
Man 1 "That's what I'm talking about. He doesn't have to worry about that."
Man 2 "But he does!"
Man 1 "Exactly. These guys are spinning stuff around and we don't even feel the motion."
Man 2 (rightly puzzled) What do you mean?"
Man 1 "They're way out there."
Man 2 (like that helped) "Right."
Man 1 "You can't learn that shit. It's instinctive."
Man 2 "The success instinct."
Man 1 "Damn right."
Man 2 "So what did you say?"
Man 2 "About the chambermaids."
Man 1 "Oh right. Well how the fuck would I know? I said I'd get back to him."
Man 2 "So how do they know?"
Man 1 "I don't know. I haven't asked yet."
Man 2 "Don't they just knock on the door, or phone the desk?"
Man 1 "No. I'm guessing there's computers involved."
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