Have you seen the 2012 summer festival line-ups? Some cracking stuff going on. I've thought long and hard but my festival of choice this year is Suffolk-based festival of music, comedy, arts, coloured sheep and general strange-goings on, AKA Latitude. Check it out.
Rach x
If you're stuck for a Bank Holiday activity for this weekend, pop down to Yorkshire Sculpture Park and witness sculpture - live.
Artist Florence Peake is coming to Yorkshire to conduct the live build and then deconstruction of a monolithic structure before the eyes of a live audience. The build/performance begins at 17.00, is FREE to attend and will last for about an hour, with refreshments available (theatre-style).
http://www.ysp.co.uk/events/florence-peake-make
'22 Stories'
Apparently it doesn't matter which Hollywood film you look at, the plot will follow one of these 22 stories. See here for the full shebang. Using this model, my analysis tells me this:
1. Transformers = a classic 'Monster'
2. The Rock = somewhere between 'Quest' and 'Pursuit'
3. Gran Torino is another classic, this time of 'Maturation'. Albeit 'Maturation' with slight hints of 'Tragedy'
4. Zombieland, whilst an amazing tale, involving 'Escape', 'Maturation', 'Discovery' and 'Rescue', is ultimately a total 'Underdog'.
Rachel x
PS I hardly need point out that our 5th learning is my questionable taste in films.
Quote from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure + embroidery = a total gem
Rachel x
We’ve recently been talking about revamping the office and with so much of our lives spent here the actual design decisions have been difficult to agree on. Some of us want it clean, modern, clinical and open and others want their own little personalised nook to escape into. Needless to say we’re undecided.
Anyway, there are lots of ideas on the go at the moment and I wont steal Ian’s thunder by revealing them but during my digging and researching I have come across some really clever and interesting concepts/ products I thought I would share with you.
Firstly, storage! If you are anything like us, you will keep EVERYTHING. We all have desks filled with books, files, toys, images, clients work, clients products etc and we all have the same problem of running out of space to put our laptop or notepad. We do already have a studio that is lined with bookshelves which helps and I love bookshelves. I love the look of them, how they show just the spine of the book and create beautiful patterns and shapes. That’s the great thing about the kinds of books that are relevant to designers.. they all tend to be beautiful or at least interesting and unusual.
The following images are of a plain white bookcase referenced only as the Italian Fitting Bookcase. (Unfortunately the blog I found this in didn’t say who makes it or designed it! Doh!) I think you could pretty much do this with any modular shelving system but I really liked the idea that you can take a regular bookcase and use it in different ways. I am also a sucker for white bookcases on white walls.
And then of course the classic but just as sexy.... thats right sexy!
Coral x
When it comes to art, I have a fairly simple philosophy. I either like it or I don't. I am really not into the pretentiousness that is commonly associated with the art world, I just like looking at stuff that gives me some sort of reaction, be that confusion, laughter, cringing, so long as it gauges a response. The same sort of reactions I got when seeing some of Erwin Wurm's work on a blog recently. If I were to put my art hat on for a second I guess I would describe it as Modern Surrealism?... whatever it is it's great.
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Guy
Sorry about the headline, I regret it instantly...
Coral
This week i've found myself quite inexplicably emotionally charged and for me that's always great time to get my pencils out. I've not really needed to concentrate on one subject matter or medium to get over this random creative attack, instead I've just been drawing whatever comes into my head. Today that was a key entwinned in a ribbon. This took me about 30 mins (during our allocated blogging hour) and is drawn with a regular pencil and 0.5 pilot ball point! I hope you like.
This weekend i've booked myself on a black & white photography course too so will report back with some shots on Monday!
Coral x
To celebrate the wonderful white winter we are having I've sought out some of the funniest snowmen pictures I can find. Get creative and send us your photos!
1: Dead Snowman
2: Hide and Seek
3: Run away!! Run away!!
4: All tied up
4: Snowman massacre!
5: Snowmen take over the world!
Coral
