Wash Me

Sunshine Garage

Artful Dodger-Movin' Too Fast

Tina Moore (Artful Dodger Remix)- Never Gonna Let You Go

arch4lyfe

I worked on an archaeological excavation for 6 weeks. Well, I just wrote a blog for it. It was all very interesting and exciting. You can check it all out here:

http://manorlodgedig.blogspot.com/

We went and saw this unbelievable, super good film called 'BLACK DYNAMITE'. It was potentially the funniest film I have ever seen. I was in stitches and so was the entire cinema. It was a michael take of Blaxploitation films. Check this trailer out:



And how is this for an advert?

I like Lego

I really like Lego. I also really like football. Disappointment is one way to describe how I felt on Saturday.

I like Lego Football. Or Lego Fussball as it is called.

Look at this website.

http://www.legofussball.eu/

The Sienna Family - Swagga Wagon

I watched this about a month ago.

I think it's clever.

I also like the virals which lead up to this. They remind me of the sort of humour in Arrested Development which is in my top 3 tv shows ever.

Flamingos

Since my last blog post I have been mega busy. I have completed my second year of an english degree, organised an exhibtion and got myself a place at advertising school. Boom.

The good news:

Brooklyn Brothers liked my entry for thier first Brotherhood internship competition. Not enough to give me the internship, but they have asked me if they can publish my entry in a newspaper of the best entries.

IPA shortlisted me for their summer scholarship. I couldn't make the interview because I had essays galore that day due in. I also decided it best not to go because firstly I don't want to waste their time and secondly, I am a scholarship kid for the School of Communication Arts 2.0 and need to make some euros so I can move down to London in September. I will be posting all the stuff I get up to at SCA when I am there. I am so excited. I am going to be a creative. I cannot wait.

I have a job this summer writing a blog for an archeological dig. I will post links here.

A tiny photo of my picnic blanket was in Creative Review.

The Bad News:

I have mutilated my toenail in a freak metal door accident in france. It has turned a lovely shade of purple currently unavailable on a dulux paint chart. It turns out I will lose the toenail. No sandals this summer for me.

In other news:

I have started putting together a selection of dating profiles for unstable animals. Check out Dawn at the top of this post. This started off as a birthday card for my friend Becci. It turned into 4 hours of drawing animals and making up stories for them.

I need to find somewhere to live in London from September. Help?

Hula Hoop

Can you hula hoop without a hula hoop?

Fake Hen Night

That thing called my sister came up to stay so I threw her a fake hen night. A group of us went out with fake L Plates on. I sat there for hours colouring in L's with permanent red marker and attaching string. I gave everyone a name and in an attempt to make it as cheesy as possible, I wrote ridiculous song lyrics on the back, generally containing some sort of innuendo. (sp?) I was Dane Bowers.

Note to Self

By a printer.

By a printer with a scanner.

Observations

This is a photograph of a page from my latest scrap book. It is about my Grandpa Bruce aka Gramps.

The text says: "This is my Grandpa Bruce. I actually love him but he fell out with me because I like socialism. He doesn't really get jokes. He is 80 years old and had a party. There was strippers and flamingos serving absinthe. He is a nutter."

Obviously flamingos didn't serve absinthe. And there wasn't a single stripper in sight. It would just be hilarious if that was truth.

This is another page. It's about my dislike for Ugg boots and leggings. I don't understand why people wear ugg boots in the rain as 'practical footwear'. They are fabric.

This is a photograph I took when I must have been about 11. I miss disposable cameras. I love it how people think children are stupid enough to use a rock as a mobile phone!

Storying Sheffield

Storying Sheffield is potentially the best learning I have EVER done. We are working with residents from Sheffield who have not been to university and may not have had the chance to go. Students are working with these residents to produce stories, artifacts, pieces of art, film, recordings and so much more. This course is like no other in the country that I have heard of. There is so much beauty in it. 2 groups of people that would never meet have joined to make this fantastic team. University students have approached this course with such sensitivty and maturity. These people that we are working with are fascinating and have opened the students eyes wide. It has so much personality. And the beauty lies within the way we are working together, the home made feel of what we are producing, the love, care, and time that has gone into everything. What I have personally gained from it is so valuable. I am allowed to think creativly and without limitations. I am not judged for the strange way my brain works but instead encouraged. I have learnt so much about the way I work individually and with others. I have never enjoyed learning this much. It challenges me. I have also met the most interesting tutor I have ever come into contact with in all my years of education. A tutor that has the power to hold my attention and make me feel supported.

Above is some felt letters that I stuck to a piece of card. This took me ages because I kept getting the letters stuck to myself. I have now mastered the art of felt letters and super strong glue.

Below is a logo that I have made on my best friend 'Illustrator'. It needs touching up but I feel it represents the course.

We are having an exhibition of all the work.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=116110885083483&ref=ts

I am helping to oversee the organisation and sorting out of the exhibition. I have been given the chance to exercise my skills like organising a group of people, delegating roles, etc as well as submitting some of my work and things. This project is so exciting. It makes me buzz.

Brackles

Above is a photograh of Brackles that I took at Big Chill. I think it is mint

Below is a picture of the crowd during Ramadanman and Brackles' set. You can spot some of my friends.

Nigel B.I.G

For Nigel's birthday I wanted to get a t-shirt with his face printed on it but ran out of time. Instead I made a medallion with his face on and attached it to a chain. I made different people wear it at different points throughout the night and took pictures of them wearing it. Initially it freaked Nigel out a bit. He now thanks me for doing it.

Nigel Medallions are not for sale but can be costumed made.

This is a photograph that I took at Big Chill of my best friend Nigel. He is really great. We have done a radio show on Tuesday nights together for the past year and a bit. We talk all sorts of stuff, mainly electronic music. We once had a 20 minute conversation about what seagull would taste like. And on Tuesday we talked for ages about the possibilty of chasing the end of a rainbow and fighting with Leprachaun's for the pot of gold.

Check our radio show, Tuesday Beats and Pieces (Tuesday Nights 9.30-11pm) out here:

http://www.forgetoday.com/

Diagonal Thinking

News In: I am not just weird and a bit left like everyone thought. I am actually a diagonal thinker. I did a test on the IPA website and have a shiny certificate to prove it. I scored HIGH. I'm unsure whether this means that a VERY HIGH score was available, but i'll take HIGH. Apparently it means i'm very well suited to the advertising agency. Cheers IPA.

Mobiles

I made this for one of my modules. It is a prototype mobile with some objects attached with string. It is made out of cutlery in honour of Sheffield being the steel city.

It was attached to a light fixture in our kitchen. I removed for fear it would fall on someones head.

21

Geez. I'm 21. I had a meal with my family which resulted in potentially one of the best meals of my life. All sorts of debauchery, laughter, more laughter. MINT. Then the next night with a killer hang over and about 3 hours sleep I had a birthday party. It was an RnB feast for the ears. Loads of Mya, Usher, Tweet, 112, etc. It was amazing. I made some decorations for it. You know the paper chain people that you can cut out and they are all holding hands when you pull apart the paper? Well I did that. But they were paper chain people with a difference. There were men in top hats, kings, queens, mermaids, cowboys and more. I cut them out of white paper and stuck them on a black wall. It looked insane and I am a twat for not taking a picture. I have kept all the people that my friends decorated.

Above is a picture of most of my flat mates, my baby sister, myself and Will, Rob and Ben who all came up form Kent for the party. This was the best brithday present ever.

Milk Shelf

In a previous blog I mentioned that myself and Will had gone for a picnic in Vietnam in a supermarket. Here is a picnic blanket that I made that I have sewn the whole story onto. It took a painstakingly long amount of time but I am pretty much really proud of it. He likes it too.

It needs an iron.

46% Recycled

We had a party back in October and the theme was making our clothes out of recyclable goods. We had some genius walk through our doors that night. Someone wore a box, another wore a suitcase, others were head to toe in bin bags and duck tape.

I decided to wrap the sofa and chairs in newspaper. I took this a step further and wraped my bed in cling film and tin foil.

Dave The Angry Ferret Pt.1

During Easter Break my friend James Kay caught some scally trying to break into his student abode in York. We had a chat about incresing security. The tyical options of digging a moat arose, guard dogs and I suggested firing really angry ferrets out of cannons to attack these breaker inners. As a result of this chat and bored with essay writing I started to make this story about an angry ferret named Dave. Part 2 will be available during the forthcoming essay/exam period.

Here are some reviews:

Dane Bowers: Really good. Cannot wait for the rest.

Timmy Dutch: Are you three?

Waterstones: 5 Stars

David Blunkett: Superb.

Kathryn Littlewood: Pissed my pants

I'd like to thank my beautiful housemates for helping me get through the stress of writing with my left hand.

Washing

During an imagination exercise in class we were asked to do several things:

1) Imagine and draw our childhood room

2) Imagine and draw a room that we would like to write in

3) Imagine and draw/write about a person we don't know and create their story

4) Imagine someone we know and write/draw them

For the imagining a fictional character I was stuck. Then I caught a whiff of my hair and the conditioner I was using (fresh) and immediately started thinking about a washing machine. The coldness of the metal. The feel of when you run your hand along it, it sticks and stops. (that makes my toes curl). I imagined that this washing machine would be sad. Abused and damaged. That it would hate odd socks. Here is what I drew.

It's My Party

I've made a party political broadcast for an opportunity in Advertising. Mint. Vote at this link.

http://schoolcommunicationarts.com/party.html?sca/party/wwws

Area Codes

I really like maps. I know it's a fairly strange thing to like, but I just do. They are brilliant for wrapping paper or wall decoration, and navigation. In the most recent Creative Review there is an article about strange maps. For more go to: http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/ They are really good.




This is a map published in 1833 by Carey & Hart, and is drawn by Joseph & James Churchman and IW Moore. Here America is represented as an eagle/dove.

I think this one is the best. In Ludacris' song he claims to have lots of 'hoes' in differing area codes which basically means he is a SLUT. Here Stephen Gray has actually made a map penning all of Ludacris' claims of having different 'hoes' in different states. I think it's brilliant.

Pulling Muscles

When I procrastinate from doing work or in this case revision I tend to dance around my room for hours. I think my personal best is six hours straight to Beyonce which was my designated essay writing time. I tend to dance around my room also when I get in from a night out. I have a bit too much energy and generally need to knacker myself out to sleep. I somehow manage to pull muscles. For example I have 2 Beyonce muslces from attempting some of her dance moves and a Wham! muscle in my foot from falling over dancing to Wham!- I'm Your Man. In a few words, I am an absolute idiot.

As a child I did gymnastics for years. I could do all sorts of crazy flips and body shifting shapes. I was rather talented at Rhythm Gymnastics which basically means you run about with a piece of ribbon. I used to take my hobbie home with me and make up routines to anything in my parents music collection. The Best of Belinda Carlisle Volume One has a seperate routine to every song and a home video exists where myself and my sister Imogen are dancing around to Runaway Horses, except I keep pushing her out of the camera frame and telling my mum to watch me. Exhibitionist? Probably? Anyway. I made up this routine to Summer Rain when I must have been about 5. I just tried it. I have pulled a muscle in my leg from doing the splits. It hurts. ALOT.

I JUST Love Hip-Hop

I'm currently in the midst of exam period. I handed in two essays last week and am now currently covered in green and blue felt tip as I attempt to learn a whole module for an exam next wednesday. Great. I've spent 4 or 5 hours making colourful notes on nominalizations, Boyle, and drawing pictures of science apparatus.

What is getting me through this is the INSANE playlist I have made. I love hip-hop. I JUST LOVE HIP-HOP. I think my love started back when Coolio-Gansta's Paradise came out back in the 90's. I remember sat on rainy days in a holiday house in Devon with the Slovakian opere (spelling?) watching MTV Bass and it being on repeat. I love the drum beats like in N.Y State of Mind by Nas, the dirty basslines like Hip Hop by Dead Prez, the lounge bar style-ness of stuff like Feelin by Q-Tip, and the clever clever rhyming and metre like in records by Pharoahe Monch, Immortal Technique, Notorious B.I.G, and so on. I think this is why I constantly attempt to rap my life. EG "Jumanji, Jumanji, I quite like Jumanji but not as much as Jurassic Park One". Or whilst trying to write an essay I came up with this; "I bought a cheese selection what a bad idea, see I'm dairy intolerant and now I'm plagued with the fear (of being ill). So I made some soup, to keep out the cold, only written 100 words today this essay is getting old. Minestrone. Brap. My day in rap." In fact. My whole time at middle school, I was rubbish at competetive sport so was placed on the side lines because I was loud. A girl from my year made a video and all the shots are of the other girls playing netball and hockey, maybe even tennis and the only shot is of me rapping on the side lines.

The video attached is currently my favourite hip hop track. It's Life from Phi Life Cypher and it's called Call Me Money. The best line is "hard to gain and easy to lose like an anorexics waist".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGrjkDi4uEc


My essential Hip-Hop artists are: Notorious B.I.G, De La Soul, Roots Manuva, A Tribe Called Quest, Life, Phi Life Cypher, Eric B & Rakim, Foreign Beggars, Jehdi Mind Tricks, People Under The Stairs, Cypress Hill, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Lords of the Underground, Skinny Man, Jehst, Poisonous Poets, Jurassic 5, Boogie Down Productions, Gangsta, Dilated Peoples, MOP, Beatnutes, KRS-One, Lanu, The Roots, Mantronix, Dj Format, Mf Doom, Danger Doom, Nas, Dirty Diggers, Slick Rick, TM Juke, Public Enemy, Everlast, N.W.A, The Fugees, The Pharcyde, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Meyou, Q-Tip, Ice Cube, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Immortal Technique, Pharoahe Monch, Lotek, Ugly Duckling, Wu Tang Clan, Mos Def, Cunninlynguistics, Masta Ace, Murs, Cannibal Ox, Souls of Mischief, Dr Dre, Snoop Dog, Mobb Deep, The Cool Kids, Big Daddy Kane, Big L...

Club Jodie

I really struggle with my degree because it is not only boring, but there is no room for creativity. Instead I spend hours sticking pictures I like into my sketch books or making friends birthday cards. Here is a card I just made. It's young whipper-snapper Jodie's birthday night tonight and we are throwing some shapes down DQ at Club Pony/Suckerpunch. She likes Club Pony so I have made a Club Jodie poster/card for her birthday. It's based on the actual poster for this night, but it's a much wanker version. Infact you can see how bad I am at drawing. I just like the glitter nose bleed. The Glitter Glue writing looks a bit dodgy and I am concerned that it will not dry in time, and you can't actually see that her hair is coloured in purp. (abbreviation or abbrev for purple)

I'd like to thank John Peel for his FabricLive 07 for getting me through the trauma of going out to buy prit stick in this Sheffield rain weather. 'Needle in a Haystack' by The Velvettes=YES.

Covert Filming

Beyonce and salad cream are my life. I think she is incredible. I love her album I Am...Sasha Fierce. It's insane and I love it so much that my blog is called I Am...Bonnie Tyler. Bonnie Tyler being my alter ego?? This is a bit of covert filming I did in a kitchen of my friends singing, nay SCREAMING 'Listen' from the B-Day album/Dreamgirls soundtrack. We sound like a collection of alley cats in a garbage can. It's horrendously out of tune, screechy and deafening.

I am currently trying to co-ordinate Beyonce: The Ballet. It's going to be a number of Beyonce moves which I have mastered after spending hours dancing to her music, with demi-pilets and skipping.

Two Three Year Old Girls Threw Up Some Glitter

I LOVE ARTS AND CRAFTS. In a BIG way. If I could i'd spend my whole day making things. Trouble is, like a small child I get so excited that I have to take nap breaks. This is an example of my arts and craft genius. Amy and I made this card for our friend Big Bad Bernie for his birthday. It's a magical garden complete with a gold-fish, magic apple, starbucks coffee stirer fence (with a pig sty as an entrance), a Unicorn and other exciting things like a bridge guarded by a parking attendant. It is like two three year old girls threw up some glitter.

Bussage's Creative Dream Team

This is Ty my friend. We went to primary school together from the age of 9 or 10 and tried to initiate a school reunion over the Christmas period. It didn't really work out. I think the members of Mrs Attwood's Class of 2000 are still traumatised by the 1999 Nativity Play. Boys covered in blue singing a song which is actually about being gay...odd school? YES. Back to Ty: He is probably the best graphic designer I have EVER met. He is such a talented advertiser, illustrator and general creative thinker. I looked through all of his work over the break and didn't realise he was that good. Even his typography and I think typography is a bore-off. He is currently in Barcelona doing a semester out there at some art/design uni. Ty has literally taught me everything I know about illustrator and trends in advertising. We can always be sure that we will have great chats about creative stuff. And mental off the wall ideas about life and art.

I'd like to show you his website but it's "under-construction". Instead this is his favourite designer: http://www.emilkozak.com/

Emil Kozak writes: Imagination can defy gravity and bend time. I like this alot. I think life wouldn't be worth living without imagination.

In this picture we are at Big Chill and we are a mess.

"Are We Living Below the Poverty Line?"

I live in a flat of 10 students. It is generally always loud. Especially when there is a fire alarm or building work happening directly under your head. Like every household, we have our problems. We never have any loo roll, clean cutlery or plates and we have a severe lack of condiments.

Bigger, Better, More Productive

Here is my proudest work...BIGGER. Thanks Ty. Last blog URL is http://iambonnietyler.blogspot.com for interesting blogs about killing cows, and other fun stuff.

Supermarket Picnics

I discovered this bottle of cider next to some paracetemol in Tesco's of Ecclesall Road one night. That was the night I almost wet myself laughing. It reminds me of being a kid and eating packets of crisps whilst wondering the aisles with my Mam when I was a kid on school holidays. LONG. It also reminds me of being 13 and liking cider...so much so I once drank some underneath a desk at school. This was the school which if caught drinking you could get expelled! The next day I definitily needed the paracetemol.

Do people actually just walk round supermarkets drinking oversized bottles of piss?

Then again. I did once sit on a milk shelf in Vietnam eating Oreo's and drinking chocolate soya milk. I was bored of Big C, which is like Asda on Speed if you can imagine that. The next week, myself and best friend Will decided to actually stage a picnic after the milk shelf experience. We got dressed in 'picnic clothes' which basically meant that we looked like dicks. We freaked out when they took our picnic blanket at the security checks as you enter, and thought that the security guards were all wathcing us. We secretly shovelled some bread and cheese into our mouths. Hidden behind some beer crates. It was rank. In the picture we are very sweaty after a power cut and both have terrible hair.

Start Caring 2010

I had another blog before with my best friend Amy but we both forgot the password. Mainly we are idiots and didn't write it down. Here is the second.

The word 'resolutions' (like 'promises') scares me especially the words 'New Years Resolutions'. Instead of this, Amy and I have created Start Caring 2010. It is mainly a way to get us to care about our degrees. This has been something I have personally struggled with because I don't want to know about sociolinguistic patterns, science writing or Welsh Language decline. This project is to make me go to lectures, seminars, read more and generally take an interest in linguistics. I promise to start caring...soon?

Essentially Start Caring can be applied to anything in life, eg Start Caring 2010: Recycling? or Start Caring 2010: Dolphin Friendly Cat Food? or Start Toning 2010? or Start Appreciating Your Mother 2010? or Start Caring About Your Future Career 2010? Literally Endless. The beauty of it is that a New Years resolution has to be started in the New Year. Start Caring 2010 means you have a whole year to do it. MINT.

I did the logo all by myself on illustrator with the help of Ty. Perhaps my proudest moment other than when I won a whole school talent show for singing Britney Spears- Sometimes. Unfortunately I have no technical ability and somehow when saving the image of two kittens (Amy is on the left, I am on the right) sat on a book, it got really small. If anyone can solve this for me...i'd like that.