Loss of a Legend

One of the most talented and innovative designers, Alexander McQueen, found dead this morning. I can't believe it. True shock. He has been an inspiration to me since Secondary School, all through College, and still.

When I saw the facebook status. 'Alexander McQueen...Suicide! What!' I thought it must have been some kind of awful joke. But after a quick google search it appeared that it was true.

Such a shame. His last collection was in my opinion one of his greatest. So beautiful. It is a strange time to happen with Fashion Week just around the corner. I just can't believe it.

This is a statement from his Office:

"On behalf of Lee McQueen's family, Alexander McQueen today announces the tragic news that Lee McQueen, the founder and designer of the Alexander McQueen brand has been found dead at his home.

"At this stage it is inappropriate to comment on this tragic news beyond saying that we are devastated and are sharing a sense of shock and grief with Lee's family.

"Lee's family has asked for privacy in order to come to terms with this terrible news and we hope the media will respect this....The death is being treated as non-suspicious." This was taken from BBC News and you can read the whole article Here. R.I.P Lee McQueen.

Food Face

I spent some of today doing life drawing, I need to get better and do more drawing! I will post pictures when I get the camera lead, they're not the best but hopefully will be able to see the progress as I do more.

I can't sleep and have ended up deciding that after I graduate I am going to spend my time knitting foods like this:

http://catpantscraft.blogspot.com/2006/10/cup-cake.html

Whilst Adrian is driving us around in our future camper van on our American/Canadian amazing road trip that we want to do, we could end up with a bit of a knit food overload! Seems like the perfect past time that won't take up a lot of space! (Depending on how many food friends I end up knitting of course!) All I want to do at the moment is graduate and save up to go, but in reality I need to focus on the now and pass my degree. I can't help but get carried away with google though and picking out my dream camper van and accessories. There are some seriously cute ones out there. My favourite interior that I have found is from a caravan called 'Constance' -

How adorable?! My dream camper would indeed be decked out in Cath Kidson, but alas it will probably look more like this... Sad times!

I'm sure I have more important things to fit in my suitcase and bag than Cath Kidson accessories and lots of cushions, (or not), but I guess we will have to see how much money we manage to save up and go from there. I actually bookmarked a website that I found very reasonably priced campers on, far better than ebay, so nearer the time definitely going to be checking that out again! But if we're going to be living in it for a long while I would quite like it to be homely :)

Frilly Socks

These ventriloquist dolls had cute feet so I doodled them. They are from Marnie Weber's 'The Truth Speakers, Sea of Silence' at the Simon Lee Gallery in Mayfair - AMAZING exhibition!

You can check out her website here: http://www.marnieweber.com/

Too Far Gone

During September 2009 I did an internship at Current TV (Virgin Channel 155 and Sky Channel 13) - I did all sorts but they asked me if I could make a little clip to do with their upcoming feature 'Wasted Britain' on their show 'Brand Spanking New', since they knew that I had done animation/film and could use Final Cut Pro.

I have no idea about the song, it's from a free song section that Current have access to so that I could use sound that was allowed on TV.

I used a little flip cam to record the footage and then a tripod-less camera to take the stills. Not the best equipped but they still put it on TV despite the not-the-best quality! I think it sort of works with the theme anyway.

I was on TV also but luckily I have no evidence of that ;)

Hello Again

I had a bit of a time out from blogger.com because I got annoyed with the slow and unreliable video posting capabilities which seemed much easier on tumblr. But this does indeed seem more like a blog, so I have come crawling back, (after trying to use wordpress, and failing. I would rather not pay to upload a video thank you very much). So hello once again blogger.

New term, new start, new lease of blog life...

Also new life challenge as I have decided to try being vegetarian. I don't really like meat and the texture of most of it makes me want to vomit. I pretty much always choose the vegetarian option when I go to a restaurant so I figured I would see how it goes and see if I can control my drunk fried chicken urges.

I will try my best to update you Blogger! For now I am going to post a few things that I want to bring over from tumblr...

PICTOVISUAL - Private View Photos

I thought I would put up some photos from the Private View we held. Myself and a couple of friends organised it and we had 26 artist's work. It was a very stressful and emotional time but it was the best feeling ever once it was all done and the Private View opened! Definitely worth it and I think I handled the stress and drama pretty well. One of the best experiences. We had alcohol sponsorship which was also fun...

It was such a help that our little curation team were so amazing and we worked so well together. Definitely would work with these girls on another project. Special thanks to Gabi and Kat, sticking out the cold every day, you're the best!

Depths of the Ocean

I love drawing hair and decided to try and tackle it in a different way, starting with facial hair. Since I am usually quite straightforward, I thought I would experiment with lots of mark making of hair and some of these included charcoal rubbings. I started looking at the rubbings I had made and some looked very skeleton-like. Going in this direction I started to experiment with charcoal rubbings with things purposefully to look skeleton like. I played around with the photocopier, inverting, etc, they looked like x-rays - in- keeping with the skeleton aesthetic. At some point in my experimenting they started looking like sea creatures so I decided to make it into that, and my final series is showing the process of how I got from hair to sea creatures using acetone rubbings of my experiments.