Love|sick

My life seems to be about Uni work at the moment. So it's incredibly disheartening that I don't have all that much to show for it..

Screen Printing

The produce of last week's printing workshop. I'll never be amazing at it - I don't have the patience for strict registration and mixing paints to exact colours.. but it was somewhat enjoyable.
(sorry my scanner is a wee bit small - prints look a bit odd. but oh well, I'm just happy I managed to print something this time!)

We Feel Fine

May as well use the opportunity to bend the brief a little and do whatever you feel like. As long as you do some proper research! (Which I have yet to do..)
It would be nice to be able to make a proper website.. but how much more fun it is to clumsily attempt text dialogues through Flash and Dreamweaver.

long sigh

Birds

Ack, oh dear, no blogging over the holidays.

Have started this year with much more enthusiasm for our upcoming essay than the Community Project we're meant to be getting on with.. I've chosen the question on feminist critiques on the way women are represented in contemporary visual media. In reality, I'm much more interested in how they are portrayed in advertising than in film, so I might need to tweak my question a bit..

The books I'm reading are generally interesting, though I can't help that sometimes women read too much into certain messages. Yes, prejudices, even presented subtly or unconsciously need to be challenged, but the sometimes it feels like some of the authors are making it seem like every second advert is condoning violence, objectification of women, alcoholism, etc. I might need to do some primary research and count up all the adverts I could pick away at and find something morally objectionable, but now I'm rambling a bit..



Anyway, this particular image in one of the books I'm reading did strike me as particular sinister and genuinely shocking. Even on the surface it's still advocating plying your woman with alcohol if they won't go along with what you say... before you even think about the other underlying suggestions of date-rape and violence..

Right, constructing an argument for my essay is not really what I should be doing on my blog. Unfortunately I haven't done any good drawings this holiday, so here are a few brief sketches from the zoo

Oh yeah..

I've kinda managed to scan in some of my personal project:

First of all, go listen to Shellac's Prayer to God. You will obviously appreciate what an awesome song it is and see why I chose it for my 'lyrics' project. Only I chose to disregard most of the lyrics and concentrate on the idea of coming up with as many 'fun' ideas as I could for killing him.





These are some of the cards I made. They're pretty crude I know, and unfortunately all smudged because the ink on the backs stuck together :(

My mum said they were a bit 'obscene' - praise indeed

Oh dear...

Incredibly lazy on the blog front.. whoops. My portfolio has been in the studio for a few weeks being marked so I guess I'll scan in a few images from sketchbooks done over the past few months.

Why am I doing this? Speaking to fourth year flatmates is rather depressing. Listening to Andy bitch and moan about having to apply for jobs, when he gets given a website with a huge list of potential employers, contact details, job perks and vacancies, just reinforces my gloomy conclusion that I have been an idiot and chosen a course with no real career prospects at the end of it...