.. width="425" height="350" .. making things, braking things and then making them into new things once more! Japanese woodblocks, indian printed textiles, felt makes me a little shaky at the knees, giant pouches and crazy colours, sonic the hedgehog special zone backgrounds, moths (the biggest moth grows to 28cm in wingspan!!) patterns in everything! cleaning, cooking curries, soup, roast veggies oooooh roast veg! haloumi cheese, origami butterflies, cardboard brown and corrigated, pop up books! dancing crazy shapes to dirty dirty techno, electro, country, and all other sorts of music, paper sculptures, the beauty of the throw away object, stencil graffiti, sewing, making, stitching, felting, WALLPAPER! i love it! (so repetative, more colour, more pattern!), football (come on u RAMS!), drinking tea, washing up, stationary, diaries, nature, trees, leaves, plants, grass, frogs, flowers, weird and wonderful creatures that actually exist (like sloths!), layers and layers and layers, tracing paper, fabric, lettraset, architectural diagrams, diagrams in general! readers digest, national geographic, photographs (especialy old family ones where i am pulling a funny face), decay, collage, bricolage, applique, fuzzy felt, circular stickers, the countryside, wide open green fields like patchwork quilts, dry stone walls, silver birch bark, cycling really fast on smoooth tarmac while staring at the floor, getting my hands drity, recycling, the wrong side of knitting, hoods, sweat-shirt fabric. JIFFY BAGS!
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woohooo! my musical numbness has passed me by. now i simply listen to everything on ym computer that i haven't listened to for aaaaages like asian dub foundation! and the rolling stones and lcd sound system and felix the house cat and a frikin load more! i also got some new music stuff from a heather so that is bonza! jeff mills- the blue potential! amazing! and coco rosie! but i still want moooore!
WATERSHIP DOWN! animal farm.. not the filthy one but the great british animation. Kill Bill, Eternal Sunshine, House of Flying Daggers, 28 Days Later, Layer Cake , Life Aquatic, Napoleoon Dynomite, Garden State, Tron, Princess Mononoke, Spirtited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Chopper, Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas the constant gardner, Brick (i love this film), anything by Michel Gondry... ESPECIALLY THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP! i have fallen in love with this film.
Mighty Boosh, Match of the Day, the older i get the more tv seems to bore me. not saying i don't sit and stare blankly into it for hours a day, i just don't pay as much attention anymore.
Shantaram, such a good read. i just finished it and i feel like i have lost a loved one now our relationship is over i only have the memories... and the book to read again! woohoo! Index-A by Charles Wilkin, (beautiful collage), Phillip Pullmans Dark Materials, Trainspotting, Chuck Palahniuk, Neasden Control Centre (i think most art students own or want this book), De Manifest (like a femanin Neasden), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Vernon God Little, Lowdown- Transforming Language, Most pretty books about design. paper makes a difference. the collins animal encyclopedia. I have recently fallen in love with my college library, we spend many an hour together and i have become so attached that i have half of it at home, from books on moths to celebrity knitting, tribal patterns, japanese woodblock prints and this great book on soviet textiles and how they used images on textiles and clothing to promote industrialization, modernization, agriculture and communism to a mainly illiterate soviet union, genius.
Charles Wilkin, Josef Muller Brockman, El Lizitsky, Piet Zwart, Banksy, Logan Hicks, Gerome Messnager, Hunter S. Thompson, lazslo maholy nagy, Nigel Slater, Hugh Fernly-Whittingstall, gregory david roberts. i don't know how many of these are actually my heros but they are all very inspiring and what they do/did is/was pretty cool.