Zamia Lehmanni - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm studying for a BA hons in Illustration at UCCA Maidstone. I fix electronics in old cars and run two websites to fund my education, and I'm scraping through.
I draw and paint things inspired by my involuntary travels, the strange world around me (The Wild East, as a Met Policeman put it), good films and books. I am currently working on a series of drawings which may link together to resemble Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness. I have a fascination with the Jezreel Tower. I often go on expeditions around Kent and East Sussex to abandoned bunkers, asylums, houses of interest, anything like that. I'm planning a couple more and if you're are similarly inclined drop me a line and we can share notes. PLEASE don't mail me about the ULF/Radar Studio any more, and FFS leave the Grange alone, there are Gurkhas there now.
I frequent The Thirsty Pig in Maidstone, Slimelight in Islington, & The Electric Ballroom in Camden. Couple of other clubs in London and Brighton but I shant go anywhere else in Maidstone. It's piss poor.
I come from a family of artists; thats my excuse, anyway.
I drive a Citroen BX 14 RE, which is the best car ever made. <- FOR SALE, with body kit and tailblazer. I'm very sad and it's a hugely reluctant sale :(

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Carl McCoy, in some kind of Hardware dystopia. Maybe a bit naked. Ian Astbury could be there too, like a post-modern Apache sex warrior. Oh yeah.

Anyone who understands my city/desert analogy! Ask me for details!

This is the Jezreel's Tower, built in Gillingham to be a modern tower of Babel. It had no rooms, but a giant spinning stage and the whole structure formed a huge ladder, by which the Almighty would drag the Jezreelites up to Heaven during the rapture. For this end they never cut their hair.

My Blog

FOTN @ Shepherds Bush Empire

They were amazing. Rather a short set, however, but they made up for that by being awesome.I had a sudden bilious attack when I realised that Inkubbus Sukubbus were the supporting act, with some...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:21:00 GMT

Best day ever!

What a brilliant day.I got my essay on Hogarth and Scarfe back (I did it the night before, completely tweaked on a million pro-plus pills) and managed a high distinction! I know one other person that ...
Posted by on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:55:00 GMT

Work, College and stuffs

Hello there.I hope you are well.Been a long time, hasn't it?!Anyways, back to college soon, and having conferred with The Crab-Tree I discover I am doing Illustration. Working on a new strip called "K...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:38:00 GMT

Changes

I have many requests from friends wanting information on my changed status - according to the little box in the bottom left hand corner I am "In a relationship". Having spoken with the box, I have dis...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:06:00 GMT

The wonders of the natural world

Caffiene. I love caffiene. I hear a lot of bad press about caffiene, and it disgusts me. Caffiene is, in my opinion, the universal cure for everything. When incredibly poor, I have managed to live off...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 19:21:00 GMT

Wall Zombies

A year after I celebrated their defeat, they return. Yes, the Wall Zombies are back, the smell has not seeped through the walls at the time of writing this, but it is only a matter of time. Makes me f...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 11:01:00 GMT

Predicament

I have a predicament. The rubber on my capo smells so good I just have to keep sniffing it. It smells like I want to eat it and the texture is nice between my teeth but it tastes horrible. Then I snif...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:14:00 GMT

Pointless nostalgia

For some reason I am lamenting the loss (long ago) of my "Dream Ballet Sindy". She was so damn cool. The only Sindy I ever had, bought for me for Christmas 1991. She really kicked the crap out of Barb...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 18:29:00 GMT

Goodbye my friend

Goodbye Jenny.I'm sorry I couldn't say goodbye. I can't believe you're gone, you were so strong in life despite everything I could never imagine anything beating you. You showed me so many things and ...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:50:00 GMT

Glass half full, glass half empty?

I really hate those people that ask me if I'm a "glass half full or empty" person. This is why.How can you ascertain whether the glass is half full or empty? Well, it has nothing to do with optimism o...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:29:00 GMT