Put them together...And Made apple pie

Images from me putting the zine together

It's All getting Very Exciting

Production is underway folks....The front covers are printed (or are printing as im typing this)

And they dont half look good.

I will be putting pictures up of my final week!

WOOP exciting stuff

Vacant

Im well aware that this blog has been being neglected over the past few days, this is somethign i feel terrible about...Its coming upto deadline and im runnign around trying to tie up lose ends....This Essay and presentation as stunted my efforts too. Thisshould all be out of the way by tomorrow lunch time...then i can concentrate on what really matters.
im definitley not made to Write essays...Full Stop.

Found a really great site for inspiring.

Its called studio6 and it has everybody who is happening on it. Zine makers, screen printers, crafty people.
You can join up to its free.
My URL is
Society6.com/strongteaandbiscuits

Craghead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHkvdL1zxRs
This chaps works is great, and he has downloadable versions of his books online which you can print out and make yourself. GOOD IDEA

Time to make second potato stamp!

Erm Cakes? Tea?
Nina?

Got My Zines!

Ordered a couple of zines and they got here...i ordered them from www.analoguebooks.co.uk
I got one of My tutors recommendations called Pry on Murmurs by Evah Fan and its so lovely. Go check it out or buy one...only about 5 or 6 quid.

Going to use some guache now...never used this before so the results should be interesting.
Shall post the results up

Mum's Birthday

It was Mum's Birthday so she made cakes to take them into work with her...i found this a little confusing...surley it should be the other way round. I guess its similar to taking lolly pops into primary school when its your birthday.....nothing like a brew and a cake though!
mmmmcoconut macarrooooonies

LAYOUT 2

Lets ged in n av a brew

'Do you know you shouldn't be on here?'

Erm...no...otherwise i wouldn't be on here would i
Jeeeez where can you walk your dog these days without being followed by some poncey middle aged man telling you your on a nature reserve...Fair enough maybe i did nip through a fence or two but there was no signage saying it was SPECIAL land not to be walked on. Blooody Wierdo!
Shall not be going there again....Got a picture whilst i was up there shall post it on here.

This Picture was taken on my driveway! Got home one day and there they were, im guessing some little boy got bored with them and decided to see how they weathered? Still...it was a bizarre thing to spot haha!
(The guy on the left has a really pained expression too) CHILLY?





This was my potato Printing attempt one!



Fancy envelopes for my Zine, With my potato stamp! Only 10 here but there is MORE



Origamic Architecture! So Effective...painstaking though.
Took my a couple of hours to do this. Got the inspiration from a book called "Paper in three Dimentions" Diane Maurer Mathison, Can get it from UCLan Library. (well when i give this one back atleast)
This included an artist called INGRID SILIAKUS

small house i did

Made 100 foldy book things, 125 to go (and maybe a couple spare just incase)
To Do List
* Email people in group to organise a meeting for the presentation
* Get and old book and test some different papers OLD or NEW?
* Continue researching peple who do cool stuff with paper.

These are ment to be from beginning to end, but they uploaded from end to beginning so look at them from the last image to the first

Inspiration

...
I've not been up to speed lately, so yesterday and today ive organised my research into sensible piles and i feel im getting somewhere.
Read through my proposals and i have already drifted away from my origional plan on one of them.
The Process and aim is similar but the context i chose hasnt worked out.
Poems are not really a great starting point for my Playing with paper installation.
After group crit other people (tank you guys) have pointed me in the direction o making up my narrative as i go along.
Going to write up some more ideas and then just going to get on with MAKING instead of thinking about making.
Right...going to get on with it!

Actually getting myself organised

http://www.bookbookpress.com/


Lovely crafted books, a mix of coulours

http://www.hdrescher.com/old_drescher_site/postal.html

Posting your art around the world?
hmmmm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXLhjYgMZ68


Spent 2 hours mastering this...sooo confusing in places and the book you are left with is about as big as your thumb nail!!
Productive night ...i made a book you can fit one letter per page on PSSSHHH

Ignore the guy

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



This guys mouth moves really wierd (i did watch it in mute maybe this has something to do with it)
shows hows to make a really basic Zine though pretty cute.

First Blog Entry...PRESSURE

Been thinking about a few ideas.
* Making note books
* Making a series of collectables, stickers or badges
* Novelty things like decorated lampshades
* "Make your own sets"...packs containing things to make something
* Making cards, maybe christmas cards

I really like how crafty this project could be, makign things for commercial purpose is quite exciting, its good to know that people are going to be interested in pruchasing something which you design. Its like a test to see how creative you can be ,,,yet still keep it practical and usuable for the general public.
Been on the drawing and image making website and found the FA2004 bank of good websites and found some really great stuff. Particularly like this work http://www.mdd.dk/dd_designers_projects.asp?PK_project=927&PK_profile=18143
It really contemporary and you could really imagine yourself buying it yet its still Art with purpose.
So yeah, going to continue with the research and try to think outside the box a little, before i get too excited and make something completly obvious.
Toodle oooo