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Some bellends on scooter things are whizzing around the carpark making loud noises. Shoot them all. Lets ignore the lateness. The last post refused to let me upload any pictures & whatnot, so this is pretty much going to be a picture post. YELLENA JAMES. It reminds me of mushrooms & fungi. Speaking of which, Silje & I gathered some horse mushrooms near Woodlane the other day. Still need to eat them. Mine is top notch quality! Nom. KAROLIN SCHOOR. Like the mean and evil foxes from Farthing Wood, but prettier! JON KLASSEN. This reminds me of the current temperature of my study. I can see my breath. GINA KELLY. Nice colour combo. Owls are always a winner. I miss them... don't hear them much (at all) in the middle of Falmouth. EMILY GLAUBINGER. I originally wrote "GlauBLINGER". Bling bling. DANIEL BRERETON. Not all his stuff is amazing, but this piece really caught my eye. Yummy detail. APAK STUDIO. They look like Little My! I shall probably be that squeaky beast which is Little My for Vera's birthday party on Saturday. To temprarily dye hair orange / ginger or not... SHIT... I DIDN'T SAVE THE MAKER OF THIS ONE... very graphic stuff, it reminds me of Falmouth at the moment. Recently, pissing is down with rain seems to be fashionable...

And now, Bex work! Hurrah!My new desktop. Started making it a little while ago, it's just images from the interwebs stolen, cut up, and stuck together... I like to have a lot to look at.

And something I did today in life drawing. We had a really good female model, she was 50-60 I'd say but her figure was skinny but in FANTABULOUS shape! Plenty of yogo going on there, obviouly. She seemed like an old ballet dancer. I found that I like drawing with brush & ink (and then throwing in some detailing with just an Indian ink pen). Her shoulder reminds me of a mountain, I may have to do something with that. This week at Woodlane, Alan (Professor Alan Male, y'know!) & Mark (Mark Foreman, anyone...?) have been bitching (maybe not the best way to put it) about illustrator Lauren Child and book publisher Puffin. Reason for this is because there was once a graduate (the name fails me) from University College Falmouth (hurrah!) who showed an idea for a book to Puffin. They at the time said no, as economy was all over the place and she wasn't an established illustrator; so she left a copy of the idea there, just incase. Recently Lauren Child had a new release, a book about a poodle who doesn't want to be a poodle.
http://www.puffin.co.uk/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780141384900,00.html#
The story is remarkably similar to that of the Falmouth graduates, and also from Puffin. Perhaps they showed the story to Lauren Child and she took it on as her own. If so, the bastards! Pshh. Hope that never happens to me. I think the girl (woman, probably) is trying to do something about it, but it seems grim.


Why is all this writing coming out underlined with blue. It's really annoying.
Endy endy end end end.

1 2 3 4 5, this is number 25...

Oh scheisse, this one is definately late?

Whats been happening? WELL...
On 5th it was Bonfire night, of course, so we went round to shanty house & munched on nommy gingerbread which I made (Silje helped a bit, we went 1/2 and 1/2 with the icing) & looked at the fire & did story stuff etc....... and then I skipped off to Zef's (www.popuppirate.com) and had grrrrrrrrreat fun with truth or dare Jenga & then Worms. WORMS! Never played it before. Pretty sure I mostly failed. Needless to say, after that night I was not very in the land of the living the next day.
The land of the mostly dead continued into the weekend & beyond (insane amounts of snot & coughing & ohhhh all that sneezing...) but I went to shanty house again & did a LotR1&2 extended edition watch anyway. That ended at 5am. Eek.
Anything else happened? Yeah... some stuff. Mostly no-work stuff. We're currently in an advertising project, joint work soooo... I'm a little tricky currently as I'm used to working on my ownsome lonesome. Plus I like to come up with actual final pieces, but we just have to make visual roughs and BLERGH! Oh well. End of friday we get a new brief - childrens books! Highly exciting. Can't wait.

Oh oh, today I got a book in the post, it's very laavly. "Fingerprint: the art of using handmade elements in graphic design". Nom nom nom. I miss doing more graphicy stuff. I also miss doing more PRETTY stuff (for uni). Faye & I were talking about that t'other day, it's true: we can't do pretty stuff. It has to be all conceptual all the time, and thats a bit poo. Some illustration IS just plain old pretty. Alas.

I feel like I have a moustache, due to all the snot & blowing my nose parts of my face (nose etc) have gone all crusty. Hiw delightful.

Right, lets throw some pictures & linkages at you. My face is too tired to think of anything useful.

If this beast will ever let me upload any imageywotsits, that is... commmmeeeee on...

Now, have some linkages... (ohhhh BOLD...)
http://abeautifulmess.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8358081ff69e20120a6451b21970b-popup
Silje found it. We want it. Nom.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LhEStJXSaE&feature=player_embedded
Ohhh papercut animation. So pretty. So old seeming... is it old, or is it fake-old?

http://www.brightstar-movie.com/

I want to see that moooovie.

http://www.topshop.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?beginIndex=0&viewAllFlag=true&catalogId=19551&storeId=12556&categoryId=182484&parent_category_rn=42317&productId=1455933&langId=-1
Wantity want. Want want want. The motherly sort says it looks itchy though. WANT.

http://patentandthepantry.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/pumpkin-cupcakes-with-cream-cheese-icing/
These look & sound very yummy. Can't see any pumpkins anywhere anymore though... crap.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfqNXADl3kU
I miss hamsters. Especially those who are sosososososquidgyyyy.

http://www.anthropologie.com/anthro/catalog/productdetail.jsp?subCategoryId=SHOES-BOOTS-CROPPED&id=940090&catId=SHOES-BOOTS&pushId=SHOES-BOOTS&popId=SHOESBAGS&sortProperties=&navCount=25&navAction=top&fromCategoryPage=true&selectedProductSize=&selectedProductSize1=&color=020&colorName=BROWN&isSubcategory=true&isProduct=true&isBigImage=&templateType
Yum, a disgustingly long link. Now, if someone bought me those boots I would love them (both the boots and the person who bought them for me) for a very, VERY long time.

24. What a boring title.

Mmmmmmm new Wolfmother album. And we all thought that they'd split. Well, they had.
http://open.spotify.com/album/5PmWF5ajnWUTeXWuZIvPV0

Start of a week & no project to do... except for the advertising thing, but how am I meant to do that without Silje & Ceri? I'M NOT. So I'll write this late blog. I was contemplating only updating this thing every 2 weeks, but thats a bit lazy, yes?

Just had the Halloween weekend, it was good enough - I probably had too high an expectation so when it wasn't top notch it wasn't quite so groovy as I had expected. Also, gaffa tape is reeeally warm & cozy (& sweaty) until you stay still, & the sweat goes cold. Brrr. BONDAGE DEER YEEEEAH. Here, have a photo. I don't know what that face of me is meant to be. Sambuca mixing with cider face, perhaps. Blergh, chubalicious.
And soon bonfire night. Been invited to a thing at the Shanty house (Dan, Lisa, Molly & Tim). Was thinking of going to Gyll beach, but now theres an invite... it'll be good. Woop for the shantiers. Speaking of which, tonight we're off round there to record songs for our first shanty album! Apparently it's only gonna be 3 tracks long (so it's a bit more like a fat single, shame it's not 5 tracks) but still, x-mas present for the family sorts?
Been thinking of presenty business for Silje's lot, since I'll be there for x-mas. It seems that a lot of chocolate is needed (but how can English chocolate even TRY to go against Norwegian chocolate...? Especially since I've now found out that Coca-Cola own Cadburys?! WHAT IS THIS MADNESS! I need to investigate how much they own them... if it's too much, then no more Freddo Frogs pour moi :(

Just had the crit for the last 2 weeks project (narrative). Mine was on the short story about a man who gets off wearing his wife's pregnancy dress "Dressing Up". Here's the 2 final pieces.

That one is meant to be a bit of a past memory, hence the big fat camera plonked down in the front. And then......this one is in present time, she's only just found out that he likes wearing her dress and... yeah. She's not so happy, but she'll accept tea from him.

Ohh, made some scrummy scones the other day for Squelchy & I, had some bacon to use up so bacon, spring onion & parmesan cheese scones. Om nom nom.
I want to make some gingerbread, and I wish we had managed to get a pumpkin 'coz then I could have made pumpkin & carrot soup. SLURP.

Woodlane is pretty at the moment (when it's not raining).Have some bamboo.

Anything else...? Haven't found any more linkages for you, so I'll skip off and read web comicy business now. OGLAF! SCARYGOROUND! QUESTIONABLECONTENT! Yeeeeah.

Update tomorrow maybe? Ha, fat chance.