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Couple of things today kids:
1. I have finished my exams so my time is my own again which is super, not that I have done a huge amount with it....
2. Got my essay back which was a pain in the bum to write but hard work paid off and got a B+! Rather old skool didn't know they gave out B+'s anymore :) Although me not knowing how to reference (and hence didn't) probably knocked my marks down (from an A I like to think) a bit.
3. The Domesday clock freaks me out, apparently today it was put back by a minute to six minutes to 12 so that's good :|
4. Saw my favourite mysterious Professor again today, I have no idea who he is or what he teaches he just looks like the stereotypical professor guy that has lived in the library for the past 40 years complete with big beard and leather elbow patches. A bit like this guy but older and less 70s-

Narwhal!

Wow Narwhal's exist! I thought they were some mythical thing, but yup I came across the truth while revising (they are randomly mentioned in a wiki article about asymmetry). Wiki also reliably tells me that the name is based on the Old Norse word nár, apparently meaning "corpse" a reference to the animal's greyish, mottled colour, like that of drown sailor. Awesome. I don't know why I currently being drawn towards all sort of old sea imagery, ships, sea monsters, octopus you name it...

What came first the egg custard or my death from polyhedra?

I love egg custards they ease the pain of revision..... which I am now procrastinating from. I want time to draw and make things and by draw I don't mean penrose tiling, thanks Prof Hann. Will be soo soo glad when this exam is done. Looking forward to my free time the next couple of days, I reeeeally need my camera to fix itself all on its own real bad. Also need a haircut but that probably won't happen for at least another 3 months and need to develop some type for this thing and get some film developed and make my sister a house warming present....

I heart lego.

(Christoph Niemann)

Exam went okay today, I always feel like I could sit and explain what I mean much better in person then I do when I am writing it down in an exam. Colour management did come up and I STILL don't really understand it 2 modules later so avoided that question like the plague. I was sad a typography question didn't come up reckon I could have written a swell answer for that one... ohh well Lego stuff yaaay :)

p.s. I think I love the word 'critters'....

Revision.

Education + Exposure to beautiful things + Motivation = Great creative?

Teeheee

I found this image in some of the lecture slides I am revising and it made me chuckle again :) Hey I am actually revising...

Choc Skull.

http://blog.davidsykes.com/sweet-skulls/139

chocolate skulls?

New York.

Me and the boyf have just booked our trip to New York! The new year is getting off to a good start: have been productive and have actually done something we have talked about for ages and I have made a start on one of my new year resolutions- to travel to at least 3 new places :) Heading back to Leeds at the end of this week and really looking forward to it. Although not to exams and a cold house, and while I love being home I haven't had the space or time to do anything creative so it will be good to get back into things when I am back there....... Also need to use the library real bad (makes a change)....

Agoo

Yup it's a spotty Aga, I love these things my boyfriend has one (a green one not a spotty one) so when I visit I end up just sitting by it, I miss warmth when I am at uni. Anyway more importantly just discovered my claim to fame..... My step dad is the guy that puts all the spots on the spotty Aga's! They are a limited edition design to celebrate 300 years of Aga so if you have £1o,000 lying around...

Food Type

Yeah sorry the photo is a bit rubbish camera is still broken so took this on my phone. Anyone ever noticed how shaped or letter spaghetti tastes so much better than regular spaghetti? I have found that Spiderman shaped spaghetti is a particular favourite of mine...

Here be where I do my work

The November issue of Creative Review was all about working spaces, asking whether or not you need a 'creative' space in order to be creative. So thought I would post a photo of my working space in my student abode, of course it's not all made from cardboard and doesn't house it's own art gallery but I like working here. We have lovely white studios at uni but I still like to do all my work at home.... probably because I only seem to get productive after 9pm when the uni studios are closed. I always like seeing where people do their work, if you ever get a spare minute you should take a walk around the painting studios in the clothworkers building some really inspiring work in there. I think this steams from my love of sketch books, sometimes I find the work leading up to a 'final piece' can often be more interesting than the outcome. It's like being able to watch someones thought process.

My work space is usually fairly tidy unless I am deep into a project, then it is covered in paper and ink and pens and books. It also houses my very small design library, when I say library I mean it consists of about 11 arty books, which will one day become a whole rooms worth, like the picture in the colour spectrum library post? One point raised in the issue was the love of open plan office spaces and as a creative do you actually want to work in open plan studios? I lean toward not. I like sitting at my desk, locked away in my room with music on, thinking and planning and making. As much as I enjoy my weekly sessions in the studios surrounded by fellow students I think I would struggle to get things done if I was made to work like that all the time. I like my thinking space :) I don't like my desk surroundings to be too busy just a few bits and pieces of design I have found and like, along with some photos and to do lists. The one thing I do always need is a bigger desk, I never seem to have enough room to work...

Pure talent

I would really like a hamster, one that plays Jazz would be welcomed with open hands. Image from the new drench campaign featuring Jazz playing hamsters (click below..)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxBJlxb3NAQ&feature=player_embedded

Damn you burglar bill

Well my house got robbed last night, it's such a hassle with all the crime numbers and police in your house till 6am and insurance and lost essays/ photos/ videos ect. I came out of it the best off really because spookily, I forgot my scarf before I left the house so went back upstairs to get it and saw my laptop on my bed and thought hey for one time only why don't I just follow my dads advice and hide my laptop. Turns out it paid off and Larry the laptop is still my best friend...it's soo creepy (the burglary situation not the fact that I have given my laptop a name)...
So anyway me and the boyf went out for a 'ohh no I have been robbed, poor me' breakfast/ lunch. Here are some more food faces for you to enjoy :) I think the waitress thought we were a bit mental, oooh well it had been a rough night...

Procrastinatetatetate

I have just realised that the main way I procrastinate is to write lists, hundreds and hundreds of lists, I trick myself since it makes me feel productive but in fact I am not actually doing any work...... Also I write blog posts......and browse flickr (hence above image, pretty super yeahh?)....

Codladh sámh Dan

Okay just a quick post before I get on with some work... Just thought I would post some family photos that I have on my computer here with me at uni. This post is mainly prompted by the fact that I have spent the last day or so in Liverpool at a family funeral. And basically at the after gathering thing my second cousin (?) had set up loads of photos of his dad (my grandpas brother) taken throughout his life and I was just thinking how much I love looking at all those old photos.

For one it is interesting seeing how my grandparents and great uncles looked when they were my age, having just moved over from Ireland to work. Secondly I love the quality and feel the old photos have, from the folds and creases to the faded colours and sepia tones. They just give me a warm feeling hahah :)

I did touch on this theme in some uni work last year but never really developed it further. One thought I had while working on it was the fact that those 3 photos above probably mean nothing to you since you won't know the people in them, but to me they are a link to my past and depict some of the most important people in my life and remind me of some of my happiest memories . It would be the same for me looking at your family photos, it would be nice to see them but they don't really mean that much to me. This point was raised again today when I found it much more interesting looking at the photos with my grandma. Mainly because she knew who most the people were and why and when the photos where taken, solving some mysteries in the process. Maybe it's the back story that I am really interested in. I have always said the first thing I would rescue in a fire would be the big box we keep all our family photos in, well maybe the cats first because they would be miffed if they got their tails singed...

I am not really sure what I am trying to say with this blog I could go on and on forever about photography and these photos and my family and memories so I will leave it there because geometric patterns are beckoning sigh...

p.s. I could also write a massive post about how I feel so very out of place in a church, bad times!

GIANT

Just saw this on BBC news (yeah yeah I know pure procrastination). Apparently giant deer used to exist, cool yeah?.. Maybe not?... Useless blog post? Pretty much, yeah....

Bookshelf spectrum

NEW LIFE AMBITION: To own a colour spectrum library..... *sighh* one day.

One of those days

Think I must have woken up on the wrong side of bed today, just can't seem to shake off feeling tired and pissed off. Got my development work back from a project I am working on, not bad marks but not good enough in my mind, I am so bad at writing what I mean. It's all in my head I forget that people can't read my mind so I need to prove that I know it by being more detailed...arghh. Just typed 'got out of the wrong side of bed' into flickr and the above image is something it came up with, made me chuckle.. :) I should really get on with my design theory work bahh it's taking soo long I need to stop being such a perfectionist..

That time I made a blog

Helloo!

Well I thought I better get on and make my blog since it isn't going to write itself :) So here it is, a place for my thoughts and inspirations among other things... enjoy...