Make Something Cool Everyday

'Make something cool everyday' what a good motto or resolution or whatever you want to call it. Above are some images taken from Olly Moss' (http://www.ollymoss.com/) self initiated project to (surprisingly enough) make something cool everyday.... plus a llama with glasses for good measure.
I was talking with the boyf this evening actually, about how I want to work on more self initiated stuff. At the moment I put all my efforts into uni work and that is it, which is great, but all the ideas I have get written down and not put into motion which is a shame because I have lots of ideas and good ones I'll have you know! So anyway think I have just found new years resolution #1...

Superheroes

Came across these photos on fellow students blog (http://laurenelizabethwells.blogspot.com/- Have a look!) they are orginally from stylefrizz.com and you can see better quality images there if you fancy....
I don't really know much about fashion just think they are super (haha pun yeah?) images, love the concept along with the colours and poses.

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...

Also.

I thought I would post this too, looks better in real life and not on blogger. So yeah basically something I accidentally made in Print today just quite liked it so I thought I would give it a whole blog post!

Quick selection of work by Alan Kitching, they make my insides happy... Plus he looks like a jolly fellow...

Update

Updated poster idea for promoting this blog...

International Year of Astronomy

Apparently this year is the International Year of Astronomy....yeah I know, no one told me either! Anyway after a wrong turn the other week took me deep into the heart of the university's physics department (looking for a room I am sure does not exist) these images struck a cord and reminded me of those out of date textbooks you find in every science lab/ musty, old science teacher office. These retro images are a breath of fresh air in the highly photoshoped world we now live in, they remind me of screen printed images- more personal and unique.

Starting out as a self initiated project by designer Simon Page, the above images soon found their way into the hands of the Year of Astronomy organisers and were so successful they are now available to buy as prints. I also found the fact that Page is mathematically trained rather fascinating, since I have recently been spending a large amount of my time drawing various geometric patterns for the delightful professor Hann. It is nice to see a clever design use for them.

Bear and the boat

Something I made earlier, needed an image for my self promotion stuff. Currently feeling like it's too photoshoped, I hope I have time to screen print it or something handmade this week.

Hey fatty

Simon Spilsbury- Skeletonne, 2008.

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....