Bubbles

Simply just a brilliant song and a nice if simple video to accompany it.

A Brief Introduction.

The purpose of this blog is to provide a place for me to share my thoughts on pretty much anything i find while trawling through the net, wasting time on the sofa or generally going through life while training to be a designer, sadly this level of "luxury" is quickly coming to and end and graduation is looming just round the corner, this has led me to the small matter of a lot of self reflection... the second more serious purpose of this blog.

Part of my 3rd year requirements is to complete a reflective journal, the first part as i have explained are my blog posts on pretty much whatever i fancy and the second are a number of self assessments and reflections. about my time at uni and as i have grown as a designer. So under the label of "Reflective Journal" all these self assessments, personal statements, and a PDF download of my portfolio will appear.

Florence is an arms dealer?

I quite like this, it doesn't really have a purpose, but then again neither does Amy Winehouse really so i guess it doesn't matter.

http://mutatebritain.bigcartel.com/product/dr-d-–-i-hear-duffys-selling-coke

enjoy.

Bad day to be a ginger

http://www.miauk.com/

This music video for MIA's new song "born free" literally shits all over Lady Gaga's "story" music videos, its got a cloverfield/hurt locker feel to it, but with a much weirder message.

It's very good if a little over graphic for a music video. Follow the link to see it.

The Big Idea

EXILE/FOREIGN/DEMOCRACY/FREEDOM/FUNDAMENTALISM

My last official project at Uni is finally upon me after this its just a few weeks of portfolio reviews, presenting this blog and putting together a grad show, and then i graduate and become technically unemployed.

The project is called the Big Idea, we are given 5 words and we are told to pick one, we are encouraged to pick quickly and impulsively, out of all the words freedom is my gut reaction and Freedom is what i will be focussing the project on. However part of me feels I am pandering to a cliche, the interesting thing is a lot of my previous work has focussed on these themes before in my work and a part of me feels that these "random" words were given to me because of what I already have in my portfolio, thus imprisoning me in a project that i do not want to be in, the irony of picking the word freedom, I am interested in how I will come out of this one, I don't normally post about my work, but I think I will keep the blog updated on this particular project.

Freeview HD advert

I was watching TV this evening and an advert came up for Freeview HD, the content was a bunch of kids playing football in a packed out stadium, it was just a beautifully crafted advert, I can't find it on the net but I will continue to look for it, watch this space.

Harry's New York Bar

The reason for blogging this bar is similar to the reasons for blogging the bookstore, it is in Paris, and was frequented by Hemmingway and Fitzgerald, however i get the feeling that they were visiting this establishment for very different reasons. This bar again was set up by an American hoping to profit from the American occupation of france in the WWI, he bought it with a friend who owned a bar in NYC, dismantled the NYC bar and shipped it to france to re build it there.

The owners hired a guy called Harry to run it, when the bar went out of business Harry bought the property put his name in the title and ran it himself, turning it into the parisian legend it is today, it purports to be the oldest cocktail bar in europe and created cockatails like the bloody mary and the monkey gland. There are pictures of writers and artists sat at the tables hanging on the walls, and gershwin composed and American in Paris on the piano in the cellar bar.

Again just the oppourtunity to be in a place that Fitzgerald and Hemmingway may have thought or even penned a draft of The Great Gatsby and The Old Man And The Sea* is really exciting and gets the creativity inside me all riled up. Plus the Long Island Ice Tea is fantastic if brutally alcoholic.

*if you haven't read these, do so. They're really good.