Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

I want I want I want ...

I want to swim

I want to dress up

I want to paint

I want to look like

I want to eat

I want to wear

I want to feel

I want now!

I wish I was ...

Their work is why I studied design and realised I just don't have it, their work makes me choke with jealousy and yearn to possess even an ounce of their creative talent, swoooooooooon

My weekend in pictures part II

crayfish, shrub jumping and disaster cakes


Monday, May 3, 2010

Perve nation





    

I love Robert McGinnis and his pervy, sexy, OTT art work. It's all boobs, bikes, guns and the slightest hint of irony. He illustrated over 1200 paperback novels, mainly trashbaggery novels of foul play, mystery and seduction. His more famous works includes film posters for Breakfast at Tiffany's and Barberella

Orwell




Recently I was lucky enough to get my hands on an anthology of George Orwell's works. I'm still working my way though it and it's a struggle to put it down. My lunch breaks, bus rides and evenings have become lovingly devoted to Orwell. Tackling intense (and somewhat scary) themes such as social injustice, democratic socialism and his opposition to totalitarianism, Orwell's writing is clear, accesible and beautifully written. Never one to dress his words fancily or try to outwit his reader, his writing maps out questions about the society we live in and the moral and ethical codes we live by. Orwell lived through troubled times of turmoil, uprising and revolution as well as economic depression. World War two, the Spanish civil war and time in Burma provided him with material for insightful and somewhat bleak and honest novels about what power and corruption can do to human lives.