Sorry about the bad quality

Of my canvas artworks, just letting you know in advance. Oh, and sorry also for the bad quality of this photograph of my newspaper article. My mum's friend called up and said the photo was lovely because I wasn't looking at the camera and it looked natural. Yes, it's natural to stand out in and stare into the glare of the sun in 32 degrees Celsius. I like the writing though, it's a lot less cheesy than I expected it to be. Using my quotes like that makes me seem sort of intelligent, even though these single sentences had to be extracted from a 10 minute phone interview of my rambling and stuttering bullshit. I can't talk about my artwork in simple man's terms, easy as that.

Octopus on my neck

Got my octopus pendant the other day, I can't wait to start wearing it! It was only $5, so I'm quite happy with this. Etsy is a brilliant place to shop.

Burnie, Tasmania.

Regular holiday snaps get boring after the first two, so here are a few of my photos from when I was in Burnie. As you can see, the esplanade boardwalk makes for excellent bokeh shots of the city, and the creeks are a nice place to visit to think of new ideas.

I solemnly swear I am up to no good.

I admit, I've been horribly slack in the past month. I've been spending too much time watching movies and playing School of Wizardry (which is totally ace by the way) that I've been neglecting things I've really needed to be doing instead. I should have been concentrating more on my artwork, and I've wasted a month and now it has all built up into one nice massive pile and I need to get it all done by the end of next week. Yeah, I'm stressing. Aside from now suffering from stress-related shit like bad skin, breathing problems and chest pains, I'm also considerably sleep-deprived. I need to get myself organised. But I've been pretty busy this past month, want to read about it? Sure you do.

In preparation for Kaleidoscope Eyes, I did a photo shoot in town last weekend. I never though that dressing up three 18+ boys in little kid cowboy costumes would warrant tourists wanting them in their holiday happy snaps, but apparently so. Though the weather was hot, sticky, and a bit of a bitch, the day was good and I got some great photos on my DSLR, as well as this:

Pretty much the most badass Polaroid in the history of history.

That night was Staples, a local zine exhibition. 

$5 entry, two free zines and a sticker, and Bewarewolf playing live. Yeah, it was pretty sweet. Check out these links:

http://www.auxiliarycentral.com/magazine.html

http://issueszine.livejournal.com/

http://www.myspace.com/bewarewolfaus

I'm so glad my town had finally decided to grow an art scene and become interesting. Speaking of which, my friend recently got his t-shirt label up and running, complete with sweet designs and a swish website. Though I'm on the street team, I'm lousy and haven't posted a blog yet.. due purely to the fact that I can't find a good 'intro' photo of me for my first blog. I should probably work on that. Anyway, when I get paid next week I'll be using some of that money to buy my first Skeg shirt:

http://skegits.com

So there's less than 2 weeks to go, and I still have to much work to do. I won't have a life until after the 5th of March, and don't expect me to be 'all there' until after that date also. I'm so frazzled.

Mischief managed.

I Built A Colour Tube

Today I bought a DIY Kaleidoscope kit, just to see how it works. They're so incredibly simple to create, I'm sure I could construct ones out of toilet paper rolls.

I pulled the end bit off and looked through the Kaleidoscope the opposite way, and the eyehole made little circles everywhere.. which got me thinking, you could use another shape, like a heart or something, and make some really wonderful pictures. I will be testing this idea soon.

Kaleidoscope Eyes  -  6pm  -  6th March, 2010