welcome to Jouranal (journal)

this is my blog. to just look at my painting etc then head over to my website and disregard this mess.
please note that the events described in this journal are highly fictionalised.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Monday, March 30, 2009

action T4

the sinister comedy cannot be lost on anyone who has seen channel 4's T4 programming. (almost single handed-ly dumbing down a generation of british kids) that it shares the same name as a nazi program of action that preceded the holocaust. i'm so tired.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_T-4

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Fat butty and biggy piggy

this was based on a story i wrote when i was like 4 days old and i'd already learnt how to write and chew with my mouth closed and open at the same time


When they smoke

Me and pepe made this in 2001 or 2002. ha ha. a furby and a can of spray paint with a picture of jamie from eastenders stuck to it.

the adventures of maurice episode 3

i made this in like 2002 or some junk

the adventures of maurice episode 2

i made this in like 2002 or shit

The adventures of maurice

i made this in like 2002 or something

finally the mystery is solved...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panty_raid

pigeon eating a chip (2009)

do we eat worms? (2009)

melancholy pigeon (2009)

to make you smile

Saturday, March 28, 2009

bird, food, maroon

i've got a bit of beef in my teeth and i think i've got insane trying to floss and lick it out. to no avail. and then i sneezed and it came out.

then i accidentally inhaled tooth paste.




Friday, March 27, 2009

ooh that male nurse is swishy

i'm going to begin to explore different themes in my work. i've got bored and slowly let my imagination and interest drift out. I think i've over focused. like a kid in an inflatable boat at the beach. except the lifeguards or whatever have decided to let them get swept into the ocean for a while. yeah. except i've let the boat sink. yeah. so anyway. my point is that i'm moving in a new direction i guess. god i'm boring.

birdys

cats want to eat them, the wright brothers want to be them and some say they're a friend of mine.




string me a string string string string

tried to make a plan of how it'd look when connected. yeah that didn't work so much. got bored after i figured that out so i stopped.

2nd cube mapped out

unfired cubes

Here are the two cubes. unfired but the decoration is complete.


bad gardening or the reason there are loads of missing postmen?

oh can't it be both?

4 new drawings




more late night drawing

Thursday, March 26, 2009

yellow fury update

Some kids shined a laser pen at me. newsflash. it's not the 90's anymore. idiots.

smoky fat pigeon (2009)

fat pigeon in the world


doodling a fat pigeon

3 new drawings



late night drawing

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

"more studies of a fat pigeon" (2009)

"Fat pigeon eating a chip" (2009)

"ohhh fat pigeon" (2009)

i am sleepy

there is something unsatisfactory about posting without an accompanying image. but there we go. maybe by the end of writing this i will have found something i want to post a picture of.

anyway. i've been painting more paintings of the fat pigeon. i'll post them a bit later after they have dried and i've varnished them. i'm very tired. accidentally bought too many canvases of the same size and shape. which is an annoyance. i really need to find some satisfaction in painting something that doesn't give me the high art low art complex. i really have a serious self appreciation deficiency at the moment to the point where i'm struggling to make any marks at all and instead i am just trying to paint through it. i want to take things back a step to where i feel comfortable to just paint without expectation from myself. Self analysis of work as it unfolds is not a healthy practise for me if i wish to be productive. so i'm trying to drop my scale back and try new things. try to get out of this un-satisfying funk. so it's time to paint for something. i guess.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

study of fat pigeon (2009)

one day fat pigeon was feeling a bit down.

he wonder what was going to happen as the people moved around him.

sometimes he would just look at all the shoes and try to imagine who owned them.

but then most of the time he just let the numbness wash over him.

Monday, March 23, 2009

fat pigeon

once there was a fat pigeon and it was windy and he saw a lonely man looking at some chips that he couldn't eat.

i couldn't eat my chips and there was a fat pigeon looking sadly at me so a fed him a couple of chips.

then the fat pigeon started eating some chips that the man chucked to him.

and some guy in a hi-vis jacket told me not to feel the pigeons, so i stared at the ground until he walked off.

the fat pigeon ate the chips.



Sunday, March 22, 2009

{casm} (2006)

another little film i made

spiteggs (2005)

i made this years ago and just thought i'd put it online.

painty carpet

it's like 3.38 and i can't sleep. so i thought i'd post a photo of the painty carpet in my studio.

Friday, March 20, 2009

glaze projection

this is what it MIGHT look like after it's been glazed. i basically just altered it photoshop. it probably won't look like this, but it might.

sexy.

the 5 sides of the cube...

bearing in mind it isn't fired yet. so the colours aren't really vibrant yet.

3am 2002

A face glazed out from the gingerbread coffin.
The iced faced fixed in a permanent smile.
With every passing moment his future cooked more uncertain.
The little girl stood in the graveyard,
Digging worms from a molehill and eating them.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

unfired slip painted cube

this is just one picture of it... it's painted on all side apart from the base obviously.

Cheese Plate (2009)

it's a cheese plate. awesome.

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

haha

Mariah says - 'Do something every day that scares you.' Eleanor Roosevelt

Mike says - "Do something everyday that is totally fucking awesome". Mike Bromage"

MIKEZILLA ATTACKS TOKYO!

and here is the shocking real life video.

baconographic camera

baconography is a grey science area. some people claim it's not science and not a form of documentation. but those people are stupid.

baconography involves a "lens" made with a dome of foil inside a can. the environmental conditions subliminally effect the construction of the foil dome, and the conditions of the surroundings and weather alter the heat that will enter the chamber and that will be exposed to the bacon.

yeah. so then you put the bacon on a bit of foil and cover it in varnish. preserving the baconographic "print".