Chips or Tea? Tea or Chips?

These are two of my favourite things, I indulge on both far too much!
When I received my email update from Juxtapoz there was a pleasant post about sculpture artist Marcus Fiedler who has created realistic wax sculptures of everyday objects from a teabag, to a bass guitar and an amp. I love the french fries and the tea bag...no easy task im sure.

Wynonie - Suggestive - Harris

"Mr. Blues," as he was not-so-humbly known, joyously related risque tales of sex, booze, and endless parties in his trademark raspy voice over some of the jumpingest horn-powered combos of the postwar era. Unfortunately I couldn't find a clip of my favourite song, 'I Like My Baby's Pudding', but this is a treat for you too.

Winnie Truong

Her works are rather limited but Winnie definitely creates some amazing pencils drawings of just hair. The titles of her work are another clever addition.

A Quiet Place to Rest

Old Plot New Twists

Bear Arms

Ornament & Correction

Maurizio Bongiovani

Bird rib, 2010, oil on canvas

“ 'Bird Rib' questions the effect that the "digitalization" is taking in the panorama view, re-marking the boundaries of the relationship between nature and technological progress. The world I created is crossed by a paradoxical form of mixing between the natural and technological artifice, and oscillates between a descriptive real and abstract imagines. In Bongiovanni's paintings there is a form of anxiety that lies behind the ambience and serenity of a seemingly healthy and unspoiled nature. This nature is far from the “human” eyes because it is polluted by core technology that scans and encodes the representations itself.
The anguished vision of birds burdened and forced to dragged down by a "cast" of colour, which he imaginez as a real "tear of nature" crystallized into an icy perfectionism of colour, is a symbol of humiliation for us men and progressive inability to recover in an authentic relationship with the nature itself, now reduced to a land of conquest and exploitation."

P-p-pick up a bargin

Vivitar 35EE - £3.00 from The Rabbit Run Car Boot Sale, West Midlands
I love rummaging at carboot sales, you may have seen my collection of hand-tinted postcards I posted not long ago, and now I have picked up this 35mm. It's quite similar asthetically to the Olympus Trip 35 I own and love. I hope I enjoy it as much as I have the Olympus.

The Vivitar 35EE is a 35mm rangefinder camera with automatic exposure, rebadged to Vivitar specifications from the Cosina Cosina 35 in the mid-1970s. 

• Lens: 38mm f/2.8 (4 elements, 3 groups) with 46mm filter thread.
• Focusing Range: 0.9m to infinity.
• Auto-exposure via CdS "electric eye" above lens.
• Shutter speeds: 1/30-1/650s, plus B (only at f/2.8).
• Film speed: ISO 25-400.
• Viewfinder info: Brightline frame, parallax correction marks, overexposure and underexposure warning zones, with indicated approximate combined shutter speed and aperture (f/2.8 to f/14) selection shown by needle.

“This is not going to be Six Feet Under” – Alan Ball

"A closed-mouthed catfish and cheery gator serve as an aquatic admission into a place that suffers the rot of intolerance and blackish baptisms. Stick shacks sulk under Spanish moss. Jace Everett’s song “Bad Things” plucks and coos over the risque and the religious imagery of Alan Ball’s title sequence for “True Blood” contextualizing the slutty and the sweet swamp-goth vampiric mise-en-scène.

Elements of this sequence have been compared to elements of Andrew Douglas’ mesmeric, stunning, one of a kind film “Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus.” It is very good southern surrealist cinema." - Art Of The Title

Wish you were here, best wishes. x

While searching around the beautiful antiques shops and flee markets of Brussels, I picked hundreds and hundreds of postcards most of which are hand tinted gems. Please zoom in on these scans to appreciate the brightly coloured tints. Can't wait to get these into the studio!

twenty one point five inches of fun

I have not any excuse as to why I haven't blogged in so long apart from that I have been 'holidaying' and gardening and spending summer relaxing before the dreaded final year of my degree!
I have been doing some creative work for you though, a new book, I've got through heaps of 35mm, the website is progressing AND I shall soon be the owner of one of these lovely 21.5" friends!

Type Discrimination

An A5 hand bound publication with the aim to encourage the use of those typefaces in my collection that I don't use all that often, to present them in a neat, tidy and collectible fashion with the aim of building up a whole collection of typefaces.
This edition compiles: Gill Sans, Baskerville, Courier New, Futura, Georgia, Optima. and includes waterfalls of type and small rhymes which use the child-like flip book method to enable you to combine Bold with Italic, for instance.

New Website being built

Not finished yet but there's some work up there.


www.sophieheath.com

Stacey Rozich

'At school I was known as anal girl'

Things Organised Neatly

Red Artists

One of many of my posts on Craig Ward

Tony Orricco, Human Spirograph

This guy is incredible, he has creates patterns and shapes similar to that of a spirograph using his own body. He has been described as a dancing artist with performances up to 4 hours long!

Anthropologie: The Ladies Apron

I would be looking for excuses to cook if I had this lovely apron.

Love Is Like A Cabbage

A set of charming, designed by Uniform, (if not deliberately cheesy) chat-up lines, guaranteed to put a smile on anyone’s face. Based around the idea of making a good first impression they designed this set of six cards, which were mailed out to prospective clients in time for Valentine’s Day.

Publications PITCH

Today, Isabel & I pitched our idea for a publication based on ideas which should not be published. 
The pitch was in the form of a video, in which we spoke stark naked explaining our theories (censored of course). 
The pitch went something like this:


"Why do we publish things?

We publish ideas, imagery, work and beliefs because we want to make these public. We  want people to know. But what about things we don’t want people to see or aren’t acceptable to be public?

Domestic space, thoughts, our bodies, communications and behaviors are all things we have personal control over. But what if this control was made public? What if we exposed your secrets, what you hide, what you know, your personal details, what if your thoughts became broadcast nationwide? 

Saying things we are not meant to say, doing things were not meant to do, making public what is not meant to be public. The politically incorrect, the shocking, the intrusive and the controversial."

We won the pitch and the project is going forward!

Desperate Cars by Sébastien Girard

Exhausted, abandoned, wounded, the collection of cars captured by Sébastien Girard are in fact desperate. We find them in the middle of the night, broken wrecks bearing the scars of their mad days wheeled by man. An analytical flash captures them in their everlasting solitude. Desperate cars is the second book of the series inaugurated by Nothing but Home.

Book Binding

I had a workshop with Cecilie Barstad to learn the basics to book binding to help with a project I'm currently working on called based on collections. The craft was a pleasure to learn and I am really looking forward to use the skills Cecilie has taught me.

Publications

One of the projects which I will be working on soon is to create a publication. I've been doing some research and came across these from Iris Tarraga, 1985. Graphic Designer from Barcelona, Spain.

Working in Marnich, a multidisciplinary graphic design studio founded by Wladimir Marnich in Barcelona, from June 2007 to December 2010.