IT IS DONE

After a few days of making Tommy wear my plastic cup creation, and swearing at iMovie, it is finally complete. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you my latest short film: LOST IN MY CUPS.

Now I can fully concentrate on the stencils and finishing this bastard essay on transgenderism... Have a feeling that meeting these deadlines is going to be tighter than a nun's ladygarden. Wish me luck.

- Padfoot

STICKY NOTE MADNESS AND STENCILS GALORE

The latest chapter in my quest to make people take things less seriously.


The last couple days I've been wandering around with a pad of sticky-notes, writing my thoughts down and leaving them behind... and my head is full of random bullshit. So in a way, this is the ultimate act of sharing. It could also be a kind of passive-aggressive vandalism.

Some other quick updates; my short film Lost in My Cups is almost complete - All that remains is to add some appropriate music, and it shall be ready to view. Will post it up here when its done :)
Also, I've been working on some other stencils that shall be appearing soon...

This one is a reworked version of one I posted before, when I was researching Frank Miller. 

Gonna make this one fucking huge.

I got the idea for this last night whilst re-reading my Banksy book.

Might look quite good as a custom t-shirt. 

Keep your eyes peeled around the studios; don't think I'm quite finished with the sticky notes.

- Padfoot

LOST IN MY CUPS

One thing I've been mucking about with recently is this sphere made of plastic cups, all stapled together. I made it out of sheer boredom, but its surprising how much fun it's been producing work with it. I also didn't expect it to be so multi-purpose.


For example....

It could be used as a pretty awesome room light

It can be used to make serious statues a whole lot less serious...

Also, in talks with one of my fellow art students about making a short film with it, entitled Lost in My Cups.

I'm actually kind of enjoying how usurping an object, and making it something that was never meant to be anything, can be put to several different fine arty uses. 

It's a funny old world, eh?

- Padfoot

BERLIN POLAROIDS

Since these are the only pics I've got around to editing from Berlin, figured I'd post them up.

Still in the process of sorting through the rest of the shots, I have uploaded some unedited ones to my Facebook page however. Will post them up when they're done :)

- Padfoot

NAKED GERALD

As part of our Readymade Sculpture workshop with David Kefford, myself and a few other students had the opportunity to work with found objects and one of the university's life drawing models, Gerald. These photos document how we combined the two into a very different form of sculpture.

For the full shoot visit my Facebook page...

http://www.facebook.com/THIS.IS.PATOGRAPHY

Just a word of warning however - Gerald's gallery contains some male nudity.

That's all for now folks - Still got a few shots from the trip to Berlin to edit, so I shall try and get those finished by tomorrow night. In the meantime however... Peace out, and rock on.

- Padfoot

SCULPTURES IN THE SNOW

Few weeks ago the venerable Mr David Kefford dropped in to dispense more of his "ready-made" installationey wisdom into our arty brainboxes. Despite turning up ridiculously late I was adopted by Fergus' group, and started throwing things at the dirty snowdrifts left behind in the car-park to see what happened.

This is the result:

That's all for now. Tomorrow though... Some lovely photos of dear old Gerald, the friendly neighbourhood transvestite. I've been meaning to sort these photos out for a little while now, but alas, photoshopping them has become a most heinous task. He's awesome though, seriously.


- Padfoot

REVIEWING THE REVIEW

Pretty self-explanatory really.

Last couple weeks we've been having these badass group critique things; they're a bit different, and mine were all in the afternoon so I got to lie in on both days. Which felt EPIC. Especially since I've been suffering from some serious manflu. Serious as in every time I sneeze, my arms go dead for a few seconds D: Weird stuff.

Anyway - From these two sessions I have established the following...

- Michael Wright does not like Noel Fielding's art

- My work is apparently "mischievious and anarchic"

- Having a ham sandwich and a can of sugarfree red bull with someone counts as a date.

I've also been mucking about with some Polaroids... Not really trying to achieve anything with them, I just love the style.

Ideas for the next few weeks...

Gonna paint on some mugshots, attempt a Dave McKean style comic through loose and spontaneous illustration, and maybe throw paint at people whilst taking photos of them.

Gosh, I really am a mischievious anarchist :P

 - Padfoot