We Were So Turned On

There is an awsome David Bowie tribute album out, 'We were so turned on'. I found it after finding Warpaint's cover of Ashes to Ashes, which is amazing. Check out Vivian Girls 'John I'm Only Dancing' vid.

Turn taking poem making

At Rob's house last week he, Phoebe and I wrote some poems where you each write a word and then pass it on. This was my favourite:

A tooth broke free. Loose hairs
drifted down-town. The only
sound was trickling drains.
Two of use escaped from
light work, strolling through
glistening pathways. We
whistled through daylight
riddled melodies and
clapped out sound. Biting
lips showed almost as white
as cold hands in snowy
places. Before, when
you approached, from my
warmer side of course, I did not
resist.

CAMP Basement

Last night Jake and I went to The City Arts and Music Project to see Warpaint. When we got there, there was also an exhibition on for an online magazine, the name of which I cant remember. An illustrator I really admire had his work up there. www.benjaminphillips.co.uk

This was nice, and he did some lovely drawings on the window. But the rest of the work was mainly a load of shite. It was about the most east london fairground of pretentiousness I have ever come across, and reminded me of exactly how I would NEVER want an exhibition to turn out.

Here's some videos of warpaint. They're awsome.

Beetle Foray

On Tuesday Jake and I went with the Natural History Museum Beetle department on a beetle foray! It was fun. I found the grand total of 3 beetles, and won a prize for lucky guesswork.

We went to Chiswick House for the hunt, and I would very much like to go again, it was pretty. When we were searching the depths of the woodland for beetles there were cute little mice running around. And there were mushrooms, and nice trees, and statues, and dog walkers.

Henry Moore Textiles

On Wednesday I went to the Sainsbury Centre at Norwich UEA and saw the Henry Moore Textiles exhibition.

I'm not usually too keen on Moore's sculpture work, but it was really interesting to see the results of his passion for print.

Post-war, Moore worked with a print company (will look up the name, I can't remember it) and designed a whole load of patterns that got printed onto small square silk scarves, as a way of working with the rationing of material.

Alot of the prints were based on his sculpture work, like 'family', which is a couple and child sitting at a table. The image was then repeated in lines to make the pattern. I really liked the different' colour combinations that Moore experimented with, and how the images had a sketchy quality to them, with overdrawn lines, with colour then in layers on top. I'm not sure I'd like to make prints that looked

similar to these, but at any rate I would like to own

one of the scarves! There were also some interesting very large prints, and photos of the when they were actually printed. It all made me want to be back at Camberwell and doing some printing.

Here's a link to the exhibition.

http://www.scva.org.uk/exhibitions/current/?exhibition=77