Ohh Deer Card Design Competition

Card designs for the Ohh Deer competition up at their site now! 

Hive Mind on Threadless - Voting Open!

I've posted a T-shirt design to Threadless, my very favourite T-shirt shopping site! Voting's open all week, so if you like it click 5!

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Hive Mind on Threadless.com vote now!

You can also do a crowdfunding option, if you'd like to pledge to buy it if it gets printed. My promo code for Fund It! is RJ0HXJ  - gives you $5 off.

Magic Hands Woman Builds ICE PALACE!

Woman runs away and builds herself a FUCKING ICE PALACE! This is so cool. Literally. Figuratively. Well,  thematically.

Builds an ice palace with her MAGIC HANDS!

I am much more inclined to see Frozen after watching this, but still concerned that all previous advertising billed the talentless sister and that overgrown man-child as the main characters. I am really only interested in magic hands woman.

Rulers

I spent half an hour today drawing wobbly lines with a protractor and then I realised, 'I can just go to the shops and buy a ruler for about a quid.' And I go to the shop. And there SO many rulers! Metal ones, plastic ones, fold-ups, flexible, ones longer than 12 inches (tempting, but I would have to buy larger paper). At times like this I wonder whether I would fit in better in a communist country (apart from the repression and lack of Wispa Golds). I only went in for a piece of plastic & I came out with a metal "safety" rule [what are dangerous rulers? Surely a dangerous ruler is a sword] with a non-slip rubber strip and a centre recess to protect fingers from cutting [unnecessary; that is why fingernails grow longer than the ends of your fingers]. At least I knew I didn't want a flexible one. Who wants a BENDY ruler? I find it hard enough to work them as it is.

Back in St Andrews

Back in my old home St Andrews.

St Andrews Bandstand

Butts Wynd

Hamilton Hall

Philosophy Building. Separate entrances for Moral and Logic, but they both lead to the same place.

Harbour

Crumbly cathedral tower

The pier

View from the pier

Reflections in Harbour

Harbour

Cathedral

Principal's Residence. Former Art History Building.

View from 72 Market Street

The Bandstand

The Burrow Open House, Brighton

I spent last weekend in Brighton, participating in an open house art exhibition. The Burrow, a.k.a Moomin House, is home to the very welcoming Laura Honeker. A variety of colourful couchsurfers have stayed under her roof and I am no exception. I couchsurfed with her back in November, as I fancied a jaunt to Brighton, and at that time my travel expenses to London had been paid by the BFI as I took part in the Second Light Documentary Pre-Production workshops.

My poster for The Burrow exhibition

On Friday I saw the sights of Brighton with fellow creatives Nathan Berry and Leti Mortimer. The Brighton Museum desk-man was nice enough to let us leave some Burrow flyers there. The Brighton Museum was also nice, in that it was full of some interesting stuff.

Leti Mortimer, illustrator, and Nathan Berry, photographer, outside the pavilion.

Meg Vaughan, designer.

Saturday was Trans Pride in Brighton. I missed the march and main rally, as I was manning (/womanning) the fort back at the Burrow. But I did end up there later, having taken a walk, and saw some free comedy.

Nick Williams, musician.
In the background is art by Thea Wilkins and Leti Mortimer.

Sunday saw a final party, with live music by Nick Williams with his instrument assortment, Laura Nenonen and her cello. There was also an impromptu performance by a blonde girl on keyboard, whose name I didn't catch.

Some cool street art.

Psychedelica in Helston

This here's a poster for my exhibition in Helston Museum. ON NOW! If you are a Cornish lass or lad, or a visitor to our fine shores, do pop in. It's free entry to both the museum and the exhibition. So not only do you get some exciting, psychedelic work to soothe your soul, you can first see lots of sparkly rocks, Victorian wagons, military costumes, vintage children's toys and almost every kind (surely) of radio and typewriter this country has ever seen.

My old next-door neighbour died a couple of months ago. He had a grand collection of radios and typewriters. (He also had a lot of biros; rumour had it he'd once had a crush on girl who worked in a newsagents.) I don't know what's happening to them, but I hope his family keep them in one collection. The quantity alone must be impressive. I still have the small transistor radio he gave me when I was a child, though it has been out of batteries for most of the time I used it, so I instead used to pretend it was a high-tech (it was largely silver) communicating device. A walkie-talkie basically. I did in fact have walkie-talkies, but as they were orange and black (Action Man branded, I believe), they didn't feel realistic enough (even though they worked (at least, they did before the batteries ran out). I remember lots of battery-powered toys running down their batteries and then having to run on the power of imagination.

At my Psychedelica exhibition in Helston Museum, there are amusing devices which have no batteries to run down. They are my special Thinking Devices. Through them you can find clever arty things to say to impressive your friends. Although, chances are you might end up with a result that makes you sound a bit of a wally. It's a risk, but I hope it's one people will think worth taking. Art can be fun!