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Saturday, October 3rd, 2009
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I'm still alive!
Just been soi incredibly busy.
I have a place at an art fair and an exhibition is guildford coming up soon, for which i have to make all new work. Also i'm doing another evening class in illustration in Brighton.
I am also bloody poor, so i will be majorly depressed if i can't sell anything at this fair.
Hopefully i'll write a proper entry and actually reply to comments tonight.
Sorry for being so bloody useless as a lj friend.
xxxx
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
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Claire and I are watching 10 Rillington Place. God Christie was a dick. More so than other serial killers I've seen in movies. It's really upsetting.
And he was wearing braces and a belt at one point. That should have told them he was a murderer! No sane man needs more than one way to keep his trousers up!
Today we went shopping in Belfast and i bought lots of nice things. Loads of little bits and pieces for my circus i am making.
There's a poodle sleeping next to me :)
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Thursday, August 27th, 2009
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Over here in Ireland you can get an amazing ice lolly the flavour of pears. It's absolutely delicious. I have about 15 in the freezer and am going to do an experiment to see if they taste anything near ok if i thaw and refreeze. That way i could take some home.
I'm having a very nice time.
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Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
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I still haven't had any word from the benefits people, even though i sent my application for support benefits about 3 weeks ago, so i'm a little worried. But i got a nice cheque from college as there was money left in our degree show fund, so they portioned out what was left between us. Hooray for money. I've also made about a fiver on a survey site, which is ace.
Claire and i are watching 'Lolita 2000' on the horror channel. It's hilarious but a bit disappointing, as i was expecting a futuristic version of Lolita, but its not. It is however, a series of hilarious, bizarre porn vignettes set in the future for tenuous reasons. There are many awful, awful boob jobs though, which is always good.
I've gotten very into watching youtube video reviews and discussions about makeup. I might join them at some point, just for the fun.
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It would appear i have a cold sore under the bottom right hand corner of my mouth. This is odd because there was no tingling or anything that usually comes with one, in fact it seemed to be born out of some chapped skin. It really hurts.
Am at Claire's mummy and daddy's house. We are looking after Perry Poodle while they're on holiday. It's nice and i am chilling out maxin and relaxin all cool.
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
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I was wondering if any artists on my friends list (lisis?) could help me to figure out what to do in the way of print making. There are services that will do it for you, but they are very expensive. Something like £50 to photograph/scan the picture, then about £10 per print. So i thought, seeing as the majority of my work is under A3, if i could buy an A3 scanner it would be cheaper to make prints myself, and get anything bigger than A3 professionally done if i felt the need to.
Especially seeing as now i need a new printer and scanner.
But i know nothing at all about what sort of printer/scanner would be high quality enough to use professionally.
Any help would be so so greatly recieved!
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
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I am pathetically excited that you can now get strawberry ribena cordial. Strawberry ribena is one of my favourite drinks, but because you used to only be able to buy it in the little cartons i didn't have it very often. Now ive got a bottle of the squash and it's fabulous. You need to dilute it less than with normal ribena, and it still doesn't quite taste of the stuff in cartons, but it's pretty damn close. But really im thinking about it a bit too much for a cordial.
the night before last i got up to pee at around 4 o clock in the morning and on my way back to bed i managed to get a tiny splinter of glass in my foot. As it was the middle of the night i couldn't properly try and get it our with tweezers or anything, so i just tried my best in the dark with my fingers, and then went back to sleep. In the morning my foot hurt, so i tried digging the bit of glass out with a needle. It still hurts so now i'm not sure if i managed to get the piece out, and it just hurts because i had to cut my foot, or if the glass is still in there.
I'm going to Ireland with Claire tomorrow for about 10 days, whch should be a nice change of scenery.
I've also uploaded a unch of my most recent work to my deviant art. It's here if anyones interested: http://fiddlefaddle.deviantart.com/
our printer has packed it in. Well, it's still working but it won't work on the new computer. Lexmark decided not to make any drivers for older printers, so its not compatible with vista.
we're watching a very good modern british horror. its called 'small town folk'. check it out if you can.
I've had hiccups at least 10 times today. it's awful, they just keep coming back!
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
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Mentally i'm not very good at the moment. I keep crying or getting very stressed for little or no reason. I can't get to sleep at night, or rather i can, but it takes at least 2 hours of tossing and turning and nearly crying from frustration because i'm so tired but can't sleep. Mainlyi don't want to do anything but sit around all day. Because i've been depressed my shopping addiction has been mental recently, which is very bad, and now i have no money. I've started doing those online surveys that they pay you for. Next week i plan to put a lot of things on ebay (for very cheap) and maybe start trying to sell old paintings on etsy or one of the sites that have been interested in representing me. Its frustrating though, because obviously i could get a lot more money for my more recent work (because it is so so much better) but i can't sell it yet as i might be exhibiting it.
Professinally things are good though, i'm going to be in a joint exhibition in september or october in a lovely gallery in Guildford. I have to make new work for it, but luckilly the curator is interested in what i was planning to make soon anyway. The big Opus gallery hasn't gotten back to me yet, which worries me a bit, but still it's early days.
My appeal is still ongoing, it's incredibly frustrating. I think i'm going to have to resubmit my work, which really sucks.
Friends is really really awesome at least.
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
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Ughhh yesterday i decided to update my deviantart account. This involved me looking through ancient art from before 2005 and despairing at how terrible it is. I was thinking that, by comparison, this would make me think about how much better my current work is now, but searching through other peoples work has just made me feel really rather bad.
I like my work, but i'm always going to see other people and wish i'd had their idea or could paint like them or whatever. I guess that's normal, but it makes me feel like i'm useless.
Blah blah blah.
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I'm alone in the house so it's time for Naked Painting! Hooray!
Omelette keeps trying to go to sleep on my pallette.
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Last night claire and i went to see DDAHSW at he buffalo bar. It was fabulous. I grated carrots into my hair during Ginger. The band now probably think i'm a twat, but the audience loved it.
Now I'm watching Mermaids and liking Bobo Hoskins and wanting to be Cher.
Apologies to people who have commented and i haven't replied, only about half are coming through to my email. Also i am sucking majorly at commenting on other people's journals at the moment. I'm trying to spend tme away from the computer as oftenas possible.
Blah blah blah!
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Things are looking really quite good for me at the moment.
I still haven't heard word about my appeal (the hearing was over a week ago so i should get the results very soon) but i've had some lovely things happen.
I've got a job doing the illustrations for a book. Well it seems i have, he's seen my work and thinks it's good for the job, so i'm going to start making some test drawings for him to see and comment on. It's a great thing for me, the book is about weird practices from the past like 'the frog barometer' and so on. It's unpaid of course (though if it gets a bigger print run i'll get something) but is wonderful for experience and getting my name out.
Also, even better, i recieved an email a few nights ago from the Opus Gallery in newcastle. They saw my work in the degree show catalogue and contacted me to say they would be interested in exhibiting something of mine in the future. This is amazing. The gallery has shown Proper Artists like Tracey Emin, Antony Gormley and my favourite Peter Blake. And even if it doesn't work ou it's an amazing boost for my self esteem to know i stood out in the catalogue enough for a well respected gallery to be interested in me.
In a way in fact it was good for me to get a bad mark in my degree. Because I've always felt unsure about my work, but i was genuinely shocked when i got a third and felt i deserved better, whch shows me that at least i think my works good. And since then i've had fantastic things happen.
so take that rubbish art college!
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Brilliant! Billy Idol is on 80s Shuffle on VH1 and it is Hot in the City.
The computer effects must have been mind-bending back in the day.
I'm currently seriously wondering if i can do my general making-friends tactics (turning up wherever they are until they are forced to either acknowledge my constant presence or rudely ignore me forever) on Eddie Argos. Even if this werent so incredibly pathetic it would probably be a bad ideal as i'd just stare at his face and drool or something.
Oh brilliant, now it's Bros!
There's a hilarious bit in the video i'd never noticed before, where they just show one of them kicking some onions a bit.
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Oh and this morning Pippa (Laura's dog who we are looking after while she's away) chewed the legs and arms off of poor Vishka.
Luckilly i think i'll be able to re-sculpt them fine.
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I have been on a strict diet for about a month now and have lot about a pound :/
It's irritating beause i'm actually finding it quite easy to stick to this diet, but nothing is happening, which makes me think i should just give up and go back to eating tasty bread and things.
i have learned the following things about Special K:
plain is really boring
w/ red berried is too full of berries
w/ chocolate and strawberries is oddly horrible
w/ oats and honey would be delicious if it weren't for the oats, which just make it taste like muesli
I think i may have to exercise ughhhhgh
On saturday claire and i went boogieing, the club was great and it was really fun as i haven't had a dance in ages, but claire got really stressed and unhappy after some men were jerks to us, and so we went home. Cause she doesn't like dancing as much a me anyway she doesn't think she should come again, which is sad. I need to find a new dancing partner. Perhaps i should search on gumtree or craigslist, hooray for those websites, they can sort out my life.
Neighbours is so crap and boring at the moment, everything revolves around the tedious teenagers and they're crappy crappy play. And the new teenager, Sunny, is so irritating. At first she was a surley bitch, and that was quite refreshing, but of course that was just a phase and now she's turned into a shy pathetic weepy girl. And she's meant to be a Korean exchange student but clearly played by another australian.
And Tales of the Unexpected is always a repeat.
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It would appear i am falling deeper and deeper into lust with Eddie Argos.
He's like a legal version of Neville Longbottom!
God i would! I think at the moment my raging sexual longing for him eclipses even my hard-on for David Mitchell.
And yet Mikey ignores my pathetic hinting to introduce me to him. Pff.
I'm making some 3D versions of my circus paintings. Currently a paper mache version of Vishka the roller skating bear. Next i will make Celia the ceiling walker i think, or Pedro the tricycle riding elephant. Everything is going nicely, my work is going to be put in an online magazine soon, which is a brilliant start.
Claire and i are working very hard at the moment, i'm being creative and continuing drawing and making things and looking for little amateur illustration jobs of gumtree and claire is working hard on her cv and jobhunting and making pretty clothes too.
I really want a chinchilla or one of those giant bunny rabbits.
I'm watching Die Hard 3 and it is awesome.
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
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It's looking really good for my appeal! I got a pack of all the information the hearing people get (the hearing is next week) and it includes a big thing from some sort of primary assessor who recommended that i get given a better grade. So, while theres still a chance it might not get through, it seems like it will. And even then i don't really care anymore.
Also i've got lots of offers for exhibitions and things, and i'm applying to some illustration and other jobs on gumtree and the like. I might have a go at being a life model. Getting naked for money!
Harry P yesterday was.... not the best. I liked all the parts with the kids just being at school and interacting, and the acting was good, but it just seemed like the important plot parts were either rushed through or just not done very well. As well as a baffling scene invented for the film that i still don't understand the point of.
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