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Wednesday, 21 September 2011

The Mad Story

Over the next few days I'll be posting an incredibly important book with, according to a world-class type designer and -ographer, not very good typography at all. I'm rubbish at type unless I do it by hand but this essential piece of vacuous fly-by-night graph-lit screamed for a proper typeface. I tried and failed and don't really care to be honest (no-one died) but if anyone wants to have a shot then break out the orchestra.

The story is about a confused shape-changing depressed loser and judging by the reaction of the fortunates who've read and looked at it, is definitely very very funny. Of which I'm not convinced. Give it a go and please let me know, if you can be arsed. Thank you.

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Vibrator racing © (for Callum M)

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A) funny B) shite (for Robin R.)

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

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Amphigory 1 (for Guy H.)

010 Byron hoarding - END.

009 Byron hoarding (hilariously bad photo)

008 Byron hoarding

007 Byron hoarding

006 Byron hoarding

005 Byron hoarding

004 Byron hoarding

003 Byron hoarding

002 Byron hoarding

Some photos of Byron hoarding in St. Giles, London

001 Byron hoarding

Sunday, 18 September 2011

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Extroverted antics (for David H.)

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Stupid gods, silly man (for St. Mark's church, Dalston)

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Sappho porn (for Josie J.)

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Untitled (for Alexander G.).

Saturday, 17 September 2011

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Haunted ruinousness (for Harry R.)

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Awaken with start (for Ulla P.)

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Gasp (for Jeff F.)

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Never ending worry (for Ron C.)

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God's love (for Cheryl T.)

Friday, 16 September 2011

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The Importance of Trees (for Ryuichi S.)

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work (for Jon E.)

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3.30 am (for Henry O.)

END

That was a beautiful experience; in fact, beyond beautiful and if there's one person who agrees then it was worth it. Just about. Off for a lie-down to weep myself softly to a colourful sleep.

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This is the last spread - one more image to come and then onwards and downwards to the next coruscatingly world-changing piece of art. Might throw in some randomness to escape the relentless lasso of 'form' and 'legibility'. Maybe a photograph after the last image would shake things up a trifle - you know, really spark it up to levels never achieved before.

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Thursday, 15 September 2011

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It looks like the whole book will be up (or is it 'blogged'? - dread word if it is) by the weekend.
Obviously incredibly busy with a plethora of deadline-based self-importance.

The statements in this book are loosely based on a piece of direct-mail banality from a 'global seminar management project company' or similar that we received in the studio. Some of the syntax has been changed because if it weren't then you would all cry tears of gloom.

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Wednesday, 14 September 2011

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Why You Should Attend The Seminar 002

Book project pending

A new very short book will be 'part-worked' over the next week or so entitled 'Why You Should Attend The Seminar'. Here's the 'cover'.
Hopefully, anyway. Perhaps I'll do something when I stop cleaning and doing the washing and going for walks to stop myself doing anything remotely work-like or interesting as all dynamism has been struck from my inner core due to call-centre madness. It starts with the over-cheery woman who sounds like she's bursting for a pee, then the dreaded music and finally the indecipherable person whose fault it is not when his supervisor say "no"to the sad and desperate pleading for an extended credit period.

What I love about non-print books is that you don't have to go to print. Mind you, I love Blurb, Lulu and the like.

Details of virtual books becoming non-virtual and for sale will possibly be coming along at some point or another.

There are others ready, too.

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Here's another image. Photographs by Donald Milne.

Recycled Tree of Wood (The Wapping Project 2007)

This was a recycled tree made out of found wood around the immediate environs of The Wapping Project gallery and assembled on site.
Around it were 5 industrial fans blowing handfuls of cheap hdpe plastic bags increasingly added to the mix.
Many lodged permanently in its branches as they do in reality - I just speeded things up. The wood used is now being recycled still: plinths, shelves etc. which makes me very happy.It was big and thin.