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Please have a look and pledge.
http://www.emphas.is/web/guest/bookproject?projectID=674

Something for Wallpaper* magazine Handmade project. A lovely 2 days pretending you're still at infants school in the art room. Apart from the blood test angle. More of that coming up. In photos.
http://www.wallpaper.com/design/handmade-2012-custom-covers/5818#64551

My new studio. 

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Bottle

Re: Tired Of Life.
At least look at the hilarious but tender-hearted 'to camera' from. Mr. Bain Hogg. It cracks me up so much. A gutsy performance indeed.
http://www.emphas.is/web/guest/discoverprojects?projectID=674

Now's your chance to make this essential London book happen.

Finally Tired of London, Tired of Life, a cherished book project that is going to be available soon with your help.
A collaboration between artist Paul Davis and designer Henrietta Molinaro and Jocelyn Bain Hogg, this beautiful triparteid project is being crowd-funded on the emphas.is site.

www.emphas.is/web/guest/discoverprojects?projectID=674

This is, we feel, the essential London book and an antidote to all things Olympic and Jubilee. 

Please have a look and go buy a copy, or check out the other lovely incentives to help get this wonderful thing out there.

And feel free to blog, facebook and tweet and pass this on to all your friends too.

Many thanks, we all love you.

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Images from These Drawings Were Sent Down To Walk Amongst You at the Coningsby Gallery, London, 2012.

 Black Hole

 Neutron star

 White Dwarf

 Our Sun (exagerrated) sic

 Flowers I, II, III

Installation view of Full Rabbit at Shoreditch Town Hall, London 2012.
Curated and designed by Lex Bamforth of Audio Architecture: www.audioarchitecture.co.uk

120 Post-It Note drawings for Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

For DS: The Price of Steps These Days.

CLOSING ON FRIDAY

Dear All,
show went well but there's a fair bit of refreshment left so I reckon it's a good idea have a dignified closing party for A Beautiful Pile-up on Friday at the gallery. Please come and peruse possibly the best drawings ever made in the history of drawing.

Details: The Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham Street, London W1T 4AJ. T 020 7636 1064.
coningsbygallery@debutart.com

I love you all enormously.
x

A VERY SERIOUS GROUP OF DRAWINGS

Been quiet due to working on new show. Total concentration with far too many coffees.
Please look at this link. It shows a short film made with Ryuichi Sakamoto remembering the tragedy that befell Japan a little over a year ago that the world seems to have forgotten about. The Japanese people are incredible and will rebuild - you wait.
http://kizunaworld.org/english/project/019/index.html

I HAVE A NEW SHOW AT THE CONINGSBY GALLERY...

De La Soul are the best.

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Sums It Up.

Beckett

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BLOWING MY OWN TRUMPET

http://www.thisiscollate.com/2012/03/17/construct-typofaces/

One of those extremely rare dream jobs.

PERFECT DAY. EXHIBITION PHOTO.

Group show at the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam. 2012

Brief Interlude

This story came to mind when I heard someone banging on about how boring Jury Service was; a dull traffic offender or somesuch.

Jury Service, Wood Green Crown Court, North London.

After two days of the worst defence I had ever witnessed, inlcuding the hapless lawyer in that fine Australian film 'The Castle', twelve tired people retired to the deliberation room to try to convince one posh man that the accused and his pregnant fifteen year old girlfriend were guilty of supplying a huge amount of  crack cocaine to distributors for a large profit. The evidence was way beyond suggestion: the Yardy dealt lots of crack. Pure and simple. The latex gloves, the criminal contacts, the forensic evidence, the, er, crack found on the premises...
But we couldn't convince this chap as he kept having abstract and irrational doubts. I thought he felt he couldn't deal with the power invested in him - possible a masochist at heart. I don't know.

The judge, an avuncular old sage, asked us for a 12 to 0 verdict.

Working class Bob, after two further days stuck in a stuffy room, littered with snack packaging and stained polystyrene cups got a bit tetchy after Posh Jamie said "I like so couldn't live with myself if I found him guilty? I'm like so not totally convinced?"
Bob shot me a dark and disappointed glance and said to Jamie's pale eyes "look, not only is he an obviously guilty crack dealer, all the evidence points that way, but what sticks in my craw is that he tried to rip punters off by selling lumps of wax as a crack substitute, the cheap bastard. Now that's bang out of order in my book."
Jamie, weakly: "yes, well, that is rather cheating, isn't it?"

12 - 0. Four years apiece. Well done Bob.

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The words and C list Miami society pages portraits were gleaned from a property glossy found in a hotel lobby on South Beach. Very disturbing. Their minor royals. Obviously, the logo usage sets out to confuse. It's incredible how a marque can completely change the meaning. Put your finger over the logo and it's rather bland, I think.  I had a show with many of these and I convinced many attendees that they were real advertising campaigns which shows how far advanced Europe is in marketing and branding strategy; and how far big multi-nationals were prepared to go to seem to be cool.

Many Manhattan-based creative directors thought this astonishing, and sagely nodded as I told them this, unblinking, believing me, thinking America was too conservative within advertising.

Such beautiful idiocy.

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New Orleans to Chicago 0n American and this she read this magazine for the whole duration, cover to cover, poring intently.

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This garbage bag holder was seen in Buenos Aires - they're about 2 to 3 feet off the ground so a wonderful idea to keep the rats away, plus they are everywhere and all slightly different: sculptures in their own right. Form and function and all that palaver.
Why don't we start using them?

VAROOM MAGAZINE

Latest edition with an article on Globalisation. And a drawing.

http://www.varoom-mag.com/?p=133

NEW SHOWS

I don't don't why but I'm shite at social networking.
Anyway, there's a show at Shoreditch Town Hall, 380 Old Street , London, EC1 and one at the Coningsby Gallery, 30, Tottenham Street, London, W1.
Just had one in Amsterdam, which has finished but got good reviews.
Below are the links:
http://www.coningsbygallery.com/future_copy.asp?id=264
http://www.artrabbit.com/uk/events/event/30886/full_rabbit
http://www.marcjohns.com/blog/2012/02/a-perfect-day-exhibition-in-amsterdam.html

Oh, and Heals Windows print show is coming up too.

I will post about that. Maybe.

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Reading

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O'Hare Airport a few years ago, two women chatting, one woman talking more.

I was sitting having possibly one too many beers due to the delayed United to New Orleans (Noo-Waughlins) and was listening (or snooping) on my immediate neighbours when, after what seemed like hours of sentimental offspring worship, the final withering statement which I'm sure was meant to destroy  the other woman's inner peace was the above.
I wrote it down and later wondered whether it should be a Ralph Lauren Kids or a Gap ad.
As you can see, I went for Armani Junior.

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London Transport Drunk

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Broken Bic (in Broken Bic)

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Spain

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NEW YEAR MESSAGE

The Chances Are

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