badfingers

I know this is a little random, but... John Travolta saw you naked?

Ha!!! Yup, he sure did! I have the John Travolta seal of approval!

I was in a changing room at a health club, where my Dad and Stepmum taught classes, when he walked into the changing room. He was interested in getting a membership for the golf club there. My dad didn't even notice him! I was just standing there, with my junk hanging out, staring. Before he left the room, he turned to me and gave a nod, then left.

It was an awkward moment, but I wasn't stalking him or anythingI didn't randomly turn up on his doorstep in my birthday suit!

beautiful works you have there

happy new year to you, when you get this. i have sort of. . . zoned out of late, and been on twice since i came over to sweden.

how's life?

you hand looks very painful!!! but your art looks rocking!

I've never heard anything but good things about Eddie Summerton- as i'm sure i've said before, all my friends were in D&P so i spent a lot of time in the department- actually laterally, i was dividing time between there and the flat, anything to avoid being in the actual illustration department, besides the odd trip down to printmaking (Bob Fraser- uy) to keep up appearances. . .

I miss the girl a lot. 32 days isn't a long time, though.

My initial plan is just to chill out for a couple of months, do lots of art, scout around for a job- i've worked my ass off the last however many years so i figure i'm entitled to sort of a break. Plus i've got to come back here in january and close everything down, finalise things here, so- yeah. . . it';s all happening. And as much as teaching would be ideal, i'd happily stack shelves in a bloody supermarkjet if it meant being with the girl- that's what women'll do to ya, you know, "phenomenal muscle control" or not. (you lucky git)

That and make you take your art to all kinds of extremes- it's all good though, and i swear every advance i've made in my work has been down to one woman or another- they get in their and tweak your emotions, your drives and leave you all. . . primal, and for some reason you end up doing more cathartic, extreme stuff with what you produce.

i think it is really funny that you are on here too! we rock.

yeah, i used to love the kind of critique where they tell you to basically do something completely different to what you've been doing quite happily for x-number of months.

i always dismissed it though, because i'm a stubborn bastard, but also because i was a painter trapped in the illustration department and trying to get away with as much flagrant non-guideline-following as was humanly possible.

but as i get older i'm experimenting a lot more, not just sticking to what's safe, artistically.

even if it means, like now, everything i paint is monochrome turquoise

sounds like you're doing alright though

[Edited on Oct 14, 2005 3:49PM]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

Ya, my birthday was good.
I LOVED Scotland! Glasgow is an interesting place with interesting people. Edinburgh is more English-leaning, but is very beautiful.
How do you like Perth?

yeah i agree i have only scratched the serface, and the only reason i calculated the profit is because i wanted to do alittle math to see the minimum i would have to sell it for to make my money back, but after you saying that and my uncle i maybe should have never considered it, but this is my frst major project in many senses, i see it becomeing easyer as i move on

you said

"It seems to me that you've just not spent enough time on them. I actually don't mind the quality of the hands, it's the way the mannequins are painted overall that bothers me...I mean I think you need to consider a uniform colour on the figure/a basecoat and then add paint that gives depth and form to it. That's it, there's not enough depth and form."

i feel like you got somthing there i just dont understand, if you could elaborate more that would be awesome thanks alot for your help

Hey are you in perth right now? I'm jealous. I know this guy in perth who makes sporrans his name is marcus eagleton. I met him at a festival I worked at a few years ago in dc. Anyway he's cool. and hey if you need a sporran he;ll make you an awesome one/ Cause everyone needs a sporran

Smithsonian Folklife Festival in dc . I worked it for a few years. The year they featured scotland was one of my two favorite years



[Edited on Aug 02, 2005 12:07PM]

henry moore's stuff is awesome.

i went to a hopper retrospective at tate modern in london last summer, it it was just fucking invigorating- i came out of there wanting to get back up here and paint. i think that's the thing about going to galleries when you haven't been in a while, you realise you've forgotten just how much of a kick you get out of art in all its forms. . .

As for the production of art, i find the hardest thing of all is to stick to doing stuff you're passionate about without being influenced by the ever present subconsciuous desire to be praised for your work (everyone has it) - i know so many people from my year who basically. . . don't even produce work anymore, and it's sad. of course then there are otehrs who just went down to london and got gobbled up and haven't been heard from since.

i think what it takes to get there (there being, making it, getting recognition) is just enough ego and balls to say 'my art is good and i know it's good'

And what will this chocolate microwave do?

A microwave that you can eat?

Getting sick of Scotland, eh? I wouldn't know, but I can tell you that I am getting pretty tired of California...maybe I will come visit you in Scotland...

aye, there's a subway not in dundee, but just down the road in st andrews, where i go a lot after getting hooked on subway down in manchester. yeah, they always get these things south of the border first. i think there were about five of them in manchester alone, and there are like. . . five in the whole of scotland. grrr.