Ghost town

Ipswich town centre is a prime example of a town where smaller businesses struggle to survive in a vicious economic climate... all of these photos were taken from one end of the town centre to the other on my walk home. I remember most of these shops being open and its sad to come home for easter and see this level of decline.

Tunnel construction

My fellow Colaborators were given the chance recnetly to be part of  a one day arts event in norwich in a disused estate agents on king street. The event 'Shop art live' hosted a wide range of creative people contibuting together to provide the public with a free,family friendly,varid and fresh look into creative practices.

Liam Clark and Guy Jarrett were allocated two rooms in which to create interactive peices of artwork and a room to exhibtit their work further upstairs.
Click here for a short write up by the Norwich fashion blog


The interactive works came into shape of a Tunnel between two doors which lead to a room full of hand painted free standing boxers with holes where the face should be, allowing people to have their photo taken, created by Guy which resemble kitch  seaside photo opportunites.
Liams tunnel was a vision combining the concepts of the films "Where the wild things are" and "Inception" which were both watched in the same sitting. The idea of a sctucture which people had no choice but to interactive with but that catered better to  children due to the low drop in hieght which would reduce most adults to a crawl.
Over the course of a week and a bit the 0ninehundred came together to construct Liam's Tunnel out of Chicken Wire and Paper Mache'.
An enjoyable yet gruling experience.

rather than me telling you every detail heres some photos I feel sum up the experience
Photos of the event to come v.soon
Enjoy

Digital is dead - long live digital

I made this sculpture a few days ago. My method of production was smashing up broken digital cmaeras with a sledgehammer in the sculpture yard and then placing the fragments on a sheet of metal and putting a blow torch to them.
it was a very satisfing experience allowing me to take out anger physically to create something new.
The end result shows twisted, burnt and generally destroyed parts of cameras forced together.

First shoot on my new DSLR

Although I've always been an anologue guy and have written off digital for some time I decided for my 21st birthday I wanted to take the plunge and get a DSLR. So i went for the newest and best Nikon on the market the D3100. Its a truely magnificent camera. Ive been taking it with me on my travels and for the most part these are just me getting used to the camera but i thought id share some of my first digital shots with you enjoy.

Sketchbook/ self set projects

Just another update of some sktechbook work i did today. Havent drawn for a while so thought id draw a sheep and come up with some sheep based puns..in the hope of starting my  own sticker led tag mission around the city.
I also got my first film developed from my "morning photos"...ive set myslef a task to take a photo of myslef every day for a year...the end result will be astounding and itll be amazing to see how much i change in a year.
couple of undeveloped shots but oh well...im doing it on disposeable cameras to rduce the second guess factor the flash usually wakes me up good.
enjoy