Coarse Requirement

2014-02-10

Life Drawing

I have been to now my second session of life drawing held at Heatherley's art school on Lots Road, London. Here's a pic.

2014-01-30

Life advice from Calvin and Hobbes creator

This is a speech by Bill Watterson, made in at Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio - turned into a cartoon strip in his style (he created Calvin and Hobbes - see 1st img) by Gavin Aung, who runs the blog http://zenpencils.com/.

Found via: http://warholian.com/2014/01/billwatterson/

2014-01-18

Commercial work re-cap

As I'm working on my new website at the moment, I realise there's nowhere I can show evidence of my published commercial photography, namely, the work I did helping the think-tank BritainThinks, who were running the consumer engagement plan for Smart Meters. I travelled to focus-group sessions in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff and captured the meetings in full swing.
They've added my photos to their Consumer Engagement Plan document found here on pages 2 - 6:

http://www.smart-meter.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/FINAL-PLAN.-06.12.132.pdf

And in the think-tank's own report here:

http://britainthinks.com/sites/default/files/SMCDB%20Stakeholder%20Events%20REPORT%20FINAL.pdf

http://britainthinks.com/reports

2014-01-02

2013, a year in Sexism

Very well put together by the Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/womens-blog/2013/dec/20/2013-year-in-sexism

including a report on UKIPs largest donor, Demetri Marchessini, on how women are just.. getting it all wrong!

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/may/17/ukip-donor-women-hostile-trousers

Excerpt:
"Walk along any street and you see women using trousers like a uniform every single day. This is hostile behaviour. They are deliberately dressing in a way that is opposite to what men would like. It is behaviour that flies against common sense, and also flies against the normal human desire to please."

Marchessini said women should not wear trousers because they are meant for men's bodies. He said: "The interesting thing about this phenomenon is that, because women cannot see themselves from the rear, the vast majority of women are unaware that trousers are very unflattering to them. Trousers are made for men's bodies, which are mostly straight up and down. "Women's bodies on the other hand consists of curves. Women have big bottoms – they are meant to have big bottoms. Countless women who would look lovely in dresses or skirts are embarrassingly unattractive in trousers."

2013-12-14

Douglas Booth

Taken for Interview Magazine at the Camden Collective, Mornington Crescent.

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/14-faces-of-2014-douglas-booth

2013-11-29

TateShots: Alan Johnston's ceiling drawing at the Tate Britain

Here's the video made by the Tate about the drawing I was part of making, with artist Alan Johnston, on the ceiling of the new cafe space in the new, refurbished area of Tate Britain.

"He and his assistants spent 2 weeks lying flat on their backs as they delineated a painstaking lattice of pencil mark. At first glance Tactile Geometry looks like a falling shadow. Only when you approach it closely is the secret revealed. Johnston talks to TateShots about his process and intention."

Alan's own website: http://www.drawingashadow.com/list.php