Mail Art: Aliens

This was in response to the question "does it matter if there is life on other planets?" I chose to write a letter from the government as if aliens were invading Earth in the format of a telegram. I also included a piece of foil saying to use it to make a hat in order to combat alien mind control, this came from the idea of cliches involved with aliens. I then wrote on the back of the envelope "the truth is out there" which is again a cliche term that everyone would recognise as being about aliens.

Mail Art: World's Economy.

Here is my response to the question "Who is to blame for the economic crisis, bankers or politicians?" I chose the idea of representing the ecomony as a piece of moldy bread, which also works to symbolise bad money. The idea came from a project I did in my 1st year called Excess where I again used the imagery of moldy bread to convey my message.
I then stuck a sticker on the front of it saying "contains world's economy" to further communicate the idea.
The last photo shows how moldy the bread got in the 4 days it was in the mail system.

M.I.A

Amazing new set of music videos from M.I.A with Hype Williams. I love the use of old internet imagery and the effect of 'it's so bad it's good' XXXO is definitely the better one, I like how they've used the style of teenage girls myspace pages etc. plus the use of cool little gifs, maybe thats just because I love gifs.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Surreal.

Plus interesting titles. *stores away for future inspiration*

Mail Art

Hello 3rd year of uni!
Our first project is called Mail Art where we got posed 12 questions and were asked to produce 4 responses to them and then mail them to our tutor. Here's my 4 responses, all packaged and now posted, I tried to include some kind of interactive element into each to make them work on a more advanced level.
I'll reveal more after we've presented them all on Wednesday.

Fernando

My first ever record! Purely for the song Fernando as I have named my record player Fernando as a homage.

I will be soon have many more to add to this awesome collection.

Summer Reading

My summer reading list; The Rules of Attraction, re-read American Psycho, The Day of the Triffids, re-read Lolita, Orlando, In Cold Blood, Naked Lunch, Slaughterhouse 5 and Thank You for Smoking.

So far.

Birthday

Hello 21st birthday present.

Interactive Design Sync Show

And here's a small video of the making of filmed by Jamie Gregson:


Went to the Interactive Design final year show on the 4th June, it was really amazing! They had an interactive turntable piece were you moved small circle shaped markers to change how a music piece sounded, as well as everyones work on an interactive website and another piece called 'Circuit Breakers'. It was a really great night and definately something to attempt to match next year!

D.I.Y Screen Printing

This is mine and Amy's first attempt at screen printing. We made the screen using a cheap photo frame and a mesh fabric stapled over it and then covered each side with the emulsion and exposed the image onto it using the sun (which took several attempts to get the timing right)
For a first attempt I think it was a great success, needs more work to get the timing just right, also the material we used was a little too thin so it let ink through even with the emulsion on it.

Stay tuned for the 2nd attempt!