Have a new car, an old magna. I'm going to put a shark fin on the roof. or some teeth on the front. Something anyway. My last car was boring boring boring boring boring. I wanted to be anonymous. But meh, who cares. If they want to book me they'll do it with an automatik camera & being boring won't help me there LOL. Maybe i'll put an arse on the back, for the cameras.
Have the first set of finished detailed waxes ready to take to the foundry. I wanna use 2 foundries, cos i want to do some stainless steel as well as bronze. Not ready yet with the stainless waxes, i been making a mould off one sculpture & i'll pop a set of those out to cast in stainless.
Anyway i'll book a day off work when i get 2 foundries worth o' stuff & deliver them out there. Now thats a PLAN.
Todays sculptures:
One footballer reinvigorated from an old sculpture found in a box
Detailed lots of em
Drawing of a monkey
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Managers managers
Been making tons of managers. its been going well. i aim to do a sculpture every day, and more or less its been working like that. I never quite finish em so each will require a fettle later, but usually by then cos they been maturing a while, i'll decide to either not do much to em or trash em altogether. thats ok, its a 2nd level cull process.
tonight i made one businessman bending over giving a brown eye and called it "business presentation". That could be taking it all a bit far, perhaps. Its a bit too honest. We certainly can't have stuff thats too honest in a show about managers. I'd get sacked, for a start. The wider range of metaphorical escapades could be mistaken for social commentary about the whole world of business/family/humanity/the universality of lost dreams & hopes/pitiful human condition in the 1st world/pursuit of happiness lifelong detour, etc, .....but sledgehammer stuff like that is not very... um... sofistikated.
Still, it was interesting making the dude cos he's pretty twisted up & has his head upside down & that. I'm behind one sculpture in the grand plan but i guess it was a good exercise.
Anyway it could be that the manager theme is already getting towards exhausting itself. Once it bitters up like that u may as well get fresh onto a new theme. Its all fine cos a sprinkle of small themes in this show will be orright.
Todays sculpture:
Business Presentation
tonight i made one businessman bending over giving a brown eye and called it "business presentation". That could be taking it all a bit far, perhaps. Its a bit too honest. We certainly can't have stuff thats too honest in a show about managers. I'd get sacked, for a start. The wider range of metaphorical escapades could be mistaken for social commentary about the whole world of business/family/humanity/the universality of lost dreams & hopes/pitiful human condition in the 1st world/pursuit of happiness lifelong detour, etc, .....but sledgehammer stuff like that is not very... um... sofistikated.
Still, it was interesting making the dude cos he's pretty twisted up & has his head upside down & that. I'm behind one sculpture in the grand plan but i guess it was a good exercise.
Anyway it could be that the manager theme is already getting towards exhausting itself. Once it bitters up like that u may as well get fresh onto a new theme. Its all fine cos a sprinkle of small themes in this show will be orright.
Todays sculpture:
Business Presentation
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Working for show
Since finishing that big bloke, I been feeling quite happy with myself and that. Nothing like finishing 3 years of slog. Now I'm working on work for my show in 2 months. It's kind of close really. But the past few days I've got back into the swing and some nice ideas are coming out. Decided to run with whatever came, and started with the concept of angels, cos having done one angel it was well received and I thought well there u are I can use that as a theme, angels, and devils too maybe. Cos thats as good a theme as any and being a bit mythological u can take it places. But it seems like the old subconscious is changing the devils into managers, blokes in suits. It's "make what u know", thats the old saying. at work there's lots of managers and blokes in suits, and they kinda run the gamut of evil right the way to nice. So u can have blokes in suits with all layers of moral ambiguity and like in real life u can sometimes not know where u stand with em at all, or what theyre thinking, and they can have weird motivations that make no sense. And some of em, well they don't know where they stand either. Lol. And then u got some who even worry about it, I was talking to one yesterday who I get the feeling is a bit sad and feeling maybe a bit shunned. I never talk to him usually but not cos I don't want to, more cos he always looks very serious and very busy. We used to talk before. But hell u know, he's a manager.. it's beyond my ken what managers do, and I don't think it's my place to try to pull one outta his shell. I don't know. So anyway there's a very fertile theme there eh.
It's got no relation to anything I done before, really, feels kinda fresh. Hopefully it'll stay inspiring. Think it's mostly coming from real people and real impressions from work, so that's a good way to keep it feeling fresh.
It's got no relation to anything I done before, really, feels kinda fresh. Hopefully it'll stay inspiring. Think it's mostly coming from real people and real impressions from work, so that's a good way to keep it feeling fresh.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
New week
Well it's Wednesday and the foundry guys have taken their impression and left. Last night I went to the studio and lo n behold the place was empty of big mess. I realized my studio is big when there's nothing in it. Perhaps I don't need to move. However that is an illusion as studios don't work with nothing in them, do they. The more in them the better, and all of it moving.
Feel much happier since last night. Maybe my depression last week was cos someone was using my studio n encroaching on my personal space... It's silly enough to be true. Not that I mind the foundry guys they are lovely people. But yeah I do have a thing with my personal studio space I think... Does it matter, nah probly not. I'll make a note tho :)
Another cool thing.. Have more time than I thought to get stuff cast. So that too make me happier. I thought it needed 8 weeks in the foundry but if they get it in wax ready to go it's 4. Or 2 if you catch the right part of the casting cycle. Awesome. Already did some angel like sculptures last night. It's a start anyway. Angels seem to be some kind of trend at the moment but I'm gonna do it anyway, cos wings are cool. There will always be the problem that anatomically speaking wings AND arms on one creature is just total BS, but there's the challenge, to make it seem like it works.
Have been offered a half time position at work and I think I have to jump at it. My health sucks sitting in front of pc all day and if nothing else thats plenty good reason to do it. Anyway that's still a secret because the big boss is away on hols so nothings gonna happen for a week as far as informing anybody goes. 6 month secondment first so see how I cope with much less income... And a more expensive studio lol. Timing.
Bit of a shame tho as I'm getting rather good at my job now. I can just stroll out and create a new computer lab solo now and not even bother anybody except with maybe double checking I've created every idiotic group and group policy in active directory as the overriding trait with MS AD n SCCM n every other stupid MS server product is that there's 1000 seemingly unconnected irrelevancies u need to adjust to get anything to work. And make sure the policies are reversed , but reversed correctly, not that u can actually tell by looking, mind you, but reversed so they work in the right order. FFS it's like they did that shit deliberately. I won't miss that, actually.
Feel much happier since last night. Maybe my depression last week was cos someone was using my studio n encroaching on my personal space... It's silly enough to be true. Not that I mind the foundry guys they are lovely people. But yeah I do have a thing with my personal studio space I think... Does it matter, nah probly not. I'll make a note tho :)
Another cool thing.. Have more time than I thought to get stuff cast. So that too make me happier. I thought it needed 8 weeks in the foundry but if they get it in wax ready to go it's 4. Or 2 if you catch the right part of the casting cycle. Awesome. Already did some angel like sculptures last night. It's a start anyway. Angels seem to be some kind of trend at the moment but I'm gonna do it anyway, cos wings are cool. There will always be the problem that anatomically speaking wings AND arms on one creature is just total BS, but there's the challenge, to make it seem like it works.
Have been offered a half time position at work and I think I have to jump at it. My health sucks sitting in front of pc all day and if nothing else thats plenty good reason to do it. Anyway that's still a secret because the big boss is away on hols so nothings gonna happen for a week as far as informing anybody goes. 6 month secondment first so see how I cope with much less income... And a more expensive studio lol. Timing.
Bit of a shame tho as I'm getting rather good at my job now. I can just stroll out and create a new computer lab solo now and not even bother anybody except with maybe double checking I've created every idiotic group and group policy in active directory as the overriding trait with MS AD n SCCM n every other stupid MS server product is that there's 1000 seemingly unconnected irrelevancies u need to adjust to get anything to work. And make sure the policies are reversed , but reversed correctly, not that u can actually tell by looking, mind you, but reversed so they work in the right order. FFS it's like they did that shit deliberately. I won't miss that, actually.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Ta goodness
Yep thx goodness for the weekend. Before I kill or further insult my workmates. I appalled the room by calling a third party a gargoyle yesterday. Crikey - I like gargoyles. But yes I was being a little disparaging at the time, perhaps.
Went to a garage sale briefly n got an array of boxes of pencils, old drafting materials n stuff. Doing lot of drawing lately, using some china graph pencils cos thsts all there was in the pencil dept of the newsagent at work. I got a nice blue one and I like using them. Got two boxes of em at the garage sale. Mostly brown and green. Also some Luna pencils n some Ruwe pencils. Dunno what they're good for, yet.
Then my cap off the week flat tyre on the bike, got that sorted n tried to do some sculpture in the studio. Not going very well but hope I'm just still warming up. Having a deadline for which u need to pump out creativity is about the most crap thing imaginable.. but u get that.
Have decided to move to the newly empty studio next door. From the inside it looks twice as big, tho it's in reality 1.5 times. It's a much nicer one it's not long n skinny like my place, more square n comfy feeling.
That'll be good. A course I've just finished all the big work I got in foreseeable future, but if get any more, ill be ready.
Went to a garage sale briefly n got an array of boxes of pencils, old drafting materials n stuff. Doing lot of drawing lately, using some china graph pencils cos thsts all there was in the pencil dept of the newsagent at work. I got a nice blue one and I like using them. Got two boxes of em at the garage sale. Mostly brown and green. Also some Luna pencils n some Ruwe pencils. Dunno what they're good for, yet.
Then my cap off the week flat tyre on the bike, got that sorted n tried to do some sculpture in the studio. Not going very well but hope I'm just still warming up. Having a deadline for which u need to pump out creativity is about the most crap thing imaginable.. but u get that.
Have decided to move to the newly empty studio next door. From the inside it looks twice as big, tho it's in reality 1.5 times. It's a much nicer one it's not long n skinny like my place, more square n comfy feeling.
That'll be good. A course I've just finished all the big work I got in foreseeable future, but if get any more, ill be ready.
Thursday, July 1, 2010
More boring stuff
Still have the shits, unfortunately. Starting to hate my workmates, cos I haven't had enough to do n everything is on my nerves. Nobody laffs at my jokes till the 11am starter arrives. Since I start at 7.30 I feel lost for most of the day. What am I without anyone to laff? Who would think that was even important anyway. I must be a bit out of sorts..
One of my mates may not be leaving work. He can't decide. So I feel slightly better. But one needs to be independent, so even the fact that this makes me feel better, gives me the shits. I got the gout comin on too, I ate some mandarines last week. Its the bit of my left foot where the gear change is for the bike. Being car free for the moment, that'll suck.
Customers r shitting me too... Deleted all my phone messages this morn cos could not stand to listen to well known fuckwit unravel his tiny mindlet .. I refused to flatten out the folds of my brain comprehending his rubbish. I saw his number on the display, and the sound of his voice would have meant I be takin tomorrow off on mental health grounds.
One of my mates may not be leaving work. He can't decide. So I feel slightly better. But one needs to be independent, so even the fact that this makes me feel better, gives me the shits. I got the gout comin on too, I ate some mandarines last week. Its the bit of my left foot where the gear change is for the bike. Being car free for the moment, that'll suck.
Customers r shitting me too... Deleted all my phone messages this morn cos could not stand to listen to well known fuckwit unravel his tiny mindlet .. I refused to flatten out the folds of my brain comprehending his rubbish. I saw his number on the display, and the sound of his voice would have meant I be takin tomorrow off on mental health grounds.
Coming down
Feel quite down. Not getting on well with people. Work sucks. I guess when you're working hard on a big project you can ignore everything else & then reality comes back & it doesn't exactly slap you it just erodes you over time. Here it is Wednesday & its taken 3 days for me to wear down to this point. 5 days a week at work is too much. Nothing gets better everything just craps out worse n worse till u get to the weekend then it starts over on monday. The customers suck.
But what really brings me down is i guess the following 3 things...
- all my friends are leaving work & i won't have anybody there to talk to by september
- in a couple weeks it'll be a year since dad died
- i just finished the big sculpture & i'm burned out
So yeah i guess i got some stuff to be down about. but got to try to snap out of it. Its so damn cold though. there was ice on my windscreen this morning. Crikey.
But what really brings me down is i guess the following 3 things...
- all my friends are leaving work & i won't have anybody there to talk to by september
- in a couple weeks it'll be a year since dad died
- i just finished the big sculpture & i'm burned out
So yeah i guess i got some stuff to be down about. but got to try to snap out of it. Its so damn cold though. there was ice on my windscreen this morning. Crikey.
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