the less permanent

Chris did it, not me. I’ve been singing ‘word mole’ a lot while doing things.

…. ‘word mole!’ dad da da…

… ‘word mole..’

This video got lodged in my brain somewhere. When I sit down to write something or play something or whatever, sometimes I need to get into ‘the right mindset’. So I might watch this a couple of times with some nice music on.

It’s got me looking forward to sitting somewhere quiet near a tree when the leaves come back and also looking forward to watching them fall off again.

One year in 120 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo.

My friends and I have made another zine. It’s the Raw Canvas issue, Raw Canvas are the arts group based at the Tate Modern who invited us to do an event there. If you would like to read this issue of Art and Things please look underneath this paragraph. Thanks.

Art and Things. Hello to you Chris. Tell us what started you as an artist.

What influenced you in your early development?

This is what I wish my nightmares looked like. They’re amazing.

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Can you draw good? Do you like whisky and money? Enter this then, there’s loads of both on offer plus they’re actually threatening to slap the scribblings that fall out of your brain in Time Out magazine which is a magazine that literally loads of people read. Click here, you pencil-weilding booze-hound.

My frankly amateurish and decidedly dodgy drawings are creeping tentatively onto this blog much like a badly realized character that gets introduced halfway through a film and brings the whole thing down.

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Lauren Summers was one of the first people we ever interviewed for Art and Things. She has a new site up at www.laurensummers.co.uk – take a look at her work, it’s really, really nice. I think Lauren’s going to be at my reading later and maybe if she gets a few click-throughs from here she’ll be one of the people who doesn’t scream at me to ‘Get the fuck off!’ halfway through.

I swear, one day I’m going to draw something without totally fucking it up. I sketched this out quickly because I wanted to draw a collection of my favorite animals together with my favorite sections of poetry. I did this and then destroyed it with ink. Liz coloured it. I’ll try again later. (more…)

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Want one?

Cover by Darren

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Here are some more google searches that I’ve been getting.

theesinglespy,  “my bra aside”,  stephanie dosen,  stephanie dosen snowbird,  kaki chess

This is the first result you get from googling “my bra aside”.

I quote. “Lifting the black bra to my face I can feel the material that was earlier against her skin. I can picture her nipples inside hard and erect, perhaps for me one day. I begin to smell her deodorant and the special kind of smell of her boobs. I get it myself. The heat of the day can make your boobs kind of sweaty. Nice sweat. Horny sweat. The magical smell spurns me on. I begin to play with my own tits right now. Pulling my bra aside I moisten my fingers and transfer some of my saliva onto my tits. I love the feeling of my moist nipples being tweaked and played with.”

This blog is hovering over the cesspit.

Anyway, here’s how I wasted £8 worth of throw away camera on deliberately shit photographs in a vain attempt to be ‘arty’.
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A couple of posts back I mentioned that Tess had sent me some post complete with a little project to do. I did it the other morning. It was fun and a great example of why people should sent each other more parcels.

Here are some pictures.

As per Tessa’s guide, I had to make the sea. I filled up the sink with warm water.

Then I put the blue tissue in the water. I thought it was going to make the water blue by bleeding into it, but it actually just dissolved. I got blue all over the place. The sink was now full of this awesome blue slosh, I should’ve filmed the way it washed around, it looked really cool. My sea was complete.

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Right, so I made a post about this artist called Rosie Roberts who I interviewed for Art and Things maybe a week and a bit ago. Loads of my readers on here have been viewing the post and  people have been e-mailing/facebooking/talking to me about how much they like her.

So here’s some more, the art that she did for the Thee Single Spy album cover ( I took a couple of shots of it to fill space):

(In hindsight I realize I should’ve taken a picture of the back, not just two of the front. I’ll update this tomorrow)

I met their frontman Alex and interviewed him for Art and Things a couple of weeks ago. You can learn more about them and how to get hold of one of these wicked little vinyls (for free, I think) on their myspace – (if that turns out to be lie just e-mail him- what do you want from me?)

You can listen to an awesome track called Smoke That Tea by Thee Single Spy by clicking the play button below this paragraph. Make sure you listen to the whole thing because a) it comes together beautifully about halfway through and b) Alex sent it me in .wma (fair enough) but it ended up taking me ages to get this uploaded and to work properly. Like hours. So listen to it and make it worth my while. Please.

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Tessa is an artist. She lives up in York. She’s got a website called LittleYellowDrum.co.uk. I first met her in a pub in North London when I’d just come off of the alt albion tour and I was buzzing (very ill) from all of the Red Bull I’d been drinking that week and she listened to me talk really fast without telling me that I was a ‘weirdo’. Tessa is tip top.. And now she’s sent me this amazing parcel.

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This week I went to the pub with Anika. She reviews gigs and takes photographs and does comics of her days. She keeps them all in this amazing little book that she draws straight into in pen. This is her blog. She drew the day she met me.

Here is my attempt at something similar, but without pictures because a) It wouldn’t look very good next to Anika’s cute drawings and b) I’m feeling really lazy tonight.

Last night I went to Brainlove‘s room at Koko because Rich Thane from The Line of Best Fit.com was DJing there and he’s my bff. I metLucy Johnston there who is a brilliant photographer. Andy from Fuck Buttons DJ’d too and then we all danced. Rich told Andy that his twitter feed made him feel nervous about meeting him. I hope someone tells me this one day.

We all danced some more. I feel like my dancing was more embarrasing than everyone elses, but truth be told it was all pretty ropey. Then this man started swearing at Rich Thane while he was djing and called me a “fucking idiot”.  Lucy took photos of Napoleon IIIrd while he was playing (really well) who was kind enough to give me a 5am beer when we got back to John Brainlove’s flat because we’d missed the last train.

Rich ate three bagels from a local takeaway and felt sick. Everyone teased the cat, who nearly went mad. My alcohol induced second wind got me home (although my friend Liz nearly died on the bus) and when I got home I stayed up and ate toast and watched The Wire until I fell asleep at about midday.

… Mine isn’t as good because it’s mainly just a whole paragraph of name dropping. Which isn’t cool.

I am going to publish some of my ideas to market stuff that needs a ‘pr boost’.

1. Books.

Apparently the publishing industry are worried about the new Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle. I don’t think they should make a such a fuss, because both of those things are currently really shit. But I have come up with a clever strategy complete with slogan and logo to help push books to the 18-29′s. See below.

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Welcome to My New Website.  Thanks to Amber from Code For Something for hosting me. Amber is awesome. This site is new, but it’s got my old blog on it too. I wont be blogging in the same way that I did on the cat blog, I don’t think. I’ll probably fuck around with the design for ages too.

I never thought that ‘life blogging’ was a good idea because I’d feel like a twat telling the internet what I had for breakfast and didn’t really expect anyone to give a shit and I didn’t think it was very ‘professional’. Apparently, though,’ life blogging’ is popular with ‘hits’. I don’t know if I care about hits, but then I don’t know what the fuck I’m trying to be ‘professional’ about either.

This morning for breakfast I had mushrooms on toast with a poached egg. I made it myself and cooked the mushrooms in beer and nutmeg. I made two portions, one for me and one for my girlfriend. It was nice. I had it with coffee. I didn’t take any photographs. I’m not a cunt.

Spring is coming. I know this because of four things.

1 . There are daffodils and tree blossoms everywhere.

2 . The weather is nice.

3 . my hayfever is killing me.

4. it’s March.

Spring is my favorite time of year.  It’s nice outside, it’s pretty and after it’s over you get Summer. I went for a walk along the Thames and fed swans today. I didn’t take any photographs of this either, but I think I should do a post with some pretty spring imagery so maybe I’ll take some photographs and try to paint something this week.

Any-way.

I did an interview with Rosie Roberts. People really seem to like Rosie Roberts. I like her too.

I’ve done an interview with Sophie Kern on Art and Things.

The more I do these interviews, the more I think I might fuck off to art school for a bit.

I need to buy more scratch cards.

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