Plaid Out

Amazing

2010-01-26T05:06:00.000-08:00

Har Har. Poster by Gary Burgerlips - look at his blog

Jody Barton

2010-01-26T05:05:00.000-08:00

Jody Barton's video for some shit song. The video is fucking rad

Stickers

2010-01-17T14:48:00.000-08:00

Stickers are cool

Mental

2010-01-17T14:21:00.000-08:00

There's a shitty club in Essex called the Pink Toothbrush that we used to go to all the time. It was called Croc's in the '70s and had a live crocodile in it.

Turns out they were a bit rascist as well as cruel to animals, as this flyer proves. But at least they had good bands playing there - and not just churning out the same dogshit indie music week after a week to a load of shirted, bloodthirsty maniacs drinking tins of £3.50 beer in a smelly shit hole. Picture pinched from my mate Daz's nothing funner blog. nothingfunner.blogspot.com

Gulp

2010-01-17T14:18:00.001-08:00

George Young.

Really nice

2010-01-17T14:14:00.001-08:00

Sexy Whips

2010-01-15T14:28:00.000-08:00

www.speedbicycles.com - could spend a while on here, really nice bikes

Well cool dude

2010-01-15T14:12:00.000-08:00

Awesome - www.williamhundley.com

Mike Tyson on Graffiti

2010-01-15T13:40:00.001-08:00

FUNNY AS FUCK

Matt Stuart

2010-01-15T13:19:00.000-08:00

Matt Stuart's photos are really funny

http://www.kkoutlet.com/art/2010/matt-stuart

Bare Bones

2009-12-04T13:10:00.000-08:00

Bare Bones Quarterly opening was last night. It featured the work of some of the best illustration talent around at the moment - such as Chris Bianchi, on the left there - and they'd done one thousand original works for 20 quid each. Maybe good for Christmas presents. And you can get a copy of the Bare Bones paper, which is really good and a fantastic idea.

De La Garza

2009-12-04T13:02:00.000-08:00

Way to totally rip off John Stezaker d00d! Still sick though

Don't really care what all this crap means...

2009-12-04T12:46:00.000-08:00

'In the beginnning was Debord...'

studio1.1's Xmas extravaganza explores Situationism in we hope a suitably random way. We're well aware that there can't be Situationist art as such, it's a contradiction in terms. We know too that, in Blake's ultra-visionary foreshadowing of Hegel ('without contraries there's no progression'), without contradictions there is just no dialectic.

And in the years since the Situationists sought to define themselves and increasingly what and who they were NOT, there can't be a single artist who however mistakenly hasn't felt a Situationist sciatic twinge. (to further mis-quote, this time a fictional character '...only the 'Situation' has grown small')

Straddling the New Year we bring together just for Christmas (not for life) a group of artists who can be defined at the very least as 'not NOT Situationist'.

studio1.1

What's written above is a pretty wack and dull description of easily the best exhibition I've seen in a long time. Go see it, the work's lovely. David Micheaud and Christopher Bond's work in it are absolutely sexual. Bond's piece ERM is pictured. it's at the incredibly hit-and-miss studio 1.1 on Redchurch street, Shoreditch.

The shades are silly

2009-12-04T12:44:00.000-08:00

....but this is fucking sick

Another

2009-11-26T08:19:00.000-08:00

Really nice piece by Fire

A Really Nice Sculpture

2009-11-26T08:16:00.000-08:00

By one of the worlds best Sculptors - Fire

GIFTZ

2009-11-26T08:00:00.000-08:00

Hello all. These Tees + posters are from ngusucker.blogspot.com , a nice blog by a nice chap called Bromley. They are a tenner and the posters are a 5er. I have a few to flog. They are printed on plain white tees, not raglan like shown. We should all be supporting people like this.

IF DRAWINGS WERE PHOTOS...

2009-11-26T07:57:00.000-08:00

This has been about for a while but it's sick and the zine is available now. So buy it. I think you can get it from It's Nice That.

ASBESTOS

2009-11-07T06:56:00.000-08:00

GO LOOK AT www.asbestosasbestos.blogspot.com for Max- pictured here- and his drawings and stuff. Cool I did the drawing on the right for him

Maciejowski

2009-11-07T06:55:00.001-08:00

It's oh so quiet...

2009-11-07T06:29:00.000-08:00

...Over at Plaidout studios. Here's some doodles to mull over. Enjoy.

Christians are weird

2009-10-28T10:58:00.000-07:00

SOME ROME SNAPS

TIM FLOWERS

2009-10-19T09:58:00.000-07:00

Feeling a bit uninspired today. Did this.

Matias Faldbakken

2009-10-19T09:32:00.000-07:00

AMAZING

MY LIFE SWIMMING WITH SHARKS, PART THREE: THE FINALE

2009-10-13T13:10:00.001-07:00

A couple of pals of mine are in a band called 'My Life Swimming With Sharks'. They played a few gigs in Southend at the end of last summer but were sidetracked before coming back recently with a new line-up and a (slightly) different sound. Maybe a little more hardcore than before but it's still very screamo so if thats your cup of tea, I've no doubt you will like 'em. Their Myspace is:

www.myspace.com/mylifeswimmingwithsharks

Anyhoo, Will, the singer, wanted to do a limited edition demo of ten copies, so I spent today doing a run of ten original works,which I was stoked with, and I'm gonna make a little zine out of them.

If you'd like a copy of the zine or the E.P (without one of the limited covers, as they're all shotgunned) give me a message.

x

my life swimming with sharks part 2

2009-10-13T13:08:00.000-07:00

MY LIFE SWIMMING WITH SHARKS PART1

2009-10-13T13:06:00.000-07:00

FLUNG SLING

2009-10-12T10:59:00.000-07:00

My mate Dan Ford from - sunny and slightly backward - Devon had a show at Moot gallery in Nottingham- A really nice, well run space that's on the come up. They're at ZOO art fair this weekend. If anyone reads this, go, it's sick- It's good fun and full of rich people that will buy ANYTHING! Not that all the work isn't amazing of course. Still, Dan will have work there, click the link and see photos of his 'shit'. It's nice 'shit'. http://www.mootgallery.org/danford.htm

More sketchbook shite

2009-10-12T10:17:00.001-07:00

A little bit more from the old sketchbook. really like the one on the right but it's probably a little too small here. weak

HITLER KILLER

2009-10-12T10:14:00.000-07:00

Found this picture on my computer from a way back, It's of some woman who was involved in one of the Hitler assassination attampts. It looks EXACTLY like my mum. Nuts!

SKETCHBOOK SHIT

2009-10-12T10:06:00.000-07:00

Some new sketchbook shit. Did the mans head when I was drunk. and the bit on the right is a bit of gaffer tape with a bit of vinyl stuck over half of it so it sort of flaps down. I really like it. Why wont these shitty images go the right way up? Computers are massively shit.

ARGH

2009-10-07T12:06:00.000-07:00

Massive pile of meat I cut out of some cheese old 70's cookery book. Like the Black and White meat in the post"Meatyard" below, I'm struggling to think of what to do with it. Answers on a postcard and you might win a Nando's.

Another new twisty collage too, but not feeling these as much as the older ones.

Like old collages, but newer

2009-10-05T14:04:00.003-07:00

Playing with different colours. Have more of these.

Mr. Meatyard.

2009-10-05T13:59:00.001-07:00

Cut out a load of meat today. Haven't thought of what to do with it yet but in the mean time here is some meaty type. I've got a few other meat based bits that I'm excited about so maybe these will be up soon.

STEZ OF THE DAY

2009-10-05T13:58:00.001-07:00

Too good!

Southend's young creatives at VILLAGE GREEN

2009-09-30T10:11:00.001-07:00

Village Green Festival thing at Chalkwell park was really good fun. Pretty much everyone in Leigh turned up and there wasn't any oiks hanging around which showed Leigh up to be the middle class utopia that it professes to be, but that was quite nice really in a way. Billy Bragg helped them all stick it to the man, as he tends to do at such things. I didn't explore too much as I was manning my stall but it was nice and we met loads of people. There's a video of Darren, Pete and I on YouTube that will come up if you search for "Southend's Young Creatives Village Green" or something. Good times, well done to Daz and Pete and the Southend's Young Creatives types and the people that organised the thing.

ONE OF THE PERKS

2009-09-30T10:03:00.000-07:00

...of working at a college, is sometimes the students do really sick work and don't even know it. A kid did these, I told him he should do more but he then told me about some other drawings which were of disney characters pretty badly copied. I've got a little pile of work that is good and they've not liked it that I'm gonna keep and pass of as my own.

New Bicycle

2009-09-30T10:01:00.000-07:00

Got some new parts for free!! It's now riding like it bloody well should. Don't suppose anyone really looks at this too much but I now have a bike built up of spare parts that I'll sell for about 150 squids

HELLSBELLENDS.BLOGSPOT.COM

2009-09-25T16:36:00.000-07:00

Check this shit out

SATURDAY, CHALKWELL PARK:

2009-09-25T00:20:00.001-07:00

I'm showing recent work, most of which has been on here. 'Kool Kids' are playing and a few other things are happening. Beers in the park all day= always good

DAN

2009-09-23T09:58:00.001-07:00

Ha ha! Weird bastard...

THE LIFE AND SOUL

2009-09-23T09:45:00.001-07:00

This party sounds pretty good- keg, bacon, bad-ass conservatory

Another of dem

2009-09-23T09:19:00.001-07:00

Don't know about these.

TRI-ANGLES

2009-09-22T10:59:00.001-07:00

Did a few of these today. Look real nice. Feel a bit bad only doing 2D work at the moment- it's a bit unfulfilling, but fuck it, I'm going to stick it to the man and carry on- these take me about ten minutes, compared to some other shit that takes ages.

FRENCH

2009-09-22T10:50:00.001-07:00

These Lovenskate mugs are blinding. French's- the bloke who does Heroin graphics- work is blinding. If you skate or like your metal or illustration then he'll probably be familiar to you. If so/not- Check out his blog:

http://funeralfrench.blogspot.com/

I go on it quite a lot, and it seems like he's doing a lot of solo shows around the world. Needs one in London methinks.

More! New! Collages!

2009-09-21T10:07:00.001-07:00

Apologies for the shitty camera phone images again. Here are a few more new collages. Reallly like these and think they will look lovely in a frame. On your wall.

Sometimes....

2009-09-21T10:05:00.001-07:00

....when you're walking through Shoreditch, listening to Raining Blood on your Ipod, you just have to give in the urge....

HUNTERIAN

2009-09-21T09:58:00.001-07:00

The Hunterian Museum, at the Royal College of Surgeons, by Holborn, is rad. It's a lovely collection of bits of animal, people, all sitting in Formaldehyde for the last few hundred years, when some chap called Hunter collected them. Some of them are pretty fucked up- there's a section entitled 'Morbid Anatomy' which is bits of people saved after being inflicted with some nasty illnesses- there's a cross section of someone's face after their nose was rotted off by Syphilis, for example, amongst other favourites. Here are a couple of tasters that I managed to snap on the phone before getting a telling off, and no, the Skull isn't mine....I particularly like the drawing of the person being hypnotized. I was my hands did that.

FAT BASTARD

2009-09-15T14:17:00.000-07:00

Really like these badboys.

2009-09-15T13:25:00.001-07:00

Gonna do some more, get them in frames, and pop them on me wall.

REALLY OUGHT TO GET A PROPER CAMERA

2009-09-15T12:49:00.000-07:00

THOUGHT THIS MIGHT BE QUITE A NICE IDEA, LOOKS A BIT SHIT THOUGH.

NEW DOODS, DUDES

2009-09-15T10:17:00.001-07:00

GOT PAID TO DO THIS- TIGHT

BUSENITZ WAS ROBBED

2009-09-15T10:13:00.000-07:00

CHIRS COLE IS A MUG: CHECK THIS IT'S FUCKING AMAZING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWrqn_O7yUg

AND ENJOY A PICTURE OF GONZ:

this blog is in no way associated with adidas, surprisingly.

OLD EAST BERLIN

2009-09-09T14:53:00.001-07:00

Really nice photos of old shopfronts in East Berlin in the 80's by Dietmar Rieman. Some nice old bits 'o' type amongst all the run down skankiness- google him.

NEW COLLAGE STUFF- MORE

2009-09-09T14:30:00.001-07:00

HANDSOME

S MARK GUBB

2009-09-09T10:37:00.000-07:00

Good fun, having a laugh and poking fun at yourself are a little rare in Art- Perhaps it's because jokes in art aren't really that funny- See Sarah Lucas.

S. Mark Gubb's work is pretty bloody funny though. He plays upon the stigma of being a fully- grown- responsible adult and still liking metal and stupid stuff like skateboarding, which is obviously rad and shouldn't be taken as seriously as some people take it.

His website is dope, check it: www.smarkgubb.com

A VERY OLD SCULPTURE

2009-09-09T10:30:00.001-07:00

cut-out drawing

2009-09-07T03:09:00.000-07:00

Started this the other day, it's intricacies led to it being bloody ripped before I finished itunfortunately. More to come like this. Also finished a new sculpture today, pictures up in a few days, looks quite handsome if I do say so myself !

BIG TAKEOVER 2- JUST FOUND THIS

2009-09-07T02:59:00.000-07:00

FIRST SHOW FLYER

WENT TO THE FIRST BIG TAKEOVER SHOW BY LONDON BRIDGE, AND IT WAS BLOODY BRILLIANT- THIS ONE PROMISES TO BE EVEN BETTER!!!!! JUST RIPPED THIS OFF SOMEONES WEBSITE SO HAVE A LOOK. NOT SURE OF THE DATE SO WILL UPDATE, ALTHOUGH I HAVE A FEELING IT'S FRIDAY WEEK. (18TH):

BTO Is back with a bang, despite evil venue owners trying to sue me (fuck you Arch 897) anyone who went last time will recall it was a bit legendary, so you know, lets do it again without the police.
It's BYOB and All Ages - this time Rampart, the squatted social centre in Whitechapel, have been kind enough to let me use their space - so the onus on attendees not being a fanny is as important as ever
It's a donation on the door, five pounds, and money after costs will go to Croydon Rape Crisis, the last centre left in London - http://rasasc.bizview.co.uk/ - (oh cheers Boris) yet another reason to come down and make it even more fun (and less messy) than last time.
Here's the lineup:
VOGUETHE BEST BAND IN EUROPE – HARDCORE CHAOS A LA JERRY'S KIDS - ON TOUR!http://novogue.blogspot.com
GUILTY PARENTSBORN AGAINST-STYLE MESS PUNK FROM NOTTINGHAM, REAL ANTI-PARENT CULTURE SOUNDhttp://www.myspace.com/guiltyparents
BLACK MAMBA BEATSHAMBLING ECONO JAMS FROM GLOBAL POWER SNAKES - TOTTENHAM VIA SOUTH AFRICAhttp://www.myspace.com/blackmambabeat
SEX DUNGEONFRITZL YOUTH UNMASKED - LONDON ULTRA POWER VIOLENCE INFESTATION NATIONhttp://www.myspace.com/sexdungeonx
MOATBRAND NEW METALLIC PUNX FROM LONDON INVOKING ALL YOU'D RATHER FORGET FROM THE NINETEEN NINETIES. EX ABANDON SHIP, FRIGHTENER, MOCK HEROIC, DEAD SEA FUCKING SCROLLS(No website yet, gosh)
There's lots of info and directions to the venue here - http://therampart.wordpress.com/
And there'll be lots more info about the show here very soon - http://www.bigtakeover.co.uk
THERE IS ONLY TWO WEEKS UNTIL THIS GIG PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

HERE IS THE FLYER FOR THE FIRST ONE: BEAR IN MIND IT'S NOT AT THE SAME PLACE, JUST TO LET YOU GET AN IDEA OF THE KIND OF SHINDIG!

Goo

2009-09-03T06:38:00.000-07:00

David and Maureen Smith Driving to the Trial of Myra Hindley and Ian Brady:

RUGGED

2009-09-03T04:33:00.001-07:00

RYAN MCGINLEY@ALISON JACQUES

2009-09-01T23:58:00.000-07:00

Private view next thursday. Not a huge fan of all the Vice photo types but these look really nice:

NUVVER ONE

2009-09-01T14:36:00.001-07:00

Bit 'o' fun...

NUVVER ONE

2009-09-01T14:35:00.001-07:00

Sketchbook shit

2009-09-01T12:02:00.001-07:00

Done a small series of sculpture-y 2D images using duct tape and vinyl, trying to get a 3D effect. Here's one. May add more.

yuck

2009-09-01T11:50:00.000-07:00

Drawing of fucked up person. Luminous yellow spraypaint underneath and filling in the blanks. More to come. Messing around really.

BEST IN SHOW IMAGE

2009-09-01T10:17:00.000-07:00

A little rip off the John Jones website- The "Best in Show" exhibition I was in in october. It looked pretty buff, and was all the buffer for my piece, which you can see poking out it's carefully varnished exterior facade on the right hand side.

Layered Isometric

2009-09-01T10:11:00.001-07:00

Did this a few months back and It's been left to fall apart a bit at the office, but It looks nice and I'm going to reprint it. Yo.

New collage shit

2009-09-01T09:57:00.000-07:00

A collaged response to a load of nice old isometric drawings from some old construction books I brought a while ago from the library. The one on the right needs rotating but I couldn't be arsed. I think they'll look pretty buff when they're framed and that, and laid out properly. I'm working on more so will try and keep this up to date.

RAPHAEL ZARKA

2009-09-01T09:37:00.000-07:00

Raphael Zarka's work is the nuts. Beautifully constructed forms that reference skating, Modernist sculpture, and physic-y shit. It's a refreshing, subjective practice, referencing natural and man-made forms, their histories and their uses. Radmad.

REALLY NICE

2009-09-01T09:34:00.001-07:00

Handsome structure spotted in Rayleigh, Essex. All these frames lock together. It's about ten feet high. Would look lovely in an exhibition.

stezaker

2009-01-12T14:52:00.001-08:00

BICYCLES and BURRITOS

2009-01-12T14:39:00.000-08:00

i WILL BUILD YOU A BIKE IF YOU WANT I ENJOYED IT.

This is mine. She is buff.

I also want Burritos in Southend. This is my masterplan:

PLAID OUT ROUND THREE

2008-10-09T10:32:00.000-07:00

PLAID OUT ROUND THREE AT THE SUNROOMS, SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, THIS FRIDAY-10-10-08.

THATS TOMORROW, SO NO ONE WILL PROBABLY SEE THIS, IN THE MEANTIME YOU GET TO SEE SOME NICE FLYERS BY D.BERRY-

nothingfunner.blogspot.com

IN THE STICKS

2008-09-09T09:59:00.001-07:00

St. Martins MA degree show

2008-09-08T11:42:00.001-07:00

Had a ganders round the CSM M.A degree show on friday mid London lurk with Warbs. There was a lot of work- not really sure I could hack doing an M.A with about a hundred other people, but some of the work was pretty rad. There was some shite as well of course. Here are some of the hammers from it. I'll try n get some better images and some more of the work up, coz it finished on the 8th. But here are some names to put into your brain:

The little matchstick sculptures were by Iain Struth,

the birthday thing was by Joana Filipe

the "Gritty 'burbs" was by Lara Mennes

The photo collage thing was Sabine Tholen

and the edited Landscape photos were by Sachiyo Nishimura

Get googlin' x

DAMIEN HIRST IS A CUNT

2008-09-08T11:21:00.001-07:00

THIS COULD WELL BE ONE OF THE DOPEST THINGS I'VE EVER SEEN

Damien Hirst has found a unicorn and put him in formaldehyde for all to see. This bad boy was up for a cool three mill. I'd really like it in my bedroom. Or maybe at the sunrooms for Plaid Out.

ROM RIP

2008-09-08T11:19:00.001-07:00

Had a little schralp down Rom last wed. Good fun. Sperm's camera is dope.

FRIDAY THE 12TH AT THE SUNROOMS, SOUTHEND ON SEA

2008-09-04T04:43:00.001-07:00

Second Plaid Out at the Sunrooms!!!

should be fun, Skate Vids, Beer, and tunes.....

What could possibly go wrong?

CHOPSTICKS AND NO MORE NAILS

2008-09-04T04:27:00.001-07:00

Kipp's exhibition at the Squeeze runs until friday. Go Down. I had a piece in it, pictured here mid production (it was eventually wall mounted) before it fell off and broke. oopseh

PLAID OUT TEES!

2008-09-04T04:19:00.000-07:00

NEW PLAID OUT TEES! Here they are, expertly modelled at Offset Festival by a Not Drunk Me.

Email if you'd like one!!!

safe

Art ting

2008-09-04T04:07:00.001-07:00

Uploaded this - my degree show piece - as I haven't been arsed to put it up anywhere else yet.

You can see it live in all it's magnificent glory at "Best In Show", an exhibition at John Jones' gallery space in Bethnal Green, which runs from the 3rd to the 31st of October 2008, with a private view on the 2nd of October, from 6.30 to 8.30pm. Come along to the private view, it'll be excellent fun. The exhibition is of a select group of artists from degree shows up and down the country, as well as myself, My friend Dan is showing work, as well as a few other heads from my uni.

www.pearceandramsey.com

www.johnjones.com

Yearbook Yourself

2008-09-04T03:55:00.000-07:00

YEARBOOKED THE BISHOP:

www.yearbookyourself.com

hahahHA!