mon petit squatchy

yes yes. any excuse to put one of my images up here but i turned me and my sister into something from the hulk and i kinda like that. look at her cheeky little chops! awww. i'm not sure she'll be happy with this but i am, and i am the blog ruler (wow that felt surprisingly empowering). the work i'm putting up this week is starting to look a little samey but i just can't stop so (as i am the blog ruler (not so much the second time)) you will have to like it or you'll have to lump it.

yesterday...

i finally got round to doing something i have been meaning to do for a long time. i'd had a bad day and rather than moan about it, which is the way i might deal with a bad day, i decided to turn it round and make it in to a great day. i had a rush of blood to my dialing finger and phoned up to book driving lessons. that felt so good that straight after putting the phone down i booked in to have my hair coloured, not exactly life changing but something else i've been meaning to do for a while. i'm excited and pleased with myself. now, when i think about yesterday i don't think of it as being a bad day. i did what i set out to do and i turned it around. not only that but very soon i'll be tootling around town in a lovely black mini! so to mark the occasion in the best way i know how..

the head

this is just a quick thing i did. it was inspired by the a feeling of frustration. it was created because it's the only way i could think of at the time that would make me feel just a little bit better. all i wanted to do is be creative. have some ideas and have them heard. instead i was faced with a shaking head.

snappy

i'm still snap happy. i seem to be taking pictures of everything and anything, which is fun (for me!) but what to do with the images and what to say about them is kinda difficult. i do a lot of things that i don't really have a reason for doing, at least no other reason than i get some small pleasure from it. i suppose it's a quality of mine that i'm quite proud of. getting pleasure from things that some people might over look. things that i'm sure seem odd to most people. the camera is just a way to help me document this i guess. yesterday i got pleasure from the 70s style units in the kitchen where i work). i've always found them disgustingly beautiful. it's easy to take inspiration from the colours and styles of the late 70s and early 80s that i just about remember from my childhood. so without further ado here's the oh so lovely photograph i took yesterday of the inspiring kitchen units...

top of me 'ead

i got a bit snap happy with my camera last night and my blog is being treated to the results.
the problem with me and digital cameras is that i just can't seem to download them on to my desk top and leave them be. i just have to fiddle with them. so here's a fiddled with digital camera picture. there's no real reason to it. but who says there always needs to be a reason?

loves dum

another film inspired bit of work.

tears of the black tiger is a thai film that looks so good it makes me want to lick it! it uses a delicious colour palette .
this is an illustration of rumpoey, the high-society daughter of a politician dreaming of her not so high-society love.
the only film i've ever seen where the hero is called dum!

to watch list

much to the frustration of my friends (that lend or recommend dvds to me) i'm quite slow on the film uptake!
i have a long 'to watch' list that i get through very slowly but i finally watched BATTLE ROYALE last week and i loved it.
it's shocking, it's thought-provoking, and it's downright entertaining.

i did think it had a few sentimental lapses but i loved how brutal and how beautifully unpleasant the film was. i loved the simple plot, i loved the sick laughs (like the demonstration video) and i loved the use of classical music. did i mention that i loved it?!

(as i do) i took inspiration from it and from the steely faced takeshi kitano and began creating. here's the result...

honour of spring

i love spring. she's my favourite time of year and she never disappoints me.
i think it's because you don't expect anything of spring yet she delivers so much.
it's the time of year when everything starts to come alive and sing.
for me spring is the real start to the year.
i always feel the buzz of new beginnings and a certain excitement for the years potential.

so in honour of spring and the beauty that she is i did the only thing i really know how to do...

out of action

have been out of action for a few days but i'm on the mend and have been knuckling down to some work!

dirty picture

it's quite a dirty day.
it's foggy and wet but there's no wind and everything is still.

image for image sake

a quickie

i've been busy creating again today and have another offering.

the thing is, although i'm quite please with it, it has completely sidetracked me from the job in hand!
the particular job i should have had in hand was a lovely engagement card for my even lovelier friend caroline...

so no time for chatting... there's work to be done!






ta daaa!

a funny joke...

bob realises he's been feeling lonely and ever so slightly unfulfilled. he decides life would be just a little bit more fun if he had a pet to share it with.

so the next day bob takes himself off to the local pet shop and tells the owner he wants to buy an unusual pet.
after some discussion bob finally decides on a pet centipede.
the pet shop owner supplies a little white box for the centipede to live in and a handbook on looking after your new pet.

bob carefully takes his new pet home, finds a good place for the box and starts reading the handbook.
quickly becoming bored he decideds the best way to get to know his new pet is by taking him to the pub for a pint.

through the box he asks the centipede, "fancy going down the queen's head with me for a beer?" but there was no answer.

this bothers bob a bit but he waits a few minutes more and then asks again, "how about going to the pub for a drink?"

but again, there's no answer from his new friend.
so he waits another few minutes, thinking about the situation.

he decides to ask him one last time;
this time he puts his face right up against the holes in the centipede's box and shouts, "hey, you in there! you want to go to the queen's head for a drink
with me?"



a little voice comes from the box:...........




"i heard you the first time! i'm putting my f****ng shoes on!

HILARIOUS!

happy birthday...

...dear closeyourfly, happy birthday to yooooouuuu!

www.closeyourfly.com is one today.

using this fine occasion as a big fat excuse, i have had my creative head on this morning.
sometimes i forget i have it and some days, like today, i get all creative and it feels like i have a brand new skin.

anyway... (not wanting to go off on one) i have a small offering. it's a birthday card.

to...

errrmmm...

my website!

gemma

i seem to be speeding towards the age of 30!

i only have around 6 weeks left of being 27 and i have been feeling very old.
that was until i met gemma.

gemma is my great aunt ellen's lap dog.
she runs about like a crazy little puppy when really she's already turned 14. that's 69 in human years (i know because i found a special online calculator to work it out)!

it also told me that in dog years i'm 3 and a half.
why! i'm just a pup!

so that's that...

i'm a just pup and even when i'm 69 i'll still be sniffing wee and begging for scones like i've always done.

here's to gemma.... she's an inspiration!

mario fun

sometimes a single £1 can buy you a whole lot of fun!
i'm not ashamed to admit that i'm talking about super mario racing!
me and vic raced each other to within an inch of our virtual lives last week.
not only do you get to race carelessly around a crazy track but the game takes a photo of you and turns you into a super mario... thing!
all that for £1. truthfully!

it's worth noting here that when we were kids, it always seemed to me, that if we were asked to pick between 2 things vicky would always, somehow, end up with the best one.
christmas stockings for example.
she had a cute little bear with an xmas hat... and i got some kind of knitted trumpet design!

it comes as no surprise to me that mario made vicky into a cute little mushroom thing...




...and me into kong!

post one

my first post...
and nothing to say. fingers crossed that changes or this could turn out to be really dull!