17/03

Jermyn invited 3 of us down to his studio last Thursday to help out with a guy whom he knew from a band called 'The Doomed Bird of Providence.' Some amazing designer had designed these prints for their album fold out leaflet with a list of their songs on and lyrics; and on the front was a beautiful design which I guess would be their album cover. Jermyn screen printed these out all onto this type of newspaper with raised lettering to give it a kind of aged effect. We then went on to guillotine it down to the correct measured size and then fold it so it would fit nicely into the CD sleeve. We worked as quite a team- one person guillotined one side, the second guillotined the top part whereas the 3rd person folded it to shape. And then we swapped. Pretty simple really. Except it took us 3 hours to do, but there was shit loads that Jermyn printed off, and there was actually a point where I thought we'd have to come back tomorrow!
In the eve we went to 'No Offence Intended which was an exhibition put on by a few of my year of Interactive Arters at Blankspace, and I must say I was thoroughly impressed by the range of different ideas and how professional it looked. It was all based on religion but everyone's ideas were so different as not all of them typically stayed within the confined idea of religion. For example Kay produced a video which was her daily morning routine which for most of us is very repetitive, Ryan created a flourish of wind with desk fans blowing little blue polystyrene balls around a glass box which he says was to do with his time in India when kids threw powder paint at each other around at the time of the festival Holi. These are just 2 examples out of the 8 artists that were on show, just to show how different they vary from each other. And I think that's what impressed me the most; the variation in ideas. I've never been an installation artist and in some ways this is making me really want to try it out, and do something different. I want to create some pretty outlandish work and thought provoke my audience with new ideas. But the question is, with what? Only time will tell I guess... First though, I need to concentrate on my essay...dear oh dear. . .