i went through all my pictures from last year and i’m generally so bummed that i never bought this bag
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BILLY
LUST FOR LIFE
doing my hair in the webcam and billy is lounging i feel motivated to make THINGS
today i ate lots of corrinaton chicken, saw my grandad and stroked a very noisy sausage dog called vivienne, (my heart aches for you), i also watched the pilot of x-files thanks to usa netflix and i thought it was very good! now i’m squashing into the sofa to have my brain blown by inland empire.
this was supposed to be nicely written but my brain is too full
Anonymous asked: what breed is billy?:)
she is a british shorthair :-) they typically have thick blue/grey coats with bright orange eyes, short legs and big squishy cheeks. she is the best cat ever who loves being with you 24/7. she talks to me all the time and will follow me into the bathroom when i’m brushing my teeth or will gently paw my face in the morning if she knows i’m going to be late
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i have been reading ‘find and keep’ by beci orpin and it’s brilliant. it doesnt have much description but the book is layed out and is so visually appeasing and inspiring, I only took it out of the library but I am definitely going to buy it. Beci writes about how she never had the internet when she was at university, so she had to discover her inspiration through exploring and photographing. I find this very interesting because I think nowadays people (me especially) take the internet for granted and believe that it is so easy to go on pinterest or go on here and see things that are amazing. It isn’t a completely negative thing, infact this website is very good for talking to other people and making connections with people i would never ever have dreamt of doing so but it makes me sad because ultimately I am sitting behind a screen looking at beautiful things whilst i am, only, sitting behind a screen. I know you can argue that nothing is ‘pure’ because everyone has been inspired by something. This makes me think of the time Tracey Emin locked herself away to produce art or when Larry Clarke locked himself in his apartment for 3 (or more) years because he wanted something PURE, UNINFLUENCED and completely HIM but I don’t overly believe this is possible, yet a very interesting concept. However I think over the next two or more months I want to become more self sufficiant, go out and discover things that I like and photograph and share these things, secondary inspiration from sources makes me feel influenced but very lazy and almost 60% more sad because i’m not making it.
also beci has exactly the same breed cat as billy :-)
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i bought jelly shoes and a ton of things in the miss selfridge sale and i’ve been revising for my final exam and i handed in my resignation for work and i cant wait to make a crazy load of art things after thursday when im FREE
i feel like a pampered princess after the last couple of days!
my boyfriend cooked me a lovely meal and took me out to an all you can eat chinese, i bought a new dress for £3 from a very good charity shop. theN yesterday night we went to our local free film screening like we do most months and they obviously changed the cinema number but the steward didnt read our ticket properly and i thought it was very strange that everyone in the cinema looked older than a typical student…. phill lent over and said “i think this is star trek….” and we decided to stay and it was actually REALLY GOOD, probs even better becuase i wasn’t expecting to see something so action packed.
today i freaked out (ie. cried a LOT) about learning quotes for english lit and sorted my university accommodation weeeeeEe
yesterday was the private view of my art groups show at st margarets church which was really lovely!
i hadn’t seen anyones work prior to the show and everything looked really good, it was especially nice with buffet + drinks + live music
it has made me really sad though because i have left the group now as the classes don’t start again until september which is when i’ll have uni, but everyone said that i can submit work for the december show and come back and see everyone as much as i can which is really nice!
afterwards we went to the pub, played who wants to be a millionaire with callum and cic (picture of me n phillip taken by callum)
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek grayson perry!
i met loads of really lovely people: a golfing couple, football fans, ascot ladies, “chavs”, women on a hen night, the rac, “hoodies”, various nationalities, the couple who have the guinness world record for kissing the longest (36 hours!), jesus army, the national trust (and loads more i’ve forgotton) all got arranged, chalk marked their places on the pavement to depict a modern day image of Great Britain. i was called over when grayson wanted a “good looking young lady” (blush) and i got to hang out of the top of a campervan with two guys. the whole day was being filmed for channel four and is showing sometime next year when the tapestries have been made- i even got to have a chat with grayson perry who was very charming, i told him about the work i’ve been doing and he said “you’re going to be in your own tapestry now!”
we went ROLLER SKATING for our anniversary which was amazing especially because it was us and a lot of kids who were substantially younger and much better than us. As a quick taster of the skating place these are some of their adverts: 1 - 2 - 3. It was great though, apart from when they got the ramp out or when they asked us if we wanted to play tag or when the limbo bar was out (scary). The “dj” literally played all the best tunez, one direction, bruno mars, taylor swift, i was gliding around being a skating princess. what a treat + slushies :-)
Standing about one metre away from Grayson perry whilst PHillipa perry offers me a sandwich SERIOUSLY
rrrrrubbish pictures
it says “DO YOU FEEL LIBERATED” on the top and it inspired by grayson perry / agony in the garden. In the second picture you can see a comopolitain magazine floating upon the rock, slightly further around is a woman preying to it with others laying beside her tired, weak and bored. it’s about how women are mis-represented in the media which evokes a ‘positive’, ‘desiable’ female rolemodel, one who is ‘beautiful’, ‘skinny’, ‘sexy’.
with demoralising articles about how to give a good blow job or whether you are keeping things ‘exciting’ enough in the bedroom, it is vicious and painful to see women fall at the hands of a magazine which dictates how they ”should” be compared to who they “want” to be.
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