hello university!

just a cheeky little post to say that foundation is over. the end. fin.
iamsadfaceaboutthis.
i really miss it already.


however...

i got a merit in my fmp, so i'm going to norwich in september, bitchesss! i am happy. so so so happy.
thursday was a good day; found out i'm going to the uni i want, then went to the old hat and got drunk for eight hours.

life is good.

ahhhhhhhhhbvurwijncwngh

had a bit of a coursework/other stress/what do i do if i don't get into norwich related mental breakdown last night. i am hating fmp, and stupid bloody french idioms right now. 
cannot wait for it to be over.


calmed down a bit today though, and i am currently baking some digestive biscuits in the shape of the words "ne pas digérer quelque chose". as you do.
they're looking pretty good but the flour i used was about two years out of date so i definitely will not be eating them...





also, my mum has finally learnt what i do.
she's even learnt the name of the uni and what it stands for!
hallelujah.
"n. u. c. a. yeah? it's norwich... university... c ... something ... college? of errrrrrrrrm, art?" yes mum, well done.

this isn't just any honey,

this is a jar of only the finest (the cheapest i could get in a nice jar) french idiom honey.
aaahhhh yeah.

click on the photo to see it bigger and ting

faire son miel de quelque chose
literally meaning 'making ones honey out of something', actually meaning 'profiting from a situation'



now i just need to decide how to display about ten other french idioms. by next friday.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh deadline stress.

i should be a baker, not a designer

so, i'm still going with my idioms. got about three weeks left and no idea what to do for a final piece, so it's fair to say that i'm shitting bricks. anyway, here is something i did the other day. i like it :)

inspiration: i thought this was beautiful. my attempt isn't quite as lovely as this but never mind.

technically, i should have written "that's the way the gingerbread crumbles", as i tried this with cookie dough and errrrm, i didn't really work. it was like one giant cookie instead of nice little shapes. it tasted nice but didn't exactly look good. unfortunately these biscuits are pretty inedible. plain flour was used instead of self raising and they are rock solid. it's like eating wood. very disappointing, i was hoping for a mid-coursework snack.

anyway. i like it. i better get on with some other coursework now...

easterholzupdatez

as usual, i've done almost no coursework over the holidays. one day i will learn not to do this.


in my defence, i have started. i spent 3 hours cutting one lino print (an hour of this was spent drawing it, cutting it, then realising i hadn't done the text in reverse so it wouldn't print the right way round. then i spent half an hour in a strop before having to start again. then i realised i didn't have any proper ink or a roller or anything so i couldn't even print the fucking thing. ohhhhhhh the anger.) 
so all i could really do at home is research. without a mac or any decent programs on the laptop i've had for five years, which is missing several buttons and takes approximately 72 hours to turn on, i can't even do any design work other than rubbish sketches.

i also have another excuse in the form of me being horribly ill for the last couple of days.
i fell asleep in the sun and got a bit of heat stroke. the first day i sunbathe and that bloody happens. bloody typical.
i went to the alex, had one and a half drinks, walked to the station, felt like i was going to pass out, was violently sick in an alleyway, came home, was sick about 10 times, slept for 18 hours, was sick again. lovely.
also, i googled heat stroke and scared myself shitless. the first thing that came up was "Heat stroke is a life-threatening condition" brilliant.
i'm alright now though. a bit scared to go out in sunlight though...





my tutor will not be happy i've done (almost) no work.
even though i could have died.

idioms for dummies.

i finally know what i'm doing for my fmp!

language/idioms/typography/print/info graphics

writing my statement of intent when i still didn't have a firm idea nearly killed me but i managed to make it through.
i'm quite excited about doing it, now i know what i'm doing. prepare yourselves for printed tshirts and bags etc.
i may even try and sell them to earn some money ;D


i've also had conditional offers from nuca and maidstone.
and i bought a henry holland dress for £11 and a playsuit for £3.
and anchorman for £3.
and some mini eggs.



basically, life is good today.

i am not good in interview situations.

I had my NUCA interview today. Scary times. I was so much more nervous than I was for Maidstone but I thiiink it went ok. He asked me the worst question in the world though;

"Where do you see yourself in five years time?"

I died a little inside. I wanted to run away. I have no idea what the answer to that question is!


If I don't get in it's probably because of my pathetic answer. I can't even remember what I said now. That's how good it was.




Bugger. Fingers crossed, he will overlook the fact I have no idea what I want to do with my life and give me a place anyway!



...it's unlikely but it's nice to be positive.

i can't think of a title.

got my coursework grades today... :/




















oh yeah. i got a distinction.
celebratory mini eggs were purchased.




 fmp from now on. thirty one college days left. crazy shiiit.
i have absolutely no idea what i want to do yet...






ooh and i have my norwich interview on monday, aaaaah. wish me luck!

...

multiple personality/dissociative identity disorder photoshooooooooot
i've made them into a series of three posters which i'll upload soon (there's another photograph like this but it won't let me upload it...)

moreportfoliostuffinit

magazine layout with screen print

typography fashion illustration, screen print

life drawing

life drawing

woohoooooo

my portfolio is finished!


i've even put my soul destroying raleigh chopper essay into a nice magazine article, complete with illustration of a chopper, to show my writing & magazine layout skillzzzzzzz

this took me fxcking ages. i never knew how many parts a chopper had. trying to draw all those on illustrator was harrrrrd (also this is just a screen shot because it wouldn't let me upload the original, so just pretend it's better quality than this)

"Aloha bbeccamarshh! Now you know how to greet people in Hawaiian!"

thanks flickr!

i've just spent the past half an hour trying to use flickr for my online portfolio for camberwell but it just won't work. it might just be the shitty internet at college but it's been uploading one, fairly small photograph for 17 minutes. hurry up flickr, i've only got til the 28th...

i do like the way it tells you how to greet people in different languages at the top though. (yeah i did just refresh the page about twenty times to see what it would say)

y'know i've been moaning that i hadn't heard back from any universities? yeah. i wish i hadn't. now i've got an interview on monday, an online portfolio to do and another interview on the 2nd of march. scary sheeeeeit. 

interview numero uno is for norwich. it's safe to say that i'm terrified.

i do, however, already know what my answers to their questions will be. is that sad? or am i just really well prepared? i think it's a bit sad that i couldn't sleep last night because i was going over and over the same answers. (plus i had the joy of the jonas brothers stuck in my head which wouldn't leave and wouldn't let me sleep - thanks new look for playing that while i was at work, fml)

also, there is a girl sitting on the mac opposite me who keeps staring at me. paranoia is setting in; have i got toothpaste on my face or something?

portfoliocrapolio

the quality of this is pretty shocking; it's actually really good quality (even if i do say so myself) but it wouldn't let me import an indesign file onto here so this is just print screened. you get the idea though. just imagine it clearer and just generally better. 

and ignore the crop marks & colour bars...

also, the bit of writing is a bit shit. it was copied and pasted from the original piece. needs to be changed.  so yeah, ignore that bit too.

why am i even bothering to upload this?  i'm just telling you to ignore most of it and pretend it's good.  maybe i should say that at uni interviews.

"yeah my work it good, i promise. just imagine that it's better and i'm sure you'll have no problems giving me a place at your university."

good plan. 

oh j'aime être à côté du bord de mer

i tried to be cool and write "oh i do like to be beside the seaside" in french as the title. looks pretty cool. but if you translate that back to english it says "oh I like to be next to the sea edge". nice one...


getting very scared about uni interviews. i haven't had any interview dates yet but lots of other people are so i know mine will be soon.
actually, i don't think "very scared" really sums up how i feel. i think "shitting bricks" is more descriptive.

so as norwich have stopped running my visual studies course, i've applied for bournemouth instead. according to my tutor, bournemouth have already declined three applicants from foundation without even giving them an interview, which terrifies me. i know i only applied two days ago as a back up, but i wouldn't mind going there! the beach is nice there. even if i don't like the course i can live at the beach for three years.

being near the sea was something i said i needed to have when applying to universities. i've lived by the sea all my life and i don't think i want to leave. i love being able to walk for five minutes and be at the beach. yeah ok, that would take me to east beach which is a bit shit, but if i walk for twenty minutes i'll be a thorpe bay and that's a bit nicer...
so erm, why have i only applied for one uni that has a beach nearby? norwich, camberwell and maidstone are pretty much dans le ville. no beaches near them. at all. where do you even go on sunny days apart from the beach? a park? you can't swim at a park. and you can't build sandcastles at a swimming pool. bournemouth better give me an interview. i think i want to go there quite a lot.
i'm quite happy to go to any university, if i'm honest.
if i don't get in anywhere, i'm just gunna move to australia for a bit. the beaches are pretty nice there.
sorted.

now, i say that i'm shitting bricks about interviews but i still haven't finished my portfolio. i didn't even take it to college today. silllyyyyyyy. instead, i went through about 45 pages of ffffound.com and went shopping.




i did buy a nice playsuit though.

$£%&!

My favourite uni course has been cancelled. They've just stopped running it. That's it. The end. Fin.
What on earth do I do now?!
Sad face.


On a brighter note, I'm very close to finishing the Chopper essay!
(To tell the truth, when I wrote about it a while ago, I had only written the title.)
But now, it's due on Monday so I thought I better make a start...
I've been working for about three hours and I only have about 500 words to go. I was tempted to stop and do the rest on Monday as it's not due in until 5 o'clock, but I'm on a roll and if I stop now I'll never finish it.

I've been listening to Nirvana whilst doing my essay too. Maybe that's helping? I would say it makes me feel rock n roll but I've been drinking peppermint infused green tea so I think it kinda ruins it. Not very Kurt Cobain.



Anyway, whilst doing research into Choppers, I have found some awful horrific shit , errrrm, interesting websites.
Comic sans is the main font used on most. That's never good. Lots of moving backgrounds and Homer Simpson animations were used on another.
Look at this bad boy...




http://www.rnlawrence.btinternet.co.uk/tomahawk.htm



That spotty background? Yeah, it moves. Wow.

I don't pretend to know much about web design but come on! Sort it out, Chopper fans.

this. took. so. long.



click on image and zoom to see detail



i did this in my first year of fashion. not bad for one of my first photoshop lessons, even if i do say so myself.

(to be fair, i did re-do some of it this afternoon but shh)

it's strange how many times i had to ask if the words were spelt right because they looked wrong...

le cirque est en ville



big top dress
 made from recycled sheets & ribbon
(and a hula hoop)
model: poppy martin



just dug out some old stuff for my portfolio.
not sure whether to include this or not as it was for a design brief in my first year of fashion but so much effort went into that bad boy i feel i have to put it in!

the only essay i will do all year (probably) is destroying my soul

currently writing a 2000 word essay.
relatively easy, yeah?


no.
not when it's about a raleigh chopper.


yeah, i know they're cool and iconic and stuff, but you can say pretty much everything you need to say in about 200 words. then you've got to think of 1800 words of pure bullshit to fill it out.
there's only so many times i can put the word 'and' instead of a comma before i start to sound like and idiot that doesn't know what a comma is.

just a cheeky little tattoo design

yeah, it's stuck to my wall so i don't lose it...

i think this will be tattoo number two. i've wanted this for longer but it will hurt & cost more so i'm going to save this bad boy for when i'm more prepared for pain & money.



some guys from southend ink, on southend seafront, came into college today to talk about tattooing as a career.
did a tattoo on stage. as you do.
much more interesting than the slideshow i was expecting!

transparent fashion

icing sugar, water & food colouring

looking at the use of transparency transparency in fashion

guerrilla

guerrilla marketing for stamp club in the area i was given.

i stuck hundreds of homemade stamps all down the street.

another productive day.

so as i said earlier, i didn't go to college today. as i was still ill, i thought i'd stay at home and do the coursework that i haven't had time to do all holiday. i thought i'd get up nice and early, get dressed and spend the whole day doing work. brilliant plan.




or not.




i eventually got up at 11. made a coffee. sat down. watched this morning.










had lunch.
watched the o.c.
had some chocolate orange.
made another coffee, this time being adventurous and using the syrup i got from costa yesterday.
finally decided it was time to do coursework at about 3 o'clock.






tried to print something.
printer wasn't working.










waited until 6 o'clock for my dad to get home to fix it.












it still isn't fixed.

the best is yet to come

i apologise for the lack of posts recently, christmas is just so busy! i'm supposed to be back at college today but i'm still dying from that lovely flu-ey thing that everyone's had. it's quite handy really; i've been working almost everyday, and the only days i've had off have been christmas day, the 29th, when i saw family, and new years day... and no-one wants to do coursework on new years day, do they? so that leaves today, and as my coursework needs to be handed in tomorrow (well, today really...) i thought i better do some.
i have however just realised that much of the stuff i need is saved on the macs at college. not at home.
bugger. looks like i'll be dragging myself in tomorrow...


i'm booking my tattoo when i get paid! woooooooo

i'm getting the kids in glass houses lyrics above (but in a nicer font, i'm sure the tattoo artists can do a better job than microsoft word.)
very very excited!