Your book is like the scribblings of retard you suck your book sucks and I want my money back ! More of statement than a question I know but you didn’t deliver either”
Anonymous
I’m just updating my personal site and I’m putting a “what people have said” section.
This is my favourite so far.
PS: I’ll get back to drawing Quoteskines daily next week. It’s been bloody ages hasn’t it?
Customised tambourines for sale!
For those who missed it, I recently took part in an exhibition of customised tambourines called The Tamperine Project. They’re all up on eBay now, including a bunch by celebrities and other artists.
The first of mine was part of a René Magritte inspired wall mural and is currently at £25.
The second one was part of a wall mural featuring Listener lyrics and is up at only £3!
They’re both signed on the side and there’s only 4 days left to bid, so you could grab yourself a piece of one off original art for a real bargain. They will ship them worldwide too.
And of course all the proceeds go to the great charity Sound It Out.
Quoteskine has been read for FREE 22,000 times!
3 days ago that figure was 7,000. I don’t know where the extra traffic has come from but 15,000 new views in 3 days is pretty incredible.
You can still read it for FREE above, or over at Issuu.
Or you can buy it (signed) for MONEY in the Quoteskine Shop.
Also available (not signed) from Amazon and many good bookshops.
Here’s a few photos of Sound It Out’s tamperine exhibition that I’ve been helping to put together for the last few days. The walls are covered in work by West Midlands based artists who have included their tamperine in the wall piece.
I drew a massive long trail of lyrics and quotes that winds it’s way around the room.
Craig Earp drew some crazy alien/sci-fi imagery.
Lucy McLauchlan has filled a whole section of the room with amazing black and white painting. She also did my favourite 10 tamperines.
And Log Roper painted a huge portrait of Levon Helm, complete with tamperine eyeball.
A bunch of celebrities have also made tamperines which are the ones hanging in the centre of the room.
They’re all up for auction (ours included) on eBay for the next 9 days to raise money for Sound It Out. It’s a brilliant cause, so get bidding. Gervais’ one is already nearly at £1000!
If you’re in Birmingham you can also go and check out the exhibition at the Mailbox until May 26th.
Q:What kind of advice would you give to a University student who's taking art and design courses? I'm hoping to become a graphic designer too!
Anonymous
It’s hard to have any specific advice for quite a general question.
But enjoy it and make sure you do things that excite and interest you I guess.
Try things too, a million things. There are so many resources and so much knowledge available to you at uni, make sure you take advantage of it all.
Be interested.
Don’t be scared to make mistakes.
Push yourself.
Don’t be afraid to leave less sure of what you want to be ‘when you grow up’.
Quote help?
I’m doing a mural this weekend for a music based charity and I’m researching quotes.
The mural is hopefully going to be a big line that winds around a room and is made up of a ton of quotes, so I’m trying to find a stack of quotes/lyrics/etc specifically about music or sound.
Do you guys have any favourites?
They don’t have to to mention the word music, and they can be abstract. But If they were about the positive effects of music in some way that would be awesome.
Leave me an answer if you’ve got one, the more the better.
Thanks.
