Part Two

I did a few more easy things just to pass some time, and then i wanted to get cracking again.

Thursday is pay day, pay day means im a millionaire for like 5 minutes, so 3 rolls of masking tape were bought, all the marbling colours I could find were, with a spray on lacquer and wood base to keep them all company. 

The idea of it all is to spray the whole thing white, and then marble the guitar so it goes all different colours. Its probably not something that will be too my taste, but i would like to do it just to learn whats going on, and if i really hate it I can always re sand and spray the whole thing red, like a badman would.

Its important to test first so i found a nice scrap bit of wood that i could try marble first, get an idea for times, strengths etc etc...

I cut the wood into a rough headstock shape so that the end result will give me a much better idea on whats going on.

I then hung the poor thing and sprayed it because, it obviously deserved it. It wont be long until i paint this and you will all see whats going on.

-AT

Guitar Building

I started playing guitar about 5 months ago, and due to having a job can afford some guitars, and because i am a beginner, my logic automatically dictates that more guitars means better at playing. 

As a result of that, i bought a kit to finish and put together, what will be my third guitar. Im pretty sure it will sound like ass at the end, however It will give me an insight into the workings that I think I need.

This is the kit i got, It set me back £107 and should build a strat copy that I can use and abuse, as the cheap starter guitar i never had. I looked at all the bits and couldn't find any instructions. I figured its pretty much just lego, just put stuff together until it fits and then wham, you've got a guitar, that is until I saw;

What on earth is that thing. I had to ask a few friends, whom I didn't believe, and then after some intensive googling I found it was for the whammy bar, which i have no intention of using anyway, but would still like. As a result of this sudden reality check, I did some more intensive googling and found some instructions.

I desperately wanted to get started, and as i dont have any paint, I thought the best place to start was the headstock. I mean just look it that, its awful, its an abomination, it is the single ugliest thing i have ever seen, and something needed to be done. I looked around and the obvious choice for headstock shape would be the classic fender strat shape. Had i been more confident in my ability with tools, i would have done this, but the large curve in the top right corner put me off.

I settled upon this design. I figured it was easy, forgiving and relatively appealing. The large curve should be easy to cut while giving much needed impact to the headstock.

I rough cut that shape out, very rough. I used a basic hand jigsaw, and made sure i cut outside the lines, this way i've got plenty of shape to sand into. I've spent the whole day at work and i couldn't really be arsed to spend too long sanding.

Half an hour of sanding with a nice rough 60Grit piece of sand paper and i've got something relatively nice, I've sanded the top and bottom of the headstock so i can take the finish of the wood off. The next few nights will be spent with a much finer grit smoothing the whole thing out and slightly rounding the edges.

-AT

2 heads 1 mouth

Alright ladies, so recently I've been working on some conceptual rubbish again, which obviously means, steer clear of the blog as I don't have the time or the patience in order to try an explain what Im trying to do in an almost readable fashion without sounding like a patronizing bellend, or at least more than I am normally. 

As a result of this, I have some other stuff to show you. Because first year sculpture is full of incompetent inconsiderate pretentious fucks with made up nicknames like "Jeffro" (see what I did there?), we, instead of having a 5 week project, are having 5 single week projects of learning how to use materials. This week we hammered clay and cardboard, in a construction manor just to get used to making models for sculptures in the future.   

this is the cardboard head I made, I wanted a big greek theatre head, just for a mess about and to see what the material was capable of. surprisingly fun and useful. I didn't want to finish the other side as I suck arse at making stuff look like I want, so no way would the second side look like the first, and I know it looks like craig david off bo salecta. shite.

I forgot how absolutely intense clay was before this, and I will work with it again in the future. It looks like this because, I was ill the day we were supposed to do this, so i came in another day to do it. I started making a rough shape and figured when other people came in I would modal it on them, yet no one came... for ever, so I got bored and thought fuck it and made a dope nose. This meant i stopped really caring about realism. I figured it would be completely original and reflect my total disregard for the rules and the history, show im cutting edge and renegade... Yet it looks like a shite 4000 year old african sculpture blanched of colour. fuck. back to the drawing board.

-Jeffro

Research

For the next three weeks at college, we have a project strictly on research. This doesn't mean however that the next three weeks will be spent reading books and writing notes, oh no. That may be research as you know it, yet in the mind of a dyslexic artiste, research is making slightly smaller objects, drawing slightly smaller drawings and ignoring the justification completely.

This is a solid opportunity to do things for a laugh and not be arsed. I based my research on 'Materials'. We could base the research on anything we wanted, leaving the project almost retardedly open, I chose materials to keep it that open, as anything I make I can justify as being inherently reliant on its materials. I would argue that everything is inherently reliant on its materials, ie a building needs to be made of metal and bricks instead or bread and paper, and using this argument I can spend the next three weeks fucking about.

What I have been working on today, is playing with matches in a domino effect.

The videos aren't as good as you may hope as matches aren't as predictable or as quick as dominoes.

-Jeffro

Tomfoolery

Me and Mr Winslow today carried on our extensive collaborative research into the mystical dimension of political art. By now we seem to have lost all coherence and relevance towards politics in anyway and are just doing stuff that makes us laugh a little bit inside.

Sadly, I have learned over time, anything that John and I laugh at, normally isn't funny and normally doesn't provoke a response from anyone. There are 10 steel Swans/Geese next to the canal. The original plan was to put them in suits and pop party hats on them all. This created a number of original problems, first of all, each party hat we found was 30p each. I doubt you reading this are as good at maths as I am, but let me break this down for you. 

1 x hat = £0.30

10 x hat = £3.00

£3.00 is quite frankly out of order, and thats not even taking into account the suits. 10 balloons however was about £1.20 so that was much more sympathetic to our needs. 

After this we discussed the social and moral implications of catching real ducks and making them blow up balloons. Being veggies one would think we would totally oppose this, however we felt that the statement made by a bunch of ducks with balloons on totally justified the sacrifice of said few ducks. This is our duck trap.

(its not really a trap, just imagine a duck trying to jump though)

-Jeffro

Political Art

After a while of wondering, and a short time further of slagging off Intermedia art at ECA, me and my good pal John Winslow ended up doing it for two weeks. From what I gathered, it would involve more sitting round "thinking" yet what I have discovered as it involves a lot of visits to farm foods, and even more trips back and forth to a dingy canal. 

Anyway, me and John are both vegetarians, and all stereotypes oblige. We love freeing stuff that isn't free, and telling you off for not freeing stuff, or not caring about stuff. Walking along the canal, we joked about drowning giraffes and other large animals so that parts of them would poke out (we are allowed to do this, if you eat meat you are not. fact.), we were told however that no littering was allowed which obviously meant a fuck off massive animal wouldn't be received to kindly by the council. This tickled our interest in the most useless of all art sorts, the fantastic and ever pointless political standpoint. 

We love liberation, and we hope this video inspires you to free something from corrupt tyrants near you. 

LINkYLINKYLINK

Pouring paint on things is cool

Part two of the sculpture Im currently wasting my time over involved pouring paint over the stack of stuff I had conveniently and previously stacked. If anyone read the last post, they will be aware that I thought I may ruin it at this point, however I think it has worked out. Its drying overnight in the studios as I type, and if anyone of you knocks it over I will go akka. 

Anyway, Im using the wifes laptop and her music selection is poor at best, youtube will inevitably remove the sound due to me not giving a fuck about copyright laws and such, however if you see it with the music let it distract you from the slightly monotonous visuals. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTcPyrPpu_M

Wham bam.

-Jeffro