Welcome to the internet

For my current project at uni about self promotion, I decided to join twitter and flickr, 2 very important ways of self promotion and easy for everyone to see, whereas blogging can go un noticed. Twitter at a first glance is pretty good and I can see why people can get addicted, as there is a limit to your word count. And I’m liking the fact I have now got some work on Flickr which does copyright everything, unlike facebook which has access to all of your stuff, so I will be taking some of my stuff down from fb very shortly.

All in all has been a good weekend, went out to celebrate my birthday last night (even though it was a week ago) and I’ve been doing some stuff to do with my project. My group have decided to do something about recycling and remixing images. To start with we said to find an image we have got and then pass it on to remix. I found a drawing of a robot made from a cassette player so I re-drew it, printed a few copies and made a junk pile from it, not sure if this counts as remixing from myself, but it’s a cool image.

I have also finished my first album cover design made for my friend’s university project. His solo project is called “I Electric” and the EP is called “Falling Through”.Check me out on Flickr – Jamieisjokes

The weekend approaching…

And I finished re doing the A-Z pages that needed re doing, finished 100% what is done is what is going in the final thing. Whilst re doing or going over some of these pieces I realised how much better they looked and was glad I got the average grade because it has pushed me to new limits of creativity.

My mixed media (Mos Def) page is about 10 times better than it was, because last time I tried to do pencil, collage, ink and paint at the same time on one piece and it looked a mess! This time I drew a light outline in pencil, scanned it and then printed it four times so I could do a different media and keep it roughly the same size. I did ink, pencil, felt tips and collage and they all look great. Then I cut each piece into four and mixed them together (take a look if that doesn’t make sense)

these are two of the four.

That’s just one example but I did re-do or add to 13 of the a – z pages in the last week which is great progress. With less and less work to do in this everyday, I’ve began recreating Hip Hop album covers with Ninja Turtles (purely for fun) which has been great, I’ve done 3 so far, this one is probably my favourite:

and it’s not all work, I’ve been playing drums, met up with a few mates and seen my lovely girlfriend a couple of times this week too, plus got to see Avatar today which was awesome!

So for now goodnight! and have a good weekend!

Random.

Inspired by the Kanye West pic on my last post, I made my own favourite song pic! used tracing paper over a photo and then pasted it over the photo on photoshop check it out!

got quite a mixture of songs on their, mostly Linkin Park, Xzibit, Public Enemy, Incubus, Red Hot Chili Peppers and wu tang, but missed out loads of my fav songs, maybe i shudda done bands instead. Enjoy.

On a further note not impressed with the person leaving comments posing as my brother. I live in the same house so I’ll find out if its him leaving the comments wont I? Use your brain and maybe find something better to do with your time, I only spend a few minutes on this a week, its not my life, its just a bit of fun when I have free time, I would rather noone read my blog than get stupid spam. So go ahead spam me but I won’t accept it so your only waisting your time.

kEEP It REaL!

Jamie achieves!

Had my marks for my first project at university given to me on tuesday, they send us our marks via email, and I was so nervous when I opened that email, but my nerves were wrong this time! I got 81 percent, the highest grade I have ever achieved in anything EVER. You see I have always tried hard at education, but it seemed from age 12-19 I was destined to be average, even during my art foundation course I was working as hard as possible and only came out of that with a pass, despite my tutor being completely amazed by my final project!? But NO MORE! 81 percent, only 4% away from a distinction and over the holiday I recieved my grade for a presentation i had to do and thatwas 70 percent. My first assesment at the beginning of the term was 56 percent, so I am improving, I am growing, I will succeed. Sorry this probably sounds like a lot of me hyping myself up, Im just actually starting to feel like I have recieved the recognition I deserve and I am trying hard!

Also been having a lot of fun with my turntables, blasting out some XZIBIT, DMX, PUBLIC ENEMY, WU TANG CLAN, N.W.A, THE ROOTS, KRS ONE, etc mixing it up, scratching, blending, playing acapellas over instrumentals, its great fun,and if your serious about your hip hop like I am but can’t seem to put a rhyme together, get decks man, they are the ultimate way to really get into ur hip hop! the only problem is I have become obsessed with buying vinyl lps and singles off of ebay, so I am burning my birthday money haha.

Really been inspired by this image too, it’s of kanye west, and it’s made up of all his favourite songs, see quite a lot of wu tang clan in there (always a good move) some RUNDMC,  some Notorious B.I.G, also some Jay-z and even some STING!? Why not, classic stuff. The image had me consider some of my favourite songs, and I’m gonna do one myself, so wait and see! (BTW if anyone knows who this image is by please let me know, the website didn’t say!!!!)

Gallery Updated

Yes to all my viewers out there, I have set up the gallery page, which at the moment contains 6 drawings I have done, so let me know what you think of them! I will add a load more over the weekend so watch the space.