Month: September 2010

Time is so fleeting, many people want it all back again but the best we can do is try to capture moments. A bronze bust captures a person’s face for eternity. I decided to use another metal to create my own bust, one that is so fragile it can be destroyed in a second. This tin foil bust is me at the age of 21 (a long while ago). (Made by forming foil into the original old plaster mould)

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Outcomes were exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival between 18th-21st September, Mestakes and manifestos, curated by Daniel Charny, Londonewcastle gallery, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days in a row.

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I like how light passes through a balloon. One of the top dogs in the balloon kingdom is the balloon animal and I decided to make a chandelier out of them.

I enjoyed the colours on the ceiling.

Making balloon animals is a test of nerve, they can go bang at any time.

Herding my balloons into some sort of order was a difficult task. They are all shapes and sizes and each wants to go it’s own way.

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I bought 150 paint brushes for ten pound and wondered if I could join them all together and create a single, multiple brush brush.

The brushes were layed out and glued with epoxy resin.

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I wanted to mix bread with some existing structure so chose a couple of items for the baking treatment. Firstly the Philippe Starck lemon squeezer which is very sleek and stylish, perfect to be breadified.

Dough took a while to wrap around the squeezer.

Made me hungry for lemon curd on crispy bread.

Attempt at stylish shot in style of.

I had the idea to mix plaster with the flour to see if it made a super strong bread.

Thought I would make the grip comfortable for me.

The Plaster-Bread has the nice crack/crustiness of bread but loses the brown colour. More testings of this new material are imminent.

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I bought some flip flops and converted them into a pair of flip flop wedge shoes by cutting and glueing them together.

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The opening party for the Anti design festival was today and so I had to go in and build/design a way of showing the things I have made during my one a day speed creating project so far. I had a large column in the middle of the room to work around. The Anti design festival is very much anti ‘slick’ so I knew I could just make it up as I went along in a speedy way with lots of Gaffa tape. The videos I have made are also projected on a large screen within the ‘Mestakes and Manifestos’ room. If you are new here go to the main page to see all the day projects so far. My installation and the many other works by other people are on show until the 21st sept (adf continues till 26th) at the LondonNewcastle gallery, 28 Redchurch st, London. map

On visiting the space I saw some pizza boxes used by some people the previous night. I asked if anyone was using them and they werent. I thought that the fast food nature of the boxes fitted with ‘speed creating’ and so I would make some shelves from them.

used some more fast food things in these chinese take away boxes.

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I bought packets of ice lolly sticks from a craft shop and arranged them on the floor. I liked the random pattern and decided to glue them together.

I thought adding colour to the sticks would be good and I decided to dip the sticks in ink up to the same line as used ice lollys are stained.

I made the word YES as I think it’s the most positive word there is. I feel this sums up the project in some way, Can I think of an idea today? ‘YES’ I try to tell myself. As soon as I start thinking NO then it tends to come true so I want to try to keep reminding myself of the YES.

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There are a couple of ideas I’ve had in the past that I wanted to try out to see if they work. This one is about making it easier to walk up hills. I attach a angled block onto my shoes so that my foot can remain horizontal as I climb the hill.

I found a piece of wood in a skip and cut it up. I drilled some holes in the side and fed some shoe laces through it that would be used to fasten the blocks to my shoes.

I found a little hill, there are very few hills in London so this had to do

Got my hill blocks out.

Strapped them on.

The test revealed that I shouldn’t have used laces as they kept coming loose. The foot did keep quite horizontal but it was still a bit awkward, though this may have been down to the feeble lace attachment. I ran out of time to fix it so it felt a bit of a failure. Which as I say in my project description, I embrace and learn from.

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I bought lots of beach balls and some net so that I could have a sit down for a few minutes.

It’s comfortable if a little squeaky. Could also go on water maybe.

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Final outcomes will be exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival between 18th-21st September, Mestakes and manifestos, Londonewcastle gallery, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days so far in a row.

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I arranged some things I have around my house on the floor attempting to mirror them.

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Final outcomes will be exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival between 18th-21st September, Mestakes and manifestos, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days so far in a row.

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I was sitting on the sofa thinking what to do next and I had a tape measure near by. I played with it a bit and thought what a clever mechanism it is. Why has it remained the sole domain of measurement? I decided to try and think of a new use. Firstly I sprayed the whole thing white.

Then I decided that it could be a portable diary and that I could document through notes and sketches each day of this 30 day project.

I recalled what I did in the previous days so far and drew them in order. I will continue through the forthcoming days.

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Continuing from Day 5’s lightbulb in bread dough experiment I decided to make some lampshades from bread. This time I used used bread flour with no yeast to keep the bread thin, hoping this would increase translucency. First I rolled some bread dough over a metal semi sphere.

After it came out of the oven and I tested it against a lightbulb I decided that it was a little too thick to let enough light through so I decided to drill holes through it.

I then rolled out a large circular shape of dough and draped it over a large glass and put it in the oven.

I dry the bread out until it is hard. I will probably need to seal the bread with varnish to keep it from going mouldy. I think I need to spend more time perfecting the process but it would be great to fill a big room with bread lights.

This is part of a 30 day Speed Creating project I am doing. Final outcomes will be exhibited at the Anti – Design Festival 18th-22nd September, Mestakes and Manifestos, 28 Redchurch St, London. You can follow my progress on Twitter and Facebook, Click here to view all the days so far in a row.

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