Sunday morning views

I may have a terrible view but with a keen eye for detail you can enjoy almost anything. 

GDC Map of Chelsea

Our first group project involved making a giant map of Chelsea. It looks a lot, lot better than I had expected and making it was pretty enjoyable. I am, however, still concerned about the layout of the map, since there definitely isn't a huge block of land between Chelsea and the Thames (I checked on my way home), but I won't dwell on it. It looks damn cool for half a days work. 

So far I'm finding it hard to refute the naive exclamations of my 'academic' friends that art school is just a load of cutting and sticking. 

Watch cool timelapse of it here courtesy of Safwaan. 

Men in suits.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a very good film, but I'm not going to comment on that. For me the highlight of the entire film was the tailoring.
Perhaps because the film is centered around a load of suited men the significance of what they are wearing succumbs to great detail. Good tailoring pleases me greatly.

Steve Jobs changed my life

It seems appropriate to use good design to commemorate one of the most influential deisgners of my lifetime. 

I found this on Twitter.

Last ever first day of school

First day of Chelsea College of Art, like most first days of school, was complete piss...and fundamentally very enjoyable. I suppose the first and foremost task is to make friends, and thus I have begun.

Work posts shall follow forthwith. 

Dads were the original hipsters

I've been meaning to pop this link down here for a while now. Really it's just a fantastic idea for a blog, and intriguingly insightful; http://dadsaretheoriginalhipster.tumblr.com/

In the meantime I'll be off searching for my own dad as an original hipster. I've already written the copy, it goes something like this:
'My dad was riding a motorbike with shoulder-length hair before you even knew what hipster was, and now he's got the midlife crisis to prove it. He was a fearless crack smokin, bike ridin' denim wearin roadie, he was a street kid among men. Until he had his own kids.
So hipsters, next time you're sat on the 179 to Tottenham Hale chewing your Wrigely's extra remember this... My dad smoked a pipe and rode a bike because it was one of the only things on earth that was as hipster as he was. '
Now I need a picture to prove it. 

I won't miss an opportunity to slate Palin

Somehow, Sarah Palin seems to think that showing Al-Qaeda a photo of Osama's body may incite the sudden realisation that if you attempt to destroy America, they might try and kill you. Like 'Shit guys, look at this! This has gone too far, we better try get a refund on all that fertilizer and think of something else to do'.

I bet Palin was always the girl in school who never missed an opportunity to scorn anyone else's achievement. She's even managed to find the opportunity to call Obama a pussy.

White Trash

I totally forgot to write about this at the time, but it deserves a mention,

Apparently one of the most popular joints in Berlin at the moment (according to a respectable-looking guide). We just happened upon this place by accident. Unfortunately I don't think it knows if it's a brothel, a grimy restaurant or a steamy foreign bar. Apart from the terrifying array of trolls, dead animals, chicken feet and boudoir-esq furnishings, it's all really rather harmless and kitsch. And you can't argue that the owners don't know how to flaunt their bohemian tackiness, the menus showed pictures of girls touching themselves and inside just looked a bit like a Microsoft font disaster zone. Finding something on the menu that sounded like a meal was perhaps the hardest thing to do. After that one can just sit back and watch a German movie about a 14 year-old girl who gets addicted to heroin, discovers the body of her best friend in the toilets of a cinema (OD'd on a cocktail of coke, vodka and bad parenting), etches various sins into her arm and then ends up going out with a boy who sleeps with guys to get money. The highlight came at exactly the same time as our food, where this adolescent tosses of an old man for 10 marks, which I believe is about £2.

If you get the opportunity, definitely go.