How to “stencil stealthily” in public, from the book Show Me How: 500 Things You Should Know
Useful idea in street art-hating locales.
Geeneeus!
Last weekend we had a leaving party for my friend Adam, who is moving to Bristol with his lady. During the day a bunch of people came over to ours, we had an enormous and highly tasty lasagne cooked by my lovely boyfriend, and then a tonne of cake baked by me. We walked around the park and the wildlife reserve at the bottom of the road, came back for a mean game of Cranium, and then headed into town to Gwdihw, where we had a section of the back garden reserved for us.
There’s a lot of the night I don’t remember all too well. But I do know we had a marvellous time.
The pics were taken on the retro camera app on my phone. The normal camera (and my actual digital camera) refused to work in the low light, but the retro camera app deals with low light quite well (doesn’t use the flash either).
Detail from St cuthbert’s catholic church, pomeroy street, butetown, cardiff bay
via annamaryridley
“Well behaved women rarely make history.” - Olek”
Swag I spotted at splott market thus morning. I’ve been heading there early on a thursday morning before work the last two weeks. You can pick up some pretty weird stuff…
Crew! Quick pick from today’s documentary shoot at riverside community garden. L-r film maker james cuff, me, adam chard and simon ayre. Photo taken by jenny howell from the project
We have this entire culture that’s telling people that there’s One Right Thing To Want. Dudes, for instance, are supposed to have a high sex drive, to like porn, to enjoy casual sex, to be attracted to thin young feminine large-breasted women, to want anal sex and public sex and rough sex, to not want pegging and ageplay and vanilla missionary with the lights out. If you’re asexual you’re broken; if you like drag you’re a pervert and probably a pedophile; if you’re a male submissive you’re pathetic and unmasculine; if you’re queer you’re destroying America. I don’t understand why people do this: what possible gain could there be from reducing the vibrant rainbow of human sexuality to two colors (the dude color and the girl color)? Those two colors look much nicer as part of the whole spectrum.
(Source: noseriouslywhatabouttehmenz.wordpress.com, via annamadeleine)
Novel wordcount, 5 January 2012
Working through Chapter 11, wordcount 35,529.
First time I’ve had to work on this novel for ages, in between moving house and going on holiday and getting burgled
Getting closer to that magical 40k mark. Magical why? Because that’s - probably - about half way. Mind you, after all the editing and potching that will happen later, who knows where I am.
I don’t pay much heed to horoscopes, but my mum has always been dead keen on the Chinese Years. I’m a monkey, born in 1980, and as such (allegedly) I’m very fickle with my attentions, often starting things but losing interest and moving on if it does not completely absorb me. As such, so I read, “Monkey people should try extra hard in 2012 to stay on track when doing important tasks.”
And that is my new year’s resolution. If you can call it that, it’s more like a resolution for life in general - to be better at finishing things.
So I’m working on two projects this year - this, and working turning a website I run called We Are Cardiff into a documentary. Those projects - and only those. I’ll probably do some other little things, here and there. But those are the biggies.
A photo of me from December, wandering down the Taf Trail across the river from our house, heading towards Grangemoor Park (aka ‘Asbo Hill’, as I was told by a lady from Grangetown who was over there)
Olympus trip / expired slide film
Hey, everybody! Tomorrow is the Supersonic Electronic Invitational at SpokeArt in San Francisco! It will be so great. I have a couple paintings in the show along with some pretty amazing people! Including this one above called “The Hilltop”. Also, Supersonic Electronic is one of my favorite tumblrs, you should know.
Supersonic Electronic Invitational
Thursday, January 5th
@ SpokeArt in San Francisco
Go check it out! Agh!
(via loveandasandwich)
Perth, Australia, Olympus trip lomography from December 2011
some snaps from December 2011 on my lovely Olympus Trip.
Olympus Trip / expired colour 400 film
