As i have mentioned i am designing a book, it has taken over my life!!!! I dream about it, i have urges when i am out raving to rush back home and flip open that laptop and start changing typefaces and all that jazz!!!!! It is hard to have creative days when you are just not feeling it, but today was a good productive day. Here is one of the spreads i designed.... I liked today
It may be my age, but at the moment i am feeeling soooo broooooody! Sooo many people i know seem to be getting up the duff, it must def be an age thing.
Ummmmhhhh pretty scary, the thought of there being a lil baby jenny. Can you imagine, versace baby grow, gold Kickers and a big Elizabeth Duke necklace. Maybe i suppress my urge to pop one out by getting a cute pet umh dog or cat??? x
HE WAS DRESSED UP TO THE NINES, HE SHOWED HIS SERIOUS SUB, TOOK US FOR A SPIN, WE PICKED UP A KEBAB, TURNED ON HIS BASS EQUALISER TSHIRT AND THEN WE WERE ALL SET TO GO TO THROW SOME SHAPES TO THE MAIN MAN OUZOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found this artist and i am sooo happy i did!!! It is soooooo me!! and captures everything i love Here is a bit about the artist Consumerism becomes the new belief system in Ji Wenyu’s color and detail saturated images. Revolution, market economy and art history are alienated and stripped of their original meaning. In his emblematic paintings, Ji Wenyu contrasts communist propaganda imagery of workers and peasants in heroic poses with Western brand-name product logos. Here, political propaganda enters new alliances with Western marketing’s promises of happiness, which the artist (not without irony) holds up against the public of a radically changing China. By juxtaposing images and iconographies of the stereotyped oriental and the assumed occidental, Ji Wenyu questions the politics of cultural representation. Ji Wenyu’s universe is full of surprises and references to both political occurrences and cultural productions, focusing on the precise distortion of today’s spectacle society. De-contextualization enables the artist to take a humorous stand, as if to attempt a hyperrealism that surpasses the reality of the daily lives we lead in the midst of detached floating images. Irony is key to Ji Wenyu’s work. Between the use of mimesis, critical distance and narrative, Ji Wenyu’s work achieves a rare balance between surrealism, pop and precision. Revisiting the dichotomies of modernist painting, he manipulates the boundaries between figure and ground, to produce an intense and comic baroque kitsch universe.
Refusing to bind himself to a single medium, he seems to consider art as an exploration of strong imagery, humorous intelligence and formal precision. This suggests a true integration of art into the everyday life represented by his expressive multiplicity and eclectic approach. In his images and amorphous sculptures, created in collaboration with his wife Zhu Weibing, Ji Wenyu blends ingenuous and aesthetic objects that make his works so compelling.
Ji Wenyu was born in Shanghai in 1959. He graduated from Shanghai Art and Craft School, Decoration Department and Light Industry College in 1980 and 1988, respectively. Ji Wenyi has participated in numerous exhibitions including HyperDesign, Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum (2006), Here the Scene is Better, H-Space ShanghART Gallery (2006), Dressing Up before Going Out, Museum 52 (London, 2006), Infinite Painting, Villa Manin - Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Codroipo (Udine, 2006), Original, Shanghai Original Art Center (2004) and Money and Value, the Last Taboo, Expo 02 (Switzerland, 2002).
I should be standing at the bar Waving a ten pound note around But I sit here on the sofa at my girl's house I should be chatting shit as I'm nubbing out another snout But I'll roach a spliff watching the TV for now
I should be watching the fruit machines For which one will pay out But I sit on the sofa at my girls Any how
I should be legging it from a cab Like a mad little lout But I'll roach a spliff watching the TV Throughout
I know I never tell her But every single day man I'm always thinking loads about her She's the best thing that ever happened to me And I don't know what I'd do without her
I should actually go out and about Flip some beer mats Instead of sitting her at my girls gaff Because all I seem to do is sit in this habitat Just roaching a spliff, watching the TV and that
And the TV at my house is a bit broken on the back So I use my girls TV to watch the match Yeah, I might head out later To get off this beaten track Of watching the TV, roaching up On the same old mat
I know I never tell her But every single day man I'm always thinking loads about her She's the best thing that ever happened to me And I don't know what I'd do without her
But on second thought I won't do shots No, I think I'll sit on the sofa And eat my TV meal I would actually much prefer to just sit here and chill Roaching a spliff, watching East Enders or the Bill Because basically I love her And I love being here still And I love sitting on the sofa With my girl For real I don't want to knock my mates But there it's the same old drill Roaching a spliff and watching the TV is my will
I know I never tell her But every single day man I'm always thinking loads about her She's the best thing that ever happened to me And I don't know what I'd do without her
No fuck that I might ask my mates where they'll be drinking From the sofa, giving them a ding Tell them I will go three's on that gram Later on this evening Instead of roaching a spliff, watching the TV again And then go out whilst back at her's She does her thing Sitting on the sofa at her end But as I watch the big screen I know I will quite miss Me and her roaching a spliff Watching the TV again
I know I never tell her But every single day man I'm always thinking loads about her That's exactly what I'm talking about She's the best thing that ever happened to me I wouldn't have it any other way I'll tell you this And I don't know what I'd do without her I know I never tell her There's a whole world out there But every single day man A whole world I'm always thinking loads about her She's the best thing that ever happened to me But do I give her Do you know what I mean And I don't know what I'd do without her There's a whole world out there
I've got one packet Of rizzler over there but it's nearly run out I've got bits of cigarette All over the place Mmmmhmmm The clipper needs a shake The ashtray needs emptying But I wouldn't have it any other way I said I wouldn't have it any other way I said I wouldn't have it any other way I wouldn't have it any other way I wouldn't have it any other way I wouldn't have it any other way I wouldn't have it any other way oooohoooo No I wouldn't No I wouldn't
I said the ashtray needs emptying I said the clipper needs a shake
But I Need the same thing as yesterday Hey hey Ho ho I wouldn't have it any other way I wouldn't have it any other way
I WAS CHECKINIT BUT I CHECKED-OUT SO NOW I AM HERE BEING A DESIGNER. I DESIGN ALL SORTS OF THINGS INCLUDING LOGOS, INSTALLATIONS, INVITATIONS AND RETAIL CAMPAIGNS. SO CHECK-ME-OUT AND MY WORK TO SEE WHAT ELSE I DO X