HIGH RISE

I've started reading this book 'High Rise' by J.G. Ballard. It's an interesting read (so far) and the concepts of a microcosm society in the future as everyone living in this high rise block of apartments are surrounded by all that they need they become more and more reclusive. I was thinking about how in the far future with the population growing at an alarming rate building will have to start going up in the sky or underground/underwater to accommodate all the people. I was thinking this could play a key role in my large scale A1 drawings as an arrangement or background.

SKETCHBOOK

I started looking at my dads 2000AD 1984 annual and got inspired to do some drawings using line and some bold colour in the first. No doubt the character is influenced by Judge Dred but hey, I AM THE LAW.

HOW TO SAVE THE COUNTRY BY ACCEPTING YOUR PARENTS HAVE FUCKED YOU OVER

Just saw this article on a vice blog about a book coming out by Neil Boorman called It's All Their Fault: A Manifesto. As you can probably tell by now it's about how the older generations have fucked over our future with student debts and every baby being born with 22,000 debt effectively. Basically the book puts forward some interesting predictions as well as hard facts about the future for the up and coming generations.

These sort of facts are something I can start moulding my project around looking at possible outcomes in the future, with all the old pensioners living the life whilst everybody else lives in a crippled world full of debt which would inevitably lead to a broken society and a world of ruin.

ARTICLE

HOW TO KILL YOUR PARENTS

EVERY SAINT HAS A PAST AND EVERY SINNER HAS A FUTURE

As I begin to get more and more wrapped up by my final major project for college this blog will probably start to take one direction: The Future. This is what I've decided the theme's going to be and something that I've been researching throughout my Easter. I was looking at famous quotes about the vast subject and I ended up picking Oscar Wilde's "Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future". For me this quote is about the corruption and downfall of the world as the more we progress and go on the more we seem to fuck the world up and the more society and the connections between nature and humans seems to fall apart.

As a starting idea I would like to end up with some drawings and an animation which is short and a collage maybe with the quote being read out. I would like to go bigger with my drawings maybe some A1 sized drawings as this is something I often fail to do but I'll see what happens.

Recently I've been looking a lot at the work of Gary Panter as his vast influence on many of the illustrators I like is really strong. When I was on his website browsing I found the section of his work which is all light shows. I've been into light shows for a while without really knowing too much about them or making any myself. Panters use of line over a use of bold colours is something which translates well into illustration as well as lights and something I'll look at for my animation projection. I also like the more abstract ambient shapes that he uses which has a very Sci-fi feel and looks like some sort of projections of space.

GIFFFF

My friend Josh asked me to make something for his DJ myspace (www.myspace.com/spaceraideruk) so after getting carried away I decided to learn how to make a GIF and this was the obscene result.

Check out his latest mix too it's proper live.

01 SUPER KESTRAL LIVE MIX by Space Raider

'This One Goes Out To My 4X4 Ravers...'

Me and my friend Josh put this together the other day for a night he's putting on. I'm pretty sure 75% of people don't get it but I think it's pretty hilarious. Should be a live night, getting smashed and playing cheesy club bangers.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=354138239685&ref=ts

Also my cousin showed me this video him and his band made for their christmas song, if you like Municipal Waste you'll love it. More wigs than a alopecia victim.

http://www.myspace.com/easyhips

College Work

Everything's pretty hectic right now, I'm still ill on and off and with 3 interviews and an assessment next week there's no sign of things slowing down. Anyway I thought I should post some work I've been doing recently which is mainly all related to my portfolio and getting everything polished. These two collage/drawings are from a zine I reworked which was all based around Odin losing his eye.

I also made the last edit of my 3D project which seemed to take way longer than it should of. Anyway I'm pretty happy with the final image. It's meant to be about pantheism and the idea that God surrounds us in nature which I learnt about studying the Romantic poets Coleridge and Wordsworth last year. I'm not religious but I quite liked the idea.

I've started doing some drawings that I'm liking the look of too, got a sort of mad line style to them but I'll post them up here tomorrow or something.