Lovely Book Covers

I really can’t stop looking at book covers.  I will buy a book if the cover is awesome and I have some money to burn in my pocket. One thing I’ve noticed this year is that, irregardless to the whole iPad/Kindle/E-Reader influx, there’s been a huge increase in books that are beautifully, beautifully crafted –

Gravity

I’ve been working on a bunch of stuff for this amazing art conference called Gravity. It’s been running all year since Janurary. And now the website that i built is up – it’s actually really amazing to see how many well acomplished artists my co-workers/artists bagged – like ALOT of previous Turner Prize Nominees/winners- both

WHY I LOVE MCSWEENEYS

if only i lived in San Francisco……

Institutional critique in 2010, is it an alternative version?

Institutional critique in 2010, is it an alternative version? In 1974, Hans Haacke mounted an index of the museum’s corporate sponsors and board of trustees along the Guggenheim’s walls. The work, simply titled, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Board of Trustees, bared the political and economic affiliations behind the exhibition’s proverbial curtain. For Haacke, the work’s

Smizz can get into the film business yet!

I’m doing a bunch of stuff for Sheff DocFest – the best international documentary film festival in the whole of europe – fact. – if not THE BEST in the world.  infact it is probably the best thing that happens in sheffield, that actually puts poor old sheffield on the map. There’s going to be

Recognized by The British Council

seriously. Ha! i was googling myself. you know? how you do? and the usual suspect pages were coming up. and then all of a sudden i was like what’s this pdf with my name on!? wait a second… it’s on the british council website… it’s a PDF.  a bunch of professors and doctors and famous

scaf as druglords and famous artists as hitmen

apparently drawing isn’t contemporary enough

thats what my tutor told me in 2nd year of my degree. so i’m now doing drawing. bitch. just a sneak peak of what ive been working on over the past weeks. still finding my visual language! i call it art degree show suicide

worcester open 2010

if you didn’t know i write for it. check it here: http://www.worcesteropen.co.uk/biog.asp?refID=19

boarding pass/fail

I’m heading to NYC in a few days (15 days to be exact). I complain about a lot of things when I’m traveling: the food, babies, people that insist on stuffing overhead luggage when it will NOT fit, etc. The one thing I have never considered is the boarding pass. Tyler Thompson has written an excellent article