The Dog and Pirate

The crop of ideas is beginning to flourish, its nice to have a goal with definate aims and end for a change.
Its nice to direct my thoughts towards it.

It now has a Page in "Loons Encyclopedia":
http://loonsencyclopedia.blogspot.com/p/pub-signs.html


I mentioned the posibility to Sean of useing the name of his pub aa a title for the show, I mentioned that the phraze "At the Sign of the Spotted Dog" doesnt actually mean anything, but it does seem to fit in with the slightly "Private Eye" contemporary feel to it all.

I took this with a cheap Video Camera, it was caught in a ray of Sunlight and rather than edit it I kept all four of them as a set.

What can I say?

I'm quite proud of this one, to be followed on the reverse side by "The Pirate Ship"

The Double Dip

A quick plunge into the icy waters of the way things really are!

Second idea for the show of pub signs with a wry contemporary twist.

I'm a bit unsure as to whether I should present them all in an album on face book as they occur. Maybe I would be giving away a bit too much as I go along.

At the sign of the - - -

Start of an album page in face book.
The working title for the show will be "at the sign of the spotted dog"

The Happy Banker

This will probably be the first to actually get finished. I need to produce one quickly in order to diagnose where the problems lie.

The show will probably happen towards the end of March and contain a talk.

I am thinking of calling that "Solid" and making it a run down of my work to date, something that I dont believe I have done, not in a simple solid basic way anyway.

Other "to date" names for pubs:

The Punters Revenge.

The Queens Head.

The Cheap Flight.

Many more to come I feel!



inner white space

Initial thoughts for the 48 Sheet space opposite Selfriges
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.136387736448745.35951.100002325573171&type=1&l=f8513e86b0

I've boiled thoughts into three areas.
1.  I would like toget involved in the space in a kind of " hands on way". Its a casemaybe of --- see what happens.
2.  I would love to give a talk with apower point presentation, about my work - in general. Make it very clear,amusing, and punchy.
3, and put a show up. I think it would good to base it around some of the stuff- and some of the spin-offs that I was thinking about as regards the billboards. It would at least fit in with the general theme of what was going down.
It's the timing that I seem to be changing my stance on,  on a daily basis.
In terms of a show, and the fact that I would be finishing things off, It wouldprobably be better pushed back towards the spring, rather than earlier.
I had thought of maybe doing a talk earlier on in the year, but dont know if maybe it would be better to put them together.

These are some alternative pub sign ideas.
http://martinhumphriestreehouse.blogspot.com/2011/08/spotted-dick.html

Armistice Day

11-11-11

Its almost worth just doing this post as the above date.
The image below comes from where in my past I do not know.
Or for that matter what I was about to do.
I had hoicked it out to re-present it as a bit more than a scribble.
On analysis it doesn't strictly mean anything in particular.
But
It feels like some pop songs that although they don't convey an exact meaning,
you know what they are talking about, you know what the message is.
Anyway I was drawing it out and I couldn't escape from an image of
first world war soldiers in the trenches who know that they will be going over the top
sometime soon.

Ditties

A new header for my verses page, over on the other side.



Painted last November during the immense snow and following on from a few quick collages that I made after collecting guide book material from around the country in various haunts.

Click on the following link for immediate gratification:
http://loonsencyclopedia.blogspot.com/p/verses.html

A Golden Winged Ship

Castles made of Sand

Down the street you can hear her scream you're a disgrace
As she slams the door in his drunken face
And now he stands outside
And all the neighbors start to gossip and drool
He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
And his tears fall and burn the garden green

And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually

A little Indian brave who before he was ten,
Played war games in the woods with his Indian friends
And he built up a dream that when he grew up
He would be a fearless warrior Indian Cheif
Many moons past and more the dream grew strong until
Tomorrow he would sing his first war song and fight his first battle
But something went wrong, surprise attack killed him in his sleep that night

And so castles made of sand melts into the sea, eventually

There was a young girl, who's heart was a frown
Cause she was crippled for life,
And she couldn't speak a sound
And she wished and prayed she could stop living,
So she decided to die
She drew her wheelchair to the edge of the shore
And to her legs she smiled you wont hurt me no more
But then a sight she'd never seen made her jump and say
Look a golden winged ship is passing my way

And it really didn't have to stop, it just kept on going...

And so castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually

Link to blog page - Verses:
http://loonsencyclopedia.blogspot.com/p/verses.html

G20 Elders

Meanwhile, elders were sitting there on polished stones in the sacred circle,

holding in their hands the staffs they'd taken from the clear-voiced heralds.

With those they'd stand up and render judgment,

each in his turn.

In the centre lay two golden talents,

to be awarded to the one amoung them all who delivered the most righteous verdict.

Now thats the way to do business and save the world chaps.
Link to Achilles Shield:
http://loonsencyclopedia.blogspot.com/p/achilles-shield.html

New P.C.

Just playing with the new machine that doesnt seem to want to allow me easy access!