Friday, 28 May 2010
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Monday, 17 May 2010
'worried about the boy'
ALRIGHT, ADMITTEDLY,I'M ABIT IN LOVE WITH BOY GEORGE. I JUST THINK HE'S AMAZING.
RECENTLY BBC MADE A DOCUMENTRY SORTA THING ABOUT HIS LIFE UP UNTIL CULTURE CLUB PROPERLY TOOK OFF.
THIS SHOWS HIM PRE-FAME AND ABIT AFTER FAME. HIS LIFE IN LONDON JUST SEEMED AMAZING TO ME, LIVING IN SQUATS WITH DRAG QUEENS AND EXENTRICS, LIVING THE PARTY LIFE AND THRIVING ON FASHION.
IT SHOWS HIS STRUGGLE WITH BOYFRIENDS AND WORK AND AT ONE POINT IT SHOWS HIM MEET MALCOM MCLAREN IN A HAIRDRESSERS WHO THEN ADDS HIM INTO A BAND WHICH HE LATER IS KICKED OUT OF. HE THEN GOES ON TO MEETING HIS GUITARIST IN A PUB AND FORMING A BAND WITH HIM AND LATER ON ASKING JOHN (HIS FORMER BOYFRIEND) TO BE THE DRUMMER. THATS WHERE IT ALL STARTED REALLY.
THERE WAS ONE THING MCLAREN SAID THOUGH WHICH STUCK IN MY MIND, HE ASKED HIM WHAT HIS NAME WAS AND HE REPLIED 'GEORGE' WITH HIS RESPONSE BEING 'AH, GEORGE. THATS FORGETTABLE' THIS IS ESSENTIALLY HOW I FEEL ABOUT MY NAME. THE PARENTS WERE BEING AWFULLY CREATIVE WHEN THEY CALLED ME LAURA. ABIT LAZY REALLY. I HATE IT WHEN YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF ASWELL AND SOMEONES LIKE 'THIS IS LAUREN', WELL NO, IT'S NOT ACTUALLY (THIS HAPPENS ALOT) I'VE NEVER REALLY LIKED IT, IF YOU TYPED 'LAURA JONES' INTO GOOGLE COULD YOU IMAGINE HOW MANY HITS YOU'D GET? IT'S PAINFULLY COMMON WHICH DOSEN'T REALLY SUIT MY PERSONALITY. I'M GONNA' CHANGE IT AND MOVE TO LONDON, THERES NOT MUCH IN BIRMINGHAM REALLY. IT'S ALL VERY DULL AND UNINSPIRING.
GOING BACK TO THE DOCUMENTRY THOUGH - WATCH IT. EVEN IF YOUR NOT A MASSIVE FAN. THE OUTFITS AND THE MAKEUP ARE JUST BRILLIANT AND THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS BOY (I MUST FIND HIS NAME OUT) IS B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L!
A STILL FROM THE PROGRAM. YUM.
RECENTLY BBC MADE A DOCUMENTRY SORTA THING ABOUT HIS LIFE UP UNTIL CULTURE CLUB PROPERLY TOOK OFF.
THIS SHOWS HIM PRE-FAME AND ABIT AFTER FAME. HIS LIFE IN LONDON JUST SEEMED AMAZING TO ME, LIVING IN SQUATS WITH DRAG QUEENS AND EXENTRICS, LIVING THE PARTY LIFE AND THRIVING ON FASHION.
IT SHOWS HIS STRUGGLE WITH BOYFRIENDS AND WORK AND AT ONE POINT IT SHOWS HIM MEET MALCOM MCLAREN IN A HAIRDRESSERS WHO THEN ADDS HIM INTO A BAND WHICH HE LATER IS KICKED OUT OF. HE THEN GOES ON TO MEETING HIS GUITARIST IN A PUB AND FORMING A BAND WITH HIM AND LATER ON ASKING JOHN (HIS FORMER BOYFRIEND) TO BE THE DRUMMER. THATS WHERE IT ALL STARTED REALLY.
THERE WAS ONE THING MCLAREN SAID THOUGH WHICH STUCK IN MY MIND, HE ASKED HIM WHAT HIS NAME WAS AND HE REPLIED 'GEORGE' WITH HIS RESPONSE BEING 'AH, GEORGE. THATS FORGETTABLE' THIS IS ESSENTIALLY HOW I FEEL ABOUT MY NAME. THE PARENTS WERE BEING AWFULLY CREATIVE WHEN THEY CALLED ME LAURA. ABIT LAZY REALLY. I HATE IT WHEN YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF ASWELL AND SOMEONES LIKE 'THIS IS LAUREN', WELL NO, IT'S NOT ACTUALLY (THIS HAPPENS ALOT) I'VE NEVER REALLY LIKED IT, IF YOU TYPED 'LAURA JONES' INTO GOOGLE COULD YOU IMAGINE HOW MANY HITS YOU'D GET? IT'S PAINFULLY COMMON WHICH DOSEN'T REALLY SUIT MY PERSONALITY. I'M GONNA' CHANGE IT AND MOVE TO LONDON, THERES NOT MUCH IN BIRMINGHAM REALLY. IT'S ALL VERY DULL AND UNINSPIRING.
GOING BACK TO THE DOCUMENTRY THOUGH - WATCH IT. EVEN IF YOUR NOT A MASSIVE FAN. THE OUTFITS AND THE MAKEUP ARE JUST BRILLIANT AND THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS BOY (I MUST FIND HIS NAME OUT) IS B.E.A.U.T.I.F.U.L!
A STILL FROM THE PROGRAM. YUM.
pennywise.
SO ME AND KERRY WENT TO DO PHOTOGRAPHY FOR A BAND CALLED TEMPLETON PEK SATURDAY. THEY WERE SUPPORTING A BAND CALLED PENNYWISE AT ACADEMY 2. WE NEVER BOTHER LOOKING UP THE HEADLINING ACT GENERALLY AND JUST TURN UP TO WATCH THE PEOPLE WERE PHOTOGRAPHING SO WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN WE GOT THERE.
WHEN WE GOT IN THE ROOM WAS FULL OF AMAZINGLY DRESSED PUNKS WITH DIFFERENT COLOUR HAIR. IT WAS LIKE A VIVIENNE WESTWOOD COLLECTION HAD EXPLODED, IT WAS BRILLIANT.
I THINK THEY WERE AN AMERICAN BAND AND PROVED TO HAVE QUITE A BIG FOLLOWING HERE, THEY OVERSOLD ACADEMY 2 AND WHEN I MEAN OVERSOLD I MEAN PEOPLE WERE HANGING OUT OF THE DOOR. THE ROOM WAS SO PACKED IT WAS UNREAL!
THEY WERE ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD, GOING ON ABOUT HOW NO-ONES BETTER THAN ANYONE AND SCREAMING 'EFF THE GOVERNMENT' ENCOURAGING THE POUNDING FISTS FROM THE AUDIENCE. THE PEOPLE THERE REALLY INSPIRED ME MORE THAN ANYTHING, I THINK I WANT TO TAKE A PUNK SPIN ON THE 'ROYAL BLUE' PROJECT, MAYBE? EW. ASIF I'M ALREADY THINKING ABOUT THE NEW PROJECT. THE CATASTROPHE CRIT WAS TODAY.
BUT YEAH, SEE THEM LIVE IF YOUR INTO THAT SORT OF MUSIC, THERE DEAD GOOD. (I DON'T HAVE ANY OF MY OWN PHOTOS AS I STOOD AT THE BACK AND THE ROOM WAS PACKED)
WHEN WE GOT IN THE ROOM WAS FULL OF AMAZINGLY DRESSED PUNKS WITH DIFFERENT COLOUR HAIR. IT WAS LIKE A VIVIENNE WESTWOOD COLLECTION HAD EXPLODED, IT WAS BRILLIANT.
I THINK THEY WERE AN AMERICAN BAND AND PROVED TO HAVE QUITE A BIG FOLLOWING HERE, THEY OVERSOLD ACADEMY 2 AND WHEN I MEAN OVERSOLD I MEAN PEOPLE WERE HANGING OUT OF THE DOOR. THE ROOM WAS SO PACKED IT WAS UNREAL!
THEY WERE ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD, GOING ON ABOUT HOW NO-ONES BETTER THAN ANYONE AND SCREAMING 'EFF THE GOVERNMENT' ENCOURAGING THE POUNDING FISTS FROM THE AUDIENCE. THE PEOPLE THERE REALLY INSPIRED ME MORE THAN ANYTHING, I THINK I WANT TO TAKE A PUNK SPIN ON THE 'ROYAL BLUE' PROJECT, MAYBE? EW. ASIF I'M ALREADY THINKING ABOUT THE NEW PROJECT. THE CATASTROPHE CRIT WAS TODAY.
BUT YEAH, SEE THEM LIVE IF YOUR INTO THAT SORT OF MUSIC, THERE DEAD GOOD. (I DON'T HAVE ANY OF MY OWN PHOTOS AS I STOOD AT THE BACK AND THE ROOM WAS PACKED)
- marilyn manson.
“A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do. Americans talk so much about being individualistic, but they don't want you to be an individual because if you think for yourself then you're not going to be a part of any trend that they want you to be a part of. They don't want you to think for yourself. They tell you they do so that you're happy and you're stupid and you're sheep. Anybody intelligent enough to realize what America is, is not going to sit around and do nothing about it. They're going to be the same way that I am. They're going to be the same way our fans are. They're going to be pissed. These people are artists. These people are musicians. They're taking it out and trying to express it that way. The rest of the world, who are just willing to accept it, are gonna be doing their everyday jobs, and they're going to be trapped in a rut, and they're never gonna see it until the day they die, and they're gonna be disappointed when they don't go to heaven anyway 'cause they were too stupid to realize that it's not going to happen.”
Sunday, 16 May 2010
CRIT: catastrophe.
'WE WERE WARNED
WHO WILL BE LEFT BEHIND?
THE END IS JUST THE BEGINING
MANKINDS EARLIEST CIVILISATION WARNED US THIS DAY WOULD COME..'
THIS IS THE NEW BEGINING.
2011.
YOU NEED FOOD.
YOU NEED SHELTER.
YOU NEED CLOTHING.
SO WHERE TO START? WHEN WE FIRST GOT GIVEN THIS PROJECT I WAS DEAD ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IT, THIS ENTHUSIASM LASTED RIGHT UP UNTIL I GOT TO CENTRAL LIBARY AND STARTED RESEARCHING. NATURAL DISASTERS AND ALL THAT LARK DOSEN'T REALLY INTEREST ME TO BE QUITE HONEST SO I WENT TO THE BRIDGET RILEY EXHIBITION INSTEAD I BELIEVE. (OH, JUST TO WARN YOU, I'VE BEEN READING RUSSELL BRANDS AUTOBIOGRAPHY LATELY SO WORDS SUCH AS 'LARK' MIGHT CROP UP ABIT)
WHEN I GOT HOME I THEN STARTED LOOKING AT DESIGNERS THAT HAVE TOUCHED ON THE APOCALYPTIC SUBJECT AND STARED BLANKLY AT THERE CREATIONS (WHICH DON'T GET ME WRONG WERE GOOD BUT I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW I WOULD GO ABOUT DESIGNING SOMETHING UNIQUE WHEN IT HAD ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE) SO I WENT BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND DID AS MUCH RESEARCH AS POSSIBLE. JUST LOOKING AT MORE DESIGNERS, ARTISTS AND SURVIVAL EQUIPTMENT, CAVEMEN, DINOSAURS ETC.
THE DINOSAUR BIT GOT ME INTERESTED, IT GOT ME WONDERING ABOUT LIFE BEFORE US HUMANS TOOK OVER THE PLANET AND WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF WE ALL BUGGERED OFF AGAIN. I DIDN'T WANNA' RESORT BACK TO DINOSAURS THOUGH, THATS ABIT BORING AINT IT? SO I THOUGHT 'WHY NOT DRAGONS?'. NOW IV'E ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN THESE WONDERFUL BEASTS. AT THE TIME I WAS READING A BOOK CALLED ERAGON (WHICH I STRONGLY ADVISE) AND THATS ALL TO DO WITH DRAGONS, INFACT, IV'E READ THE TRILOGY AND WATCHED THE FILM SO I CONCIDER MYSELF SOMEWHAT OF AN EXPERT NOW.
FROM THERE I STARTED RESEARCHING DRAGONS, THERE COLOURS, THERE SCALES ETC.
MY THEME KIND OF TOOK OFF FROM THERE REALLY. 'A METERIOID HITS THE EARTH, TRAA WORLD AND HUMAN LIFE AS WE KNOW IT... PLANTS GROW.. DRAGONS SWOOP IN AND TAKE OVER' SIMPLE REALLY BUT I'M THE LAST HUMAN LEFT AND HAVE TO FIGHT FOR FOOD AND SURVIAL SO I NEED AN OUTFIT TO 'SURVIVE IN'.
THIS WAS ABIT TRICKY AT FIRST I HAVE TO ADMIT. I REMEMBER SITTING IN FASHION LAB BANGING MY HEAD AGAINST THE TABLE WHILST A PILE OF SCREWED UP PAPER (FAILED DESIGNS) GREW EVER MORE BESIDE ME.
AFTER A MORNING OF THAT EMILY FIGURED SHE'D TAKE US OUTSIDE AND BLINDFOLD US TO TRY AND GET US MORE INSPIRED - I HAVE TO ADMIT THIS WORKED. AFTER THAT AND A FEW DRAPES LATER I CAME UP WITH A FEW DESIGNS BUT CARRIED ON RESEARCHING FOR FURTHER INSPIRATION FOR DEVELOPMENT.
I LOOKED IN SOME NEWSPAPERS AND FOUND SOME STUFF ON WAR AND OBSERVED WHAT THE SOLDIERS WHERE WEARING FOR PROTECTION. THE COLOUR FITTED IN THE SCEME BUT GREEN NEVER REALLY APPEALED TO ME.
I THEN LOOKED AT RICK OWENS, I LOVED THE LEATHER IN THIS COLLECTION (THIS IS WHERE I GOT INSPIRED FOR MY TROUSERS)
I DID ABIT OF SLASHING WHEN I WAS DRAPING ASWELL, I LOOKED AT GARETH PUGH FOR INSPIRATION HERE AND TRIED TO MAKE A 'SKELETAL' TYPE TOP BY HAVING THE MIDDLE INTACT (TO LOOK LIKE A SPINE) AND THE REST SLASHED (LIKE A RIBCAGE) THIS IDEA WAS A BIT TO 'COPYCAT' AND DIDN'T REALLY WORK ANYWAY SO I SCRAPPED IT.
I LOOKED AT HOW THE CAVEMEN USED TO MAKE THERE GARMENTS OUT OF DEAD ANIMALS BY USING FUR - THIS REMINDED ME OF ACNE'S COLLECTION BUT I DIDN'T TAKE IT ANY FURTHER THAN RESEARCH AS I FEEL THIS HAS RESEARCH HAS ALREADY BEEN DRAWN UPON.
AITOR TROUP - THIS IS WHERE I FIRST GOT INSPIRATION FOR THE USE OF SKULLS. I LOVE HOW 3'D THEY MAKE A GARMENT LOOK.
- RESEARCH ON NATURAL DISASTERS, CHRISTOPHER KANE MADE SOME BEAUT GARMENTS WITH SIMILAR IMAGES TO THE ONES IV'E FOUND. NOTHING FROM THIS REALLY INSPIRED ME THOUGH.
- REVERTING BACK TO DRAGONS, SKULLS AND SKELETONS.
I LOOKED AT ALEXANDER MQUEEN FOR INSPIRATION FOR THIS AS I THINK HIS SCALEY PRINTS ARE AMAZING IN THIS COLLECTION AND REALLY REFLECTED MY THEME.
I THEN STARTED PLAYING AROUND WITH DIFFERENT SKULL SHAPES AND WONDERED IF THEY WERE WORTH PRINTING ONTO MATERIAL.
- A FEW DESIGNS INSPIRED FROM DRAGON SCALES, CHAIN MAIL AND SKELETAL FRAMES.
I WENT TO MY AUNTIES TO TAKE THESE PICTURES OF THE DRAGON FIGURINES, THE COLOURS REALLY INSPIRED ME MORE THAN ANYTHING AND YOU'LL SEE THAT I USED THEM IN SOME OF MY DESIGNS..
AFTER ALL THIS RESEARCH I WAS DEAD SET ON THIS DESIGN, I BROUGHT ALL THE MATERIAL AND HAD IT ALL PLANNED. THE TOP WENT WRONG THOUGH AND WHEN IT ALL STARTED COMING TOGETHER IT LOOKED LIKE A COSTUME SO I WENT BACK TO MY RESEARCH TO HAVE ANOTHER PONDER..
- DRAWING UP DIFFERENT WING DESIGNS PLAYING WITH SCALE AND SHAPE.
- TESTING DIFFERENT KNOTS FOR HANGING THE BONES (ANOTHER IDEA I HAD, THIS DIDN'T END UP AS MY FINAL THOUGH)
- I ACTUALLY FOUND THIS IMAGE WHEN I WAS DOING SOME PHOTOGRAPHY WORK. THIS WAS HOW I IMAGINED MY APOCALYPTIC SITUATION EXACTLY. IT EXPLAINS WHY (MY FINAL GARMENT) IS MADE OUT OF BONES AS THATS ALL THATS LEFT..
DESIGNS.
- I TRIED MAKING SCALES OUT OF WAX FOR THE TROUSERS BUT THAT DIDN'T WORK AS I THOUGHT IT LOOKED MESSY SO I ENDED UP BUYING SCALEY MATERIAL.
- I THEN TRIED TO PRINT SCALES ONTO FABRIC USING PHOTOCOPIES OF SCALES (AND BECKYS SCALEY BAG WE MANAGED TO WEDGE IN THE PHOTOCOPIER). IF THIS WORKED I WAS GOING TO USE IT AS THE FABRIC FOR MY LEOTARD BUT I DIDNT LIKE THE OUTCOME EVEN THOUGH I TRIED IT ON TWO DIFFERENT FABRICS (THINKING THE LAST ONE WOULD CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE, IT DIDN'T).
- FINAL GARMENT.
I FEEL ABIT EMBARESSED TO PUT THIS ON, IT'S POSSIBLY THE WORST DRAWING I HAVE EVER DRAWN IN MY LIFE AND IT'S BEEN PLASTERED ALL OVER THE INTERNET FOR ALL TO SEE - WONDERFUL.
SO WITH MY SCENAREO IN MIND, MY FINAL GARMENT IS A LEOTARD COVERED IN BONES (AS THATS THE ONLY RESOURCE AND THERES PLENTY OF THEM, THERE ALSO QUITE STRONG), SCALEY BROWN TROUSERS (BIG ENOUGH TO MOVE ABOUT IN AND STRONG ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND THE WEATHER AND EVERYDAY USE AND WEAR) A COPPER DRAGON WING (AS YOU WOULD NEED TO SHEALD YOURSELF AND IT MAKES FOR A LITTLE SHELTER ASWELL) AND A SKULL MASK (AS THERE EVERYWHERE AS ALL HUMANS HAVE BEEN KILLED AND IT'S PROTECTION FOR DRAGON FIGHTING).
OVERALL I'M QUITE HAPPY WITH HOW EVERYTHING TURNED OUT, IT WAS A RIGHT JOB GETTING THAT SHEEPS HEAD FOR IT NOT TO WORK THOUGH (VERY LONG TO EXPLAIN BUT CUTTING A LONG STORY SHORT, IT'S A BUGGER TO CLEAN, UNHYGENIC AND IT SMELLS AWFUL!) PROPER ANNOYING THOUGH AS IT WOULD HAVE LOOKED AMAZING.
IF I WAS TO DO THIS AGAIN I HONESTLY DON'T THINK I WOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY, I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO MELT COINS TO FILL IN THE WING BUT I COULDN'T GET MY HANDS ON A KILM.
I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE EMBROIDERED A GREEN SCALEY GLOVE ASWELL TO COMEPLETE THE LOOK AND ADD A SPLASH OF COLOUR.
I'M HAPPY WITH THE WAY IT ALL TURNED OUT THOUGH EVEN IF I DIDN'T GET TO FINISH THE LEOTARD.
WHO WILL BE LEFT BEHIND?
THE END IS JUST THE BEGINING
MANKINDS EARLIEST CIVILISATION WARNED US THIS DAY WOULD COME..'
THIS IS THE NEW BEGINING.
2011.
YOU NEED FOOD.
YOU NEED SHELTER.
YOU NEED CLOTHING.
SO WHERE TO START? WHEN WE FIRST GOT GIVEN THIS PROJECT I WAS DEAD ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IT, THIS ENTHUSIASM LASTED RIGHT UP UNTIL I GOT TO CENTRAL LIBARY AND STARTED RESEARCHING. NATURAL DISASTERS AND ALL THAT LARK DOSEN'T REALLY INTEREST ME TO BE QUITE HONEST SO I WENT TO THE BRIDGET RILEY EXHIBITION INSTEAD I BELIEVE. (OH, JUST TO WARN YOU, I'VE BEEN READING RUSSELL BRANDS AUTOBIOGRAPHY LATELY SO WORDS SUCH AS 'LARK' MIGHT CROP UP ABIT)
WHEN I GOT HOME I THEN STARTED LOOKING AT DESIGNERS THAT HAVE TOUCHED ON THE APOCALYPTIC SUBJECT AND STARED BLANKLY AT THERE CREATIONS (WHICH DON'T GET ME WRONG WERE GOOD BUT I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW I WOULD GO ABOUT DESIGNING SOMETHING UNIQUE WHEN IT HAD ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE) SO I WENT BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND DID AS MUCH RESEARCH AS POSSIBLE. JUST LOOKING AT MORE DESIGNERS, ARTISTS AND SURVIVAL EQUIPTMENT, CAVEMEN, DINOSAURS ETC.
THE DINOSAUR BIT GOT ME INTERESTED, IT GOT ME WONDERING ABOUT LIFE BEFORE US HUMANS TOOK OVER THE PLANET AND WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF WE ALL BUGGERED OFF AGAIN. I DIDN'T WANNA' RESORT BACK TO DINOSAURS THOUGH, THATS ABIT BORING AINT IT? SO I THOUGHT 'WHY NOT DRAGONS?'. NOW IV'E ALWAYS BEEN INTERESTED IN THESE WONDERFUL BEASTS. AT THE TIME I WAS READING A BOOK CALLED ERAGON (WHICH I STRONGLY ADVISE) AND THATS ALL TO DO WITH DRAGONS, INFACT, IV'E READ THE TRILOGY AND WATCHED THE FILM SO I CONCIDER MYSELF SOMEWHAT OF AN EXPERT NOW.
FROM THERE I STARTED RESEARCHING DRAGONS, THERE COLOURS, THERE SCALES ETC.
MY THEME KIND OF TOOK OFF FROM THERE REALLY. 'A METERIOID HITS THE EARTH, TRAA WORLD AND HUMAN LIFE AS WE KNOW IT... PLANTS GROW.. DRAGONS SWOOP IN AND TAKE OVER' SIMPLE REALLY BUT I'M THE LAST HUMAN LEFT AND HAVE TO FIGHT FOR FOOD AND SURVIAL SO I NEED AN OUTFIT TO 'SURVIVE IN'.
THIS WAS ABIT TRICKY AT FIRST I HAVE TO ADMIT. I REMEMBER SITTING IN FASHION LAB BANGING MY HEAD AGAINST THE TABLE WHILST A PILE OF SCREWED UP PAPER (FAILED DESIGNS) GREW EVER MORE BESIDE ME.
AFTER A MORNING OF THAT EMILY FIGURED SHE'D TAKE US OUTSIDE AND BLINDFOLD US TO TRY AND GET US MORE INSPIRED - I HAVE TO ADMIT THIS WORKED. AFTER THAT AND A FEW DRAPES LATER I CAME UP WITH A FEW DESIGNS BUT CARRIED ON RESEARCHING FOR FURTHER INSPIRATION FOR DEVELOPMENT.
I LOOKED IN SOME NEWSPAPERS AND FOUND SOME STUFF ON WAR AND OBSERVED WHAT THE SOLDIERS WHERE WEARING FOR PROTECTION. THE COLOUR FITTED IN THE SCEME BUT GREEN NEVER REALLY APPEALED TO ME.
I THEN LOOKED AT RICK OWENS, I LOVED THE LEATHER IN THIS COLLECTION (THIS IS WHERE I GOT INSPIRED FOR MY TROUSERS)
I DID ABIT OF SLASHING WHEN I WAS DRAPING ASWELL, I LOOKED AT GARETH PUGH FOR INSPIRATION HERE AND TRIED TO MAKE A 'SKELETAL' TYPE TOP BY HAVING THE MIDDLE INTACT (TO LOOK LIKE A SPINE) AND THE REST SLASHED (LIKE A RIBCAGE) THIS IDEA WAS A BIT TO 'COPYCAT' AND DIDN'T REALLY WORK ANYWAY SO I SCRAPPED IT.
I LOOKED AT HOW THE CAVEMEN USED TO MAKE THERE GARMENTS OUT OF DEAD ANIMALS BY USING FUR - THIS REMINDED ME OF ACNE'S COLLECTION BUT I DIDN'T TAKE IT ANY FURTHER THAN RESEARCH AS I FEEL THIS HAS RESEARCH HAS ALREADY BEEN DRAWN UPON.
AITOR TROUP - THIS IS WHERE I FIRST GOT INSPIRATION FOR THE USE OF SKULLS. I LOVE HOW 3'D THEY MAKE A GARMENT LOOK.
- RESEARCH ON NATURAL DISASTERS, CHRISTOPHER KANE MADE SOME BEAUT GARMENTS WITH SIMILAR IMAGES TO THE ONES IV'E FOUND. NOTHING FROM THIS REALLY INSPIRED ME THOUGH.
- REVERTING BACK TO DRAGONS, SKULLS AND SKELETONS.
I LOOKED AT ALEXANDER MQUEEN FOR INSPIRATION FOR THIS AS I THINK HIS SCALEY PRINTS ARE AMAZING IN THIS COLLECTION AND REALLY REFLECTED MY THEME.
I THEN STARTED PLAYING AROUND WITH DIFFERENT SKULL SHAPES AND WONDERED IF THEY WERE WORTH PRINTING ONTO MATERIAL.
- A FEW DESIGNS INSPIRED FROM DRAGON SCALES, CHAIN MAIL AND SKELETAL FRAMES.
I WENT TO MY AUNTIES TO TAKE THESE PICTURES OF THE DRAGON FIGURINES, THE COLOURS REALLY INSPIRED ME MORE THAN ANYTHING AND YOU'LL SEE THAT I USED THEM IN SOME OF MY DESIGNS..
AFTER ALL THIS RESEARCH I WAS DEAD SET ON THIS DESIGN, I BROUGHT ALL THE MATERIAL AND HAD IT ALL PLANNED. THE TOP WENT WRONG THOUGH AND WHEN IT ALL STARTED COMING TOGETHER IT LOOKED LIKE A COSTUME SO I WENT BACK TO MY RESEARCH TO HAVE ANOTHER PONDER..
- DRAWING UP DIFFERENT WING DESIGNS PLAYING WITH SCALE AND SHAPE.
- TESTING DIFFERENT KNOTS FOR HANGING THE BONES (ANOTHER IDEA I HAD, THIS DIDN'T END UP AS MY FINAL THOUGH)
- I ACTUALLY FOUND THIS IMAGE WHEN I WAS DOING SOME PHOTOGRAPHY WORK. THIS WAS HOW I IMAGINED MY APOCALYPTIC SITUATION EXACTLY. IT EXPLAINS WHY (MY FINAL GARMENT) IS MADE OUT OF BONES AS THATS ALL THATS LEFT..DESIGNS.
- I TRIED MAKING SCALES OUT OF WAX FOR THE TROUSERS BUT THAT DIDN'T WORK AS I THOUGHT IT LOOKED MESSY SO I ENDED UP BUYING SCALEY MATERIAL.
- I THEN TRIED TO PRINT SCALES ONTO FABRIC USING PHOTOCOPIES OF SCALES (AND BECKYS SCALEY BAG WE MANAGED TO WEDGE IN THE PHOTOCOPIER). IF THIS WORKED I WAS GOING TO USE IT AS THE FABRIC FOR MY LEOTARD BUT I DIDNT LIKE THE OUTCOME EVEN THOUGH I TRIED IT ON TWO DIFFERENT FABRICS (THINKING THE LAST ONE WOULD CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE, IT DIDN'T).
- FINAL GARMENT.
I FEEL ABIT EMBARESSED TO PUT THIS ON, IT'S POSSIBLY THE WORST DRAWING I HAVE EVER DRAWN IN MY LIFE AND IT'S BEEN PLASTERED ALL OVER THE INTERNET FOR ALL TO SEE - WONDERFUL.
SO WITH MY SCENAREO IN MIND, MY FINAL GARMENT IS A LEOTARD COVERED IN BONES (AS THATS THE ONLY RESOURCE AND THERES PLENTY OF THEM, THERE ALSO QUITE STRONG), SCALEY BROWN TROUSERS (BIG ENOUGH TO MOVE ABOUT IN AND STRONG ENOUGH TO WITHSTAND THE WEATHER AND EVERYDAY USE AND WEAR) A COPPER DRAGON WING (AS YOU WOULD NEED TO SHEALD YOURSELF AND IT MAKES FOR A LITTLE SHELTER ASWELL) AND A SKULL MASK (AS THERE EVERYWHERE AS ALL HUMANS HAVE BEEN KILLED AND IT'S PROTECTION FOR DRAGON FIGHTING).
OVERALL I'M QUITE HAPPY WITH HOW EVERYTHING TURNED OUT, IT WAS A RIGHT JOB GETTING THAT SHEEPS HEAD FOR IT NOT TO WORK THOUGH (VERY LONG TO EXPLAIN BUT CUTTING A LONG STORY SHORT, IT'S A BUGGER TO CLEAN, UNHYGENIC AND IT SMELLS AWFUL!) PROPER ANNOYING THOUGH AS IT WOULD HAVE LOOKED AMAZING.
IF I WAS TO DO THIS AGAIN I HONESTLY DON'T THINK I WOULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING DIFFERENTLY, I WOULD HAVE LIKED TO MELT COINS TO FILL IN THE WING BUT I COULDN'T GET MY HANDS ON A KILM.
I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE EMBROIDERED A GREEN SCALEY GLOVE ASWELL TO COMEPLETE THE LOOK AND ADD A SPLASH OF COLOUR.
I'M HAPPY WITH THE WAY IT ALL TURNED OUT THOUGH EVEN IF I DIDN'T GET TO FINISH THE LEOTARD.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
KISS.
TO SAY THIS WAS AN AMAZING NIGHT WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT. SERIOUSLY. FIRST OF ALL WE GOT HOME FROM COLLEGE, ATE A MASSIVE KFC (WHICH PROBABLY WASN'T THE BEST IDEA AS WE WERE WEARING CROP TOPS) THEN WE GOT THE FACE PAINTS OUT AND KITTED OURSELVES OUT KISS STYLE. WHEN WE PARKED WE GOT ON THE BUS THAT HEADS STRAIGHT TO THE LG WHERE THE MOST AMAZING PEOPLE WERE ALL SITTING AROUND US IN ANTISIPATION FOR THE CONCERT AHEAD. WHEN WE GOT THERE WE MINGLED WITH ALL THE BEAUTS AND HAD A FEW PHOTOS WITH SOME OF THE BEST DRESSED THERE, WENT IN AND GOT SEATED.
LIGHTS DOWN, HELLO TAKING DAWN - THERE SUPPORT BAND WHO WERE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BAND EVER, NOT TO MENTION THEY WERE SUPER TALENTED. WE THEN DECIDED TO MOVE AS WE SPOTTED TWO SEATS BY THE STAGE SO WE GRABBED THE FUR COATS AND SMUGGLED THE CAMERA UNDER THEM AND HEADED OVER.
WHEN WE SAT DOWN WE NOTICED THE PRODUCTION TEAM WHERE STARING AT US AND SHINING TOURCHES ON US SO WE THOUGHT 'OH GOD, WERE GOING TO GET KICKED OUT' BUT AS WE GOT OUTSIDE THE SECURITY GUARD TOLD US THAT KISS'S MANAGER WANTED US TO GO DOWN THE FRONT SO PAUL COULD SEE US AS WE WERE STYLED LIKE HIM SO HE THEN PUSHED US TO THE FRONT OF STANDING RIGHT BY THE STAGE AND THEY WERE PLAYING UP TO US THE WHOLE TIME AS WE WERE PUT THERE FOR THEM TO SEE.
SO THERE WE WERE DANCING ABOUT TO ONE OF THE BEST BANDS IN THE WORLDS, WATCHING THEM BREATHE FIRE, FLY, SET FIREWORKS OFF, DESTROY THE STAGE AND SPIT BLOOD.
IF THE NIGHT COULDN'T ANY BETTER, THE MANAGER GAVE US BACKSTAGE PASSES AS HE WANTED THE BAND TO MEET US!
THEN WE MET THE MOST AMAZING PEOPLE EVER WHO WERE HOTTER THAN HELLL!
I COULDN'T HAVE ASKED FOR A BETTER NIGHT HONESTLY, I CAN'T WAIT TILL THERE NEXT TOURRR!
- KERRY TOOK THESE PHOTOS AS WE HAD TO SMUGGLE THE CAMERA AND I WAS ON LOOK OUT :')
LIGHTS DOWN, HELLO TAKING DAWN - THERE SUPPORT BAND WHO WERE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BAND EVER, NOT TO MENTION THEY WERE SUPER TALENTED. WE THEN DECIDED TO MOVE AS WE SPOTTED TWO SEATS BY THE STAGE SO WE GRABBED THE FUR COATS AND SMUGGLED THE CAMERA UNDER THEM AND HEADED OVER.
WHEN WE SAT DOWN WE NOTICED THE PRODUCTION TEAM WHERE STARING AT US AND SHINING TOURCHES ON US SO WE THOUGHT 'OH GOD, WERE GOING TO GET KICKED OUT' BUT AS WE GOT OUTSIDE THE SECURITY GUARD TOLD US THAT KISS'S MANAGER WANTED US TO GO DOWN THE FRONT SO PAUL COULD SEE US AS WE WERE STYLED LIKE HIM SO HE THEN PUSHED US TO THE FRONT OF STANDING RIGHT BY THE STAGE AND THEY WERE PLAYING UP TO US THE WHOLE TIME AS WE WERE PUT THERE FOR THEM TO SEE.
SO THERE WE WERE DANCING ABOUT TO ONE OF THE BEST BANDS IN THE WORLDS, WATCHING THEM BREATHE FIRE, FLY, SET FIREWORKS OFF, DESTROY THE STAGE AND SPIT BLOOD.
IF THE NIGHT COULDN'T ANY BETTER, THE MANAGER GAVE US BACKSTAGE PASSES AS HE WANTED THE BAND TO MEET US!
THEN WE MET THE MOST AMAZING PEOPLE EVER WHO WERE HOTTER THAN HELLL!
I COULDN'T HAVE ASKED FOR A BETTER NIGHT HONESTLY, I CAN'T WAIT TILL THERE NEXT TOURRR!
- KERRY TOOK THESE PHOTOS AS WE HAD TO SMUGGLE THE CAMERA AND I WAS ON LOOK OUT :')
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