Chi City

So first night in Chi City was Primo! We all went to a bar with Marks sister who kindly put us up for the weekend. Then we went to some weird apartment warming thing full of private schooled waste marines drinking grey goose and conversing about Merrel apparel, no appreciation for the ridiculous view they had from their balcony. After we went to a club called Social 25 it wasn't exactly some where we would have chosen our selves reminded me a little of an Oceana scene back home, more free grey goose was consumed not to the delight of the guys who owned the bottle, but o well. Weak Sauce.

Football and Squeezing nips

Football beasts!

Spice Factory and Parrots

Exploring the city a little more we found this abandoned Spice factory, walked along the top of some freights was pretty cool. Weird place though! Then we has Fries, Onion rings and Malts word son! Parrot Detail killled it.

We Build Forts

We haven't uploaded on the blog for a while been neglecting it, with all the hard work we've been doing. So these are from a while back now, me, Dan Sinclair and Charliepoo decided to enter a competition put together by the website www.booooooom.com. It was to build a fort photograph it then send it in, easy right? Wrong we ended up putting off actually planning the whole thing due to drinking instead. The day of the build was a disaster due to hangovers and lack of food and basic building skills. Our effort is above not bad for a few hours ha. We never sent it in, woops.

Best on Mars

Sooo..

"A poster the recipient completes by revealing spot-varnished type with hands made dirty by handling the poster." A genius concept by Roland Reiner Tiangco.

Work

heres a bit more work. one of my classes is; Graphic Design Form and Methods with Kindra Murphy. we were set a brief to design a set of three posters for a sound effects album and i chose a cd called suburbia.

i really wanted to make these designs into vinyl artwork, it was my intention at the time of designing the posters but was told i strictly had to make a poster series and so i created these just for myself. vinyl is such a nice format to work in. this project was a lot of fun.

Sunday was a good day

(some fantastic visuals here)

We had our second MCAD football match today. last week we were losing 2-0 all game then Joe scored a sick goal with three minuites to go and set me up with a schweet header to tie the game with the last touch of the match. and then this week were losing 1-0 all game and Michael (babe) Aberman scores a header from a throw in! with 30 seconds to go to tie this game.
good.

then i went to see Brand New play a set downtown (but missed the support because of football which was Manchester Orchestra which would have been reet). concert was so sick though.

Gallery Opening

Mall of America

Mall of America is one of the largest malls in the world and ... it's kind of got a theme park inside of it.. P, P, P, P, POW!

M.I.A

this massive gallery Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) is on our campus, its unreal. its got warhols, leichtensteins, Damien Hirsts etc etc and its on campus!

..nice.

Nobody world premiere

we got tickets to the world premeiere of a film called Nobody: guy saves up to go to art school and falls in love or summut, cheese on toast american movie bollocks. so this film was filmed in MCAD which is cool, like right outside where we live and in our class rooms. some of our friends here were extras in it. they held the screening in this amazing theatre downtown and the cast and director all spoke at the start and Josh Hartnett (he lives in Minneapolis) was the executive producer. hes on the far left of the picture.

btw, it was debateably the worst film we may ever witness, it was apauling

walker arts centre

opening

the keyboardist from Echo and the Bunnymen died in a motorcycle accident a few weeks ago, the second member of the band to die from a motorcylce accident! and he went to king edwards school in Bath. and of course Patrick Swayze shot off t'uther day.

this opening scene is just epic, so i wanted to play it, i'm sure youve seen it before.

new pret cans

old cans

new cans

i jus got emailed the new can art work for the alfresco drinks range sold under 'Pret A Manger'. they have just won the 'can of the year' award or something like that. i think they are luverly so here they are.

ginger beer is making a comeback right now i swear, you watch out kids!