family photos

my granny has lent me some her old photos of when my mum and granny and grandad lived in texas for a few years in the sixties. there are all on slides for a stereo viewer, which has two little images on film which you then place in the viewer and look through and it creates really beautiful 3D image. it's so annoying that i dont have a negative scanner to get the real quality of the images onto here; the only way i could do anything near it was to take a picture on photobooth looking through the viewer. they literally look one perecent good in comparison to looking at the real thing. but here are some of them anyway:

 grandad sketching

mum on rodeo day in her cowgirl outfit

 kids from her school

 their car

 driving

 my mum in the coloured skirt at a flea market

 my mum

 grandad in his uniform

 rodeo

 marching band at a football game

my granny

 a dog show

 my mum

 my mum in the blue and her best friend mary-jo

the almighty stereo viewer.

it was really interesting to look through the photos as my grandad had written in a journal what each photo contained, and it was interesting to hear his take on it. the main reason for taking the photos was so that when he went back to england he could show his parents how different america was. one thing in particular which baffled him was how they had clumps of shops with flowers and such as a shopping mall. the photos taken were real documentary photos like just being on the road driving through town and of parades; it was nice that they weren't staged and were so sympathetic to the subject.

crismis

yayyyy it's almost christmas, completely cannot wait! looking forward to going home on friday too. im going to try and make some christmas cards on the risograph machine at uni, but they're waiting for some spare part to come in still. anyway i did a quick sketch to get in the festive mood.

anyway im going to work on a final design this evening....and get back to watching elf.

museum of everything

i finally went to the museum of everything yesterday. it's the third collection now that they've had on show, and ends at christmas so wanted to go before it was too late! the museum was really great it began with images of midgets and dwarfs and celebrated how people are all different, then had a room of weird creepy dolls, then a shell room; then a large amount of old vintage carnival and circus memorabilia and sets; followed by some taxidermy. 

i drew a few things in the taxidermy room.

thursday

on thursday we had a workshop to create a quick zine on someone else's chair using their research. i did my friend laurens, she chose a folk chair. my quick zine is on how they rebelled against their leader through naked protests as he was building to mass produce furniture which they didnt like, so ended up killing him.

budapest

i went to budapest last week and just had such a good time. admittedly i did a poor amount of drawing, but i more wanted to just hang out with my course mates and just soak in what budapest had to offer. it was quite a strange place in that it was completely different from any other capital city. There were very very few shops, ninety five percent of everyone were over sixty, and all looked slightly odd and not quite right. at the time i thought that i'd sort of seen everything that budapest had to offer but looking back i'd gladly go again, and it wasn't until the last day or so that we really got to grips with the city and the best places to go. we went to the thermal baths at the end of the week which was so relaxing and then it snowed on the last night as well which was cool. the architecture throughout the whole city was so intricate and beautiful. so yeah it was generally so much fun.

we went to a flea market one of the days, the amount of stuff they had there was actually over-whelming. they literally had everything you'd ever want and never want. hungary was very much a communist nazi country, and in some aspects still is very much today. everyone is very plain clothed and white caucasian. so at the flea market i bought some little old books, im not really sure what they are, maybe passports or ration books. but they just look really cool and are a genuine part of hungary's history.

then last of all a quick few drawings at the airport/ in the air.

general sketches

i bought a brush pen and some gold ink.

more electric chair stuff

this time we had to do some images showing a different use for the chair:

then we had to draw some images that share connotations with our chair.