So, I've finally got my images selected for the cover opportunity which wasn't as easy as I first thought. I was looking through my iPhoto and I realised that I have over 4,000 images taken since only last year… wow.
Anyways.. I've just not long finished work and I can't be bothered going in tomorrow. I still have a public art project to complete and its just a bit of a nuisance. I'll get something amazing done I'm sure but I just dont want to be thinking of it just now. haha.
You know what… some if not all cinema customers are thick. Like seriously. Who goes into a cinema and asks if they sell popcorn? In fact, you have to walk past popcorn to ask get to the tills in order to ask.. and another one… who seriously couldn't work out what the difference between sweet and salted popcorn is.. I got asked both of these within the last week. I wish I was kidding.
Anyways… 8 weeks today I'll have everything finished… hopefully. haha I'm sure I'll have some last minute things to do. I'll actually guarantee that I will have things to do. Anyway I'm off to bed to listen to an amazing podcast…
night night.
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My question to you is
At what point do you tell your parents that you've made a video of yourself sewing your fingers together for the 'sake of your art' and that you plan on gluing your eyes with eyelash glue you got cheap from ebay. haha
humm… I guess the bigger question is
Do we subconsciously change our work at degree show time knowing that we have our parents as audience?
Either way, it's a tiny bit funny what we all get up to in the studios when left to our own devices.
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HAHA.. How silly. I've only just realised that I didn't publish my blog even though I had published the post. woops.. anyway you should be able to read them now…
Quick update.
Its 3.16am and I was working in the cinema till 10pm boo… but there was some classic stupid customers asking silly questions like… "What's the difference between sweet and salted popcorn?" Yeah. I kid you not.
So now I am of course not asleep and doing research.. haha I lie. I'm surfing the internet aimlessly.
I have to be in the studio at some crazy time tomorrow morning to hand back a projector. I usually select the option to hand it back later in the day but I clearly wasn't thinking at the time. I used it well though and feel like I'm getting somewhere in the studio. Bet you feel warm and fuzzy inside knowing that don't you! haha
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So I'm back on track now. Haha he says so simply. It’s really funny what I'm working on now. I'm projecting fires onto windows and sewing my hand together.
Yeah I know what your thinking… “He’s what… And that’s him on track?” Yeah its all good just now. I may even make the glued thread and eye video. Aww lets take a moment for eBay and their cheap eyelash glue… it’ll be amazing I'm sure.
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Yeah so I learnt something the other week. Had a rubbish crit with Tanya moments before an exhibition opening in which I changed the work completely. I then found five people to metaphorically crumple into and of course the free bar. Well just so you don’t have any grand visions of this exhibition it was a well-loved (crap) studio table with cheap beer and wine with some scattered crumbs from the food that wasn’t there more than five minutes.
Anyway… I missed the official crit of my work (geez I know what your thinking 4th year misses official crit gotta be headline news!) and had to go back, head lowered, to Tanya and explain all.
Just to put you in the picture I had to move flat just before the show. Which I might add I left way to late, but now know that if needed, I could move in 3days without having a flat to view before hand. It’s my most impressive last minute thing to date.
Knock! Knock! I’m back at Tanya’s door… well I walked up to it at least 3times prior to actually knocking. So she opens it and there are 3 other people there. Suited men not the art school type. “Hey any chance I could talk to you at some point.” I’m thanking the heavens at this point as she says “yeah sure but not now.” That’s not even what she said but it was all that I took from it. I was slightly bricking it (but you didn’t hear that from me right!) So some time passes and I eventually get to talk to Tanya. We go to her office. The door shuts. Shit.
‘Its not that bad’ I'm repeating this in my mind over and over. Haha. It’s actually making me laugh slightly. It was really bizarre. So we talked and talked in all I think it was an hour and forty minutes. We talked about my recent split from a long-term partner of 4 years (yeah roll on hardcore break up during dissertation woo!) and the moving of flats. My health… (I’ll elaborate later…) we also talked about how I would end up in a coffin if I didn’t change the way I approach things… yeah god knows how we talked about that haha. Oh and she gave me a tangerine. Who could ask for a better tutor! Oh yeah shit I didn’t even mention that we also talked about my work loads. Well seeing where my thought process was at that time.
I actually got so much from that conversation its totally helped focus things believe it or not. I recommend freaking out at a crit it’s a good thing. Really…er… moves the work forward in a round about way.
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