29 Mar 2008
by mashadutoit
in Art, Inspiration
Tags: embroidery, fibre art, prison art
I stumbled across this website : the portfolio of Ray Materson who began embroidering in prison, serving a 15 year sentence. The link goes to a portfolio of his embroideries – each one about 9 x 8 cm. This is quoted from the biography on this site:
“Soon Ray would find redemption in a pair of yellow and blue striped socks. The tedious prison routine and the constant fear for his life led him to spiritual re-awakening, and inspired Ray to try his hand at embroidery. Using the thread unraveled from colored socks and a makeshift sewing hoop, Ray began with simple designs and sports logos on baseball caps. He sold his artwork to inmates for cigarettes and bags of coffee. Ray found that his art gave him a certain status in the prison’s social order, a new found respect among gang members, killers and the social outcasts.”
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19 Mar 2008
by mashadutoit
in books, Illustration, Inspiration, Opinions & reviews
Tags: children's books
Last night I went to illustrator/writer Niki Daly’s talk at the Observatory library : “How to travel lightly with 60 years of baggage”. I am so glad I went. Niki Daly told us about his journey through life, from working class child growing up in apartheid South Africa to an established illustrator – and how this journey has brought him to do the work he does.
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17 Mar 2008
by mashadutoit
in books, Illustration
Tags: children's books, writer_artist
Cornelia Funke is another favourite author / illustrator. I’ve enjoyed many of her books – most of them for children, like “Dragonrider” and “The Thief Lord”. But I want to write about are her not-quite-children’s books, the “Inkheart” series.
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15 Mar 2008
by mashadutoit
in books, Illustration
Tags: children's books
I’ve just used my birthday gift voucher from Vega to buy the latest in Steve Augarde’s “The Various” series. He is an illustrator – writer. Here is a link to his site.This is the third book in the series, called “Winter Wood”
It follows on from “The Various” and “Celandine”. These books have overcome my severe (trance scene induced) prejudice against anything to do with fairies, little folk, pixies and so on. More
05 Mar 2008
by mashadutoit
in Animation, Inspiration
another airside video – this one is called “only time”. Very cool minimal vector work. Click on the link to see the video…
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05 Mar 2008
by mashadutoit
in Animation
One of the Creature Comfort skits – animation by Aardman. Creature Comforts is an ongoing project by Aardman in which they get interesting sound bites by interviewing people, and then match these to suitably animated animals. The famous Creature Comforts project is the one where they matched vocals from people speaking about their living conditions, with animated zoo animals. Quite touching as well as funny. The following one is just plain silly though… More
05 Mar 2008
by mashadutoit
in Animation
This is called “The Shouty Track”. And the music is by The Scars. Animation by airside for their Lemon Jelly label. Click link to see the video… More
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