With the News International phone hacking scandal gaining more and more momentum and with no-one admitting anything or likely to stand up and say it was me – there must be someone that knows something so where does the buck stop?
A very quick bike drawing inspired by the Bauhaus
This was drawn for the Milltag and Art Crank open call to draw a bike. I like the idea of such a simple ask and therefore wanted to create something that reflects this by breaking a bike down to simple shapes.
I was very please when asked to be involved in the latest bag project by packaging company Progress, this time the brief was to create a limited edition Musette Bag in one colour. The opening night was held in the London cycling cafe/bar Look Mum No Hands on Thursday 19th May, good to see lots of fans down there.
Whilst I may appear quite serene on the outside as I wheel around town dodging in and out of traffic, in my mind there are hundreds of thoughts all going on at once. This bag is meant to represent a very small part of mine and other cyclists internal monologue that occurs in a single cycle trip around the mean streets of London.
As a keen cyclist around London I was rather intrigued when asked by new cycling company Milltag if I would create a jersey for their limited edition cycling range. I wanted to create a jersey that encompassed my experience of cycling on the City’s streets, but also keep it fresh and fun. The final version is slightly different from the original idea which used bicycle chains, but after 2 weeks of drawing intricate bike chains I came up with the ‘Follow me’ logo when looking for a name for the shirt and it completely changed to piece from chains to inner tubes.
The shirts is individually numbered on the label and only 30 are produced – you can buy your wearable piece of Leinz art here.
The Electoral TV debate has now reached UK politics and it’s popularity is set to make it a future staple of the Election process, are we taking another step towards Personalities not Policies?.
After two of the three television debates already over and with instant polls and numerous thousand tweets on them, a lot of people are being more persuaded by the individual leader and not looking at the party and it’s policies. The majority of the talk has been about who is the most charismatic and engaging on a personal level.
The voters are not being won over by the hard facts and figures of each party but by who they like the most on a non- political level. Alright, we need to like who is in charge, but how they intend to run the country is what we should really be focussing on.
Poor old Labour will ultimately loose a lot of seats with dour and unapproachable Mr Brown, whereas The Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who are more savvy to the impact TV debates and new media can have on opinions are changing tactics to gain more votes.
Is our election process on a dumbed-downward spiral where parties are made almost obsolete by a candidate’s smile and personality?
The election forms were given away free to the first 100 people that registered through a Free Art scheme run on the Leinz homepage. The visitors didn’t know what the free art piece was but after submitting their name, email and address the election forms were posted to them secretly. As intended quite a few people mistook them for real ballot papers.
Once the Ballots were posted I changed the homepage of Leinz to a digital version of the ‘Personalities not Policies’ paper where each visitor cast their vote on which personality they wanted to become prime minister.
ELECTION RESULT – Check out the results from the online voting…. did your personal choice win?
***SORRY BUT THE FREE ART REGISTRATION HAS NOW CLOSED AND ALL PIECES HAVE BEEN ALLOCATED – PLEASE JOIN THE MAILING LIST ON THE MAIN SITE FOR FUTURE INFO – WWW.LEINZ.CO.UK***
Everyone loves free stuff – especially FREE ART. So get on over to leinz.co.uk and put your name down for some free art that I will be giving away for a few days only. The pieces are secret until they are despatched to you and all we ask is that you come back here and give your feedback!
Pieces are limited so first come, first served – SEE PHOTOS OF THE FREE ART »
For all those that have been following my Twitter you will have seen some of my updates and pictures of Frank as he progressed from original blank white elephant to his finished glory. Over the three weeks that I spent in the Elephant & Castle Shopping centre painting, spraying and sticking stuff to him I kept a photo/video diary which you can view in it’s entirety below – it’s 7minutes long so stick with it but 3 weeks is a long time to fit into a tiny video:
With the public becoming more aware of the range of environmental issues facing our planets future and with debate still raging on the human impact. Politicians and world leaders are stalling on how we are going to tackle it – will the natural world start fighting back before the policy makers leave it too late.
Global Warming Action Group I
Global Warming Action Group II
Lovable Boris Johnson with his astute intellect and bumbling persona is seen by many as a friendly and approachable character. A complete contrast to the more serious Ken Livingstone but is BoJo really the face and personality to represent London on the world stage, or does he turn London into a circus in the eyes of many.
A riving mass of twisted black plastic and metal moulding together out of a fog of electrical static – also known as the digital age in which we live in. Wireless communication and even a man on the moon but still there is no soloution to the mess of wires involved when listening to music. Two pieces, the first is a single colour the second highlighted with metallic silver.
Wired I
Wired II
