Tuesday 30 March 2010
Wednesday 17 March 2010
Mac in a bag (Y)
The picture is a little blurry, but these are the different colours you can get them in at TJ Hughes in lichfeild. There £4 each and exactly like all the other kagool in a bag thins we've seen. This is the cheapest i found them, dunno if you would be able to get all 26 from there though, especially not in the same colour.
These are some neckalces we found from primark, there a £1 each. We though we could perhaps use them to costomise the garments.
This is an alternative we found to the kagool, as they we £6 in priamrk and our budget doesn't cover that. We thought they looked pretty good and would be eay to work with, there £5 each and they have them in grey or black and in a range of sizes.
These are the childrens kagool in a bag from primark. There £ each but there was only like 3 of them and probally wounldn't fit anyone anyway as there pretty small.
Range of colours of the kagools in primark, including leopard print in yeallow and pink =
The small sized kagool in primark. £6
More colours availible of the kagools in primark. Including pocca dots.
The large size kagool in primark. £6
Click on the link below, Heres an idea what we could do with them. Sorry i wasn't actually there, dead bad tooth ache, and gots me an appointment =(
http://www.restir.com/goods/index.html?ggcd=RWBJ4-4037&cid=70200000
Monday 1 February 2010
I should be asleep
For this project, i first thought that i wanted to look at the style of the flappers girls from the 1920's and design a dress inspired by that, AFter i researched this and tried to design from it realised i did not find perticually inspiring. The dresses i designed were simple and boring. So i went back in my sketchbook to see if there was anything else that appealed to me. I had looked a little bit of draping form the 1930's and this looked quite intresting so i researched it further, and also looked at modern day draping. I found this a lot easier to design from, and also did some designing on the stand which i find alot easier then drawing my designs on a figure.
I used the stand to dreat style lines and traced them to creat my pattern and slashed the pattern so i then could pleat the peices, as i looked at pleating in my sketchbook. I also looked at the headdresses of the flappers girls, this was the only thing that really intrested me about them, with the the beading and sequins, so i wanted to incorperate this into my dress, so in the middle pannel it's going to have beading getting more and more sparse as the pannel gets bigger.
The pattern i created to go on my dress was inspired by a peice of art deco fabric which had circles all over it Slotted together in an intresting way. So from the pictures i had taken at RAF cosford, i found all the round shaped objects sucah as wheel and bolts and traced them off and slotted them together on another pice of paper. I then blocke in some of the area's to make it more intresting, and then played around with the sizing. In art deco the shapes tend to be and bold but my print worked better small. I decided to print the purple of the colour scheme on to the blue, i also tried black as this was my first thought to print in but the it looked to harsh.
Tuesday 10 November 2009
Todays been
...A very good day. To start off, i found my EMA contract, again thank you Emily. And now i'm gonna be able to get my EMA money which makes me very happy as they owe £120 already, oh yeahhhh. And also my mom's just came home and told me shes passed everything on her uni course so now she going to be a real proper midwife!! So she's treating us all to a chinese which is also good. So in all, a very good day i'd say!! And i just had to let you all know =)
Monday 9 November 2009
Jay-Z
I don't read many interviews really, too much writing tends to put me off reading it, i tend to just scim it, see if theres and good bits, and lose intrest pretty quickly. But this interview had me hooked from start to finish.
So, Jay, how’s the retirement working out?
“The retirement? That’s been up three years now. I’ve been gardening, in the solarium…”
Did you honestly think you weren’t going to come back, or was the whole thing just a publicity stunt?“
I really did because all the signs pointed to that. I’d been offered the Head of Def Jam, and this was the next level of my life. It just shows that artists can ascend to the executive ranks and not just go away or be ‘where are they now?’ specials.”
Was ‘The Blueprint’ always going to be a trilogy?
“Yeah, I just never had a reason to do the third one before. I thought it was time to lay a blueprint for the next generation because everyone’s making this type of music to fit onto radio because the sales are so bad, so everyone can’t play around. People are being concerned about their career so they’re making songs to fit the format and I thought it was a great time to lay down the blueprint and be fearless and make music just because it sounds good. That’s why I put out ‘D.O.A.’ first, because it was more of a challenge, a call to arms, like ‘come on, let’s go!’ People took it as I was putting the younger generation down but I’m not, I’m really challenging them to make great music. I want them to be great, that’s not a bad thing.”
You’ve been delivering the new album personally to media playbacks, playing it from your personal iPod – are you that worried about piracy?
“I like to present my music one way, I don’t want it to leak. I know that’s the way of the world and when it happens it’ll happen but the further I can delay it the better because I still look at music as one piece. When I’m making the music I think about you, right, and how you listen to music, when I’m sequencing an album. So it won’t be a slow record then a fast one then a slow one, it’s a gradual thing.”
Indeed, you only allowed your last release, a concept album based on Ridley Scott’s movie American Gangster, as a full-album download - are you an album purist?
“I made a movie in my mind and directors don’t sell scenes of their movies, they sell entire movies, so I sold an entire movie. And ‘D.O.A. (Death Of Autotune)’ was my way of telling artists ‘no, it’s the other way around, you make music and iTunes come and get it, you don’t make music for them.’”
You discovered Rihanna - what was it about her that grabbed you?
“She was a star, immediately. She never had an album or a record out before, and she walked in the room and the room moved. The funny thing is she had this big-assed record and a lot of people would have been happy - I was concerned. I thought the record would crush her. The record’s too big for her. And then I looked and I was like ‘she’ll do it, she’s that much of a star that she can get away from this record’.”
One track on ‘The Blueprint 3’ seems to suggest you don’t feel you deserve the adulation you get.
“That was being sarcastic. It’s called ‘Thank You, You’re Far Too Kind’. Ha-ha!”Do you find it embarrassing?“All the time. I get out of it with a joke, Having the President, on this campaign run, dust his shoulders off [referencing one of Jay-Z’s lines] in front of the whole world. It’s like ‘Did he just do that? Does he have dandruff on his shoulder?’”
Have you thought about moving into politics?
"I get that question now and it’s really baffling to me from where my background is. In political circles they like to pretend you have to be perfect, you’ve never done anything, you can’t say this. There’s more perception, and I’m not into that. I’m gonna say a lot of inappropriate things and a term is four years! Imagine how many politically incorrect things you’d say. Forget about it!”
Have you been affected by Obama’s win?
“Yeah, I think he’s restored hope not just in America, but all around the world, which is all we can ask for. That’s why we wake up in the morning, that’s what pushed you and drives you. I’ve been moved and affected by it, absolutely.”
What’s your problem with (popular vocal-tuning software) Autotune?
“I don’t have a problem with Autotune, I think it’s really cool, but when ten people use it, not one thousand. It’s like ‘c’mon, I heard that record already, I don’t wanna hear the same thing’. I would have a problem with speed-rap if everyone was dibeddy-dibeddy-dibeddy, it would drive me insane.”
Wouldn’t you rather have attractive people who can’t sing in the charts than ugly people who can sing?
“Yeah, but ten. Too much of anything is bad. If I ate apple pie every day my teeth will rot, and I love apple pie.”
Are rap beefs put on to sell records?
“You’ll probably find nine times out of ten it’s more misunderstandings.”
Which beef meant more, Nas or Noel?
“I guess Nas because it comes from hip-hop. It was a great time in hip-hop, a great battle. Noel, that was pretty cool too. That felt more like me progressing and knocking down a different barrier more than a thing with me and Noel. I think it was more about [Glastonbury], we were arguing about that, not arguing with each other. He was ‘I wanted it to be like I always saw it!’ And I was like ‘no, the world is changing’.”
Would you do Glastonbury again?
“Absolutely. I rank it as one of those moments like when I first got a Grammy. It felt like a cultural shift. It was a moment in time, it was a breaking down of barriers. And the people were ready for it, as we see as soon as I walked out, right? The people wanted it, the people was like ‘no, we like Jay-Z and we like Noel, we like both of you guys’.”
What’s the worst thing another rapper’s said about you?
“Typically when guys invite you to their private… it’s a little out of bounds. I think that’s the worst for me. There’s rules in battle and you don’t do that. You don’t do that and as a man you don’t ever tell another man to… you know.”
No, I don’t know.
“You really don’t know what I’m saying? You don’t invite another man to your dick. You don’t say ‘suck my dick!’ You don’t do that.”That’s not on?“That’s outside of the line. That’s everyone’s first thing they say.”
Lil Wayne claimed you were too old and in the way – is hip-hop a young man’s game?
“Hip-hop’s pretty young so we’ve never seen anyone with a career, consistently, for thirteen albums or whatever - I forget the number with all the side albums I’ve done. This is the first time, so people are like ‘that’s odd, that’s not supposed to happen, it’s three years and then that’s it’. But it should be this way.”
What did you think of ‘The Grey Album’?
“Incredible. I thought it was fantastic. I was very happy to see that because I wanted everyone to know that this is the way of the world, this is how kids listen to music, this is what it is now. I really believe hip-hop has done so much to improve racial relations. Racism is taught in the home, you can’t teach racism in the home if your kid loves Jay-Z. It’s hard to say ‘that guy is beneath you’ – no, that guy is a hero! Now people are listening to the same music, going to the same clubs. There were black clubs and white clubs before, now people go to a club.”
How did you get to be mates with Chris Martin?
“We met at a charity maybe five or six years ago and became real friends. We visit each other’s homes and really hang out, he’s a really great guy and a brilliant musician and I respect his craft and how he approaches it. How he looks at it is exactly how he should be looking at it. He wants to be the best in the world but he’s willing to put in the work. He really cares, I love his passion for what he does.”
You’re supporting Coldplay on their forthcoming stadium tour - do you have any special plans for supporting an indie band?
“Yeah, I’m trying to tailor-make it for the audience. I might steal a couple of his songs. Nah, I’m joking.”
Have you ever considered following your wife into acting?
“I think I’d be a horrible actor. I think I’d get in the way. There’s certain things that I won’t do. I’m not gonna fake fight with someone. In order to be a great actor you have to step aside to let the character come in. Until I can officially do that then I can only play myself in a movie for ten seconds. Jay-Z as himself.”
Are you and Beyonce competitive musically?
“No, we’re not in the same space at all. Not even a little bit.”
You’re competitive at Connect 4, though.
“She wins that hands down. She might be the State Champion ten years in a row.”
How did you propose?
“I can’t talk about that.”
If you could own anything you don’t already, what would it be?
“A boat, which is a terrible investment because the water tears it away but I really like being on the water. I didn’t grow up a swimmer, I never could swim until a couple of years ago but it’s really relaxing for me, I really enjoy it.”
What’s the most essential thing on your tour rider?
“There’s all kinda things on there but I think peanut butter and jelly, because that’s a good, nice snack. Peanut butter is protein, for the stage and everything. You don’t want to eat to much because you get bloated, you can’t move around.”
Cricket or baseball?
“I just can’t watch cricket because the guy could be up an hour, right? That’s weird to me. I think it’s more of a social game. I think people go there to drink and talk more than watch the game. I can’t imagine watching someone for more than one hour. Baseball is slow, by the way, it’s a very slow game, it’s nine innings, people are calling that slow, I’m saying ‘man, you’ve never seen cricket’.”
What’s the secret to being a successful entrepreneur?
“Nerves. Be fearless. You have to not be afraid to fail. I’ve definitely failed. We had a thing called Wash-House in Roc-A-Wear which failed, a thing called Teen Tock which we’re gonna start over again which failed the first time.”
What’s your greatest achievement?
“I guess my longevity. To be relevant for so long, album after album after album. Ten Number One albums in a row, what is that?”
So, Jay, how’s the retirement working out?
“The retirement? That’s been up three years now. I’ve been gardening, in the solarium…”
Did you honestly think you weren’t going to come back, or was the whole thing just a publicity stunt?“
I really did because all the signs pointed to that. I’d been offered the Head of Def Jam, and this was the next level of my life. It just shows that artists can ascend to the executive ranks and not just go away or be ‘where are they now?’ specials.”
Was ‘The Blueprint’ always going to be a trilogy?
“Yeah, I just never had a reason to do the third one before. I thought it was time to lay a blueprint for the next generation because everyone’s making this type of music to fit onto radio because the sales are so bad, so everyone can’t play around. People are being concerned about their career so they’re making songs to fit the format and I thought it was a great time to lay down the blueprint and be fearless and make music just because it sounds good. That’s why I put out ‘D.O.A.’ first, because it was more of a challenge, a call to arms, like ‘come on, let’s go!’ People took it as I was putting the younger generation down but I’m not, I’m really challenging them to make great music. I want them to be great, that’s not a bad thing.”
You’ve been delivering the new album personally to media playbacks, playing it from your personal iPod – are you that worried about piracy?
“I like to present my music one way, I don’t want it to leak. I know that’s the way of the world and when it happens it’ll happen but the further I can delay it the better because I still look at music as one piece. When I’m making the music I think about you, right, and how you listen to music, when I’m sequencing an album. So it won’t be a slow record then a fast one then a slow one, it’s a gradual thing.”
Indeed, you only allowed your last release, a concept album based on Ridley Scott’s movie American Gangster, as a full-album download - are you an album purist?
“I made a movie in my mind and directors don’t sell scenes of their movies, they sell entire movies, so I sold an entire movie. And ‘D.O.A. (Death Of Autotune)’ was my way of telling artists ‘no, it’s the other way around, you make music and iTunes come and get it, you don’t make music for them.’”
You discovered Rihanna - what was it about her that grabbed you?
“She was a star, immediately. She never had an album or a record out before, and she walked in the room and the room moved. The funny thing is she had this big-assed record and a lot of people would have been happy - I was concerned. I thought the record would crush her. The record’s too big for her. And then I looked and I was like ‘she’ll do it, she’s that much of a star that she can get away from this record’.”
One track on ‘The Blueprint 3’ seems to suggest you don’t feel you deserve the adulation you get.
“That was being sarcastic. It’s called ‘Thank You, You’re Far Too Kind’. Ha-ha!”Do you find it embarrassing?“All the time. I get out of it with a joke, Having the President, on this campaign run, dust his shoulders off [referencing one of Jay-Z’s lines] in front of the whole world. It’s like ‘Did he just do that? Does he have dandruff on his shoulder?’”
Have you thought about moving into politics?
"I get that question now and it’s really baffling to me from where my background is. In political circles they like to pretend you have to be perfect, you’ve never done anything, you can’t say this. There’s more perception, and I’m not into that. I’m gonna say a lot of inappropriate things and a term is four years! Imagine how many politically incorrect things you’d say. Forget about it!”
Have you been affected by Obama’s win?
“Yeah, I think he’s restored hope not just in America, but all around the world, which is all we can ask for. That’s why we wake up in the morning, that’s what pushed you and drives you. I’ve been moved and affected by it, absolutely.”
What’s your problem with (popular vocal-tuning software) Autotune?
“I don’t have a problem with Autotune, I think it’s really cool, but when ten people use it, not one thousand. It’s like ‘c’mon, I heard that record already, I don’t wanna hear the same thing’. I would have a problem with speed-rap if everyone was dibeddy-dibeddy-dibeddy, it would drive me insane.”
Wouldn’t you rather have attractive people who can’t sing in the charts than ugly people who can sing?
“Yeah, but ten. Too much of anything is bad. If I ate apple pie every day my teeth will rot, and I love apple pie.”
Are rap beefs put on to sell records?
“You’ll probably find nine times out of ten it’s more misunderstandings.”
Which beef meant more, Nas or Noel?
“I guess Nas because it comes from hip-hop. It was a great time in hip-hop, a great battle. Noel, that was pretty cool too. That felt more like me progressing and knocking down a different barrier more than a thing with me and Noel. I think it was more about [Glastonbury], we were arguing about that, not arguing with each other. He was ‘I wanted it to be like I always saw it!’ And I was like ‘no, the world is changing’.”
Would you do Glastonbury again?
“Absolutely. I rank it as one of those moments like when I first got a Grammy. It felt like a cultural shift. It was a moment in time, it was a breaking down of barriers. And the people were ready for it, as we see as soon as I walked out, right? The people wanted it, the people was like ‘no, we like Jay-Z and we like Noel, we like both of you guys’.”
What’s the worst thing another rapper’s said about you?
“Typically when guys invite you to their private… it’s a little out of bounds. I think that’s the worst for me. There’s rules in battle and you don’t do that. You don’t do that and as a man you don’t ever tell another man to… you know.”
No, I don’t know.
“You really don’t know what I’m saying? You don’t invite another man to your dick. You don’t say ‘suck my dick!’ You don’t do that.”That’s not on?“That’s outside of the line. That’s everyone’s first thing they say.”
Lil Wayne claimed you were too old and in the way – is hip-hop a young man’s game?
“Hip-hop’s pretty young so we’ve never seen anyone with a career, consistently, for thirteen albums or whatever - I forget the number with all the side albums I’ve done. This is the first time, so people are like ‘that’s odd, that’s not supposed to happen, it’s three years and then that’s it’. But it should be this way.”
What did you think of ‘The Grey Album’?
“Incredible. I thought it was fantastic. I was very happy to see that because I wanted everyone to know that this is the way of the world, this is how kids listen to music, this is what it is now. I really believe hip-hop has done so much to improve racial relations. Racism is taught in the home, you can’t teach racism in the home if your kid loves Jay-Z. It’s hard to say ‘that guy is beneath you’ – no, that guy is a hero! Now people are listening to the same music, going to the same clubs. There were black clubs and white clubs before, now people go to a club.”
How did you get to be mates with Chris Martin?
“We met at a charity maybe five or six years ago and became real friends. We visit each other’s homes and really hang out, he’s a really great guy and a brilliant musician and I respect his craft and how he approaches it. How he looks at it is exactly how he should be looking at it. He wants to be the best in the world but he’s willing to put in the work. He really cares, I love his passion for what he does.”
You’re supporting Coldplay on their forthcoming stadium tour - do you have any special plans for supporting an indie band?
“Yeah, I’m trying to tailor-make it for the audience. I might steal a couple of his songs. Nah, I’m joking.”
Have you ever considered following your wife into acting?
“I think I’d be a horrible actor. I think I’d get in the way. There’s certain things that I won’t do. I’m not gonna fake fight with someone. In order to be a great actor you have to step aside to let the character come in. Until I can officially do that then I can only play myself in a movie for ten seconds. Jay-Z as himself.”
Are you and Beyonce competitive musically?
“No, we’re not in the same space at all. Not even a little bit.”
You’re competitive at Connect 4, though.
“She wins that hands down. She might be the State Champion ten years in a row.”
How did you propose?
“I can’t talk about that.”
If you could own anything you don’t already, what would it be?
“A boat, which is a terrible investment because the water tears it away but I really like being on the water. I didn’t grow up a swimmer, I never could swim until a couple of years ago but it’s really relaxing for me, I really enjoy it.”
What’s the most essential thing on your tour rider?
“There’s all kinda things on there but I think peanut butter and jelly, because that’s a good, nice snack. Peanut butter is protein, for the stage and everything. You don’t want to eat to much because you get bloated, you can’t move around.”
Cricket or baseball?
“I just can’t watch cricket because the guy could be up an hour, right? That’s weird to me. I think it’s more of a social game. I think people go there to drink and talk more than watch the game. I can’t imagine watching someone for more than one hour. Baseball is slow, by the way, it’s a very slow game, it’s nine innings, people are calling that slow, I’m saying ‘man, you’ve never seen cricket’.”
What’s the secret to being a successful entrepreneur?
“Nerves. Be fearless. You have to not be afraid to fail. I’ve definitely failed. We had a thing called Wash-House in Roc-A-Wear which failed, a thing called Teen Tock which we’re gonna start over again which failed the first time.”
What’s your greatest achievement?
“I guess my longevity. To be relevant for so long, album after album after album. Ten Number One albums in a row, what is that?”
This hand...
...is my hand, this hand is your hand. Oh wait that's my hand! No wait, it's your hand!
Joey quote of friends for those of you who aren't quite as sad as me and don't like know all the episodes off by heart, i couldn't resist. Anyway, for the title 'photograph 50 of one thing' i choose to photograph hands. This is because i think people express themselves through there hands alone, as there part of the body so regually seen. Everybodys hands are different, and we 'decorate' them is many different ways, with rings, braclets, bands, nailvarnish and so on.
All the pictures are people from my live, whether there familyor friends, old or new.
Many people didn't really understand why i wanted to take a picuter of there hand, mainly because i was usually pretty drunk when i was asking them and didn't explain it very well, so i think alot of people now must think i have a hand fetish or something. But anyway, i think it makes a pretty good montage. Hope you do too, as it took me a while to do and my eyes are starting to go wierd from staring at a computer screen for so long.
Sunday 8 November 2009
So...
Last night i didn't actually go to bed till about half 2 in the morning and i had to be up for 5am, so as you can gather i didn't get much sleep, and unlike any normal person, instead of going back to bed after i'd finished my shift at 10am and getting a couple of hours kip before my next shift at 5 in the evening, i did even more work on my blog. And now i have finished my secound shift of the day, and i have come home to.... you guessed it, blog some more. And now it's 10 past 2 in the morning and i'm starting to think that i've actually turned nocturnal. Oh and just to let you know, i didn't fall asleep at the tills =)
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