Beware, beware, be very wary Bear.

I discovered this fun song. Good but not as good as its predecessor :D

Pink elephants on parade!!



Mmm trippy.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Ok so if this isn't genius, what is? P&P spliced with zombie action! With illustrations!? Extreme joy! I need it.

Interiors @ Lyric Hammersmith

A few weeks ago I went to Lyric Hammersmith and saw Interiors. It was eggs. It was set up like you were watching through the windows into a house, and you couldn't hear what the characters were saying, just hints and observations from the narrator, who was another secret watcher. And there were lights/projection over the outside the house to look look like wind and snow and stars :)

Here's the official blurb:

Behind a window, in a cosy room, a group of friends
sit down for a meal. The food is being cooked;
the lamps are on, everyone is happy. Talk begins
and soon stories unfold around the table, stories
about the living and the dead, about missing
necklaces and what happens when people get hungry.

Outside someone is watching.

Vanishing Point return to the Lyric with this major
international collaboration following their sell-out hit
Subway. Utterly hypnotic, Interiors is about sounds,
silence, and the darkness outside the window. This production is inspired by the Nobel prize-winner
Maurice Maeterlinck’s astonishing play, Interior.

Robinsons Bird House

I have slacked posting lately...been so hectic finishing my masters and working in the bookshop...but, i think i'll be posting again now :) Yay to this ad of a bird house. Obvious highlight being the man clock saying hello. Also, the guardian posters on the way, tweet magazine, worm sausages and bird claw boots :D Attention to detail! Oh yes.

Cheek to Cheek

My friend Frances who dances has done this lovely lovely dance film :) I love the use of shadow and reflection and the blend of happiness with melancholy. It's about loneliness and memories but it feels uplifting to me :) Good times.

My favourite bit of Bug Bazaar @ Millenium Gallery

Visited my gran in Sheffield for her birthday this weekend and saw the Bug Bazaar exhibition at the Millenium gallery...this video was my highlight - While Darwin Sleeps by Paul Bush. This is a section of his film showing 3000 species of insect at one frame each...it's stunning. I marvel at how beautiful insects are and how MANY there are! And amazing variation. Yet I find them so repulsive at the same time. The film goes on and makes it seem as though insects are trying to escape from being pinned in collections...

Bug Bazaar @ Millenium Gallery

Claire Moyniham - Embroidered Bug Ball

John Dilnot - Screenprint

Lots of gorgeous drawings and pieces set up like victorian insect collections...like this screen print by John Dilnot. Claire Moyniham's embroidered felty bugs on balls charmed me as did Nora Fok's insects made of found objects in nature....leaves and twigs :)

Other interesting things...Jenny Tillotson's scent whisper...biomimcry...brooches connected smehow so one person whispers into their brooch and the other persns brooch releases a puff of perfume...mimicing how this beetle releases a scent to defend itself...but this is more romantic and interesting. I just googled her and she works at the innovation centre...I thought her name sounded familiar!

There were also amazing insect robots, hexapod robots by micromagic systems.

And I learned that Chinese art used insects to represent the beauty and bounty of summer. Excellent...as I used insects to represent similar in my story :)