Thursday, October 22, 2009

101.1 TTD No. 12 Get a Piece of Art into an Exhibition

Getting a piece of art into an exhibition is something I've been planning to do for the last 15 years, ever since my final University exhibition (a necessity to pass the course rather than an achievement). But as I'm usually tied to the computer these days I could never find the time to produce other artwork ... until now!

After finally managing to finish the A is for Armageddon book, I decided to take up screen printing. I'd only ever done a three week session of screen printing at art college but it was something I always wanted to go back too.

So I picked my favourite illustrations from the A book and altered them to make them more SP friendly. After about a month in the studio space, a sign appeared saying that artists could display up to three new pieces as part of the Deptford X art exhibition. Perfect timing! So three prints of my prints: Moon, Extinction and Food Chain Collapse currently grace the walls of the ART HUB studio.

AND soon you'll be able to buy them. I'm planning to sell them via the A is for Armageddon website very soon. I've done a limited run of four illustrations so far, the three prints mentioned above and Sun (See the A book for more details)

I'll let you know when they're available to buy as soon as the shop part of the wesite is up and running ...

Friday, October 09, 2009

The Cosmic Calendar 7

The history of the universe can be expressed as a calendar. If the Big Bang occurs on the very first second of 1 January and present day is represented as midnight on 31 December.

9 October: OLDEST KNOWN FOSSILS

Next event for your cosmic calendar: 12 November

Taken from 101 Things You Need To Know ... and Some You Don't!

Friday, October 02, 2009

101.1 TTD No. 9 Learn That Instrument

The music to the title sequence of Stanley Kubrick's "A Space Odyessey" as played by a local school orchestra, the Portsmouth Sinfonia.

Kubrick must be turning in his grave

The Cosmic Calendar 6

The history of the universe can be expressed as a calendar. If the Big Bang occurs on the very first second of 1 January and present day is represented as midnight on 31 December.

2 October: OLDEST KNOWN ROCKS FORMED

Next event for your cosmic calendar: 9 October

Taken from 101 Things You Need To Know ... and Some You Don't!

Friday, September 25, 2009

The Cosmic Calendar 5

The history of the universe can be expressed as a calendar. If the Big Bang occurs on the very first second of 1 January and present day is represented as midnight on 31 December.

25 September: LIFE ON EARTH

Next event for your cosmic calendar: 2 October

Taken from 101 Things You Need To Know ... and Some You Don't!

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Five Years Old Today

101 Things To Do Before You Die is five years old today.

It was published in the UK on 20th September 2004 and ever since it has helped many people around the world to do all sorts of things they never knew they wanted to do.

Click the blogs below to discover some 101'ers including: Winners of Prizes, Flash Mobbers, Space Shuttle chasers, Skinny-dippers, Big dippers, Big spenders, Millionaires, Exhibitionists, Bungy Jumpers and much more besides ...

Keep up the good work guys and gals ...

Daniel Berglund, Sweden (Before You Die & Old and Boring)

Gina Lewis, USA (Before You Die)


Joshua Shronce, USA (Before You Die)

Richard Adams UK (Before You Die)


Andrea Smith (Before You Die)


Walker Sexton USA (Before You Die)

Jessica Meadows, USA (Before You Die)

Edith Allison, USA (Before You Die)

Suzie W, USA (Before You Die)

Christophe Oberle, France (Before You Die)

Matt Rose, UK (101 in 365) (Before You
Die)


Ryan (Before You Die)

Pablo Baez (Before You Die)

Albert Tay

Before 40

Friday, September 18, 2009

Another case of Mistaken Identity ...

I found this wonderful case of mistaken identity on a Japanese website for the 101 Things To Do Before You Die book:

Richard Horne (born 16th July, 1982 in Kingston upon Hull) is a professional Rugby league player with Hull FC. His preferred position is scrum half.

Horne has been playing for Hull since he was 16 years old. He has also played for Great Britain and Scotland. He recently created a try scoring record by scoring 13 tries in a row.

http://www.tushucheng.com/book/2274403.html

Monday, September 14, 2009

The Cosmic Calendar 4

The history of the universe can be expressed as a calendar. If the Big Bang occurs on the very first second of 1 January and present day is represented as midnight on 31 December.

9 September: THE EARTH IS FORMED

Next event for your cosmic calendar: 25 September

Taken from 101 Things You Need To Know ... and Some You Don't!