Hollys Fashion Shoot

Faltnate Holly asked me, g and sarah to help her in this shoot, so she booked the studio and here are some of the results.

Oz magazine

Sixties underground magazine Oz (cover of issue one above) has a legendary place in magazine history, both for it’s establishment-shaking attitude and its radical aestheic inovation of graphic design and layout. It did not follow the codes and conventions of the norm and which were socially accepted, this is probally why the magazine didnt overall have huge succsess.

Chris Burden

We breifly looked at Chris Buden today in critcal studies. In the context of being Avant Garde. It represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is culturally accepted by the norm in society. It was seen as the hallmark of modernsim, as distinct from postmodernism. Post modernisits claim that Avant Garde is no longer a part of post moderism, with its constant pushing of the bounderies and wlamost wantin to shock its audience each time.

Burden's reputation as a performance artist started to grow in the early 1970s after he made a series of controversial performances in which the idea of personal danger as artistic expression was central.


Investigating the psychological experience of personal danger and physical risk, he used his own body as an art object in outrageous, sometimes shocking acts, aggressively confronting the artist/audience relationship and the artmaking process.
Inparticularly looking at his works 'shoot', see below:

'The Outdoor Type'

This has to be one of my faviote songs of all time, it reminds me of when i was 15, The Lemonheads was one of the first bands I got into within that genre, folk country acusutic lead by Evan Dando. This song acts as motivation to me and moves me, i hadent heard it in agges till a few minuets ago, my itune was on shuffle and this popped on!

This is a recording of the song covered by Frank Turner whom i am also a fan of. i have seen him four times now in pubs in and bedfordshire and cambridge and he never has yet failed to play this song.

High Royds Lunatic Asylum Menston Yorkshire

One of the secrity guards at liberty park used to work here, he said it was a very surreal part of his life. High Royds was a lunatic asylum from 8 October 1888, which closed down in February 2003.



This promted my flatmates Holly and Vo to do a photography shoot there, as there title for there current project was surrealism and can the camera ever lie. We made a day trip of it, it is located in Menston en route to Bradford. It was easy to get in, there were broken windows so we climbed through one of them. All corridors were deserted, darkly light, yet all in perfect condition - magnificent wallpaper and high rised pattern ceilings and brass plated doors, it almost seemed too precious to have been abandonded.

David Shrigley?

He's a great artist who makes twisted lo-fi drawings, sculptures and other bits. They're often amusing but can also be dark and difficult. He lives in Glasgow where he went to art school. Although he has worked with various media, most of his work is in the form of mordantly humorous cartoons released in softcover books or postcard packs.

Shrigley's work has two of the characteristics often encountered in outsider art - an odd viewpoint, and (in some of his work) a deliberately limited technique. His freehand line is often weak, which jars with his frequent use of a ruler; his forms are often very crude; and annotations in his drawings are poorly executed and frequently contain crossings-out (In authentic outsider art, the artist has no choice but to produce work in his or her own way, even if that work is unconventional in content and inept in execution.
In contrast, it is likely that Shrigley has chosen his style and range of subject matter for comic effect).

Kate Moross: Isomorphs

Kate Moross – Graphic Designer and Illustrator extraordinaire.
Moross is fast becoming one of the most prolific young illustrators and designers to rise out of UK , and shes only 21!!

With a career that began by creating flyers for London clubs and innovative bands such as The Klaxons and The Mystery Jets, Kate's love of art and music has at last developed into a collaboration with fashion through the launch of her capsule collection of printed t-shirts, vests and hoodies designed exclusively for Topshop.
Playing on her physics background, Kate's hand-drawn motif prints see structured spatial shapes intertwine with astrophysical typography, and the result; a phychadelic trip on a tee is her current promotion work with Topshop.


Started working for the folks of the music scene in london 3 years ago and has continued from there. She has been perfecting the art of hand drawn flyers, and heavily geometric graphics. she has a very strong right hand for a passion for drawing, her slighty angeled favouring for staright line drawings hold a simple yet bold quality of line.

Moross has recenly also set up her own re-branding recorde label called, Isomorphs Records. It involves her taking current music and repackaging it as limited edition art vinyls or cd's. Focusing on the aesthetics of each record and working with bands to create the perfect collabortaion. For collectors, art and muisc lovers alike.