the most outrageous game ever!

So I am going to make a board game. But it's not just any board game. My game is a game for oulandish king like people...one of a kind experience. If you have ever wathed the tv-program Heston's Feast where a Micheling star chef prepares dinners out from this world...well that's what I want to do for a board game! It is also going to be totally 3d. I will build my world as I wanted to but the function is that it will work as a game board and creatures in it are the "pieces". The experience; the game night will be a special occasion with especially invited people experiencing hopefully something extraordinary! This all sounds very grand I know, but what is the point of planning anything less than magnificent stuff? Oh yeah. I am excited!


This is the tv-chef Heston with a fantasy animal he created for one of his feasts!

real life 'flying' buildings

This temple seems to be fighting against the rules of gravity. It is the Hanging Temple in Shanxi in China. It is in China I know and fim maker Hayao Miyazaki is Japanese but still I can not help thinking that maybe there is something extraordinary in the culture in east that makes his imagination so colourful!

Flying buildings!

I got carried away with fantasy worlds, impossible buildings, magical places.... Animation film maker and true master Hayao Miyazaki has created many of them; breath taking worlds and in them amazing fairy tales. He masters them two, the places and stories. I want to be like him! Oh mi god indeed. This is a "music video" from Laputa the Casttle in the Sky. I am fascinated by it all; flying buildings and curious aeroplanes. So much detail and so much imagination!!!!!

passion for architecture

Earlier I already talked about my fascination for tree houses and other curious buildings. Weirdly just recently 2 different articles about architecture have catched my eye. Both from The Guardian newspaper...but anyway. First one introduces a very cutting edge idea of using architecture as part of the healing process for cancer patients. Maggie's Centre (picture above) Hypothesis is actually pretty simple: beautiful hospital=beautiful architecture instead of horrible clean and cold hospitall style, affects cancer patients psyche in positive way. I think it is not only cancer that could be healed by architecture. It affects everyone. Our surroundings are important and we should pay more attention to them! This is were the next article steps in. In yesterday's paper the philosopher Alain De Bottom( author of Architecture of Happiness) introduces a new project where they build affordable holiday homes for rent but intentionally they are all designed by top modern architects. Instead of renting a classic country gottage any average family could actually live a week or long weekend in a curious modern building. This project has aims to educate public to understand, like and experience modern architecture while drawing attention to the psychological aspect of our enviroment as well.
I love this kind of thinking. It makes perfect sense! I have always had a great fascination to buildings with caricature. It is most exciting when architecture brakes the boring normal pattern.

fashionable distraction

I got distracted. Slightly. Darryl sent us competition invitation for Tony&Guy hair products and I got excited. Basically they need fashion illustrations on their product range which will be sold in London Fashion week next year. Deadline is this monday and my nearly forgotten passion for fashion woke up. I am going to try. Maybe this is complete vaste of time as thre are probably lots of participants who actually study FASHION illustration....
So no new thoughts about next year. Except I found out that there is a puppet festival near St. Pauls this sunday. I want to go there defianetly!


This is a lovely fashion illustration by Laura Laine. I love it because it's playfull and not just cool and pretty like fashion often tends to be. Besides I love imaginary small people and creatures...links nicely to my fantasy world building.

my fantasy world

This is from the most memorable film of my chilhood "Resan till Melonia" ( Journey to the ShaMelonia) which is a Swedish cartoon based on Storm by Shakespeare. What I wanted to show is the amazing tree house world right on the beginnig of this clip. Ever since I saw this film for the firs time I have dreamed of that sort of place!

puppets perhaps?

I had a tutorial with Mary today. She was very helpful as usual. And she managed to calm me down from the overhelming stress of next year. She also seemed keen on my timid idea of building a "set" as my final project. Now I feel more confident about that sort of thing. And best thing was that she suggested that I could try to do my work experience in some sort of puppet place as that would be relevant to my final project! Logical and less terrifying indeed! So lets go back few steps and let me explain my set design idea a bit. Basically I just wanted to build a fairytalish world with curious characters and maybe take photographs of it or film. So the purpose would be book or animation. Animation could prove too laborous on a top of already laborous building process though... I was thinking a world underneeth the ground with lots of tunnels and nests or a big treehouse world. There is something about nests and unconventional ways of living that really really interest me! Set would also be bit like in the iconic Hitchcock film "Rear Window". I mean at ones you can have a peak into different homes or nests or worlds! I think I also like "spying" a bit.


After I got home I've been looking into different puppet busineses. Most of them seem to be theatres with quite traditional take on puppetry but I also found few more interesting places. One of them is a puppet theatre for grown ups called Faulty Optic. Their style is very dark, nearly horror film type.



And other rather curious company is one called Green Ginger. Now my plan is to find out about this business as much as possible and then start sending lots of emails to every interesting place and hope that someone wants me there for work replacement! I am excited indeed!!!!!

stuck

Now I really am a big failior. I had 2 days without any markins in here. 2 days! On saturday I got too drunk and on sunday I was too tired. Brilliant. But it's monday now and time to start all over again. BUT I do not seem to be making any progres with this subject. Oh yes I probably still want to try to do children's books but what then. I need to have bit more to my great plan to make it special. I'v been also thinking my narcistic side that loves to perform. Should I now just completely forget about it and consentrate on traditional means of illustration or should I embrace the variety of things I would love to do. I even did performance as my elective earlier this term and I loved loved loved every moment of it. But what the hell amIi supposed to do with performance? It is fun indeed but I can't see it paying my rent or relating anyhow to illustration. Obviously now when I am still a student I can combine it to my art practise but does it carry on to the real world? And shouldn't I be thinking of the real world now. Time after the degree. Shouln't my final project reflect strongly what I intend to do professionally? HEEEELP. I do not now what to do! I am bloody stuck in here!!!!!!

This picture is from "Dances of Vice" club in New York where everybody dresses up in
fairytalish manner. My friend just went there and that's how I ended up browsing the galleries on their website. I love clubs and parties like that and use to go even more often to such places. I could just spend all my life like in a fairytale. That would be perfect!