Fly posting and head hunting,,,

productive morning..

posted poster of the up and coming event... ( come on i have to assist in some way, i feel bad on the few who are trying..) poster designed by Laura,...














Also pulled my lasted wax head out of its cast and craved out the eyes and other details...

















My tutor suggested i look up Joseph Hillier.

 Joseph Hillier was born in Cornwall, England and studied in Newcastle Upon Tyne and New Orleans. After working in London for two years Hillier returned to Newcastle where he continues to work on commissions and exhibitions in the UK and internationally.

She also recommended i look at Castle Fine Arts Foundry Ltd, and arrange a site visit.. 




  









Head Office
Castle Fine Arts Foundry Ltd
Tanat Foundry
Llanrhaeadr ym Mochnant
Nr Oswestry
Powys
SY10 0AA

T: 01691 780 261
F: 01691 780 011
info@bronzefoundry.co.uk


Stroud Workshop
Inchbrook Trading Estate
Units N6B & N7
Woodchester
Stroud
Gloucs
GL5 5EY


Liverpool Workshop
48-60 Bridgewater St.
Liverpool
L1 0AY

London Office
5 Great James Street
WC1N 3DB

more whining and bitching, cos i am that way inclinde today

Facebook.... joined at least 3 different groups on facebook for unit x... its been one big kinder garden slanging match after another, i was going to post screen prints of ppl auguring about various things at all times of the day but it is un fair to reveal names, but it sure does prove my point that collaboration does not always work, esp forced 

Monday moaning....

Today spent the the morning casting more heads out of wax, this time different layers of colours, green and red primarily ,Tomorrow i will bend and shape in and melt it out of shape...

  I also donated a few plaster heads  under a false name.. to allow me to continue my protest of the collaboration    

     

Mounted my placards, My tutor kindly pointed out my huge spelling error.. so marker pen to correct, it might make it more hardcore....

Moods plummeting the last two days, hoping( praying it will not effect me for the protest in two weeks)

picking scabs the solo way

been asking around fella students to see if they want to join my protest... Everyone loves the idea but they always seem wary of the consequences. so it looks like i am going solo, which makes sense that i saying collaboration  doesn't work.
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Used the huge printer today i printed A1 size posters.they look amazing. thanks to the tech guy for the guidance he supplied,

Spoke with group again... expressed that this was not against them, that it was more a ironic joke. agreed i would summit i noticed for the exhibition.

BBC News - Maria Miller: Arts must make economic case

 Analysis Will Gompertz Arts editor

If you strip out the pleasantries in Maria Miller's speech you are left with some frank opinions, expressed either directly or implicitly.

The arts budget will be cut come the next spending review; the Culture Secretary will not be pleading for special treatment. The sector as a whole has not made its case regarding the economic benefits it delivers to the country convincingly enough to the Treasury. Nor has the DCMS.

She talked enthusiastically about the success of the arts sector in helping drive the economy forward by supporting - and being part of - the creative industries, and by providing a valuable magnet for tourism.

I spoke to some attendees who wondered why, if she truly believed this to be the case, would she not argue for increased, not decreased investment in the sector in order to fully realise its potential?

 Full article..

BBC News - Maria Miller: Arts must make economic case

A bit of background research

Obtained from .gov.uk website and a huge clue to my plan for the unit x exhibition

Protests and marches: letting the police know

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By law you must tell the police in writing 6 days before a public march if you’re the organiser.

Tell the police the:

• date and time of the march
• route
• the names and addresses of the organisers

The police have the power to:

• limit or change the route of your march
• set any other condition of your march

If you arrange a march at short notice, you must still tell the police as soon as you can.

The police can also:

• change the location
• limit how long a rally lasts
• limit the amount of people who attend
• stop a sit-down protest if it blocks road traffic or public walkways

If there’s no march involved

If there’s no march organised as part of your protest, you don’t have to tell the police.

Does Repeat Collaboration Kill Creativity?

Andrew O'Connell wrote:

I'd be curious to hear what you think. It's a puzzling thing. Very soon after they started collaborating, John Lennon and Paul McCartney became a well-oiled innovation machine. "Every time we went to sit down — and it was normally about a three-hour writing session — we never came out without a finished song," McCartney said in a Reader's Digest interview. "So that was like 200 days that we sat down to do that. And never had a dry moment."
But here come the professors: "There's a growing body of evidence," say Paul F. Skilton and Kevin J. Dooley of Arizona State, that keeping creative teams together on multiple projects is a good way to get lousy results (I'm paraphrasing that last part). In fact, a single prior collaboration is enough to limit a group's creative results the next time out, they say in "The Effects of Repeat Collaboration on Creative Abrasion" in a recent issue of the Academy of Management Review. That's because roles and rules get established quickly when people work together, and friction and surprise — crucial for creativity — fade away.

full article here ..Does Repeat Collaboration Really Kill Creativity?

Started spreading the would of my idea today with a few select few, All like my plan but a few wary of the consequences 

I designed a couple of posters for my plan.

 

I also spent the morning in the chemical room, with my head mould and wax... although it went well i feel the wax was not the right type, its not all lost, the wax has cleaned the moulds and its also been a learning experience