FAVORITES

Recently I was sent an email out of the blue by a lovely chap called Derya who works for Woo Magazine. He said that he was putting on a n exhibition in an office / gallery in Emily Carr University, Vancouver, Canada comprising purely of a work found through Flickr favourites, and that he wanted permission to use one of my illustrations in the show. I happily, but cautiously obliged. One and a half weeks later, and I'm sitting here looking at my work in a gallery, without having lifted a finger, and a catalogue on its way to me via airmail. Life is sweet. Here's the press release, and you can peruse in greater detail on WOOMAGAZINE

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WOO GALLERY IS AN EXHIBITION SPACE PROGRAMMING THE WORK OF EMILY CARR  UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND ALUMNI AS WELL AS OTHER VANCOUVER BASED ARTISTS,  CURATORS AND WRITERS. WOO GALLERY IS LOCATED IN ROOM 145, AT EMILY CARR UNIVERSITY 1399 JOHNSTON STREET, GRANVILLE ISLAND, VANCOUVER, BC, V6H 3R9, CANADA. WOO GALLERY IS OPEN 1PM TO 3PM SUNDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. FAVORITES TWO CHAINS OF FLICKR FAVORITES, ONE STARTING AND THE OTHER ENDING WITH  THE SAME ARTIST. SCOTT SMITH IGNACIO BAS / ERRORE zine ANDREAS BANDERAS BRENNAAA REBECCA CARLISLE-HEALY MORGAN ALEXANDRA RITTER JACK HILLIE the third ISRAEL LUND ROSARIA STONI JONATHAN RYAN STORM SEAN PARKER BETHAN MOONAN-HOWARD & FRANCES MALTHOUSE † The Coffin Affairs † cityscumshot 8----STEVN------8 DERYA AKAY

Question Time

To gather information from other collectors for my What Am I? project, I sent out an email to some correspondents asking about their approaches to the ethos of collecting. Among general chit-chat, these were the main questions I put to them.

would you call yourself a collector or archivist or hoarder? give a reason.
is order important when collecting?
what do your collections mean to you?

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ANTHONY ZINONOS	18 October 2009 20:16
evening sir im good thanks, never did make it to that gig last night was ment to go meet some friends at a pub too but just landed up staying in and watching some wishy washy film with the misses. saw your pieces for the kraffhics book they pretty good, did you speak to leemun about when thats coming out? havnt heard from him in ages was wondering what was going on with it, wasnt it ment to be out in august? here go the questions: would you call yourself a collector or archivist or hoarder? give a reason. id love to say hoarder but after researching hoarding and those OCD things a few years back i came to realize that i dont really have a problem with uncontrollable compulsive hoarding i merely like to collect thing that i find aesthetically pleasing or something i can use to create art work with. is order important when collecting? my collection definitely lack order, i do try to group certain things together but it doesnt always stay that way. in some ways i'd love to be super orProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 nised and Proxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 ve everything categories joseph cornell style but i just cant work that way. there is also the joy in refinding something that you forgot you had while scratching around looking for something else which is always good cause that refound item can lead to a whole new unplanned thing. i guess thats it, if you have everything uber organised and sorted out you lose that freedom and openness, not everything can be categorized and labeled something which looks blue to you today may look a lot more green tomorrow. does that make any sense? what do your collections mean to you? tricky one...... i guess my collections kind of make up what and who i am..no that sounds a bit wrong like i would be nothing with out that stuff.....try again.... my collections are important to me because i have created them. i have spent time collecting things that i find important. i find it fascinating how somebody elses junk is my treasure, im taking something which a lot of times would be thrown away and giving it a new life, a regeneration as such. like those bits i sent you a lot of those are just scraps of paper and junk however when they are organised and placed together they become important gain a value. hope that helps my man take care anthony www.anthonyzinonos.com _________________________________________________________ JOSEPH PRENDERGAST (TUBELORD) 5 November 2009 21:17 Hey Bugsby. I've pondered on my actions over the past week of touring. collector - a person or thing that collects something, in particular archivist - a person who maintains and is in charge of archives. hoarder - a stock or store of money or valued objects, typically one that is secret or carefully guarded I am an eFactist. But for the answer to you question with the only above options, I'd say I'm a hoarder to my own sense, yet I archive others's to help construct what my mind is able to perceive. Order is definitely important to collecting, yet I would counteract this by stating that I can only create any form of order by marginalizing what I'd determine as chaos and disorder, in an act of re-affirming to my self that order of all is on my own hands. My collections mean everything. In fact, read the above a pretext. Here we go. I am a collector of symbols and that is all I can be. Miss you buddy, I'll be returning from tour next week and will be spending a lot of time with yous to get the December events up  running and ready. I have idea for the 15th. It may involve our combined skills though motherfucker. Would love to have the Lock Tavern prepared and silkscreen posters hanging like bunting around the venue with words of our poetry and others and illustrations. Similar to Hugh's layered 8 and the screenprint you gave me. Perhaps we could use your university resources if you'd fancy? God i feel sick. Tall Ships confirmed for December 15th. ∆  a collection of historical documents  http://gepettosilver.blogspot.com/   http://www.myspace.com/tubelord

A couple of my photos of Zineswap's new studio made it to their homepage. SHAZAM.

OZCITING

FUCKOLLAGE

Rolling in the new year with some collages I managed to compose whilst being on Rum Island.

Yeah, they're no good, but at least I didn't chop off my finger in the process.

ZINESWAP HQ

The erratic stapled-paper handlers at Zineswap invited me along to their new Tottenham Court Road studio to give them a hand archiving their library. To you, this may sound more boring than litter picking with a grabber made from breadsticks, but I've recently become quite obsessed with collecting and the psychosis behind the desire for a complete collection as a projection of personal perfection.

 

                             BEFORE                                                                                  AFTER

 

Clinic are currently in talks with Zineswap to do a joint event in February, so keep your peepers glued.

Thanks to Rob for arranging it and Gordo for the beer. Fetch them some traffic //HERE//

I'm not going to say sorry or anything.

Yeah, I've been lazy. And what? I've been doing other stuff.

CUT OUTS//

My collages for the Kraffhics book The Cut Outs. I was going to wait until the book came out to show them, but it's been put on hold and I've been wanting to show them for quite a while. Impatience prevailed.

ROTA//

So, after many a kitchen-hygiene-related argument, my housemates and I decided that we would develop a rota so that, in addition to the general everyday cleaning, we would FUCK SHIT UP on a weekly basis.

I found my church board and letters, then simultaneously filed them for future use and created the rota.

SCUM SCOUTS.

http://strangelyattractivechavs.blogspot.com/

Click that. Click it.
My new side project with Josh Kirk, delving into the world of hot chavs.
A comprehensive library of tracksuited and uggbooted fitties.
I apologise for the crimes I am about to commit.

DON'T JUDGE ME.

SCAFFOLD SANS

UPDATE //

Following my drawings and subsequent digital mock ups of the specimen font, the obvious next step was to introduce another dimension. Using just straws and some ropey string, I recreated the forms looking particularly at geometry and trying to stay true to the observational drawings that began the whole project.

These are indeed simple mock-ups but, jeez, they took a fucking while. The finicky rope-tying was tedious but I think the results will help me to realize the prospect of actually creating the typeface from scaffolding.

I may make a few more of these but I don't want to dwell because it is now important I move onto perspective and perhaps a slightly larger scale.

LIQUIDS RESEARCH

Since Justine and I first thought about making a short film together, we have been putting our heads together to find a subject that is unassumingly mundane but can be transformed into a spectacle that arouses intrigue and beauty. These are a few of the films I have come across in the past few days after playing with a ferrofluid at the Science Museum last week.

Liquids, obviously are ubiquitous, but it is not the aesthetics of these experiments that really have us hooked; it's the unusual physical properties that they hold. For example salt water will not freeze until it makes contact with air and cornstarch paste possesses the appearance of a liquid but the impact of a solid.

Today, I bought cornstarch and began to play with the substance that is known as gloop, and Oobleck, which has been adopted by popular culture from a Dr. Seuss. It is scientifically known as a non-Newtonian fluid, which is an allusion to the ambiguous nature of the substance's viscosity. Oobleck and other 'shear thinckening fluids' are being tested on their effectiveness to stop bullets.