Craft Festival Scotland.

Myself and fellow class member Audrey Reid, won a competition in our class with our design for a 'popoutring'. A Pop Out Ring being a ring design, that can pop out from thin card, or plastic (quite a few interesting materials really,but always initially flat) but can be made into something aesthetically pleasing and 3D. Thus the idea being you will be popping out a lasered shape from a flat material- a bit of folding, twisting and playing about and there you have it, you're done.One pop out ring for you. I find it difficult to actually describe what a pop out ring is, if anyone has any other definitions please correct me.

Our 'popoutring' postcards will be given to those attending this years 'Prototype' Symposium, held in Dundee later in June.

It took many hours- both myself and Audrey can honestly and wholeheartedly admit that CAD is not our forte, but with the help of Dougie and Kerrianne our ring designs were soon transformed into wondrous laser cutting templates. Voila, just like that you say?

....and so we waited....

....laser engraving one postcard, after another, after another, only 199 to go Audrey. It was a time consuming job, but one can learn many things about how to outwit the laser machine...

We did it!!!

Here is a sneak peak at the postcard, I wouldn't want to give too much away,but once the symposium is in full swing I will put up some pictures and videos on the lasering process.
Smoke everywhere!

(...and yes that is me, with my little pigtails leaning over the laser machine.)

Lightning need only strike once.

I have been quite stresssed lately. To say the least, so father Connolly took me to the church in Broughty Ferry that had been unfortunate enough to be struck by lightning, I brought both my film slr and a trusted compact digital to capture the damage.

Here are some quick compact pictures.


Thousands of pounds worth of damage was caused in a instant and the irony being that the insurance on the church, does not cover 'an act of God,' So it is still unknown were the funds may come from to fix it back up again.

Lightning is a phenomenon that always intrigues me.

3rd year,coming to a close.

Well it's almost the end of 3rd year, all we have left is grading and grading and more ...grading.But what a year it has been.

None of our work at this point has been officially assessed yet, so as assessment day is looming here we find all the lovely 3rd years in superdrive mode, well most of us anyway(haha). One of our presentations will be based in the corridor, this work will be assessed on both use of presentation skills and the actual work we have created;this can be any project of our choice. The rest of our work is meant to be presented, simply, but effectively with all our work accessible for our tutors to look through, with ease inside our studio space. As space is limited within the studio this can still be quite a task.

Dissertation feedback and my assessment both fall on Wednesday the 5th of May. Stressful times, but one must keep on going.

Thankfully my presentation work is almost finished...*breathe a sigh of relief* but there can never be enough sketchbook work so onwards with sketch booking. That is a never ending task, therefore never will I be able to say I am finished when it comes to the work within these little artist booklets.

The project I chose to put out in the corridor space, is the narrative project.

'tea for two.'

Always a woman.

I do not know how i have never heard this song before. Beautiful lyrics.


Copy and paste this link. and listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHcm1ec7CcY

Munich by film...continued.

Munich by film.

As I am currently attempting to save pennies for my Kenya trip this summer,it has taken me a while to get around to getting my ilford black and white film developed. However I do quite like the results and there is still yet another film to be developed from my Munich adventure in February. I will always like the essence of surprise you find with photos when you leave it a while to get them developed.

'To remember, we must first forget. '

Hello the year of the 21st.