Tourist in Edinburgh.

So some of the Jewellers went on a small venture to Dovecot Studios just Wednesday past, we got lost but in the end made it to our destination and wandered around the Jerwood Contemporary Makers exhibition slightly confused/really tempted to play with the tyres? (Just me?) With such a broad scope in the term 'Contemporary Makers, ' we were met with a group of objects which personally I felt didn't seem to work well together. This could have been intentional but it has not been one of my favourite exhibitions of late, but it is always good to go and investigate.

However after a yummy lunch and then stufffing ourselves with yet more food barely half an hour after having our 'yummy lunch,' the Dundee kids started venturing back home, while like the  tourist that I appeared to be whipped out the new camera and got a little bit snap happy. It was difficult times doing this, it was very cold and I wanted to wear my mittens but then with the mits on I was unable to to 'click' the camera. So in the end I had to brace the cold for the sake of 'art'. 

While strolling along I saw this....



Put your best food forward.

                                                                            

Munich CutOut



little paper and masking tape collage

Pictures taken on my film Pentax. (Originally black and white.) 

1410 Still Frames.

So when I was a small, naive, first year, beginning the general course straight from school and right into the depths Duncan of Jordanstone I was adamant that Animation was for me.

 When I was much smaller I would somehow make Mother Connolly take her little daughter to university with her every now and again (this being DoJ-her being a fine art printmaker.)  She would sometimes manage to work her magic and there I would find myself in the animation studio watching little stop motion animation sets working away,  in miniature. It was magic and the only thing I wanted to do from a young age. So here 10-14years on from those days,I am a 4th year jeweller? Huh? I absolutely love my degree and was instantly sold into becoming a jeweller after seeing the jewellery workshop but the longing for animation/illustration still beckons. In a lecture recently we were asked to explain what our perfect day would be, say in 10 years-where do I expect/want to be? Truthfully  if all went to plan I would be an illustrator of children books, stories which  would then become adorable little childrens TV shows in Stop Motion Animation.I would make jewellery in my workshop by day and go out and take photographs by night, I would have an AGA cooker in a little cottage just out of town with a dog( a springer) and I would be happy happy happy. I want to be able to see programmes on the TV like The Clangers or Parsley the Lion and the Herbs?

...and this is why I am am going to try and attempt to use some stop motion animation as a way of both exploring and explaining my Degree show work. A digital sketchbook, but a piece of art/narrative in its' own right...almost.................................................... Travels


So here I am practising away on different stop motion sites playing about having a jolly good time, using my own personal tiny clanger as a prop (knitted by Audrey).


Fun Stuff.



Hello Tiny Clanger

 I am almost sure I will have blogs in the future talking of the disasterous time I am having and I admit now it may work or it may not but I am sure going to give a go.

Christening the Camera.

New Camera.

First Photo

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Yes,it is a flower...but it was the first thing I saw to photograph.

 Many pictures for years to come.

Must learn what all the settings do.

Picture no.1-The start of good things to come.

Jewellers are not the only Magpies around.



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Magpie-rs







Magpie poster-Collectables of the future I'd say.



...and so within a week of 4th year, the Jewellers did an incredible job of organising the first Magpie Sale of the year, hopefully not to be the last.

Scrounging in our attics, our garden sheds, our bedrooms or even our mothers house we somehow managed to bring together a rather awesome collection of goods to sell to the Students of DoJ.

Was it the bottle stall that tempted you? You won the Tizer didn't you?


   So the Magpie sale commenced, realising that I was the most terrible person at asking people for money I set my sights on selling raffle tickets for the Bottle stall. It was a set price and so I wouldn't be faced with people trying to haggle and therefore find myself giving in to their 1p offer for 23 tubes of acrylic paint. (I didn't actually do that audrey but you get the idea)

'Wine for the weekend, 6 for a £1, or 20p each!!!'

With Audrey manning the desk and all the DoJ Students putting in a valiant effort hitting the cantina getting the students back to the sale and the rest handling the haggling students, we sold throughout the day.

A few of us Jewellers gave the bottle stall a go in hopes of winning our own goods back? I didn't win, I tried with 12 tickets aswell. 



Me-not with a winning ticket



But Elspeth got gold with some 'wine for the weekend.' 

All the final year jewellery kids did a grand job and I think it looks as though the Magpie sale will be on the cards again for all you students who missed out first time.

From the Jewellers. over and out.

We have a winnner!!!!

Time Flies when you're having fun.

So here it is,

Tomorrow is the first day of what could be (possibly) be my final year as an art student at Duncan of Jordanstone.

Time has really flown by, I still vividly remember the day I found my unconditional acceptance on UCAS and here we are, the big guns. We are those students that the first years can never imagine being, so 'old' and 'mature.'

Apart form the daunting task of dissertationing, I can only imagine this year to be GREAT in every way!

Hello 4th year.

Kamba Tribe.

 Joseph and Moses