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i'm not happy. my life is a mess. i'm going to sort it out tomorrow.

merijn hos

Merijn Hos is an artist and illustrator from the Netherlands, he graduated from the Utrecht School of Visual Arts with a B.F.A. in Illustration and has since divided his time between personal projects such as exhibitions and independent publishing, and commercial work.

His body of work is made up of many different mediums, such as collage, computer illustration, video, textiles and often the use of blackboards and marker pens. I am particularly keen on the image below, I think I might try this at home when I buy some nice paper.

I have always been particularly keen on plush toys and these are no exception. Merijn Hos' plushies usually accompany commercial work. I want to make more squishy toys! At some point I'll put up pictures of the ones I made in art foundation I guess, only after I've made some more.

I like how bright and colourful Hos' work is, I also like the fact that quite a lot of it has no meaning behind it at all, which was even embraced in his exhibition "Half of what I do is meaningless" at the Extrabold gallery in Luxembourg.

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..it didnt work, here's the link. wheeee!

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glasgow film festival

I'm going to Glasgow on the 13th of February to stay for a night or two, which will be at the beginning of Glasgow's annual film festival. After previous tutorials, I had decided that I need to educate myself more in the way of films, and think that this will be the perfect opportunity. Ill post about what I have seen when I return.

Glasgow Film Festival

the world within a sock

by david firth

social commentary or what

international swimming pool

A couple of friends and I attempted to get into the abandoned international swimming pool down the other end of town the other night. After successfully breaking in once I decided that I wanted to go back to get some better photographs, as the first time had been an extremely hurried visit I didn't manage to get any good photographs. Vic had to catch a train and we got a bit scared as something was crashing around so the images I took were just more like proof that I had been there. I wanted to go back with a tripod.

Well what happened when we went back was pretty annoying, after scaling the 10 foot metal fence and climbing round the outside of the building in the pitch black it turns out that the window which you have to climb through at a right angle over a 40 foot drop or so was boarded up with a big sheet of metal. No way we could've smashed it through, I just hope someone else does so we can get back in at some point. I also managed to rip my new trousers climbing back over the fence which made it doubly as annoying. 

Images from the first time to the pool:

Round the corner from the gate we had to climb over, we had to go up massive steps the same as these round the corner and then come back down. On the left hand side is the walkway round the whole building, we had to climb through one of these windows which was smashed through.

Stood in the same spot as before but turned 180degrees, it would not be possible to smash another window to get into the walkway as there is a door to the right and then a large drop where the blue pipe is.

The swimming pool from the inside, stood on one of the seating areas, it was extremely eerie in there and was extremely messy. We found some swimming medals and some "Summer of Fun '98" stickers which we kept as tokens of our visit.

As you can see, the images I took were not particularly good, I only selected these three as the rest were blurry and out of focus due to the speed which I took them at. We feared smackheads and police and didn't have much time anyway, so unfortunately we didn't manage to get down to the poolside and into the rooms below. There was about a 7 foot drop from the seating to the poolside so we didn't jump down incase we got stuck. Wish I had though.