I can’t even Händel these puns.
I’m Chopin at the bit to see what pun comes next….
This is going to turn into quite the Liszt.
Am I adding to this list? Schubert I am!
Why did Piotr cross the road?
To get to Ilyich Tchaikovsky. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I Mozart-mit, you baroque me
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“I must help you”
“I must train you”
“I must teach you”
“Come on! Strong arms!”
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My brother recently wrote this article about what it means to be the jack of all trades. This was also, in part, what I wrote my essay on in the second year of my degree. The reason this topic resonates with me so strongly is probably because I did, and to a certain extent still do, think I chose the wrong degree. Had I not done illustration, I would be studying graphic design, and would probably be writing the exact same blog post as I am now. I want to be good at everything, not just illustration. (I love my course by the way) We hear time and time again that we should know the Adobe suite inside out when we graduate, and yet how many of us are really investing our time into doing so? Perhaps this is relevant because I don’t want to be a freelance illustrator. I want to create, illustrate and inspire, but I don’t want to box myself into one career path (and I am certainly not saying that by wanting to be a freelance illustrator you are doing so!) I suppose the challenge is to make ourselves open, enthusiastic and interested in not just our own course or career choice, but those of the people we potentially could one day be working with.
Ernest Hemingway
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Scrolling through twitter yesterday, there was an evident theme in response to the opening ceremony of the Paralympics - ‘We’re all annoyed because of advert breaks.’ ‘Why are Channel 4 hosting?’ etc.
Well, there are some pretty flipping good reasons why C4 absolutely rinsed the BBC in the bid to broadcast the games. As this article from Scope emphasises, Channel 4’s main aim was for our perceptions of disability to be challenged, and they were willing to put in more time and money into making this the most commercially successful Paralympics ever, which it is.
Their advertising campaign has played a significant part in the popularity of this years games over those in previous years, D&AD claiming that “if anything deserves the black pencil award, it’s this…”
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=tuAPPeRg3Nw&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DtuAPPeRg3Nw&gl=GB
Channel 4’s entire approach to the hosting has been wholly very positive, and considering we are still at a point where disability is greatly misunderstood or ignored, they have done phenomenally well to increase enthusiasm and interest.
But obviously our viewing experience is far more important than any of that, so let’s compromise on everything else so that we don’t have to watch adverts yeeeeah?
This was just the happiest time.
Ink Calender by Oscar Diaz: The ’Ink Calendar’ uses the timed pace of the ink spreading on the paper to indicate time. The ink is absorbed slowly, and the numbers in the calendar are ‘printed’ daily. One a day, they are filled with ink until the end of the month. A calendar self-updated, which enhances the perception of time passing and not only signalling it. The ink colors are based on a spectrum, which relate to a ‘color temperature scale’, each month having a color related to our perception of the weather on that month. The colors range from dark blue in December to, three shades of green in spring or oranges, red in the summer.
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Some wonderful pages of sketchbooks by Oliver Jeffers. I love it! He is so brave :)
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