Busy Hectic 12 Hours a Day !

...so you can't please some of the people eh, well tuff fuckin' shit, negative vibes just have a positive effect on me, rub their noses in it, that's what i say, had a good 12hours of graphic design and creation today and my website is now starting to take shape and has real substance to it, redesigned the drawing section, redesigned the digital section, finished off the new Next Generation Series 2, have plenty more planned for tomorrow, here's to creation and negative vibes are just water off a ducks back, they do not matter and they never will, here's to tomorrow and more wonderful things, and here's to the future, it is indeed a bright one, for today the work is over and i'm gonna play some games for a bit a relax !

People !

yep, it's true what they say, you can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time, such is life !

London Calling !

I feel another trip to London coming up, just checked out the details and i can get to London, spend 17 hours there and get back home all for £25 on the coach, and incredible deal if ever there was one, here's how it works, i leave my place at 10.30pm on a tuesday night, i get on the coach around midnight and arrive in London at 6.20am, London at this time of day is amazing, not so many people around and for an hour or so it feels like you've got the city to yourself, so it's walkabout time taking photo's until around 10am when the gallerys open, The National Gallery first at Trafalgar Square, a couple of hours in there being moved by works by Van Gogh, Leonardo Da Vinci, Monet and other world famous works of art, then head for the Tate Modern, another incredible place, taking photo's on all steps of the journey, so much to see in London, an amazing place indeed, this time i'll be looking forward to getting some nightime shots, not been in London at night yet, could be dangerous, the freaks come out at night, that's what they say, but being one of the freaks i have nothing to fear at all, so it's a long 17 hour day, leaving London at 11pm that night and getting back to the coach station around 5am, i should be back home by 6 or 7am, i'll be completely exhausted but i'll have around 600 photo's to play with and i'll never forget the experience, bring it on, the sooner the better aswell, it's a trip that's coming up soon, that's all i know and i really can't wait !

The Arts Council of England !

mmmm, heard a little story about somebody somewhere that had been given a grant to open a sunbed shop, this got me thinking, and as i was thinking i did a little bit of research on the net and found my way to The Arts Council of England, about 4 hours later i had downloaded the application form, some 40 pages long by the way, fully filled it in to the very best of my ability, put together a 5 page presentation of what ddesign is, what ddesign wants to be and how i see the future for ddesign, we are talking funding, for materials, funding to put on a show and funding to take things to the next level, the process takes 6 weeks and i await with anticipation to see what the Arts Council will make of ddesign !

Sleep !

...or lack of it more like, how can one sleep at a time like this, i've decided to write something down instead of kidding myself that i'm gonna be going to sleep, it's just not gonna happen, i'm not here because i wanna keep it to myself and i'm not here because i wanna keep it a secret, that artist round the corner is on my mind ? wonder what he's getting up to ? i'm gonna have to find out one of these days, networking they call it, but not in an internet way, in a real, i can see that you're painting in you're bay window everytime i walk past your place kind of way, can't be all that surely ?, otherwise i would already know about him and his work, am i feeling threatened ?, not at all, i'm just interested, a fellow artist living and working just around the corner, what if he's really successful ? what if he's showing working in gallerys in London and all that, and has an agent ? that's the kind of thing that i'm wanting, you know what they say, "it's not what you know it's who you know", true words indeed, especially in a little town like this where everybody knows everybody else and you're either in there or you're not, but to be in there round here you have to fall into place and do as you're told, don't even try rocking the boat or else you will be thrown overboard and left to float around aimlessly like some sort of driftwood, eventually the driftwood does find it's place though, washed up on some distant coastline like a castaway finding his very own island, yeah i like being different, i like swimming against the tide, i like doing the exact opposite to that which is expected of me, conform they say, abide by the rules that they have set out though generations of no-one answering back, it's not the artists way, not the real artist anyway, i know i'm a real artist because i am always hungry, hungry for food, hungry for success, hungry for materials, hungry for inspiration, hungry for images to work with, i'm always hungry for one thing or another, but like like the castaway and his island, it's all about survival, and i survive, and for as long as i survive i will continue to create great things...

Charles Bukowski !

incredible, on tuesday i sent the painting of Charles Bukowski across the pond to Brooklyn, New York, today, thursday, it is already on display in the BrooklynTECHNIQUES studio, a great and momentous day in the history of ddesign, may there be many more to come !

Contacts Contacted !

there is always contacts to be made out there in the big bad world, some good, some bad, how about those muppets that think they can get some design work done then don't bother paying the bill you send them, from here on in, no money, no design, simple as that, best thing about it though is that they take the designs you do for them then stick them on their crap profile page without the knowledge that they are low res images and they have no chance of scaling them up for print purposes, retards, all ddesign artwork originals are full on high res images, you only get them when you have paid you're bill, understand, people irritate me so much it's unbelievable, no wonder i just keep myself to myself and do what i do regardless, i am an artist, hear me fuckin' roar !

Random Updates !

first just took delivery of my new Timberland Boots, they are sick !...and so on to the random updates and why i'm always forgetting to update things, it's the painting, when you get into a painting you get really into, nothing else matters, not eating, not sleeping and although i might have plenty on my mind and be thinking of this, that and the other and making great plans, the painting comes first, it needs 100% concentration and 100% commitment, it's the way it has to be, otherwise it just would'nt get done, a painting is created in stages, these stages are determined by the colours or the shades, it is impossible to paint a stage halfway through and then leave it, each stage has to be finished, no matter what, painting for 12 hours at a time is quite the norm for me, my record is 14 hours only stopping to take on fuel, it is the way it has to be, being self taught i have learned along the way, learned from my mistakes and applied what i have learned to the work i do these days, getting up at 6am to start painting for 12 hours sometimes really takes it out of you, but the end results are well worth the effort, i once dreamed of being an artist, getting on for around 20years ago now, but never in my wildest dreams did i think i would be producing the work i do now, it's incredible, i love it so much that i find it really difficult to close my eye's and sleep, the mind does not shutdown, not ever, and although i've trained my mind to behave like a computer the one thing that is missing is the shutdown option, one day i will shutdown completely and all that will be left of me is the great things that i have produced, that is the only thing you can take with you when you're day comes, that what you leave behind, this is why i am an artist and this is what drives me on and on and on...wow

Blimey !

i'd forgot all about this ! might try and update a little bit more often, with one thing or another it's easy to forget things, www.ddesign.me.uk is where it's at these days, but after all my little notes on here i'm not giving it up...ddesign : the art of more !