Hello my friends!
Well, i have been nominated for the Creative 30 by Vice magazine. Its an online competition and you can help by voting for me at:
http://www.creative30.net/profile/46
Here's the video of the interview including a wee bit about the billboard:
Luke Drozd
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/3731116/10253641?v=37...
Monday, 20 October 2008
Saturday, 18 October 2008
new update...
Soooo then, hello people.
I am working on the next part of the project, trying to find new sites and commssions. If you are interested in knowing more or could help then please get in touch. In the meantime i will be creating a page on my site where people will be able ot donwload versions of the prints and others, most likley for free so keep them peele.
I have also been nominated for the Creative 30 so if you want to hear me waffling then go here http://www.creative30.net/profile/46
Voting starts Monday
cheers
Luke
I am working on the next part of the project, trying to find new sites and commssions. If you are interested in knowing more or could help then please get in touch. In the meantime i will be creating a page on my site where people will be able ot donwload versions of the prints and others, most likley for free so keep them peele.
I have also been nominated for the Creative 30 so if you want to hear me waffling then go here http://www.creative30.net/profile/46
Voting starts Monday
cheers
Luke
Friday, 22 August 2008
Final Board and installation...
Hello hello,
Well its been a while but finally i have photos of the final days of MFB. As a whole the show was a success and its been really valuable talking to many of you about the project. Lets hope this is a stopgap for the work and not a fullstop.
So here's the final print advertising the blog:
And here's the installation shots:
If you are interested in showing any part of this project or being involved in future commissions of MFB then please get in touch. thanks...
Well its been a while but finally i have photos of the final days of MFB. As a whole the show was a success and its been really valuable talking to many of you about the project. Lets hope this is a stopgap for the work and not a fullstop.
So here's the final print advertising the blog:
And here's the installation shots:
If you are interested in showing any part of this project or being involved in future commissions of MFB then please get in touch. thanks...
Friday, 1 August 2008
Final hurdles...
Juts a quick post to keep everyone informed on the project. Everything is now installed printed ready and raring to go now for the My First Billboard documentary installation for Chelsea Motel. I'll pop up some shots of the final billboard and installation soon.
Monday, 28 July 2008
Stripped bare...
Well there she is, naked as the day she was born. As you can see the board was striped today and the wad of paper removed is being readied for hanging. The accompanying poster to hang along with said wad in Chelsea Motel has now been finished too:
The poster/documentary wallchart is itself a kind of homage to some of Broodthaers printed works:
More as it happens...
The poster/documentary wallchart is itself a kind of homage to some of Broodthaers printed works:
More as it happens...
Sunday, 27 July 2008
I've started so i'll finish...
So here it is the final print on MFB. Wipe that tear from your eye though as the project hasn't finished quite yet. I'll keep posting up until the Chelsea Motel show where the documentation and information about this will be displayed as an installation.
So the final print. I wanted a sort of full stop for the last print. The prints on the board will be stripped off and shown in the show so whatever is last is what will be seen by viewers for the length of the show, so i decided upon the second of the post-it notes on MFB. I like post-it notes. I like there practicality but also their humanness. They have personality, or as much as can be expected from stationary. This particular one came with a submission for the Community Noticeboard day and was probably my favorite thing i received, so strictly speaking this is a collaboration with David Yates. Thanks David:
And so thats it for the actual print series. There will be a print up there for the show but it will be something more archival or related to the blog. I'll keep posting up with the shows installation though so keep those eyes open.
So the final print. I wanted a sort of full stop for the last print. The prints on the board will be stripped off and shown in the show so whatever is last is what will be seen by viewers for the length of the show, so i decided upon the second of the post-it notes on MFB. I like post-it notes. I like there practicality but also their humanness. They have personality, or as much as can be expected from stationary. This particular one came with a submission for the Community Noticeboard day and was probably my favorite thing i received, so strictly speaking this is a collaboration with David Yates. Thanks David:
And so thats it for the actual print series. There will be a print up there for the show but it will be something more archival or related to the blog. I'll keep posting up with the shows installation though so keep those eyes open.
Comments?
So today i posted up the final print for this part of MFB. It was somehow both sad and exhilarating. I think it was beginning to takes its toll mentally and physically and so its good to finish but i did like the pressure of cresting the work on a day to day basis, it was oddly liberating. However before we get to the final print there's a day gone astray do here's Friday's print first and then I'll start a new post for today's. Only seems right somehow.
Friday's print was entitle Any Comments? and is a series of comments about a billboard. The implication is that they are about this board, however they are not and the text reads 'on this billboard' not about. They are in fact culled from another far more right on and moral billboard project, not a showboating ego one. I think they are testament though to how carried away people can get by a large scale image purporting to be offering them some sort of fulfilling rhetoric. Either that or how emotionally over-wrought some members of the public are. Here it is:
and a final one showing Mike Lawton's work trying to escape through from the Community day
There is also a video of this which I'll post up when it's been edited (what little editing there will be)
Friday's print was entitle Any Comments? and is a series of comments about a billboard. The implication is that they are about this board, however they are not and the text reads 'on this billboard' not about. They are in fact culled from another far more right on and moral billboard project, not a showboating ego one. I think they are testament though to how carried away people can get by a large scale image purporting to be offering them some sort of fulfilling rhetoric. Either that or how emotionally over-wrought some members of the public are. Here it is:
and a final one showing Mike Lawton's work trying to escape through from the Community day
There is also a video of this which I'll post up when it's been edited (what little editing there will be)
Friday, 25 July 2008
So the day finally arrived. like Christmas morn children awoke from their beds and asked 'Mummy? Is it really Community Billboard day on MFB?'. And my friends the answer was of course YES!
So Today i got out the slightly meager but no less exciting stack of contributions and went a pasting. The results hailed broccoli, advertised artists, talked of recycling and a whole lot more. See for yourself:
I will add a list of contributors names to this post tomorrow but frankly its too late for me to be concerned with that tonight.
edit: As promised the contributers list:
David Yates - www.jehan.eu
Allison Glancey - www.strawberryluna.com
Guy Burwell - www.guyburwell.com
Fag Baboon - www.fagbaboonillustration.com
Paul McCann - www.chedderhawk.com
Mike Lawton - www.mlawton.org.uk
Ben Swift - www.eyeskull.com
Milk Two Sugars/Bob Milner - www.milktwosugars.org
Filming East Festival - www.filmingeast.org
Helen de Main - www.helendemain.net
So Today i got out the slightly meager but no less exciting stack of contributions and went a pasting. The results hailed broccoli, advertised artists, talked of recycling and a whole lot more. See for yourself:
I will add a list of contributors names to this post tomorrow but frankly its too late for me to be concerned with that tonight.
edit: As promised the contributers list:
David Yates - www.jehan.eu
Allison Glancey - www.strawberryluna.com
Guy Burwell - www.guyburwell.com
Fag Baboon - www.fagbaboonillustration.com
Paul McCann - www.chedderhawk.com
Mike Lawton - www.mlawton.org.uk
Ben Swift - www.eyeskull.com
Milk Two Sugars/Bob Milner - www.milktwosugars.org
Filming East Festival - www.filmingeast.org
Helen de Main - www.helendemain.net
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
Wonky wood...
Hello all and sundry
New print as ever in this final furlong of this part of the project. Today's print i will call Wood for the Trees. Its a layered drawing based on scenes from an old Chinese copy of a Tin Tin book and is part of a series of works i did entitled Reformation. they are a series of layered comic drawings with all characters and narrative stripped out of them rendering them sombre barren landscapes and interiors.
Pasting up the print proved tricky today as fatigue and poor judgment got the better of me. Sorry about that. The result is a slightly wonky print but it has a certain charm still:
Tomorrow is the long awaited Community Billboard. I have had a range of items. I would have loved more bizarre sales adds etc but the arty contingent have still done good.
New print as ever in this final furlong of this part of the project. Today's print i will call Wood for the Trees. Its a layered drawing based on scenes from an old Chinese copy of a Tin Tin book and is part of a series of works i did entitled Reformation. they are a series of layered comic drawings with all characters and narrative stripped out of them rendering them sombre barren landscapes and interiors.
Pasting up the print proved tricky today as fatigue and poor judgment got the better of me. Sorry about that. The result is a slightly wonky print but it has a certain charm still:
Tomorrow is the long awaited Community Billboard. I have had a range of items. I would have loved more bizarre sales adds etc but the arty contingent have still done good.
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Judge not lest ye be jugged...
Sorry for the hiatus yesterday, busy busy.
Well because of that we have a bumper double spread with two new billboard image sets. First we have one that i am lovingly calling Chap as its a picture of a strange chap. The image is a composite drawing made out of images i have found inside books at charity shops and libraries. Not much more to say on it apart from maybe he seems to have been very popular with the viewers...judge for yourself:
Speaking of judging, here comes print two, todays paste up, called Are You Ready? I like the idea of being asked huge, theological questions and shrugging them off with simple one word answers. This chap (with an air of Peter Sellers i think) had a certain look of being in control, like he wouldn't let a wrathful Lord bother his working day. Good man! Or maybe hes the one with the finger on that old doomsday switch:
I have also received and should continue to receive some rather splendid contributions towards the Community Billboard so roll on Thursday. There will in all likely hood only be another two or three new prints from me now in this leg of the project so keep those peepers peeled as we wrap it up. The culmination of it all will be shown at Chelsea Motel - Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art Show at Chelsea College of Art so if you can come and see it. Heres' the info:
Chelsea Motel
Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art Show
Chelsea College of Art & Design,
Atterbury Street,
London,
SW1P 4JU
An exhibition showcasing the work of the students from 2008 Chelsea College of Art and Design Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art
Sat 9 August, 10am-4pm
Monday 11 & Tuesday 12 August, 10am -8pm
Private view: Friday 8 August, 5pm – 8.30pm. Attendance by invite only. Please contact for information
Getting there: It is easiest to get to Chelsea by tube, getting off at Pimlico (Victoria Line) & then please follow signs for Tate Britain
tel: 020 7514 7751
email: enquiries@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk
Well because of that we have a bumper double spread with two new billboard image sets. First we have one that i am lovingly calling Chap as its a picture of a strange chap. The image is a composite drawing made out of images i have found inside books at charity shops and libraries. Not much more to say on it apart from maybe he seems to have been very popular with the viewers...judge for yourself:
Speaking of judging, here comes print two, todays paste up, called Are You Ready? I like the idea of being asked huge, theological questions and shrugging them off with simple one word answers. This chap (with an air of Peter Sellers i think) had a certain look of being in control, like he wouldn't let a wrathful Lord bother his working day. Good man! Or maybe hes the one with the finger on that old doomsday switch:
I have also received and should continue to receive some rather splendid contributions towards the Community Billboard so roll on Thursday. There will in all likely hood only be another two or three new prints from me now in this leg of the project so keep those peepers peeled as we wrap it up. The culmination of it all will be shown at Chelsea Motel - Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art Show at Chelsea College of Art so if you can come and see it. Heres' the info:
Chelsea Motel
Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art Show
Chelsea College of Art & Design,
Atterbury Street,
London,
SW1P 4JU
An exhibition showcasing the work of the students from 2008 Chelsea College of Art and Design Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art
Sat 9 August, 10am-4pm
Monday 11 & Tuesday 12 August, 10am -8pm
Private view: Friday 8 August, 5pm – 8.30pm. Attendance by invite only. Please contact for information
Getting there: It is easiest to get to Chelsea by tube, getting off at Pimlico (Victoria Line) & then please follow signs for Tate Britain
tel: 020 7514 7751
email: enquiries@chelsea.arts.ac.uk
www.chelsea.arts.ac.uk
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