A good and bad day at the office

After my completion of my first few assignments I thought it was now time to head out into the world and see what I could complete now the weather finally decided to become sunny and warm after a winter that was so cold it was pretty much soul destroying.

So it was onto my next assignment, one that I was pretty pleased with, no 8. Curate an artist's retrospective in a public place. Now I'm not to ashamed to admit that when it comes to artists, I don't particularly have a favourite or even know too much about the subject. I'm more of those 'I know what I like' type person when it comes to art and what I 'like' are the usual suspects, Dali, Francis Bacon, Lowry but not enough that I feel I can write about them and hang it up in a public place as this assignment requires.

So I did what every what every person who doesn't want to appear completely ignorant when it come to art, I made a claim for graffiti artist Banksy. I chose Banksy for two reasons really, one being that since Banksy's work will never actually appear in any exhibition, this was my way of giving him one. Secondly there is nothing that upset and depresses me more that a pathetic piece of graffiti that someone has sprayed painted in some town or city centre. So I hung up next to a fine example of what I'm talking about to suggest that unless you are going to do something anyway near this quality, seriously don't bother.



I now just have to play the waiting game to see how long it will take for someone to rip this down, so if you do see anyway please return it to its original spot of the subway near the bridge, full of rubbish graffiti .

Shortly after this successful assignment (no matter how long it stays up I still consider it a success) I somewhat failed slightly on my next assignment no.15 Hang a wind chime on a tree in a parking lot. I failed mainly because of instead of purchasing a decent wind chime because that would of taken time, effort and money. I instead I thought a novelty 99 pence one would be just as good. It wasn't. It didn't even make a noise really which really defined the point of it. Add to that the fact I couldn't find a parking lot with a tree in it and I decided to do this on a wind less day (who would of thought I would ever be disappointed that it was too nice a day?) and the result is this pretty pointless video. But never mind, it still cheered me up and I can still strike assignment number 15 off my list. Kind of. (I should point out here that I did have a recording but it wouldn't upload to my blog and now some evil human being has stolen my wind chime so I will have to do it again and when I do, it will appear here as if nothing has happened)

One I did complete with absolute satisfaction and no complaints was assignment no.23 Recreate this snapshot. Basically here is the original snapshot...



and here is my recreation with help from my dear friend Miss Pippa Whiteside. Pretty spot on I think you will all agree.