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:: subway life by António Jorge Gonçalves
:: Ana Afonso
:: Escrever para o Boneco

ainda não é desta... (once again...)

...que os vejo de novo.
(I missed it)
17NOV2005 . ZDB
münchen
bor-land

Snowballs keep falling on my head

Yes, it's true.
It snowed in Cornwall.
College shut down,
buses stopped working,
traffic got crazy.
And we had fun!

automatic drawing_listening to the 'pistols

Life Drawing_Sessions II & III

Print-Making Workshop

Monoprinting, Screen-printing, Collagraphs

who? me?

(16th november 2005)

The Studio Cat

So this is the cat we're supposed to leave outside.

Rocha are us

Guess what. We export pears!
Introducing ROCHA pears from Portugal.
From £0.89/Kg at ASDA Stores.

Diwali Delight_photos by Bertha

Happy Diwali! (november 1st)_Photos by Bertha

around marlborough road

No, this is not the place where Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands was filmed.

Automatic Writing Workshop 2

"Big are the clouds in the sky and the aliens are here to get us. (pic.1)
Once i got in that place the other day i didn't know how to come out. (pic.2)
And trying to find myself in that beautiful place where everything is happening
and you can't figure out what you are doing. (pic.3)
Sometimes i do find it hard to get away from you. Aren't you aware of this? (pic.4)
In the place where weird things happen, the lollipops and beautiful landscapes.
In you." (pic.5)

This was our final exercise. A narrative put together by gathering excerpts from our writings.
Mind that these phrases weren't related to one another. They were randomly picked up from the big A1 paper where i wrote a lot of "unconscious" mince.
But i fancy the result though.

Automatic Writing Workshop 1

This was held last week.
A very fulfilling experience.

About "Automatic Writing":
"surrealism... contributed to the desacrilization of the image of the author by ceaselessly recommending the abrupt disappointment of expectations of meaning (the famous surrealist jolt), by entrusting the hand with the task of writing as quickly as possible what the head itself is unaware of (automatic writing), by accepting the principle and the experience of several people writing together."

Roland Barthes, in Death of the Author

Maybe in a year or so...

...i'll be talking like this.
(i challenge everyone to translate what he's sayin' before checking the sollution)

http://www.paidmyre.demon.co.uk/sounds/iain2.wav

Guy Fawkes

After Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, English Catholics who had been persecuted under her rule had hoped that her successor, James I, would be more tolerant of their religion. James I had, after all, had a Catholic mother. Unfortunately, James did not turn out to be more tolerant than Elizabeth and a number of young men, 13 to be exact, decided that violent action was the answer.
Guy Fawkes and 12 other men conspired to blow up the Houses of Parliament on November 5th, 1605.
Guy Fawkes wasn't the leader but was the one who was caught under the House of Lords with 36 barrels of gunpowder.
But Guy wasn't in prison alone for long. Soon, many conspirators were either caught outright as they flew from London, or surrendered shortly thereafter. Some, however, including the ringleader Robert Catesby, were killed in a siege within a few days of the failed attempt.

All the conspirators who were not killed in the siege were imprisoned, tortured, and executed in the most gruesome way (except Francis Tresham who fell sick and died while in prison).
All imprisonned plotters were executed publicly in March 1607. They were "hanged, drawn, and quartered", a brutal practice which authorities hoped would instill terror in other potential traitors.
Did public executions really function as a deterrent? Or did they simply feed the climate of violence that encouraged Catesby and his men to pursue their deadly aims?

Life Drawing Classes_1st Lesson

My first exercises.
This is something that i always wanted to do, but unfortunatly it wasn't part of the graphic design degree in college...

At the Moor

Curious pillar.. I think it has something to do with the Post Office.