Prisms in Our Eyes

Hello friends so much has chANGED WHAT. I sort of go back to school tomorrow and everything's caught up much too fast..
Ive been to Paris with the bestest pal I have ever known Rachel and then went to Helsinki with parents, and both trips were so fab.
Paris was the best thing ever, we wandered by the Siene and sketched and ate macaroons and saw some peng architecture and in particular the Van Goghs and things in the Musee D'Orsay were beau. It was so surreal seeing so many of my favourite paintings all in one room, I still cant really contemplate it all-It was too much in one trip and so heaven that I don't really think I can piece it all together properly.

I've also recently fallen in love with Pulp and Jungle, read Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Tracey Emin's biography and lots of Alan Bennet plays, and I've tried to read lots of art theory too and take more photos.

I also went to Reading Festival with some lovely people and it was bloody brilliant. Top live bands I saw there would have to be Peace, Jungle, Queens of the Stone Age, Die Antwoord, Temples, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Horrors and Drenge(!!!) It was so so lovely to just see everyone right before my school starts again without thinking about anything and listening to some beautiful beautiful bands for 5 days. The Horrors and Queens of Stone Age had blinding lasers and smoke curling around the audience while Bombay Bicycle's lunar visuals were so impressive. Drenge wore dresses for their set and Harrison Koisser of Peace (one of my fav bands in the whole wide world) wore the most beautiful long furry coat and his hair blew in the wind as he crooned the tune of World Pleasure and it was really perfect. Then Die Antwoord were so zef~ Yolandi Vi$$er had black contact lenses and Ninja crowd-surfed on the front row. James Bagshaw of Temples sent the NME tent into a dream as he waved around the stage in beautiful blue eyeshadow. It was all very surreal.

Ive practically filled sketchbook too this summer and everything's really weird sorry Im not sure what's going on much there's too much for me to take in so here are some pages..
                                         

Any Day But Thursday

The post's title is a lyric from Morrissey's new ish cover of Satellite of Love, originally by Lou Reed. Being Morrissey, he obviously had to change the lyrics slightly to suit himself, transforming 'I watched it on TV' to 'I cannot stand the TV'.. Oh Moz.

A recent Rookie article I read is very relevant to this post and it encouraged me to carry on making things after I had a major stall/freakout/stress, when I realised I should be devoting every second of my break to cramming more biology definitions into my brain for my exams. But you need to rest between revising, or your head might just explode or something, so the article made me re-realise that, and slow down. Basically, if you're vaguely interested in creating things or you criticise the arts as an "easy subject", maybe have a read of this, because it's a good article and could give you a better perspective.

This holiday, I've filled a whole moleskine with drawings and random stuff like my scans below, because revision has been so ghastly and I finished like all of the tv series I was chain-watching. (asdfg Sherlock) -This is probably a good thing, because I watched too much tv anyway. Also making art is the perfect way to calm down and forget my oncoming exams. I love it when people share their visual diaries on the internet because I can compare with mine and get inspiration and it's just nice to see other people's work so here's some of mine.. 

submit to my zine?

Late last night I found myself trawling many different blogs to find people with zines that accepted submissions because I wanted to be part of one, which made me realise that I'd be much happier and less sleep deprived if I just made my own. 
So partly because I'm lazy and partly because I'd love to see some other people's work, I'm asking anyone who cares to send me your art, photography, writing, playlists and anything else you want to share, so I can put it in my first zine.

The theme is going to be 'Growing Up' so if you want to submit anything vaguely related to that word then go ahead and email me at: georgie.wilsonn@gmail.com 

Put 'submission' in the email's title and write your name or whatever few words you might want to include with the work in the message. 
There isn't really a deadline for sending me stuff because this will be a relaxed project but I hope some of you send me something to include, thanks xo

FLOAT FOREVER

Thought I'd share some of my doodles and collages that are supposed to be inspiring me for my art project in school that I've just started.. no luck so far on that front.

Anyway recently I've been listening to Swim Deep and Peace because they're really summery bands and I can't wait for summer. I really really reaaally want to go to Latitude 2013, because last year I went with some people and it was amazing, but this year Swim Deep and altJ will be there (not to mention a ton of other great bands) so I've got to go.

My favourite Peace songs at the moment are Float Forever and California Daze (although I have to admit they both sound so similar, I dont even know how the band got away with it) and Honey by Swim Deep is perfect. The music video for Honey is also so cute, and the girl in it is beaautiful, and she gets to dance around and spray paint at the band, so I'm super jealous of her.

 

SWIM DEEP : seriously, look how cool they are, I'd happily get any of these pictures on a tshirt..and look at all that hair. 

 PEACE: I'm seeing a hair trend here..

DRAWINGS

spend the day at home

I've been doing more drawing recently, because of being away on holiday, so here's some of my doodles, documenting my very boring life: