A bit of an update/rant/whatever

So it has been months since I last posted on this due to a course director wanting D&AD to be top secret, I kinda left the blog alone and forgot about it, but I have linked my website to the blog so I have no choice, also a good friend of mine complained that there wasn't anything new on it so here it goes. First off I have a website, I know very professional of me but I wanted to have a go at the old web design and after weeks of slavery to html and flash finally have something to show for it... benmcqueen.com,made me appreciate of tough and evil flash and dreamweaver are together.

Ok I'll share with you some info on the graphics scene, still no job but hey it will happen soon enough I hope. I'm thinking of some screenprinting and T shirt making tactics when I get back to the motherland next week, to hopefully help or more than likely scare off potential clients. I was scanning through YCN earlier and came across
this that made me smile. Somebody in the design world knows we exist.

Anyway not much to report on graphics at the min but hopefully a few things will creep up in this in the next few weeks. Other than that I'm reading Jack Kerouac's on the road, typical boy novel I know, but I'm in love with it already and I've only read 75pgs of it. That and Richard Longs' exhibtion in the Tate at the min really make me want to travel.



Check him out in the Tate, the amount of work he has done is breathtaking and also the amount of miles that man has cover by foot is insane. I wish I could accomplish something as epic as that one day.

I seem to pick books at the min or like pieces of work by people on a quest, the next books I have lined up to read are Moby Dick, which most people laugh when I tell them and I'm dying to read some of Jack London's work. It will probably take me another year to get through on the road and moby dick though as I am the slowest reader ever.

Here's another random thing I think I might share, I was at a club on the Thames on Saturday and about 3am I decided to go home, now normally the bus would be the usual option but I felt like I needed to walk. I don't know if anyone else ever feels that way but walking a long distance home after a night out with Explosions in the sky in your ears really is something special. Made me think about a lot, but in particular about coming home and I guess it also made me think about that one girl who you feel like you need to share everything with. Chris McCandless said "Happiness is only real when shared" out of all the quotes I know this is probably the on quote that hits me the hardest. I don't have the balls or the vocabulary skills to explain anymore about my own quest home other than I'm getting damn anxious about seeing her and I think it's the good anxiousness.

I'm going to try and leave a blog entry everyday with a song or video of youtube so here's the first thing I listened to this morning when i got up that just made total sense. The Temper Trap



peace out and apologies for the rant.