art equals happy.

just quick...

MY LOVE RETURNS!

did you hear, Mr. Kaps is being a god and saving us all from our polaroid shortage?

seriously i could kiss him!

you can read more about The Impossible Project here.

Work Your Soul has a new challenge up- with a pretty snappy playlist on youtube and everything.

go look! i think you'll like!

i made a new collection on flickr, to do with seasons.

i think i'm trying to hold on to winter as long as possible...

i ordered some film last night. 

some for spring time sunlight.

some for early mornings and cloudy days.

some for my medium format holga baby james

and some black and white for a new photography project.

speaking of projects... i must be off! i have a busy weekend with the boyfriend and coursework! what are your plans?

xo

journal changes.

i finished this one a little while ago;

you may have seen some of these before- but i thought i'd give you a little peak into it.

i'm always so indecisive about things when i'm in-between journals. nothing feels solid or in the right place unless i know where i can put my thoughts, but it always takes me a while to get into a new book. here is the new one;

i put a little closure on the outside, to keep them safe.

 

[: lots of sketching, observations. 

and it was pancake day yesterday, so i thought i'd finally edit some photos from when i made pancakes with Sam, Heather, Maddy, Laurie and Jon almost a month ago!

my friends are so beautiful. i am currently using them as my little 'rewards'. 

we were told- quite bluntly- that as an animation student (i have FOUR creative exams. that is like two and half weeks of solid exams in may) we aren't allowed to have any fun, or any social life! haha. "that's what summer is for". but i think i'm skilled enough to keep a balance. 

lets just say i'm being horrible to my body and not getting enough sleep. ever.

until we speak again

kxo

sunday into schoolday.

hi. are you ready for a really stupid photo of me?

too late!

i'm so not ready for school. i will miss the freedom of working from home a lot.

i just need to keep reminding myself that although i have to deal with horrible small children judging and harassing me- i get to see my friends everyday and that actually routine is probably good for my health.

but- seriously? no more days where i spend the sleepy morning with jon and then have an early morning nap at home and then spend a few hours playing RVA class, eat something, spend time with mum and put in a late shift of schoolwork? ooohhhh.

those are my little journal covers i made. i've been dying to do these for a while- the RVA class is giving me that little bit of inspiration i need! the black bits are cut-out from magazine pages. playing with some designs/type i LOVE at the moment. 

Speaking of classes- i've actually been doing a little bit for Kara's class. It's still in the beginning states, but i'm really excited about it!!

i thought i'd share and prove i'm doing some of my homework!

also...

did i tell you i was in Portals Zine? This is a great issue- so many amazing artists in there!

I can't remember if i shared this here or not-  but i've scored some amazing finds- thrift shop wise!

and last but not least- here are two recent pages i've done;

all of these images are crazy orange- maybe i'm over compensating because of how PURPLE my hair is!

hmmm.

kim xo

lately.

i've been so busy and tired.

i finally finished my portfolio and sent it off to Kingston- yesterday we picked it up.

how intimidating! there were literally thousands of applicants. 

i had a little star next to my name, and when i signed for it- a guy came over and was like 'you'll hear within the week!' ah! i didn't want to read anything into it, but this morning i got a letter inviting me to the next step!!

it was really nice to spend the whole day with jon.

(i didn't take many pictures- these are from other times)

it's the most inspired i've been in a long time- we went to a gallery and then to the best vintage store ever near Brick Lane. 

i'm having a hugely hard time getting started with kara's class- my head is just so clogged up with thoughts, and i need a whole day of no-stress to just write it all out, but unfortunately my half term has just disappeared with busy-ness and exams are now about to begin. i could just scream! still- i will continue to make small additions to the very blank book looking up at me. i need to start a new art journal too. tiredness- GO AWAY!

maybe what i need is some sleep. i haven't had much of that in a while.

also- i went to get my roots re-dyed and it went totally wrong- i'm completely gutted, because it's kind of purple/red instead of orange/yellow like it was. oooohhhhhhhhhhhhh. so i feel really unlike myself.

this is a very strange post- i'm about to embark on a RVA class project and catch up on chat-posts, so i am sending love your way.

xo

my days come in pairs,

and my nights seem to be connected and just as important as the waking hours.

 

first of all, Rachel and Elsie's class is really cute! I did the first project last night while watching a really creepy film with my mum! haha. 

 

i forgot to take these while the sun was still out, so some of these are grossly blurry! ew!

&i couldn't help but share my newest hairbow i made!

And this is what we get up to when you get rid of all the boys and parents!!!

 

haha, don't we look cool!

(I'm sorry these photos aren't such great quality- I stole these from facebook, haha- i have a roll of fisheye film I'm waiting on!)

I am super-obsessed with cutting out letters recently and so i prepared this little bit of wall-art for her. 

everyone just plopped paint everywhere and left our mark. it's so crazyyy!

she is a very happy bunny.

I also have a cute little animation i made a while ago- but it's kind of fitting;

[: 

i've gone and done a disappearing act.

i don't really have a word to describe this week. i remember feeling like it would never come, then it's seemed to have disappeared really quickly- but i remember never stopping and feeling as if it was taking forever to finish.

i've been a crazy-person. i call it 'portfoliopanic'. 

this is printed out massive and i love it. i love it. i love it. so worth all the hassle.

i get so excited and proud of myself when i look at it- i know that sounds really stupid, but it doesn't feel stupid. this is real to me. it's bits and pieces of my life, moments that have been frozen and people that i adore and me growing as a photographer/artist. this just proves to me that i've done a good job at secretly documenting and sharing how beautiful my life is- from behind my crazy camera-eyes.

that's alot of words, but hey- it just screams at me 'SHARE WITH THE WORLD'. these were taken within the last year. it seems like such a massive achievement to say that this time last year i had only newly discovered lomography and it gives me such accomplishment to say that i've gotten most of the shades of the rainbow all organically in a year. determination is so important and precious to me lately. this just proves that i can do it. but then again- i do read into things a lot.

i have my portfolio review this wednesday! AH! i really hope they like it as much as i do.

other than that- i've been finishing up a few projects, including some animation which has led me to this band;

SPINTO BAND. i don't know what it is- but i really like this album. probably because they are easy to laugh with. youtube them, the videos are worth a watch.

Valentine's Day was good. 

I have such strange feelings towards corporate holidays. i'm all for loving people and sharing and giving and things, but somehow this year i just felt so un-inspired by it all. like it's all so contrived. why can't we give each other flowers just because it's the first thursday this week?

(which is very peculiar because it's the first year i've had someone special to share it with.)

the boy. i mean, the man, came round and it was nice to see him because he was in germany all last week.

i cooked him a recipe i found in my mum's old cookbook that she got when she was at school- it's all old(from the 70's!) and lovellyyyy and i wore my apron and a vintage dress and had a huge urge to call him 'darling' all evening.

this is a very wordy post. i wish i had a bit more eye-candy to share but i've been workworkeatworksleep this whole week.

I'm looking forward to 'PRETTY' the online class with elsie&rachel and kara's 'Life Story' workshop! i'm all signed up and ready to go! Are you participating in these? they are sure to be amazing!

okay. i will try and be a bit more blogalive.

how are you? i've missed you.

kxo

i seem to

be blogging a lot.

have a rather long fringe.

collect pointless photobooth images.

be quite the poser.

be listening to alot of Laura Marling and Jeremy Larson and Regina Spektor and The Wombats.

have gone into hibernation.

have finished my graphics powerpoint!

have updated the blog header.

have re-opened my etsy.

have a lot to share very soon- it's killing me. all this anticipation!

have submitted some images to JPG.

(to vote, see the left sidebar!)

be very surprised that Ross Hancock didn't win Project Catwalk. 

want to make my website alive and gather information.

be doing alot of work.

be wearing alot of orange and not bothering to dye my hair.

not realize that next week jon will be in germany.

be quite anti-holidays.

have come to a stand-still while the snow still falls.

be making progress with my photography project- finally.

have fixed my scanner.

be nearly finished with yet-another journal.

be all over the place. kxo

my tuesday and wednesday.

have been so FULL of emotions.

blimey.

so low and so high and end-of-the world and can't-stop-smiling.

mental. but overall enjoyable!

tuesday was a snowday and i went to see the boy and that was very nice,

came home and couldn't sleep.

at. all.

so i did some work and made a video;

it answers a few questions i've gotten recently (keep 'em coming! i love it!)

-what music i'm into that isn't old.

-how i get my bows to stay on my head. (a safety pin and a bobbypin.)

-an altered book i made years ago.

-the amount of little books i have scattered around my desk.

haha. i'm a total goon, but enjoy the stop-frame wonders!

i am so inspired by this photostream. she posts so many everyday that it is constant inspiration!

(click here to see my favourites- links to all the photos are in there)

they make me want to do my hair and go vintage shopping!

haha. that girl makes me giggle!

and i've been getting ideas for couple pictures. i'm actually really shy about asking for pictures of me and jon. you wouldn't think that, seeing as i stick my lense into everyone's face. anyway, these are nice;

All of my friends and i got glastonbury tickets on monday so i'm getting quite excited about it! i'm not really a summer person- so to get over that obstacle, i want to make some cute fun outfits so at least i'll feel stylish when we are in tents, in the mud, with lots of smelly people having a great time. haha.

and all of this ended up in me doing some self portraits!

so much happy in my little world at the moment.

so much work to do too, though.

just thought i would share!

love, kimxxoo

happy monday!

 

we got snow!

like, snow that actually stuck!

and at lunch i couldn't stand it any longer and i tore my friends away from their coffee and tea to come play pictures in the snow with me! haha. it was so coldddd.

i love this set of images (view them all here!) and i'm so happy that winter hasn't disappeared all together yet!

heather is such a pretty one, isn't she? ooohhh.

 

and the charming boy!

they say it's going to snow all of tonight and tomorrow will be a snowday! 

i love how we get two inches and every is like 'SNOW- no school, lets go sledging!'

[: in othernews; today i did some painting with lindsay and the stuff for my etsy shop is coming along really nicely! i am also panicking quite a bit because i have till the end of this week to complete three research projects, two weeks to get my portfolio DONE and down to london (omgomgomg!), three weeks to get two animation sketchbooks done and only 1 month to finish three HUGE practical projects. then we get our exam papers and the stress starts all over again! oh my!

but still- i'm looking forward to it all, i just find it so hard to say 'no' when people ring me up and say 'EPIC SNOWBALL FIGHT, YEAH?'. so many distractions...

how was your monday?

kxo