Prefab77?

Greetings fellow organisms!
Today Simon Chambers graced us with the task of blogging a magazine, an event and a retail environment, to get the ball rolling so to speak. Oh how I chuckled to myself, he suggested looking around urban outfitters, so I did.
On the way there I saw this:

How ominous, all those months ago when I volunteered for my first art event I was oddly drawn to the work of prefab77, and I'm sure this face has followed me for years around the alleys and hideyholes of Newcastle.

When I got inside urban outfitters i was immediately blown away by this:

There is a place, near The Goose, that has gigantic, 20ft angle-poise lamps, with equal majesty to their counterpart, but a far more industrious edge. This however is a different league altogether. As I drifted below it with trepidation I could almost feel the warmth buzzing from it.

 Here's another light fitting, playing off the brick walls and exposed piping.

And who doesn't love wood profiling. Reminds me of the time i made a chessboard from side grain and end grain wood :).
But what is this! on the stairs there, next to the giant M?

Prefab77! Set beautifully between and around hard materials and wired lightbulbs.

prefab77.co.uk

Last but most definitely not least, page 4 of my little book project :)

I've always had a fancy for dotted lines that describe something implied, either below the surface or hidden away somewhere. Also, i love the bounce in that sentence.
Sincerely, My Self.

Racking the Noodle

Back again after a couple days of normality and i've finished another two pages of my little project.
First of all however i'd like to share some other things that grabbed my interest. On Sunday i saw a white wall and i had to paint it black, at Highbridge gallery space. On the way out i ran into Edwin Li, who i'd met on several occasions throughout Action Relay, an ongoing piece at the gallery that had involved using the objects used by the previous artists.
Edwin said he had a thing on Monday night, at the mining institute, so after eating some lovely food in The Town Wall with my girlfriend Erin, and after finding this:

(I've had a thing for prefab77 since i saw their work invigilating for MART at the Baltic, and this is certainly now going to keep my eyes peeled for novel No: 7 )

Yes, anyway, we went along (belatedly) to the Mining Institute, and upon finding this poster crept inside and rang the buzzer.

We paid our due's and sat at the back on the floor, listening to Edwin teasing some beautiful instruments as he told a story of civil war, passionate resistance and unrequited love. It was a wonderful story, and the building was very pretty, apparently they have a golf club too.

This is our slightly obscured view of the proceedings, which made me think a lot about code within music, it was very interesting. :)

Here is the second page of 'things i learned'.

And here is the Third.

So away i go to eat noodles and return another day (tomorrow)
Sincerely, My self.

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Don't Call Me Ishmael (Humble Beginnings)

Welcome any and all to the wonderful and often excitedly convoluted thought patterns of me, Scott Dixon.
To get me started and motivated about a concept so foreign as 'blogging' I have invented a little task for myself :) .
For Christmas this year I received a handy little book called '101 things i learned in architecture school' by Matthew Frederick... Who's website is HERE .
On my quest for knowledge I've decided to pay a sort of homage, and come out of the other end of it with some evident learning experiences.

After struggling for 30 minutes with a decidedly awkward hole punch, I salvaged some left over chord from attempted Xmas craft and strung this little beauty together :D.
The premise so far is to do one a day, for 101 days. The first one looks like this:

My sketch lines are always feathery, and its evident I need to spend more time shaping and spacing my print, but the point remains. Hopefully tomorrow I'll find time to upload some pictures of my favorite things around the house, and as soon as I'm volunteering at the gallery I'm sure countless thoughts will broach my skull.
Sincerely, myself. (  tweet #ScottD1xon  )

Note: Remember to carry notepad and pen with me more often.