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Thank you to all those who came to our house last night, we had a wonderful evening. Ping* and I made a sort of reading room in our living room displaying all our books so far, but especially Hard Wood Lesson, which is now finally finished. It feels good to have another book done. After a little while we went

David is worried that people will think he has made me up if I don’t say anything. I have been worried that the snail exodus preoccupying me is not appropriate blog fodder. But he assures me it is..So here we escarGO… (hoho, oh dear, hoho) The Blue Potatoes are thriving. However, I am keeping a close watch on the

We will be launching our next book on 12th May 2007. It is the poem ‘Hard Wood Lesson’. “It has been said that it is impossible to do a drawing of a letter; that an A is just an A. Hard Wood Lesson attempts to test this. It is a poem drawn by hand, screenprinted

We have just returned from Berlin, where we went to work and play; a kind of working holiday. We stayed with Anna Freeman {thank you Anna!} a painter friend who works for a gallery called Kollaborativ in the Prenzlauerberg area. We cycled everywhere, ate lots of currywurst, and we even dined in the revolving restaurant of the TV

We’ve done a print of Jarvis Cocker for a review on the Daytrotter website. We strongly advise everyone to visit this site. What they do is record touring bands in their studio between NY and Chicago and then offer them as free downloads. The quality is original and outstanding. I recommend ´My Brightest Diamond´ (imagine

Thank you to everyone who came along last night to the lecture, it was a full house and a patient crowd; it was a very dense lecture. But it seemed to be well received and I think people’s questions showed a lot had sunk in. Thank you again to Janice Harding and her wonderful Universettee for

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I saw an unfortunate/fortunate juxtaposition of documentaries on my mother’s TV yesterday. The first was about the mysterious disappearance of the Neanderthals, the second about the ways science was used to justify racism in the 20th century. It showed how social darwinism led up to the Nazi death camps, that they were not an abberation in European thinking.

This is a celebration post, as we just recieved delivery of our UV exposure unit at our print workshops. I think we might name it ‘the ark of the covenant’ as it is a quite imposing and potentially dangerous box. For those who don’t know, it is a machine for transferring our original artworks onto

So the final day came along. I had an interesting chat with a couple of students. One was complaining about how Zizek said nothing new and went on about irrelevent debates, and was totally inaccurate. Then he proceeded to get his recording equipment out. Why? So he can waste his time twice over? They both