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Showing posts with label BRICK LANE. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BRICK LANE. Show all posts

FAIZAL LULAT

Monday, 3 May 2010 by ..:: IAMRAV ::..

I DONT WANT TO SAY MUCH ABOUT THIS DUDE AS HIS WORK DOES MOST OF THE TALKING, I CAME ACROSS HIS STALL OF PRINTS AT BRICK LANE MARKET AND DELVED INTO HIS PORTFOLIO OF FINE ART / PHOTOGRAPHY / TYPOGRAPHY... ENJOY












"Encouraged to be creative at a young age, I excelled at the Arts at Secondary School and went on to study Fine Art, Graphic Design and 3-D Design at A-Levels. A Foundation course followed at Chelsea College of Art. Where the freedoms of the studio space allowed me to leave with a Distinction.

A Gap Year was in order and I headed off to Peru and Bolivia for a while, where the experiences had, would have lasting impressions upon my being.

University followed and due to influences I went on to study Graphic Design. For three years I had to constantly question the creative process. Coming from a predominantly Fine Art mind set to think, as a Graphic Designer was a challenge. The result of this constant battle was a deeper conscious understanding of what I was producing as a creative.

University ended and my confidence as a creative was in tatters. I spent the next year working a low paid job and eventually decided to go backpacking. Traveling overland I journeyed through France, Spain, Morocco, Western Sahara and ending up in Mauritania. Living in the Sahara Desert with village people and nomads. Unfortunately I had the means to come back to London and a change of heart later I was back in the rain going to a job I didn’t like.

Fortunately they had to fire me and with work scarce and an increasing attachment to God I went on a spiritual exercise. Upon returning and in search of a direction In Life, inspiration led me to start selling some of my work at a small stall in Brick Lane. With the stall providing an outlet for the artistic soul, dreams and aspirations are again filling the horizon.

The creative process is full time, constantly aware of lines, forms and colour. Searching for the beauty in everyday and the meaning behind instances. Inspiration is Life and such is its character that the imagination is bombarded with an overload of stimulus, on an almost constant turn of the head."

I BE BRICK-LANING

Sunday, 2 May 2010 by ..:: IAMRAV ::..


FOR ONCE I GOT SOME TIME OFF WORK ON THE WEEKEND SO SPENT IT WITH MY UNI HEADS - MADS PACKED. SO SHOUT OUT TO KANIKA FOR SHOWING ME THE BREAKFAST CLUB IN HOXTON - BUT THERE'S ALSO ONE IN SOHO AND ANGEL.

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THE DECOR WAS UBER KITSCH BUT DEFINITELY RETRO AMERICAN DINER WITH A HINT OF CSM :P THE TYPE ABOVE THE BAR FOR ONE SAID...

"'I MET THIS WOMAN, SHE MADE ME NERVOUS, SHE TOOK ME IN AND MADE ME BREAKFAST"

SICKA... THEY HAD THE PACMAN SWAG ON THEIR MUGS BUT THE MEALS WERE HUMONGOUS, I MEAN MY SAUSAGE/BACON/EGG ROLL WAS A REAL SCOOBY SNACK AND REALLY HAD TO CRAM IT IN MY FACE HOLE. IT WAS MORE DEAR THAN MOST BREAKFASTS PLACES BUT BREAKFAST WITH A DRINK WILL COST YOU BETWEEN £7-12 BUT IT'S DEFINITELY A GOOD START TO A DAY.






THE GRAFF ARTISTS ALREADY OUT IN FORCE ON THIS YEARS ANTICIPATED HORROR FLICK...



SO MAKING OUR WAY DOWN TO BRICK LANE FOR THIS SUPERRETTE'S CREATIVE JUMBLE SALE AND YE THERE WAS A COUPLE OF NICE THINGS BUT I SPOTTED THIS AND IMMEDIATELY CO-SIGNED WITH APPRECIATION *TRIGGER FINGERS* RECOGNISE...






REFERRING TO THE 4 IMAGES ABOVE, I'M DOWN FOR THE VINTAGE WEAR AND AM LOOKING FOR THAT SPECIAL VARSITY JACKET THAT EMBODIES ONESELF BUT IT'S GETTING ONE THAT'S 'YOU' WHICH IS DIFFICULT. BUT IF YOU PASS A ORANGE NEON SHOP THEN GO IN AS THE SHOP OWNER HAS CATS FOR SHOP ASSISTANTS...SICKA. ANYWAY THEY HAVE NICE PENDANT AND JEWELLERY PIECES THAT ARE EXCLUSE.

NOW I WISH I COULD REMEMBER THE NAME OF THIS OTHER BOUTIQUE BUT FRANKLY I CANT - ALL I KNOW IT'S GOT A BIG RED DOOR AND A WAISTCOAT PIECE MADE FROM DECONTRUCTED TRAINERS AND SOME COOL SQUISHY DIGITAL WATCHES WHICH I WILL INDEED BE KOPPING WHEN I FIND THAT RED DOOR AGAIN.