Author: David

First thumb: We have spent months monkeying about with UV lamps trying to develop silkscreens to not much joy. I could do A3 well with a face-tanner {why tan the face alone? I’ve been studying the tanned amongst us to see if it is common to have a brown face and blue arms. ‘I can’t come

Today would have been Kurt Cobain’s 40th. I wondered if there would be much in the news. Grunge was the first scene I was into, I was 12! So I felt the urge to mark it somehow.

I’m doing a lecture as part of Janice Harding’s Universettee lecture series on 16th April 2007. It is an introduction to the ideas of Slavoj Zizek. Click on the picture of Zizek below for details on how to join us:   The thing that drew me to reading his books initially was wanting to understand his enthusiastic

A little while ago, a Russian Journalist wrote an article about us for a London based Russian Language newspaper. I asked why they were interested, and she replied “Russians LOVE books”. I was going to put it online, but I was waiting for a translation. Due to visa difficulties, I never got the translation from

Audiences in Taiwan experienced an intense reaction to the bountiful number of folds demonstrated by the Henningham Family Press’ publication ‘Dinocerata’. For a moment it seemed it would keep doubling in size an infinite number of times. Luckily it merely unfolded six times, one short of the maximum seven times, although certain Bible paper has

We went to the exclusive arcade fire show in St John’s Smith’s Square last night, but sadly it was a little disappointing. We saw them in the ULU on the cusp of fame, and it was quite literally the best gig we have ever seen, so I admit our expectations were high. They began on

You may recall my nose was periodically swelling up and in the interests of humility I told you all online about how I was sitting with my face in a bowl of salt water. Well firstly I learnt no humility, and turned up to my friend Juliana’s birthday celebration last night sans gift, assuming of

On hold it seems. We’re settling into our new home, so it feels like the press is growing in size. I’ve been making a new sculpture, I’ve made a prototype for our next book, but everything takes time, especially as most days these weeks I am doing a crappy job. I’ll have a pHD in

Today we bought a house. A sum of money that I cannot imagine and have never seen, but allegedly owned passed electronically from one solicitor to another, and now we have  a house. I must now put this computer in a box and move it to our new place tomorrow. Suddenly a whole range of

‘Packing’ is taking a pile of things, or units, and putting them in a box or bag that constitues a single unit, in effect uniting them into one unit. Example: {jumper, trousers, laptop, seven mugs, twenty one books} = 1 where the brackets represent a cardboard box