Author: David

Here is a copy of the first thing I successfully screenprinted in our new workshops; a flyer for our upcoming release ‘a plan and the means to complete’ (March 2007). It is for a screenprinted book investigating the purpose of the Henningham Family Press, while also telling the story of Eric Gill’s guild workshops and the Danielson Famile from

A review of the Rational Rec night we did a month ago stars Ping* and/or Naomi, though unnamed. It is from the ICA blog. Russell Herron’s Blog In answer to his question, the reason we got 24 was that my mother lives about five minutes from the hydrogen fuel cell refuelling plant that was the

Feeling pretty good about myself today, I made a bed for our friend’s little girl. Now all the kids are holding a subtle competition to try and be the one to get the new bed. It is quite a major change to their little world. Following up on Ping*s rant, I saw a vicar on

Finally Daniel, Chris and I met face to face after a long time of knowing a bit about each other through his Dad. We went to the Danielson concert in Kilburn (sounds like it’s in Yorkshire, but as you know it’s NW London) last night, armed with little cakes ping* had made for them when she saw

         

I’ve been experiencing a lot of stress lately. And like most people I always assumed that a good holiday shakes it off. I even had a rudimentary holiday maths equation I held to, without thinking it through, that one stressful period can be deleted by one holiday. But it isn’t working. The stuff is fireproof.

Well that was a success! We had around 130 people at the screening of JL Aronson’s ‘Danielson: A Family Movie’, and the crowd seemed to be very attentive. Thank you JL Aronson for letting us put on your film! Ping* worked very hard on it, so it was great to see a good turnout. The picture

There is a band from New Jersey called the Danielson Famile, who have been a formative influence on the press. We came across them as part of my research for my MA thesis, which we will be printing and releasing next March. Also in the course of the research we met and shared beer with

I think we can safely say Rational Rec was a roaring success. I was really pleased with how aptly our sculptures went side by side. Mine is the cabinet on a table, and his the ladder thing with a motorised belt in it. Perfect in terms of scale.           James Capper turns out

One of the hardest questions to answer about sculpture is where to put it. I’ve been asked to take part in this club night in Bethnal Green as part of a round in the Working Men’s Art Quiz, so I can see if a quiz is a good place to put a sculpture. This will