Evening everyone, bit of a hot one tonight eh? Not complaining though, it’s lovely to have a bit of heat!

Sorry it’s been a while since the last blog, just mad hectic with everything, so posts are few and far between, but this is an extra-long 92-image blog for you, so strap yourselves in…

Treated myself to a new geeeetar as my other one is knackered - buttons are well intermittant, star power didnt work the whammy bar was busted.

Nice new one works a treat though, shezzam!

Jonny, Michaela, Gaz & Adam came down to Brizzletown for Jonny’s buffday

The birthday boy

DanDan Efergan came out to play too

As did Benjeemin

He’s proberly dictating something, he’s got the look of Hitler about him… (not really, sorry Jonny)

Danielson played out aswell

Watershed-fun

It isn’t a Bristol trip without going to Zero Degrees

Off to The Woods innit

The next morning was Jonny’s buffday

We give Super Smash Bros a go, it’s a bit mental

I don’t really understand it, but it’s good

My lovely Sarah graduated! 2-1 and everything!!!

The graduation was at the well fancy Wills building, it was rad

Colour gel flashes are rad. As is V for Vendetta.

Sarah took both these pictures. I keep getting told off for stealing her photos.

WELL stoked. I managed to get through Slayer on Hard on GH3! It’s taken me bloody months!

I managed to finally nail Metallica’s ‘One’ today too, even more stoked with that!!

Go Go Plastic sent me some exciting pretties…

I’ve wanted one of these bad boys for so long, the 123 Klan Rolito bunny thing!

I started doing some doodles for some drawings for a show in Belfast I / Xynthetic were part of

Me & Sarah went out on a photo mission…

Found this cool ants nest in a wall…

Sarah got her Polaroid on!

The light was beautiful!

We watched Batman Begins to get us hyped for The Dark Knight

These are 2 of the drawings I did for Belfast, I forgot to photo the 3rd one, woops!

Me toy collection is growing, they’re all over the flat now, Ive not got much space on my desk, need a fancy cabinet me thinks

The most exciting thing came in the post…

My very own shipment of finished & ready Droplets!!!!

But I didn’t have time to do anything with them as the next morning, very early, myself and young WheatFree mosied off to Bristol Airport to fly to Belfast…

Our excitement was short-lived as SleazyJet delayed our flight by 7 BASTARD HOURS, meaning we were stuck inside the departure loung, on a boiling hot day for 9 hours in total (as it still didnt leave at 3.40)

Needless to say, we were not happy at all. With nothing at all to do, apart from swear about EasyJet.

Finally, after gone 4pm, we were airbourne and made the 50 minute flight to Belfast that we’d waited 7 hours for.

Aswell as the exhibition, I was giving a presentation in the eveing as part of a SweetTalk event, my name was on the screen and everything!

Aidan is the man with the plan, the dude behind the SweetTalks.

When we got there, we had most of the work, so it was time to get it up. ‘Tron & Pone had been there most of the day and got up everything they could, so it was just our bits to get up

Rrrrrrrrobbie!

The ‘tron.

Pone and Hammer (sounds like a toothpaste)

The Boys the Boys

We did a little bit of Live Art aswell

Robbie got his posca on

It’s true…

I forgot to bloody photograph the other side with all the other work on it, flippin’ hell.

And so, it was time for the SweetTalk’s. Aidan was first up, awesome stuff.

Next up was design duo M&E, who are quite simply, awesome.

Meanwhile, we were all hank marvin, so Andy kindly hooked us up with an Indian Takeaway. I just spilt mine all over the table.

Time for Alan Clarke, who has got the skills to most definately pay the bills (and then some)

Then, it was time for me, with my presentation “How the flip did that dude get there? - An Incoherent Waffle by Gavin Strange”

It was a blog-style timeline through my start at design college to where I ams now, hence the embaressing young photos!

I proberly didn’t really do myself any favours, seeing as everyone else showed their beautiful work, I just had a tonne of dodgy photos interlaced with bits of my work. Professional.

XynLove™

Before we knew it, time to go to ‘Hotel and do some sleeps.

This looks really wierd and a bit wrong. It wasn’t, he had his shorts on and was pointing out the fact we were watching The Wonder Years. Make of it what you will.

On the Way back to the Airport, we had the best Taxi driver, ‘Alan’, who gave us a tour of Belfast, it was rad.

He took us around all the murals from the conflicts, it was good to see them in person and have a proper Northern Irelander explain them to us

After that, our new best mate Alan took us to see the 2 largest cranes in the world, they’re called ‘Samson’ and ‘Goliath’ and they built the Titanic!

This is known as ‘Napoleons Nose’. Fact (look at it side-on)

(This one’s for Danny) Northern Irelands bank notes have got a fixie on them!!! How cool is that!?

George Best has got his own legal tender too!

This is Alan & Robbie

And Alan & Me!

Me & Robbie

We killed time and had a dirthy filthy sell-your-soul Starfucks (i only bought it so i didnt feel guilty about sitting in their comfy seats)

Hometime! Luckily there wasn’t any delays, thank christ.

There was a baby scruffy pigeon waiting on the steps upon our return. He didn’t know the party wasn’t until next week, silly sausage.

I got time to take some proper photos of Droplet and his packaging! This is the bulk 16-box packaging that’ll be in the shops!

This is home

And here’s the kids in all their glory!

They’re available now on me little online store, so drop on over there if you fancy giving one a home!

Thats all from me my loves, seeyabye!

This entry was posted on Monday, July 28th, 2008 at 11:17 pm and is filed under blah.