Reflections

"Life moves pretty fast. If you dont stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Ferris Bueller

Bueller was right.
For the past few months i've been working on so many different projects through my work in education with 16-18 year olds, commissioned jobs, creative arts therapies studies and reasearch projects, that i have barely had time to think about making work for myself. Every spare moment i get is spent with family enjoying being a dad and husband...

Although the paintings and photographs have taken a back seat for a while, creativity is still flowing. As i head towards the end of the second year of the Creative Arts Therapies Studies course at City of Bristol College/University of Plymouth i am really beginning to see the potential impact of using creative activities as a way to increase self esteem and boost confidence in young people. In a therapeutic setting, art can used as a tool to improve health and well being - and it is using arts therapeutically with people that has begun to really interest me.

I am developing a few projects that will aim to work with creative arts and people focusing less on the final product and more on the process; investigating the experiences of the journey taken to produce a piece of artwork. I'll be posting results and reflections on a new blog lukepalmerart.blogspot.com as well as other items of interest that involve using creative arts with people.

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This weekend i managed to grab a hour to get the paint pens and oil pastels out and get drawing with my son. I documented the process with the SLR which showed the little journey we went on and made for a nice little stop frame movie. Our first collaborative piece together, definitely not the last. Great fun!

CR

CR, a photo by acerone on Flickr.

E

E, a photo by acerone on Flickr.

SA

SA, a photo by acerone on Flickr.

Blank?

Why is question 17 intentionally left blank?

My Genre

Bristol Hiphop crew and fellow original Fantastic Super Heroes bredrin Aspects at their peak.
Track titled 'My Genre'
Filmed at the Essential Festival, Ashton Court 2002

Holton Rower

Simple. Brilliant. I want to make one NOW!

247 Interview

Short Acerone interview in local music and lifestyle magazine - 247.

I first noticed this mag pop up during art student days in Exeter in early 2001. It is amazing to think that just 10 years ago email, digital cameras, scanners, iMacs and Photoshop were all pretty new technology that i was experimenting with. A new world of communication began to open up that was literally at our fingertips that was quicker and more direct than ever before. But whilst its convenience is to be celebrated it cant complete with the real thing; a hand written letter, the image on photo paper, a 12" vinyl cover. There is something more satisfying about holding what you're looking at, and that cannot be conveyed through the monitor.
Magazines feel and smell good.

So keep an eye out for this months 247 magazine, pick up two copies and give one to a friend... Or just take a look at the digital version here

Lyrical Genius

RIP

Few people are surprised any more by a reggae artist's untimely death, not even when it is as bizarre as Smiley Culture's seems to be. My biggest fear is that this icon of British reggae rap will end up as a mere footnote in the annals of rock'n'roll.

Say Smiley Culture and pop pickers of a certain age will go, "Wasn't he the one-hit wonder who did that record Police Officer? My kids love it and so does my mother ..."

They don't know the half of it.


Very well worded tribute to Smiley Culture by Dotun Adebayo HERE

Planet Croft (Paste Up)