Our AIP Jammers have been working incredibly hard and the results have been fantastic. Eland Stuart has been teaching a variety of skills including washing out joints gently and using lime slurry to provide a keying texture for vertical joints!
Day one: lots of clearing out joints, discussion of approach, and above all, lots of learning about rubble-built structures.
If you are not sure, or if you don’t know what to do, here’s a useful list of things you can do or might think about.
• campaign (apparently this is the major contribution you can make to the mitigation of Climate Change)
• don’t fly
• stop using plastic
• cycle or walk instead of driving
• drive an electric car and/or don’t change your car as often
• turn the heating down
• wear your clothes a day longer
• eat food from sustainable sources
• upgrade your devices slowly and ensure your old devices are recycled properly.
Readers will be aware of my ongoing design and illustration work, as well as installations and videos I have produced over the years. Last year, inspired by a series of illustrations I produced prior to delivering a show in Birmingham, I launched Selwyn & Ink a portfolio website and overall brand to encapsulate this work and separate it from ScottishLaird and Dunans Castle. The website is available here.
So much #disinformation around – and we seem to have stopped having the #criticalthinking skills to #decipher #objectivetruth from ur-truths promoted by #vestedinterests.
This is the first in an occasional series of pertinent questions I’ll be posting on CCC.com – as well as @seedixonspain, @dixonspain and my FB account. Share at will, but always with this url!
This morning I was shocked out of my contemplation of Boris and his new cabinet by The 1975’s new single featuring Greta Thunberg, the world’s most famous climate change activist. That shock was precisely the point. Greta lambasts older generations, she rounds on the present polite political dialogue and makes the case that we should all act now – we should rebel!
Here’s the track: https://open.spotify.com/track/6sQeHBkvilt6ycKfnJMki4?si=HgxgRt_nTI6KzLshO9f6wA
… I particularly love the video cover
And here’s a more direct admonition: https://open.spotify.com/track/2N2u7QF2uJHbEEUEDS7UQK?si=lR4CulkeR4iZ9ezE2C920g
One of TWTC‘s perennial favourites travels to Pitlochry this summer. A night not to be missed. I designed the poster, and also produced the video below – which will give you the idea!
We wanted to do something different with our signage, refresh it yes, but more than that. Reflect our ambition, create something familiar yet original. I think we’ve done it. (Please ignore the calibration and cropmarks!)
For the last couple of months it has been my privilege to work on the album artwork for this superb set of 10 songs, not least because I have been listening to the album as I designed it. And the songs are now truly part of my soul! Man, they are good, and all written and performed by Argyllachs – or at least adopted Argyllachs. Produced by Joe McAlindan (AKA _linden) and mixed and recorded by David Donaldson, the album is called, In The Wild Country and will be released in the next 6 weeks or so, with previews available as EPs on various digital outlets.
I love love love this!
