This looks like a nice place well im 17, and i live ina tiny village on the outskirt of oxford. it's a nice sunny place and there are lots of house martins flying across the field out the back of our house.. of course people are still fox hunting and ill go out the backdoor running afterthem screaming haha..ill then phone the police which i hate doing cus i dont like police very much cus im such an extremist for caring about the welfare of animals lol im an art student and i love expressing myself in any possible way. im doing a BTEC national diploma in art and design (or what i thought was art and design actually turned out just to be design, there was a prospectus "typo" evryone thought it was art and design and we found out at the end of doing a whole year that it wasnt!!!!!) but yer... i love college life i also love my friend matt very much *love to matt* hes un Uganda at the moment doing aid work, hes spent a whole year raising money and im soso proud of him!!!!!! im going sky-diving this summer which i am really looking forward to, ill say that im not scared but i rekon when i get up there and look down ill say otherwise hehe ART is the biggest part of my life, without it i would find it soso hard to express how im feeling.. im not good with words and i find pictures represent a feeling much clearer. i like to paint alot and maybe one day ill be an illustrator, id really like to do some eye-opening work on animal abuse in the uk, this is what my next project is going to be about. sometimes i worry i get obsessive about some of my beliefs, but a person without belifes is nobody i guess. thats about it for now..sorry if that was all abit dreary,the weathers not sunny enough hehe!!! (i also have food poisoning)*vomms*
who is your favourite artist? and what is your favourite piece of art/picture/sculpture etc.? and i hope you get better soon!
I know that Oxford has had some running battles between the supporters of animal testing and animal rights activists, and a lot of attention is given to the actions of some extremists who use violent tactics. How far would you go for your beliefs?
my fave piece of art is by Brian Froud, its called woodwoman i have the hugest poster of the piece hangin in my room, i guess i like it because of the colours, all sorta blue and purples, most of my work is made up of blues : ) i also like damien hurst alot, went to the tate modern a few months ago and some of his work is outstanding!
I think the media has blown alot of events that have occured at the demos out of proportion.. the police are actually to blame for alot of the violence that has happened, ive seen them push and barge into people... they lie to us, they make us move into back alleys so that our demonstration can't be seen, they try and run us over on their horses!!!!! To be fair ive never seen an animal rights activist hurt anyone unprovoked.. we have had PRO-TEST people come over and be violent towards us! i cant really go far with my belifs, i would never hurt anyone and the most i can do to be honest is stand outside in the rain with a big placard....and that makes me an extremist according to Tony Blair. i am though an extremist in thinking god i wish i could get near enough to him to blow him up, or shoot him or even better fly him over to iraq and leave him there : )
Well I recognise the need for violence in certain situations, I'm a socialist and can see how violence might be applicable in a revolutionary situation. I also can see that the police are very often bastards, and do start a lot of trouble on demonstrations, whether anti-capitalist, or anti-testing. The issue of the animal rights activists is slightly different, however, as there has been violence and threats of violence on a personal level against individuals. Certain extreme activists have said that everyone at Oxford Uni, even the students and fellows, are a target until the labs are stopped. I'm a student at Cambridge, which has until recently had its own problems with Huntingdon Life Sciences, and I'd be rather annoyed if I felt I was a target. These kind of violent actions, to me, don't seem to serve a logical purpose, but only create bad press for a legitimate cause. What do you think?
Have you ever woken up and gone "Where the hell am I?" and if so when was the last time it happened? Who is your biggest inspiration? If you had any magical power, what would it be?
yer, last week i woke up on holiday outside shivering cold with a few mates and jus thought how the hell did we end up here.... i managed to find a cozy rug though and slyly stole it my biggest inspiration.. hmmmmm my mum (as soppy as it sounds) shes amazing and somehow always is right about evrything!!! i hope one day ill be a great mum like her : ) if i had a magical power it would have to be food telecanisis, so whenever im out and about with no cash id be able to hummmmm abit and then random food jus appears.. orrrrrrrr id want to fly cus i live in the middle of nowehere and its a mission to go out!
yes i think that generally it has led to bed press and media, i think its effected how many people turn up for demos because they feel that the mass majority are extremists, and it is easy to becaome an extremist too without even realising it!!! i went through a quite severe amount of depression because i had seen things i diddn't like and became obsessed with the whole campeign.. luckily summer came and cheered me up, im having an awesome time now yay!
yeah.. i am a student at oxford and i have had eggs thrown at me for this reason in the street.. the irony being i am vegan so actually they were supporting the industrial use of animals more than i ever have .. anyway mazzie, when and why did you become vegan? and when can i do your dreadies hmm? xxx
yeah ok sorry, just having a bit of a bad day thats all. anyway... i heard there was similar stuff going on in cambridge about a lab there, was it all that bad? some days you can barely move around town in ox because of the protests.
awwww thats mean of them yukkie eggs!!!! i became vegan about 7/8 months ago when i was eating an egg sandwich and then suddenly thought about really how discusing it is to eat something that diddn't even have the chance to be born, and then then i got freaked out haha and that was it for me : ) awww i decided not to go for the dreds cus im hunting for a job and i heard tha its well hard to get employed with them : ( but ive got my hair nice now so im happy, we should still meet up and have a drink at some point though! im really shy though eeek im trying really hard to overcome my shyness and im getting there xxxx
You asked Taz and I about dreams. Are dreams important to you? Can you lucidly dream? And if so, what do you do in your lucid dreams? Do you believe dreams have meanings greater than what is on your mind?
well recently i have been doin al ot of artwork based on my own and others dreams, and they jus facinate me soso much!!! i think that alot of dreams hold quite significant symbolism which relates to things that are going on in our waking lives, i think somethings our sub-concious selves are shouting out and giving us messages also.. because sometimes we tend to ignore our own judgements : ) i can lucidly dream, i guess it's the same as astral projection..sometimes ill go off into these dazes when around people and ill stare and stare, most of the time i dont even realise im doing it!!!! It freaks some people out no end, but i can't help it, i jus dont get enough sleep and i get bored very easily too lol, always have to be doing something which is amusing or interesting "Do you believe dreams have meanings greater than what is on your mind?"- hmmmmm thats a tough one,generally i think they do, i have some terrible gory dreams sometimes and i jus don't know why, i hate violence but im always caught up in some violent struggle.. but that could have alot to do with emotions and things really, so im not sure!!! i think we could learn alot from our dreams, i know people who have learnt how to control theirs and use them as a tool to help them in their every day life...
What do you think counts as art? And do you have any of your art on your computer? Could you post some in UK Arts and Crafts for us to see? That'd be great
ANYTHING... everything and anything is expressionism so to me something that is expressing how someone feels about something is art, like there was this woman who made a piece of art out of her snot and collected it and made art, lots of people thought it was discusing, but i thought it was beautiful in a sense that she made something beautiful out of something that would be regarded as discusting : ) and to collect that amount of snot must ahve taken some doing!!!!!! i have a few pieces i could post... most of my art is on the MAC computers at college though but ill have a little look and see
