The Wilky Way

I have no idea what this is or where it’s come from, but I’m absolutely loving it – everything about it is adorable.

The little green character even looks a bit like me. (it doesn’t).

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John Lennon would have been 70 this month, and this short interview by Jerry Levitan seems a fitting memorial.

In 1969, at the age of 14, Levitan snuck into Lennon’s hotel room on Toronto with a recorder and asked the revolutionary performer a few questions. This video uses drawings by James Braithwaite and digital illustrations by Alex Kurina to beautifully illustrate Lennon’s words and the meaning behind them.

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With my current enthusiasm for cooking, I’ve been looking at a lot of cooking and recipe sites, which meant I was lucky enough to come across Recipelook.co.uk. This is a sweet site – one of my favourites -  in which readers send in drawings and diagrams of their favourite recipes.

The idea is to use as little text as possible and some of the artists have come up with some really creative ways of presenting their recipes.

Some of these are so pretty I want to print them off and frame them somewhere in my kitchen!

Ultimately, these are a good way for culinary clutz’ like me to understand nice, simple recipes, without too much confusion.

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A friend recently pointed me in the direction of the Rockett St George interiors site. Everything on this site is so beautiful, I want it all. Unfortunately, have just had my living room flooring sanded, stained and varnished, my interiors fund is entirely wiped out.

However, as soon as I have some money to spare I’ll be heading straight to this fantastic online store and emptying it out.

In the meantime I’ll content myself with wistfully staring at all the wondrous delights it has to offer, like the Jeeves and Wooster top hat pendant lights or some of these gorgeous wall stickers and art prints.

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I’ve just recently stumbled across Brighton artist Pinkyvision, and am instantly smitten with his brightly coloured, retro psychedelic designs.

His unique graffiti, paintings, posters and papercuts are cheerily presented in bright pinks, yellows, greens and blues, with smiling characters and surreal designs.

As soon as I spied his website I just had to snap up this Star Head poster – the rainbow colours should really lift my shady hallway.

I suspect this won’t be my last Pinkyvision purchase either – I’m already eyeing up a few of his other pieces.They’re just too cheery to resist, and a collection of them hung on a living room wall would look super sweet.

I really must stop buying so much art.

Maybe.

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Ink_d Gallery in Brighton is one of my favourites – it holds unique and interesting exhibitions, and sells a mixture of artworks that I’m finding hard to resist now that I have lots of walls to decorate in my new house.

Last week I popped in for the Req and RYCA exhibition, taking place from 18th June – 11th July 2010. Both exhibits were eye-catching and attractive, but for totally different reasons.

Req's 'Girls on Edge of Bath 2'

Downstairs, Req’s dreamy spray-painted images of the female form felt misty and mystical, whilst upstairs RYCA’s iconic pop-cultural subversions are fitting to the trendy Brighton crowd.

RYCA's 'Girls All Look The Same'

For my full review of both exhibitions have a peek at 412limited.co.uk.

I also managed to pick up one of my favourite Imbue pieces, Early Hirst, which I’ll hopefully be collecting this week!

Imbue's 'Early Hirst'

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I was lucky enough to be able to interview Brighton-based artist, Imbue, at the end of last year for a feature I was putting together. He manages to very cleverly subvert messages and images through graffiti, stickers and prints and I’ve become a big fan of his work.

A lot of street art I’ve been lucky enough to see in Brighton has really impressed me, it’s a genre of art and design that tends to strikes a chord and forces people to notice what’s around them. Imbue manages to transfer the same sort of style into screen-printed images that can look great in the home.

In fact, I’ve already got my eye on this rather sexy new print he’s putting together – the one pictured is layered on steel:

And are some of my faves from his past work – I particularly like his manipulation of the WKD poster, it was hard hitting enough that WKD themselves sent Imbue a letter asking him to revoke his prints – what a cheeky scamp that Imbue is…

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I’ve been to a few Modern Toss exhibitions in Brighton, but nothing quite like this. From the description it sounds like a free-for-all attempt to create ‘the longest single panel cartoon since the Bayeaux Tapestry’.

I don’t think I’m much of a cartoonist, but I’m definitely going to have to pop along to Madame Geisha for this – if only to see if I can channel my inner Mr. Tourette and do some master signwriting of my own. Who am I kidding, a couple of drinks and I’m usually swearing like Gordon Ramsay in a kebab shop – this is just an opportunity to scribble it down, doodle a picture of a cat and call it art.  It’s taking place on 23 May and tickets can be picked up from TicketWeb for £18.

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