What do you all do?

i take photographs of things for advertising and design agencies and try to get as many freebies and expensive lunches while doing so.

Biochem! Biochem! Biochem!

(to the chant of Toga! Toga! Toga!)

tynan I work for myself and often don't get dressed until 2pm, this would normally not be a problem but I work with my friend who has to wittiness this charade, we write the music you hear on advertisements on the telly and in the cinema.

Today we spent most of the day recording pans being dropped on the floor and old glass jars smashing in the garden for a meteor storm scene, but we got bored and went down the pub.

i'm a filmmaker...writing a sci-fi with a meteor storm scene at the moment. i'd love to hear your pan crashing storm.

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skoota i'm a filmmaker...writing a sci-fi with a meteor storm scene at the moment. i'd love to hear your pan crashing storm.

Sure thing !

Be warned the 'meteor shower' is in fact a shower of rubbish - and it's all cartoon as opposed to yer' actual real life action, and it is unfinished as yet - no voices - but whisper me your email and I will send you a little quicktime of work in progress.

robin im an illustrator, screen printer, curator, retail assistant. Anyone want some drawings.
http://www.myspace.com/robinrobin

Great stuff, love the building on the corner. :)

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robin thanks!
know it?

No, looks like just about every pub on a corner in London !

I thought it was the John Snow for a second! Nice stuff, really like your style. Any chance you grew up watching Yellow Submarine like me? ;-P

Vinz Big companies and rich investment bankers pay me to find them pieces of art. Once found I try to buy said piece of art for what is normally a considerable sum. I then take 15% of that sum and spend it on anything that fills my vacuous materialistic soul (Normally apple products, rare toys and as of yesterday a Mercedes 1969 280SE Coupe)

As an art student you are therefore my arch enemy.

...and paycheque

actually no its not totally true, the investment bankers and companies are the enemy. Artists get money but at the expense of the commodification of something which shouldn't be commodified. in my humble opinion :)

Fair enough. But they are my paycheck (or the big ones anyway).

asm actually no its not totally true, the investment bankers and companies are the enemy. Artists get money but at the expense of the commodification of something which shouldn't be commodified. in my humble opinion :)

Ah, you'll not be saying that when Saatchi's Maybach rolls up to your studio...

Oh, me? Unemployed immigrant here in the USA (thanks for processing my visa paperwork so quickly and efficiently, Department Of Homeland Security!) until my work authorization arrives, at which point I become an online retailer of posh furniture and knick-knacks.

turpe [quote]asm actually no its not totally true, the investment bankers and companies are the enemy. Artists get money but at the expense of the commodification of something which shouldn't be commodified. in my humble opinion :)

Ah, you'll not be saying that when Saatchi's Maybach rolls up to your studio...[/quote]

Saatchi has ruined many a student artist by buying up their entire back catalogue for not a huge amount of money then just keeping it in a box somewhere.

Also, I won't be able to afford a studio :(

asm actually no its not totally true, the investment bankers and companies are the enemy. Artists get money but at the expense of the commodification of something which shouldn't be commodified. in my humble opinion :)

Hey! You weren't in Contextual Practice. Back to the studio, Maker!

Yeth mathter... mutht thtop thinking.....

i'm an electrician but I spend most of my time trying to find threads on here that I can reply to in order to get my posts up to 500. hence this.

asm [quote]turpe [quote]asm actually no its not totally true, the investment bankers and companies are the enemy. Artists get money but at the expense of the commodification of something which shouldn't be commodified. in my humble opinion :)

Ah, you'll not be saying that when Saatchi's Maybach rolls up to your studio...[/quote]

Saatchi has ruined many a student artist by buying up their entire back catalogue for not a huge amount of money then just keeping it in a box somewhere.

Also, I won't be able to afford a studio :([/quote]

I have met many students who have taken your stance, but the simple sad fact is money is a necessity. Being an Art student allows you the enviable position of being on a high horse but once you enter the 'real world' your definition of the 'enemy' will become less straight forward.

I think that goes for most students! ;-)

Vinz is right.
i went to art school, you need to wake up and smell the capitalist coffee and stop living the dream (dreaming the life more like).
well,you have until 6 months after your graduation before reality bites, enjoy it while you can.

u all work fo da' MAN

I am fully aware of that. It's why I'm not going to go into art after i finish this degree! I'd rather buy into the world than spend my entire life bitterly fighting against it. Said with a heavy heart..

asm I'd rather buy into the world than spend my entire life bitterly fighting against it.

then the Emperor has already won....

Or maybe I'm just saying that to make him think he's winning.