I am you, and you are me.
STORIES BY STUDIO GRRR
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Let’s Zine is a powerful workshop tool for shaping new stories about our lives
It’s important to us to provide a robust critical methodology of how young (newly forming) creatives can develop their own insurance policy against AI SLOP by starting their own LLM – we have reframed this as a LIVING LANGUAGE MEMORY that AI training data cannot penetrate or steal from us because it is not shared or uploaded.
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We talk with Fredrik Öst founder of the world renowned Snask about turning up the volume, conservatism, fuckups, saying yes to life, love and getting back to nature
The new world order really is Snask. We met Freddie at Art School, Rebecca was a student and I was a tutor teaching the course Freddie was attending. Our collision happened in the weirdest of locations (CARLISLE) a place that was alien to Freddie and us.
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I heard you making patterns rhyme like some new romantic looking for the TV sound
We were seven years old when 1980 arrived. The currency of music in the playground was without doubt the compact cassette tape and the beloved 80s mix-tape.
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Switching The Television Off Might Just Save You!
For the purpose of the skit let’s just say television is short–hand for any type of passive (SCREEN–TIME) consumption slash watching of moving images and sound, especially linear programmed but not withstanding on demand.
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Through walking, looking and enjoying purposeless movement we discover the ecstacy of motion
Technology has reduced our decisions to unfathomable precision. Turn left onto… Continue… Head northeast on… This solemn mantra continually muttering as we drudge around, compliant.
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Wildlife has plummeted by an average of 60% since 1970
Find your nearest nature reserve, park or botanical garden head for whatever is flowering and take your time. It’s good for your mental and physical health to get outside and nature provides a wonderful distraction.
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Sometimes I feel so happy, sometimes I feel so sad… but mostly, you just make me mad, baby, you just make me mad
The opening lines to Pale Blue Eyes written by Lou Reed and recorded by the Velvet Underground has become a personal and abstract expression for a feeling I have been experiencing lately.
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UK Lockdown Stay-at-home order arrives with vibrant hues of blue and yellow ochre tones
The lockdown of the UK was announced on 23 March 2020 by the Prime Minister with measures to mitigate the spread of a virus and to protect the community. It included wide-ranging restrictions on freedom of movement, enforceable in law, under a stay-at-home order.
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Pavements gleam with a kaleidoscope of colourful pollution
Why are these Kaleidoscope images intoxicating to look at? Is it because there are both beauty and destruction all in one spectacle? The blends found in these expanses of colour are fascinating to stare into, the way they twist and wave into a glowing pattern is like a tractor beam of sorts.
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The Revolutionary Pleasure of Thinking For Yourself
Do you feel upsdoe down? with a nagging feeling that the world is far from ideal and free revolutionary pleasure of thinking for yourself is considered over–rated, in an ever expanding media induced 21st Century haze. If you are feeling upside down it’s time to switch off and tune into yourself.
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Bridget Riley’s paintings of purring lines, zips and tongues cavort playfully on an epic scale
Bridget Riley experiments with an obvious love for nature and careful consideration of forms that enable repetiton and complexity of moving parts and associations — emitting and colliding across the canvas in lines, vortexes, spots, triangles, zips and tongues of colourful rhyme.
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Following is a tasteless position to find yourself in, pets follow … & bad acts follow
Terrence McKenna argues for a dissolution of boundaries and release from phony beliefs systems. In doing so he reaveals 4 secrets for modern living: Don’t Believe, Don’t Follow, Don’t Consume, Don’t Watch.
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What if, when you die here, you really die?
Inspiring photographs and surreal tale about the street art of London. Take a walk down the past streets of Brick Lane in London July 2020.
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Seven Stars Yard drips with ripped colour and painted layers in a living street art collaboration of accidental narratives
Inspiring photographs and surreal tale about the street art of London. Take a walk down the past streets of Brick Lane in London July 2020.
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Positive affirmations and street art tribute–acts dance against a psychedelic explosion of colour
Inspiring photographs and surreal tale about the street art of London. Take a walk down the past streets of Brick Lane in London July 2019.
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Bit By Byte Into Oblivion
A funny and stupid story of political posters, plant medicine, talking cats, fancy dress parties, performance art and trying to remember.
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3 ideas for making fearless art and design you believe in
Making fearless art and Design is a confluence of your experience and interests. That’s why this story is about discovering your own voice. Not someone else’s but your own innate ability to connect to the soul of the universe.
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Oscillating scrawls dance to the sound of the city, transforming surfaces into a beautiful opera of tagging, drips, daubs, overspray and movement
Stop following and you too might find stunning pinks, reds, purples, blues, oranges, silvers, yellows, greens and black scrawls, defined as irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
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ABOUT STUDIO GRRR
Hiya, we are Glen & Rebecca mischievously-led married couple with a shared love of books, drawing, colour, pattern and stories.
We make Art, Zines, Design Book Covers and Tell Stories.
For thirty years we have been Artists, Designers, Educators, Public Speakers, Creative Nomads and Heritage Crafts People.
Nice to meet you.
We believe creativity has an important role in our society and stories in the form of art, design and writing provide a vital gateway to our continued education and open doors to the imagination of others. At their best stories can challenge the way we view world and creativity gives these crucial ideas form and permanence. For thirty years we have found and lost, read, watched and listened to many fairy tales, folk-stories, discovered ancient symbols and thought about the reality of things (we believe stories are the orienting structures of our lives and language shapes reality).
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ART, BOOKS & ZINES
Our artists books, paintings, journals, street art, pamphlets and zines have been exhibited at Institute of Contemporary Arts (London), Leeds City Art Gallery, Hotel Maria Kapel (NL), The Enschede Academy of Visual Arts (NL), East Gallery (Norwich), Ruskin Gallery (Cambridge), Permanent Gallery (Brighton) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (Mexico), Manchester Craft and Design Centre, K Gallery (California) SHOWROOM (Austria), Bureau Gallery (Manchester), PrintROOM’s AmsterdamZineJam and The Anti Design Festival (London)
DESIGN & COMMERCIAL WORK
We currently focus on book cover design and editorial based projects for independent and commercial publishers, research departments, universities, cultural organisations, academics and artisan makers. We have recently completed projects funded by The National Centre for Writing, University of East Anglia, Norwich University of the Arts, The Lithuanian Culture Institute, Ministry of Culture Taiwan, Pro Helvetia, LTI Korea and The Nippon Foundation.
CREATIVE LEADERSHIP IN ARTS EDUCATION
Glen has been working in the Creative Industry for over thirty years and has been a Leading Design Educator for over twenty years. He has been an Educator to some of the most influential Graphic Designers and Notorious Creative Leaders around today and has taught students from all over the world. He has developed a deep understanding for mentoring designers which empowers and celebrates individuality and fosters a critical approach to creativity through curiosity, play and discovery. He is course leader for a unique rabble-rousing bunch of story-tellers on the BA (Hons) Design for Publishing and BA (Hons) Graphic Design Programmes at Norwich University of the Arts.
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BLOG AND STORIES
Our Blog is a curated collection of articles, stories, reprints, photographic essays, conversations and inspriation written for the curious minds of analogue people living in a digital world. Through our life’s journey we stumble through layered narratives found in naturally occurring intersections between the metaphysical realm, and terrestrial landscape, collecting spell fragments from a cast of unlikely collaborators.
Angels, demons, gods, ancestors, aliens tell of a bizarre world brimming with legacy broadcast media, music, philosophy, literature, fictional characters, and the simple truth of everyday life and death.
From this confused debris we conjure and construe interconnecting polychromic stories (we think stories and light are the orienting structures of our lives) about art, creative practice, communication theory, how language shapes our reality, mental and physical health, comedy, music, the politics of bullshit and lashings of esoteric flim-flam.