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I'd be interested to know your thoughts too...

[link] <<<<< look here.

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/18414617/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/18414617/ Tue, 20 May 2008 12:28:59 PDT [link] accounts for updates to my work and etc.

In store for June is our trip to London to exhibit at D&AD, to show off our work at a new designers fair, looking forward to that.

After that in July, me and my dad will be having a joint birthday party (another hat party i think). and also heading back to morocco again!

For now check out my website, finally up after a good month or so trying to get my head round how to actually make a website that works!

visit me at [link] ! and let me know what you think.

Finally just a huge congratulations to everyone who exhibited in the degree show! well done! and also a thanks to everyone who gave their input to the questions I asked on here!

You guys are ACE!!!!

ciao for now!

John Alan Birch

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/16025321/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/16025321/ Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:36:41 PST
anyways, back to the theme of 'Home' again, do any of you have any idiosyncrasies/routines that you go through at home that you wouldn't when in other peoples homes/presence? (this can really be anything, just basic daily routine, to constantly checking things are switched on/off in an OCD kinda way, something that i do alot...)

Thanks, any replies are welcome, thanks again in advance, i hope to maybe produce a book that looks at 'routine' when it comes to the idea of home.

Johnny B

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/14979916/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/14979916/ Tue, 09 Oct 2007 02:38:46 PDT
The theme is "Home"

basically i've been asking people that if they were given an empty room to live in and they could only add one single thing to that room to make it feel like home?

if you have any input, please let me know. Thanks

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/13849669/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/13849669/ Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:19:31 PDT
enjoy your day, hope it is good to you.

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/13811185/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/13811185/ Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:31:45 PDT
so yeah went to morocco and now i'm back at home working in some shitty cafe. anyways morocco was amazing, met some amazing people and we may be going back again which would be sweet, hopefully gonna do some work to do with morocco if i get the chance.

so last month was my burthday which was a good one, we had a hat party. everyone had to arrive in a silly hat and if someone was kind enough to get you a drink then you traded hats, there are some great photos...

so yeah i got myself a macbook for my birthday too, superfantastic! just looking forward to be able to play about and do some real arty stuff on it - hopefully.

johnalanbirch

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/12725608/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/12725608/ Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:15:50 PDT
and then off to morrocco. zoom zoom zoom. in a plane i guess.

I have so much work to put up that i'll probably try and get it all up next week sometime.

keep it real.

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]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11793495/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11793495/ Tue, 13 Feb 2007 01:56:45 PST [link]

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11768813/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11768813/ Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:30:20 PST
should i cut my hair?
should i shave my beard?

let me knoe what you think if you can be bothered...

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11573233/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11573233/ Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:10:47 PST
anyways, back from new york! woohoo, amazing. i met travis, saw the knicks, spent $75 on CD's and almost $90 on Jeffrey Brown books, that guy's a legend. i think you should all read jeffrey brown..or i will kick you....and i mean hard. you heard me.

it's good to be back...

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11219733/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11219733/ Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:34:03 PST
hey guys, i know i already mentioned this once. didn't i? anyways here is my idea. im probably gonna start up a really crude site if anyone is actually interested?

This is an arts project that I am looking to start up based on the inspirational work "Trains of Winnipeg" by Canadian Artist Clive Holden, the work consists of poetry, film, music and so on. visit [link] to find out more, i promise you won't be disappointed. (the weakerthans are involved in ToW too...how could that be bad!?)

So here it is. my idea. I think that anyone and everyone should be able to contribute to this beautiful idea and create a body of astounding work, in homage I guess to the original. I'm looking for anything, music, writing, poetry, illustration, animation, video art, anything. I'm looking for like minded people who are passionate about this work like I am.

anyways. if you are interested...mail me at johnalanbirch@hotmail.com . thanks.

alan.

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11073012/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11073012/ Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:03:40 PST
[link]

mr and mrs eraser are on there, also lots of other cool stuff.

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11035630/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/11035630/ Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:56:44 PST
anyways, we finish uni officially tomorrow so i think there'll be a few drunkards in dundee tomorrow, can't wait! so today is to be a pretty lazy ass day, put a bunch of work on DA loadsa scraps too, so got tha outta my system. got our assessment feedback today and i think i'm supposed to draw more animals or something, so i'll probably have a go at that today.

also, i'm really chuffed! i made it into the Artists and Illustrators magazine with Mr.Eraser and an image from my artists book "Fear" WOOHOO! i got the phone call the other day, and i almost didn't answer the phone because i thought that maybe it would be O2 or some call centre...i'm glad i did answer it though

hope you all have a fun festive season.

Drink and be merry!

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/10897738/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/10897738/ Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:24:25 PST [link] .

Sooooooo, christmas is coming up and i'm looking forward to seeing my friends and being a lazy fucker for a couple of weeks (which, even if i say so myself, i feel like i deserve.) but i've got a few things going on, i sent some work in for a magazine article about student illustrators, designers and alike...which is out in february so i'll have my fingers crossed for the next couple of months until i hear back from them.

Also a couple of weeks back i discovered an art project from a few years back called "Trains of Winnipeg" by Clive Holden (along with people like John K. Sansom, Jason Tait and Christine Fellows) and you can download a cd from the site [link] and it's mainly poetry and prose spoken over music, beautiful.

Anyways, long story short i emailed him and proposed he make ToW an open project that people can add things to and he said he'd consider this! although if he didn't he said it's cool for me to start it up. so i'm looking at starting a project called "Trains to Anywhere" which i want everyone i know to be a part of...anyways check out his work and let me know if you are interested.

laters.

"I'm the devil i love metal...check this riff it's fucking tasty"

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/10588781/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/10588781/ Thu, 02 Nov 2006 01:28:00 PST
hey everybody i got one of my pieces of work put on the site Robot-A-Day, i strongly suggest y'all check it out...it's ace!

[link]

WOOOOHOOOOO!

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/10386481/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/10386481/ Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:21:10 PDT
So i've had a pretty cool week, little bit hectic what with uni work and all that but keeping on top of it all which makes it all better. just going to have a nice relaxing weekend, do a little bit of art, maybe a comic, just in a good chilled out mood. should really get some research done on my uni project too though.

so this week I also learnt how to use illustrator, and have done my first illustrator piece (OMG!) which isn't awesome but i'm happy with it and will probably be doing a bit more work on illustrator from now on.

I also found out today that Mr.Eraser has reached 1,000 favourites which i'm pretty amazed by! and just want to say a big thanks to EVEEEERRRYYYYYONE who favourited him, he's very thankful to. oh and thanks to my awesome girlfriend ( [link] )for suggesting him to the nice deviantart peoples. i ALSSSSO found out this morning that Mr.Eraser has FANART! which again is super-awesome, it's a comic by TekStation ( [link] ) done with photography rather than drawn which i think looks pretty cool. (check it out.) oh and i've drawn a new mr.eraser cartoon today which i should bput up on monday.

so i'm off to have the laziest weekedn i possibly can, taking into account i should really get some work done.

thanks again everyone!

Peace Out.

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/10381929/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/10381929/ Fri, 13 Oct 2006 16:11:53 PDT
can't be bothered re-writing it now, do it tomorrow.

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/10158527/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/10158527/ Sat, 23 Sep 2006 04:02:16 PDT
Listening to: Eli, The Barrow Boy - The Decemberists

Hey there peeps! really in the mood to get some comics done, so i just thought I'd ask for some opinions from people. Firstly look at [link] , basically i'm wanting to do a few more comics based on odd little sayings like this one. Really eager to get started but having a bit of a block as for coming up wiht any good sayings (already been given "an apple a day" which i think could be a pretty good comic. oh and "mind your p's and q's"...does anyone actually know what the hell that means.)

so yeah if you can think of any that you think may be good just reply to this post muchly appreciated.

oh i also thought of..."there are plenty more fish in the sea"

Peace out. ]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/9973619/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/9973619/ Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:33:16 PDT I'm spo made up I may even have to treat myself to a new eraser not just so that Mr.Eraser will live on forever...although a terrible thing happend when I was back home...i've been learning to play guitar and...Mr.Eraser may have accidently been impaled and split in two by a plectrum...oh well, he's still smiling!!

I just wanetd to say a massive thank you and a shout out to everyone who has commented and favourited Mr.Eraser I wish I had the time to comment back to everyone but i've got uni work to be getting on with.

over the summer i did'nt get a chance to do an awful lot of work but i have done two new comics which I will put up as soon as possible.

Peace out.

oh and thank you to my superduperawesome girlfriend for getting me a DA subscription

It's Good To Be Back!

]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8888872/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8888872/ Sat, 27 May 2006 00:47:43 PDT
Hellogoodbye were frickin' amazing and I'm glad my girl finally got to see them, she was so made up(they're her favourite band)...and she got a plectrum!!!

but yeah anyways...i just hate what the "scene" has become. the place was full of drunk kids...emo kids at that (obviously). i'm not a huge TBS fan but there were so many drunk kids...and i don't really wanna make a sweeping generalisation but those kids suck...it's not what gigs are about...go for the fucking music. i mean why pay 16 pounds to go see a band and get so hammered that you don't even remember a thing? i don't think i've ever been that drunk at a gig. maybe it's a sign of me getting old or something i guess but i just wanted to enjoy a few bands and not have this horrible spectacle going on around me. the first aid stand was just packed with kids throwing up and i kept looking over and thinking that's not what the first aiders are there for so I went over and expressed my appreciation for the saint john's ambulance people...just said they were doing a great job, but in the end i think that they just thought i was another drunk.

maybe i'm getting old.

maybe i'm not punk rock.

it just made me feel a bit sick.

the emo kids are making a joke of rock.

apologies for the rant (those of you who read this) ]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8710331/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8710331/ Mon, 08 May 2006 12:52:55 PDT
I had a creative surge yesterday and did quite alot of work...in my three sketchbooks...only just put it up on deviantart now though, have a look and let me know what you think.

Also when drawing in my little sketchbook I spilt an awful lot of red ink all over the floor and pages of my sketchbook and stuff...ah well...it was mostly scrap work and ideas so i'm not so bothered...but I think I made it work...please have a look at my scraps and let me know what you think... ]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8659639/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8659639/ Wed, 03 May 2006 07:24:19 PDT
(okay so i'm not headed home yet but anyways...)

Hey people, Pretty much finished at uni now and everything seems to be calming down a little which is nice. got my feedback from this semester's work and I got a B3 (up from a C2 last semester) so I'm pretty chuffed, just have to wait and see how the essay went. It's so weird not having any work to do, all we are doing now is helping out 4th year illustration students sorting their degree show, which is fun...because we get to design and make a themed bar...it just sucks that not too many people are helping.

So my plans for the summer are pretty simple...staying in dundee for the rest of the month (going to see Taking Back Sunday and Hellogoodbye on the 26th) and then heading back down to merseyside on the 31st...so as I can enjoy a chilled out, getting drunk, having bbq's, watching the world cup month or so with my family...don't know how much work i'll post over this time...i'd like to think i'll do lots. but then again it's easy to say that now...it's a different story when you're hungover. we'll see

then i'm thinking of moving back up to dundee july/august sometime (not decided yet) and looking for a job (i neeeeeeed moneys)....

anyways, sorry for the ramblings...hope that everyones work/exams are going well and enjoy your time off this summer!!!

alan. ]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8437731/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8437731/ Tue, 11 Apr 2006 12:03:34 PDT [link]

" I think we should get 100 people to draw a picture of a ninja and then put them up together in one big picture of ninja badassety.
Mebbe I've had too much coffee, but personally I think this is a great idea and should be passed around "

I think that this sounds like a super fantastic idea!!! anyone in???

"I am ninja, she is ninja, he is ninja tooo..."

P.S. whoops i posted a blank journal....duh.....

and i cut my own hair today! WHOOP! ]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8291053/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8291053/ Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:33:13 PST
You may notice i listen to alot of ryan adams, i can't help it. i'm addicted.

anyways, i put a few pages of my non diary up (there are quite a few more but not in the mood for scanning etc at the mo...it's lunchtime and i'm hugnry). anyways they are in scraps but i thought i'd put some links up on my journal for the hell of it.

enjoy!

[link]
[link]
[link]
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[link]


tell me what you think. ]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8242966/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8242966/ Thu, 23 Mar 2006 05:13:50 PST
Mood: Creative.

Hey everybody, i'm going home to liverpool this weekend (well i say liverpool i actually mean wallasey...but not many people will know where that is...) Taking my jen down to see the sights of liverpool (gutted that the weather forecast is pretty goddamn crappy though...but i'm sure we'll still have fun).

Made myself a few small books this week while working on this book project, and even made myself a sketchbook which i'm pretty proud of! got all different kinds of paper in it yay... still keeping my non-diary, and will probably post a few bits and pieces from it next week.

got some good ideas for comics and bits of work from it so i'm glad i started writing my ideas and thoughts down (would strongly recommend it to anyone who doesn't already do it.)

hope that all of you have good weekends

Alan x ]]> ~john-alan http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8206174/ http://john-alan.deviantart.com/journal/8206174/ Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:50:55 PST
yesterday i purchased a diary...a diary entitled "this is not a diary" that i am going to use as a keeper of random ideas and general crap sketchiness and for people who see it to add whatever they wish. do you think this would be a good idea???

had a pretty quiet day and weekend, stayed in, chilled out, watched films and drank wine... my kind of weekend to be honest. i am currently making a book in university and spent this morning refining a few images from that (hence the new pieces of work on my deviantart) hope that people like them.

Just about to go and make food, enjoy your week people.

x ]]> ~john-alan