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<Friday, 17th July 2009>
Important announcement - re. WEDNESDAY WEBSITE:
This website will be fully updated and change format on Wednesday 22nd July. From then onwards you will only be able to access the information contained here on a Wednesday daytime (GMT+0, opening hours to be announced). It will not be available to view on any other day. The Subtraction Cutting School will soon no longer be password protected, and a small charge will be made if you wish to download the notes in PDF format. So if you wish to access my notes on garment construction for free and take copies, please do so now before i pull up the drawbridge !
<Sunday, 10th May 2009>
Relationship Choices
Dipping in and out,
perhaps forever.
<Friday, 17th April 2009>
Jusqu'au bout
<Friday, 3rd April 2009>
I am in Bloomington in Indiana USA, giving a cutting demonstration to fashion undergraduates at the University of Indiana.
Click here to see their Subtraction Cutting work.
Click here to see Rachel cutting her first 'Subtraction Dress' at Indiana University.
<Sunday, 29th March 2009>
This weekend i was in London giving a subtraction cutting demo at the Imperial College of Science with the Ri, and later filming a new webTV series with the BBC.
<Tuesday, 24th March 2009>
Announcements: I am coming to Chicago & Indiana next week (April 1-5), and will give a two-day subtraction cutting masterclass at the Indiana University Bloomington. For more info contact the Center for Pattern Design.
I will also give a subtraction cutting demo at the Imperial College of Science on Saturday 28th April, as part of the Royal Institution of Great Britain's 'Geometry in Fashion' masterclass series.
<Sunday, 22nd March 2009>
Pinpoint swivel forward suddenly into hasty retreat, ricocheting left when opinion had it you were definitely all right. We change without warning. Wake up early from a night of jealous dreaming, the room bright and different. A single grain of sand is all it takes to make you blink, & swerve in avoidance.
<Thursday, 12th March 2009>
Met Zandra Rhodes in Mexico City. She's lovely.
<Wednesday, 11th March 2009>
Mi amor, mi vida, mis sueros....
...The birds sing in the Jacaranda trees.
Love is in the air.
<Tuesday, 10th March 2009>
I am in Mexico City, giving a cutting demonstration at Centro University, working with fashion, film, architecture, graphics & product design students to create a fast fashion exhibition within 4 days. Click here to see my first stage Mexican Subtraction Demo Video.
<Sunday, 8th March 2009>
Mum died 3 years ago today, dad asked her out on a first date 45 years ago tomorrow.
Time just flies away never to return.
I'll drink an iced Corona beer in the midday Mexican sun & toast 'Salute!' to all that is gone,
and all that is to gain in remembering & making new memories.
Everything lives on of importance.
My mum is in the mirror staring back at me as i try to remember her.
I am her, she made me, we share similar eyes & features.
She's in the sky, in the air, in the river waters & seas,
& every empty space inbetween everything.
i love you mum.
Can't miss you because you're elsewhere,
evading capture,
always one city ahead of me,
on the move,
work to be done,
an echo of a distant whistle.
<Thursday, 12th February 2009>
I tell you everything by saying nothing.
<Saturday, 31st January 2009>
When things return to normal, normal will be different..........
<Sunday, 25th January 2009>
"Two Wrongs Make a Right" - Royal College of Art 'ARC' Magazine interview - Click PDF to Download:
<Saturday, 24th January 2009>
Identity Redevelopment - Winter Beard Growth Report 0.5 - 1 cm
<Friday, 23rd January 2009>
The Story of Limerent Black Peter
<Monday, 19th January 2009>
THE LOAN SHARKS CIRCLE.
I imagine what comes next...
The government buys up the banks bad debt, then calls them all in... Morally underpinned by the tax risk to future generations, they chase the debtors to extinction, and claim the prize of having won a war by eradicating the easier target: the opportunistic poor who were born or schooled into addictive debt, rather than the stupid companies who saw a profit in encouraging & facilitating their dependency. State sponsored loan-sharking allows for the transferral of private ownership from borrower to state. Credit has been allowed to balloon because it lulled both individuals and companies/banks into the false sense of security that we actually owned anything. It’s a pincer movement: the poor kept sweet on benefits, the rich given terms they can comfortably afford, and the in-betweens all get stuffed.
<Wednesday, 14th January 2009>
i need a deskspace to lay my head upon, or studio space to run & jump in.
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All garments, video, graphics, websites and text are copyrighted to Julian Roberts (c) 2009. A lot of the images assembled above came from Google or somewhere, and are the copyright of their original owner. But their assembly together is very much my own doing, it's difficult to say really where creative ownership begins & ends, i'm certainly not averse to creative trespass. So no reproduction without permission, unless you're feeling subversive, punk.