Danielle Banks

2012-02-03T22:51:00.002Z

Hawaii!

2012-01-26T14:55:00.002Z

Does it still count as materialistic if the objects are beautiful and useful?

The black thing is a nightingale whistle I bought for my brother. You have to fill it with just the right amount of water. And that's his stone coaster and a scrabble mug I gave him too. And that's my lovely package from Joanne!

The light here is pretty nice I think.
I'm going to Hawaii tomorrow.

2012-01-25T14:23:00.000Z

A wee experiment.

Also trying to make good use of my new tripod with photos of stars, long exposure weird ghosty water type shots (don't know if that's what they are oficially called) and this sort of thing too. Any other ideas?

2012-01-17T22:15:00.000Z

Some photos from here (Abingdon and Oxford).

Some are from the cafe Jam Factory. And the Ashmolean museum. And some feathers from Port Douglas.

Nice colour theme happened by accident.

Today I sent off a package to Jo Coelho who is my partner for the Package Project. I forgot to take a photograph. So silly!

2011-11-21T15:06:00.000Z

I walked along this beach the other night with some people a bit more drunk than me. I have the job of telling them the silly things they did that they've forgotten (swimming in jellyfish infested water, dumping wet sand down my shirt and in my hair)

2011-11-10T08:51:00.001Z

Finally I can put these pictures here. August was a really long time ago now. It's funny how things change.

This is Hervey Bay by the way.

2011-11-01T06:15:00.000Z

Cairns the other day and some nice letters. I'm flying down to Nambour tomorrow. And I still won't have made it out of the state the whole year I've almost been here for. Never mind. Queensland is nice.

2011-10-20T07:24:00.000Z

Here is a quick drawing for the kids to colour in at work. It has been so wet the last few days with lots of thunder.The other day I went for a swim in the see at night with some friends. Have you ever heard about sea phosphorescence When you wave your hand around under the water at night you see lots of small beads of light. It comes from bacteria and plankton.The next day we heard a crocodile had been seen on the beach that night.I still have heaps of nice photos to post but they are stuck on my mac and I need a new charger. It is so frustrating when you can't just take a bus somewhere you need to go.

2011-09-25T23:33:00.001Z

Brisbane

I stayed for three weeks in a nice old Queenslander with some new friends. It was just cold enough that you had to sit in the sun to be warm. I wish I had taken more photos of the nice cafes I went to. Do you like this bridge? It's called the story bridge.

2011-09-25T22:30:00.000Z

2011-09-20T06:02:00.001Z

On the Sunlander.
The Sunlander goes along the coast between Brisbane and Cairns. It takes about a day and a half.

I met some strange people.

A man who had travelled all the way up to innisfail to meet a girl who didn't turn up, so hopped straight onto the train going back down.

A guy playing the guitar who told a different set of countries to everyone who asked or didn't ask where he was from. (I think he was clearly aboriginal. Why be ashamed??) He played and sang to the whole dining car between Marybourough and Cooroy.

This girl who I shared my cabin with wasn't strange but very very impatient and reluctant to borrow my bright orange cardigan to go outside though she was freezing.

2011-09-16T14:04:00.001Z

Entry for AGDA annual. I was sponsored by Artisan. I met some nice people and hopefully learnt some good things.

It felt nice carrying this round Brisbane wrapped in brown paper. That is untill I lost it and had to redraw the whole thing! It was strange how many people I noticed after, carrying rolled up bits of paper. I was suspicious of them.

2011-09-15T12:55:00.000Z

Sorry for badly cropped photos. I was too impatient waiting to make another post.

Philippe is always looking through a camera because he doesn't like to be photographed and this is the best time to do it when he's not looking.

2011-08-19T04:23:00.001Z

CURTIS MAYFEILD move on up

2011-08-13T04:40:00.001Z

Some photos from my SLR. I haven't been using it so much lately so these are just bits and pieces.
I've been to the Gold Coast, Coolangata, Nobby's Beach, Surfers Paradise and the Hinterland. And to Brisbane. And now I am in Hervey Bay. Perhaps I can say something about each place when I get my films developed but not now.

Here are some nice things I've been looking at on the internet.
hort maricor/maricar thoughtcatalog

2011-07-17T10:15:00.017Z

Here's a drawing for the Clink Theater. The cast of Mano Nera.

2011-07-15T10:15:00.001Z

I went to the tablelands with Philippe

Right now I am packing for my long train journey down the coast to Brisbane and Gold Coast. I can't decide how much art to take. Maybe just my usb stick and a sketchbook?

2011-07-11T23:25:00.000Z

These koalas live five minutes away in the zoo behind my house. (Actually this might have been the same koala twice)

2011-07-01T01:16:00.001Z

Photos out the car window as we drove through one day when they were burning the land. They do it to stop bush fires.

Today it's quite windy. And all the doors keep banging. I'll go and close them I think.

2011-06-28T01:08:00.000Z

This film came out with a lot of blue tiger stripes all over it

2011-06-25T00:19:00.000Z

I did a post like this before and i thought I'd do another.

This morning at 7am my dad decided to chop down a tree (poor tree). There was a big green ants nest in the top and now they are probably running about angrily all over the driveway. They are the ones that bite. You can also eat their bums!

2011-06-23T11:31:00.006Z

Here is the clink theater where I'm playing again this weekend. It used to be the old police station hence the name and slightly odd locked in entertainment slogan. It got moved from where it was around the corner. And all the profits from the shows that are put on go back into making the theater better (well apart from the money that goes to the greedy high ups who get paid hmm hmmm hmm)

But anyway it's pretty isn't it.

When we come out at night there are curlews running about making noises a bit like ghosts.

2011-06-12T12:21:00.001Z

I have a thing in a Cairns based zine Auxiliary no 5. And an exhibition to go along, Poster Stylo.

Oh. And I'm also in this play:

It opens next Friday. Strange to be in a play. If you don't know me, I'm normally quite a shy person.

But the people are nice. And the theatre is small and lovely. Hopefully I can show you some photos when I get my film developed.

2011-06-10T07:25:00.002Z

Bjork's website. Apparently there are things hidden inside it. Couldn't really find them but I did find a cat, a bycicle and some head. And i think it's quite pretty too. And then i just made it very very small.

http://www.bjork.com

2011-05-19T06:34:00.001Z

Camping and cave paddling at Undara national park

2011-05-08T04:30:00.000Z

2011-04-11T05:22:00.001Z

Second day sideways plait and some nice colours on the floor.

2011-04-01T09:55:00.000Z

Here is the portrait stall I throw up each weekend (looking very empty in that photo). It's a bit scatty with furnature from the second hand shop and bits of leftover wood from the garage. I'm looking for something to hang around it. Maybe pom poms. Or perhaps I should make some more hanging paper leaves.

Sam the dog is looking at me across the room right now. He wants something. Probably he wants to jump on the bed but he's not allowed.

A few times people have asked for me to draw their dogs. But it's difficult. Old men and dogs don't sit still. And children always slowly slide downwards.

2011-03-19T04:18:00.001Z

Here is Cairns in the rain. The wet season is supposed to end soon.
Maybe today? It is sunny and I must go and pretend to be a fox for Elizabeth.

All these photos came out with some funny green colours. It's fuji 200 set to 400.

I was reading this Tokyo blog Sleepwalking in Tokyo. It's nice and above each post she writes the camera and the film she's used which is really interesting.

By the way this camera is an olympus trip35. Here is a really nice blog with people who take great photos with this camera (including me somewhere haha).

2011-03-18T03:04:00.002Z

I'm hoping my pen pal in Japan is safe. She is towards the south so probably alright.

There's a man and a woman here who have a goose as a pet. It follows them around and waits outside while they do their shopping. I wonder how that happened.

If anyone would like a letter, leave a comment.

2011-03-08T06:21:00.002Z

Just a wee update with photos because I have been quite silent lately.

I wonder what makes those curly tracks on the ground.

2011-02-08T01:20:00.000Z

Some flags and some tartan.
Feeling sorry for the tree that fell on our bathroom.

2011-01-31T10:52:00.003Z

I am not looking forward to this cyclone!

2011-01-22T12:31:00.000Z

Illustration for Camus' The Outsider for the Folio Society competition. (But not entered in the end. Crisis of confidence or something.)

2011-01-20T03:16:00.000Z

Some play.

It rained very hard yesterday. And for a long time. And our roof is one that seems to make the sound even louder. But no flooding here.

Some artists are doing a flood relief auction. Art 4 Heart

2011-01-18T02:56:00.004Z

This is where I'm staying.
Some of the walls are made from slats which open up.

2011-01-05T02:17:00.003Z

Here are some more travelling photos. Actually I think they are all from summer. It only feels like a month ago. It's funny when you travel they way time joins up differently.

Now I am again in Australia and the time joins up with last January. 2010 is somewhere else.

Happy new year.

2010-12-14T23:57:00.005Z

My dad visited the Marshall islands recently. They are some very low laying islands in the Pacific. Mostly just beaches with roads next to them.

2010-12-09T16:25:00.000Z

The Herbs

2010-12-05T00:16:00.000Z

2010-12-02T17:23:00.004Z

A walk today.

On Tuesday I took some prints along to Auchmithie for the Jolly Good Studio Christmas Pop Up shop.
It opens on Saturday and runs untill Christmas Eve.

2010-11-16T15:37:00.003Z

Lots of things to be posted soon.

2010-10-28T17:12:00.007Z

Elle s'appelle Choupie nous!

2010-10-19T13:08:00.004Z

Honeybees sheltering behind patches of wildflower while tanks make war with pesticides.

I think it is a little too decorative for the message. But I'm starting to use paint again.

Though, I don't know if anyone could help me.. or if it is just my machine. I can't seem to scan it very forgivingly.

Scan here.

2010-10-16T21:06:00.007Z

Richard Long type artwork made by me and the wheelbarrow.

2010-10-14T20:04:00.000Z

Drawing. Alone Outside

Also, I was playing about testing potato prints on an important letter from the royal mail (oops). When I looked closer at the check pattern inside. So nice!

2010-10-07T16:13:00.006Z

Some things that the rain made.

2010-09-29T22:06:00.004Z

I thought I'd take a photo of my makeshift studio (as if I am busy enough to have a studio). Its funny to have tomatoes around you, apples and also figs which apparently don't ripen after they've been picked. Outside the window is the garden and through the bushes is a field with a white and a brown horse in it.

And my sketchbook. Some circles that I quite like making. Just pick a colour combination and make some marks. You can think about some things as you do it.

Please excuse my poorly made sketchbook.

2010-09-22T16:33:00.004Z

I'm alone for two weeks in France looking after the house here.
Yesterday a robin got caught in the porch. I tried for a while to herd him out. Then I looked at him and promised not to hurt him. I think it must have been out of shock that he let me pick him up after that. And then outside, he sat there, in a trance maybe. Go on! Get off my finger! And he went.

Above is a doodle of Johanne's cat Molly and a proper drawing of a house in a town near here called Rohan.

website

2010-09-16T20:42:00.008Z

Okay. It's been sitting there for long enough.

And I think I will now tentatively call my website finished.

www.daniellebanks.co.uk

2010-09-11T15:29:00.006Z

We found a line of birch trees in the woods, with a nice mossy covering underneath to sit on. Later I learnt that these lines in the woods are leftover territory borders (in the UK from the Tudors but i don't know what the German equivalent of a Tudor is). The other trees grow up around them and it makes it seem like the lines just grew like that naturally.

Photos 2,3,5,7,8 are taken by Johanne. Oh and i think they are her woods as well (officially). So I'm just happilly milking all her nice things that she has shared with me. La lala..

2010-09-09T16:45:00.007Z

a day

2010-08-11T20:53:00.004Z

As well as sitting about amongst all these objects and skies I have been trying to be a good graduate. Keeping busy. Websites almost done, pdf is started, mail outs, thinking about them, and this childrens book i am doing. I got a bit sad when i googled for seals earlier (don't do this if you like seals a lot!).

This is a nice blog.

Two nice books from Nobrow

2010-08-03T09:22:00.008Z

Birchfeild Close by Jon McNaught and Abecedaria by Blex Bolex.

We went to the Nobrow shop in London and I had away with my sensible non spending and bought these two.

Also, do you like the quilt I've got on my bed? I do.

garden

2010-07-27T17:12:00.004Z

2010-07-26T21:13:00.006Z

Bretagne

2010-07-20T15:54:00.004Z

I'm in Brittany. Here is last nights table ready for dinner outside. (This morning when we put the umbrella up here, the bats started coming out from under the roof, confused, because they thought with no sun there it must be night)
And also a photo of the hydrangeas.

Words learnt recently:

sec means dry
cerf means stag
caresse means caress

Lost in a jungle

2010-06-28T13:38:00.010Z

These are some of the pages from my book Lost in a Jungle.

The other day i had to explain what freckles were. I said they are little dots that some people get where the sun hits instead of a tan. And that the people with freckles always hate them while the people who don't get them, like me, are always jealous.

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2010-06-21T14:41:00.008Z

Edinburgh last week.

undergrowth, overgrowth

2010-06-05T15:07:00.024Z

volcanoes

2010-05-31T23:42:00.004Z

This post is about volcanoes.

If anyone is wondering, after getting it wrong i found out how to pronounce that nuisance one in iceland (although it was very kind to me let my mum arrive by plane the other day).

You say Eya fyat lal yo kul.

I think its a nice name.

Ilana Halperin is the best volcano person and has been my favourite artist for I think a year.

I want to make an impression of how a volcano sounds here but i can't think how to write it.

pqqqquuuch....?

degree show!

2010-05-28T15:36:00.006Z

Look at my lovely flowers.

Here are some pictures from the show. That is my mum, my brother and Kate looking at Kathryn's city of beautiful nonsense library.

The show has been on all week. And will be this weekend. Please come along if you are around. And come and have a chat to me on saturday afternoon. I'll be on duty in the shop.

hands

2010-05-11T18:21:00.006Z

Everything has been handed in. Apart from one lost sketchbook.

Today i got caught in the rain in sandals and a summer dress. I got home quick on the bike but my seat was wet and my hood wouldn't stay. I was a drowned rat. But i kind of liked it.

kathryn being great and wool

2010-05-01T21:42:00.002Z

recently

2010-04-24T11:54:00.004Z

I've got a few stacks of books that I've made sitting about the place. It's satisfying. Things are getting so busy. We have to have all finished by the 10th of May at the latest.
But we try to be happy whenever we can. Yesterday Kirsty drove us to Broughty Ferry and we sat in the car with fish and chips next to the sea watching the swans by the castle in the rain.

humf!

2010-04-22T11:25:00.003Z

things

2010-04-21T22:30:00.003Z

Things are not one or the other. They are one and the other.

(so there)

April

2010-04-18T11:47:00.000Z

jasmine chain

2010-04-08T20:01:00.002Z

A few months ago in uni with johanne and kathryn when it was still dark at 8pm.
This was fun. We put water, oil and food colouring in a dish onto a projector.

Psychedelic

realisation of danger

2010-04-06T20:45:00.004Z

alone in the wilderness

2010-04-05T20:23:00.008Z

Dick Preonekke goes to live in the wilderness in Alaska for a year. There is a clip on youtube that i took these from if you search.

Why is it that 'wilderness' seems to only refer to areas of North America?

I'm taking the word back.

29th April: The other day i watched dances with wolves and after, i looked up the satellite view of the US and then i remembered why the wilderness for a lot means the North american wilderness. Because in the US it's not there anymore. It's all grids and grids. Farms i think. It's gone.

Dick Preonneke

2010-03-23T18:49:00.002Z

silly

2010-03-03T19:51:00.004Z

I'm jealous. It is so cold here.

copying hokusai

2010-02-23T20:47:00.004Z

sketchbooks

2010-02-22T11:22:00.003Z

Sketchbook presents for one of my best friends and one of her best friends.

2010-02-18T23:47:00.004Z

I don't think I showed you these photos i took. You might recognise some little people in them.

Today was sunny. I ate a pasty on my way into school. But no drawing. Just writing and planning. Figuring things out.

My plant in the kitchen that only grows up once a year has started pointing out with green tips. And so have some spring bulbs. I have some mulled wine that never got drunk and i think we'll have a party to say goodbye to the winter.

tiger

2010-02-17T11:46:00.001Z

Lost

2010-02-10T21:21:00.002Z

I like this plane from lost. I'm feeling a little weird. I want something but can't figure out what it is.

Ah i made a link at the side so that you can view all the posts that show my work. Perhaps i should also have a link for vague irrelevant babble.

noises

2010-02-07T21:47:00.004Z

You can't see him but there is a cat in the second photo.

It is because the cat is black.

28th january

2010-01-28T12:28:00.006Z

I love these but have to admit i don't know where most of them have come from. Number 2 is sarah hermans. Number 5 is Ana Cuba.

I find it so strange. Inside my head it's summer. But outside it's winter.

I was so frustrated today when i found a big dent in the paper of the drawing i'm working on. I'll have to start again.

wilderness in bombay

2010-01-25T18:50:00.002Z

There'as a place in bombay that is a wilderness in the city. A patch of jungle on a hill, where tigers roam and vultures circle overhead - a secret place, a forbidden garden, a burial ground, with a huge unclimbable wall all around. the people leave dead bodies at the gate, and priests creep out at night to take them in and lay them out on stone slabs under the sky for the vultures to strip to the bone.

.

2010-01-21T16:36:00.003Z

funny place to go

2010-01-20T19:18:00.011Z

home

2010-01-17T23:06:00.004Z

I'm back from the jungle. It took a long time. One of my flights was cancelled so i had to get a coach all the way up snowy snowy UK. I was travelling for 45 hours in all. A long time. It felt very weird to be dropped into weather so different from where I'd been. And I've been missing the summer a lot. But today the sun came and i felt so much better. There are good things about winter. Drinking tea and warm jumpers. And some other things.

Tomorrow i go back to school for my last semester. I'm nervous but quite excited as well.

i am jane

2010-01-06T02:49:00.005Z

Feeling very brave taking my shoes and socks off in the jungle.

today its raining

2009-12-30T01:01:00.004Z

1. a nice dress i just bought

2. an experiment on the front veranda

3. an accident on bad quality paper (and dried up ink)

happy christmas

2009-12-25T06:16:00.002Z

It is so hot here.

Work in Progress

2009-12-09T11:20:00.010Z

Here is my exhibit for the show.

Also, if you are in Dundee this Friday, please come to our pop-up shop in the upper foyer gallery at Duncan of Jordanstone.

I'll be selling prints, christmas cards and some other hand made things.

hmm

2009-12-07T22:28:00.007Z

No. Not yet. Too much phannying about making shapes.
And a ballet in the kitchen. Some one sneaking up on something. And they kept having to hide. Or i think it was that anyway. I'm not sure. You know it's really hard to follow a ballet when you're not familiar with the story.

2009-12-06T11:50:00.005Z

So far today I have spent a lot of time looking out the window. In seven minutes, twelve o'clock, I'm going to try to finish my dissertation. I think I'll be up late. I think my eyes will get sore. But imagine the feeling if i can wake up tomorrow and it's done.
I'll let you know.

WIP

2009-12-01T23:47:00.005Z

Come and see our show.

We are going everywhere in the world

2009-11-30T20:21:00.002Z

.

2009-11-24T22:15:00.007Z

It felt like my blog was missing some humen.
It's me at the beach when it was still warm enough for that sort of thing. And then with Johanne playing about at Counter Logic.

Silver jungle

2009-11-24T17:47:00.004Z

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2009-11-16T17:55:00.004Z

'The moon spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation.'
Joseph Conrad

lichtenberg figure

2009-11-05T00:56:00.006Z

I saw these on data is nature a little while ago.

Lightning always makes me think, don't hide under a tree. I like the idea that you might hide under the tree, and when the lightning strikes you, the scar looks more like the tree than the lightning.

a tiger and a human

2009-11-02T15:06:00.006Z

I had a good halloween collecting twigs to tie to my broom.

Oh yeah. Because you see, i flew to Glasgow for the day. And it was so annoying. So many people dressed as zombies everywhere that i got distracted. And i crashed into a car and my broom fell apart. The rope holding it together snapped. So i had to get the train home. It was so annoying.

Anyway. I suppose all the tying twigs led me to create these little people for my little jungle. I'll show you soon.

12 dancers 6 servants

2009-10-22T12:14:00.008Z

I made a book.

lost shoes

2009-10-19T19:52:00.006Z

On a beach on an island in Indonesia, actually on quite a lot of beaches we stopped on, there were hundreds and hundreds of lost foam flip flops. One of the crew on the boat told me that if you looked at them again, they were all left footed shoes. And they were. He said that maybe because of their shape or maybe because of something else, all the left handed shoes ended up on one side of the world, and all the right handed shoes ended up on another.

I'm not sure if it's true or not. But it's nice.

(Edit: Stephen Fry says true)

Wednesday

2009-10-14T10:43:00.005Z