So...

Here I am, coming out in a pretty messy way from an art & design course...

Running out of money by the day, and looking for work...

I just left the course, two weeks before it should end, because the only other option was fail, which would obviously look very bad...

The last project I was working on, was my final major project (FMP), which was a pretty open-ended brief, specifying only that we choose to begin with one of a few very broad categories; my selection being 'culture'.

I did a very sprawling mind-map/brainstorm/spider-type-thing of what I might look at or try...
The A3 page contained two innocent little words amongst all the muddle: anti culture.
Two normal looking little words that would become somewhat of an obsession...

Very soon after, they became 'ANTIculture', and I came up with the idea of starting my own fashion label; for those outside of mainstream culture, such as ravers, punks etc... Featuring styles and imagery taken from aspects of modern life...
Skipping some more time, I registered anti-culture.net to act as a base-camp for everything 'ANTIculture', allowing me to brand everything with this website, so that at whatever point I actually put content there, people can find it easily.

Now, I have postponed plans to setup ANTIculture as a fashion label for a while, while I find my identity as an artist, and ANTIculture matures some more. In the mean-time I will be looking at the practical side of running a successful business, to make sure it doesn't fail.

But, to me at least, ANTIculture is more than just something I could use to make money...
To me, I guess ANTIculture is becoming my artistic movement... Taking influence from the world around me, graffiti, culture jamming, pop-art, and god knows what else, I feel that the work I'm producing is breaking away more and more from established artistic movements.

Then again, maybe I'm just having delusions of grandeur.

Feels good to put all that into the open...