Light

Check out this light sculpture
I just finished thanks to Jack's masterful light wiring capabilities:

Pretty great eh?
It's made from a bull's skull that my mother found for me.

Apparently it was de-fleshed using a traditional "Mexican Method" which (from what I understand) seems to mean it was simply left in the desert until all flesh and fur was eaten or burned off by the sun.

Works for me.

Unfortunately some sticky fingered postal service person helped him/herself to the beautiful horns of this creature on it's way over.

Bastards!

So I've made my own horns ... a sort of "brushed silver" version.

I like the way it looks like he's actually "looking" at you---
and the way the light picks up on all of the intricate cracks and thinned bone of the skull.

Vice

Hit up the Vice website for a wee interview with yours truly...

Disney Happy Happy

Here are some images of a commission I've just finished for someone who wanted some shields made up like ones I have made previously for art exhibits.

The only catch? Instead of having creatures snarling and gasping off the face of the shield, this person wanted them to have "Disney happy happy faces".

Never one to dodge a challenge, I was happy to oblige.

After months of trying to source all the right critters (who knew it would be so difficult to get a hold of a duck with it's feathers still intact?)
and going through a few duds
(rotten duck x2 anyone? two words: mouldy tongue)

I have finally finished them, and they are going to be shipped out Monday Morning!




Aren't the shields delicious colours? Expect to see more like this...

FINALLY!!!!!

For those of you who attended the Vermin Collection Launch---

They have finally arrived!!!





That's right... The Pigeon Foot Pendants that were promised so long ago have finally materialized!

Suffice to say it took a long time to make these little fuckers,
and then they were ruined,
leaving yours truly with no other option than to learn how to metal cast from the studio, and hand finish them with my own little (and now rather broken and rough) hands.

Hooray!

There are only 100 of these little beauties, however not all of the people from the launch ended up claiming theirs so I'll be selling them off to anyone who might be interested!

Get in touch if you're interested: info@rpencore.com

They are cast in a beautiful lead-free pewter metal that contains sterling silver.

They are a fantastic weight,
with a hand written "RP/E" on the front
They even fit nicely on a finger!
Good for people who "fiddle" with their jewellery (like me).

Oh yeah: And they are an ABSOLUTE BARGAIN at 55 pounds!

Please Note: this price does not include international shipping.

This is how I've been wearing mine:

(pigeon foot pendant with: guinea pig foot pendant with Encore skull and hatchet charm)

Thinking...

For what is possibly the most in depth look at RP/Encore...
check the latest issue of Out of the Box!

(oh yeah--- it's in Italian fyi)

FOXY

This evening, Jack and I got the train down to Wandsworth to pick up a package.

This was (of course) no ordinary package.

(Panasonic was extremely confused... and started yelling at him)

Thanks to Ed and Constance for trekking this beautiful fox home for me!

God know's how they did it... he's practically as big as them...

Stylin'

Another image from a shoot where the accessories were styled differently to how I usually see them done! I like it...

Stylist - Bex Crofton-Atkins
Make Up - Layla Mehmedaji
Photographer - Mark Surridge

Adaptation and Carnival of Souls

My two favorite films:

Carnival of Souls:



Adaptation:

Lucky Week...

After a bit of a lul in the roadkill department, things have really turned around this week. First there was the notification of a small robin found by a friend in the countryside.

Then the goregeous Scarlet Winter (I've spoken of Scarli before...)
came over for dinner on Saturday with:

A Bottle of Chenin Blanc
A pint of Green and Blacks Chocolate Ice Cream
A frozen Road Killed Pigeon

Ummm... why don't all guests come bearing such thoughtful and incredible gifts?!?!

AND: I just poped out to get a coffee at my favorite cafe, when I saw this poor little beauty (above)!

Things keep going like this and I might need to get myself another deepfreezer...

Feathers in the Snow Part 1

This is a two part post.

As most of you probably know, London has been covered in a thick blanket of snow this past week. (brrrrrrr)

With this ever so slightly apocalyptic weather has come the usual in bus/train/tube cancellations, and back breaking / bum bruising slippery sidewalks.

Out of this chaos has come some good in the way of a
beautiful collection of images from LCF MA student Amelia Phillips,
and an ever appreciated frozen pigeon from my close friend (and disgustingly tallented designer/artiste) Rob Storey.

Here's a little image of what Rob brought me today:


I think the poor dear probably froze to death... it looks like it just fell asleep.

If any of you guys are London based and see something like this (or any other roadkill etc for that matter) please do as Rob does (as well as most of my friends) and:

BAG IT, FREEZE IT and E-MAIL ME!

SERIOUSLY.

For every ten usable items (read: not rotten) I will gift you a work FREE OF CHARGE!

This work has previously meant a rat shield like this:


But I'm willing to work some Vermin Collection items into the deal potentially as well.

Feathers in the Snow Part 2

Here are the images from Amelia Phillips:

(Photographer: Nick Sean Aldridge)

I really love the way these images are styled--- so beautiful in the snow--- the model is such a trooper - getting down to her pants in this weather! That girl deserves a medal - I am not so brave.

Barbie does Lady Gaga

(images: http://mtv.uol.com.br/glamourbarato/blog/barbie-lady-gaga)

HA!

A friend just shared this with me...

http://mtv.uol.com.br/glamourbarato/blog/barbie-lady-gaga

AMAZING!

Someone in Brazil (?) has made a Barbie version of all - if not most of Lady Gaga's most famous outfits. Very funny. I really love the their version of the custom rat headdress I made for the Bad Romance video--- Fab!

Here are some of my other favorites:

Dtours [paper.mag]

For My Russian Readers:
Check out the first ever edition of Dtours [paper.mag] for an interview with yours truly!

A little bit about Dtours:

"
We are Dtours [paper.mag] which is the first conceptual newspaper-format-edition in Russia.

We have A3 black-white newspaper format edition and it will be one issue per month.

Every issue will be dedicated to one city. The 1st is NYC.

For the first time all progressive people who works in fashion event-management, play music, have private art-collections and concept-stores, etc. will have their own guide in smart lifestyle for this day.

On one hand we write almost about upcoming brands and designers “to keep an eye on”. And in other hand we co-operate with famous and already wellknown people and companies.

"

I had a flip through their virtual mag here and it looks really good--- lots of interesting content etc. Pitty I can't read Russian!

Black Black Black

I have been experimenting with different feather dying techniques. I am yet to be 100% happy with any of them.

I'm after a deep oil slick black, and all they dyes I have been using give me a dull, muted black with altered feather texture/volume.

Anyone know a nice (preferably eco?) jet black feather dye? Get in touch--- info@rpencore.com