All seems to be lost...

But, on this arduous journey, our hero has found hope in the form of a new inspiration.

yeah, basically ALL graffiti artists are woefully unreliable. full stop. In other words, my idea with the interviewing of artists and their cans will not work, simply because I cant get enough srpay cans, so I set out on taking 10 flicks of 10 different cans, in catagory, e.g

their labels, colour, what the paint is like, the tin itsself, the barcode, Different compositions, birds eye view, the back of the tins, horizontal, vertical, being held, being sprayed etc.

So I took about 370 flicks today in the Burning cold weather, I now have frost bite. Ok, scratch the last bit - but I have loads of Images, and all the Images for research I took still apply, and the title etc.

I also started producing a mock up cover for this book of 10 of 10 (being 100 and being acceptable.) Basically i cut out some letters from a page in order to put a belton tin cover behind it to colour the letters

WHEN IT HIT ME.

Since my book is called Applicate, (Now Applicator, making it up to 10 letters.) I thought I could have these cut out letters, I could make the front cover more of a poster, and have the contents of the book, components that you have to "apply" to the poster.

So maybe have 4 long(ish) Images on a page, composed of the 10 of 10 i have taken, perferated, and you have to remove them from the book in order to customise the "Applicator" Poster. In doing this the reader would be Physically interacting with the book, and participating in the books title and meaning. - I liked this idea alot because it seems to be very interactive and interesting. On monday Im going to do some mock ups of what I mean, but I had to note this idea down so I remembered it in its initial form-

It's not too far off from what I wanted to do in the first place, its just this way, I'm not waiting on lazy arse holes, and Its self motivated. Sorry to be rude, but its annoyed me how much time I've been wasting just waiting for replies and trying to arrange meeting people to hardly any avail. Now I know exactly what I'm doing, and how Im going to do it. I'll post some of the new pictures up tomorrow at uni.