[Leo Boyd]

Nov 15, 2023 21:41:25 GMT 1 met said:

Nov 15, 2023 11:00:22 GMT 1 Leo Boyd said:

Consider tweaking the text to correct the French grammar:

(i)  delete C'est Ne Pas Une Pipe; and

(ii)  replace with Ceci N'est Pas Une Pipe.

Cheers for pointing that out by the way. 
I am going to do a reprint tomorrow and mail the new ones to the people who had bought one of this print. I would also like to post one out to you when the new ones are made as way of thanks. 

[cjf]

The first version could be a real conversation piece, having French speaking folks over, if google translate is correct… 😂

By the way, I think your work is great! Great with smaller prints. 👍

[Leo Boyd]

Nov 15, 2023 23:34:26 GMT 1 cjf said:

The first version could be a real conversation piece, having French speaking folks over, if google translate is correct… 😂

By the way, I think your work is great! Great with smaller prints. 👍

Ha ha ha ha
Thanks, that cheered me up! 
Also I think that jokes rings a bell in the deep dark bit of my mind so I think at some point in the deep past I have heard that joke

[alberti]

For sure, big fail from translation tool...  even Google Translate says "C'est ne pas une pipe" by "This is not a bj"

Fail from Leo too.   "C'est ne pas une pipe" doesn't sound French at all.

As for why Translation tool translate this to BJ, the "ne pas une pipe" in French doesn't exist unless you add "faire" ("to do"), "ne pas faire" is common in French so AI are silently adding "to do" to the common "ne pas une".

Fuck sake Google got it all wrong, even "Ce n'est pas une pipe", only "Ceci" returns the right translation - translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=Ceci%20n%27est%20pas%20une%20pipe.%0ACe%20n%27est%20pas%20une%20pipe.%0AC%27est%20ne%20pas%20une%20pipe.&op=translate

[Leo Boyd]

Nov 16, 2023 10:02:38 GMT 1 alberti said:

For sure, big fail from translation tool...  even Google Translate says "C'est ne pas une pipe" by "This is not a bj"

Fail from Leo too.   "C'est ne pas une pipe" doesn't sound French at all.

As for why Translation tool translate this to BJ, the "ne pas une pipe" in French doesn't exist unless you add "faire" ("to do"), "ne pas faire" is common in French so AI are silently adding "to do" to the common "ne pas une".

Fuck sake Google got it all wrong, even "Ce n'est pas une pipe", only "Ceci" returns the right translation - translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&text=Ceci%20n%27est%20pas%20une%20pipe.%0ACe%20n%27est%20pas%20une%20pipe.%0AC%27est%20ne%20pas%20une%20pipe.&op=translate

In fairness to me I did learn French 25 years ago on the mean streets of Brussels in an estate populated by old people.

[Leo Boyd]

It is back.
After that minor fuck up of mine with the ol grammar and not double checking my work, this edition is back online with corrected french and just generally a bit more care and love put into the piece.
Cheers all
Leo
www.leoboyd.com/product/the-treachery-of-warning-signs/

[alberti]

Here I am!! I am a French editor and proofreading by profession, often tagged "grammar-nazi".
Three issues here:
a) the overuse of capital letters (sorry we don't that in French);
b) the use of the English straight single apostrophe (') instead of the French curly one (’);
c) it misses the end dot; since it is a sentence with subject, verb and complement, end dot is required.
Just like Magritte did. All good otherwise!

[Leo Boyd]

Nov 18, 2023 10:16:31 GMT 1 alberti said:

Here I am!! I am a French editor and proofreading by profession, often tagged "grammar-nazi".
Three issues here:
a) the overuse of capital letters (sorry we don't that in French);
b) the use of the English straight single apostrophe (') instead of the French curly one (’);
c) it misses the end dot; since it is a sentence with subject, verb and complement, end dot is required.
Just like Magritte did. All good otherwise!

Nice.
Good bit of pedantry there.
But, to answer with a bit of pedantry of my own.
This sign is designed using international standards in sign design. The capital letters were designed by Kinneir and Calvert in the 60s (I think) that mix capital and lower case to make reading the signs easier at a distance. 
Signs also don't have full stops. If they did they would look weird. 
And finally, I am not sure that helvetica has a curly apostrophe but again I think it would look weird in this kind of sign

 

[Leo Boyd]

Morning!
I made an version of the above print but with English subtitles.
www.leoboyd.com/product/the-treachery-of-warning-signs-english-edition/

[Leo Boyd]

Morning again
I wrote a short thing about this street art piece and screen print.
Cheers me dears
www.leoboyd.com/read-all-about-it/

[Leo Boyd]

Morning
A while back I worked with my art studio to create a newspaper that told the story of who we are/what we are/and where we were going. Having lost an almost perfect building it was a pretty traumatic time for our studio so I tried to put this forward in a way that wasn't all doom and super gloom.
Anyhoo this newspaper is now for sale on the new studio website and all proceeds from the sale go towards funding our not for profit to do things like put on events and exhibitions n what not.
Link is over here. www.vaultartiststudios.com/shop
And here is the cover image.

[Leo Boyd]

Evening.
That was a mad long weekend.
So yes just a quick message to say final post day tomorrow and I have a limited number of this piece that I made last week up on my shop here www.leoboyd.com/product/radiohead-love-story/

[Leo Boyd]

Morning
I am building an interactive stage set thing called The Belfast that Time Forgot (In 3D) inside this massive empty church.
It is opening this Thursday for late night art in Belfast.
Here is the poster and the one single image I have taken so far.
Cheers me dears

[Leo Boyd]

I don't want to give too much away by posting photos of the build before it is open but here are a few enigmatic work in progress shots from yesterday.




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[Leo Boyd]

Morning
Here is a very short video of the installation and a link to opening times etc if any of you people are lucky enough to be visiting or living in Norther Ireland at this time of year.
www.instagram.com/leoboydprints/reel/C2zNikoI5fH/
www.facebook.com/events/1115092896182330

[Leo Boyd]

Today is the final day of my installation in the Church.
So, if you are in the Belfast area pop in and say hello

[Leo Boyd]

That is me now.
Thanks for coming, everyone who came.
The next project I am working on is to build some sculptures for a art crazy golf thing so stuff I learnt here should come in handy. I am also doing a bit of research about using motors to get some of these 2D/3D cut outs to have moving parts... so if anyone has any knowledge of that I would love to hear it.
Cheers
Leo

[Leo Boyd]

I have been sick with one of these new fangled flu things that aren't covid but feel very like it.
It is shit and boring and I have done a lot of lying down over the past week.
I have spent a good bit of time drawing and working on a series of drawings that I'll turn into screen prints as soon as I can get out of bed.
Yesterday I did a very short bit of writing about AI and plagerism and street art that I find quite funny and err, yeah that's it.
Cheers
www.leoboyd.com/2024/02/the-treachery-of-warning-signs/

[Leo Boyd]

[Leo Boyd]

Evening
I spent the day helping to hang this exhibition for International Women's Day in Vault Artist Studios in Belfast and now I am proper knackered and trying to do the admin for the show.
Wine helps

[blurp]

Is this a Taylor Swift thing?

Mar 7, 2024 0:00:39 GMT 1 Leo Boyd said:

Evening
I spent the day helping to hang this exhibition for International Women's Day in Vault Artist Studios in Belfast and now I am proper knackered and trying to do the admin for the show.
Wine helps

[Leo Boyd]

Mar 7, 2024 0:21:47 GMT 1 blurp said:

Is this a Taylor Swift thing?

Mar 7, 2024 0:00:39 GMT 1 Leo Boyd said:

I hope not
Not that I have any against Taylor Swift but I think if she is involved I should probably be getting paid more than I am. 

[Leo Boyd]

Morning
I wrote a short thing about stuff and nonsense and it exists over here.
www.leoboyd.com/2024/03/one-more-tune/

[Leo Boyd]

Spring time is here!
The Sun has got its hoody on, hip-hop, hip-hop, hooray!
The Sun has got its hoody on and it’s coming out to play!

Seriously though, winter in the far north does suck pretty hard. It will be nice to not wear a hoody, a body warmer & a coat for a while.

[Leo Boyd]

It may not seem like it right now but it is full on spring time! And that means it is time for my annual spring clean studio sale!
Around this time last year we were getting ready to move studio from Tower Street and we ran an Everything Must Go sale which made the actual move so much easier. But my studio in the new space is a good bit smaller (and just as untidy) as the last place and I need to get rid of some old art so that I can make some new art (more on this in the week) and thus it is sale time again!
This sale covers everything on my site (including work already on sale) and as the week goes on I will keep adding art works as I find them in my studio.
If there is something particular that you want that you can’t find on my site send me a DM and I’ll see if I can sort you out.
I have also made these rather attractive designs.
leoboyd.com/

[Leo Boyd]

Ah this is amazing news.
I have just found out that my work (and my studio) are being featured in the art edition of Unicode Magazine!
And I’m on the front cover too!
Head on over to Unicode to read the full feature or pop down to your local Newsagents to pick up the latest copy.

[Lroy]

Apr 1, 2024 13:39:35 GMT 1 Leo Boyd said:

Ah this is amazing news.
I have just found out that my work (and my studio) are being featured in the art edition of Unicode Magazine!
And I’m on the front cover too!
Head on over to Unicode to read the full feature or pop down to your local Newsagents to pick up the latest copy.

Congrats my dear Leon ! I will try to get one :-)

[met]

Apr 1, 2024 13:39:35 GMT 1 Leo Boyd said:

Ah this is amazing news.
I have just found out that my work (and my studio) are being featured in the art edition of Unicode Magazine!
And I’m on the front cover too!
Head on over to Unicode to read the full feature or pop down to your local Newsagents to pick up the latest copy.

Congratulations on what seems like a fun feature.



Some feedback and comments regarding the above photos and text, whether to be taken on board or dismissed:


1.  There is a risk of unintentionally coming across as a bit narcissistic, given the number of self‑portraits in your studio.


2.  Minor typo corrections:

    (i)  Scott (not "Scot") McCloud; and

    (ii)  query whether the McCloud book referred to should instead be, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1993).


3.  Along with other notable figures including Art Spiegelman and Matt Groening, Susan Kare has also paid tribute to McCloud.

If interested, check out this 2018 talk by Kare at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., especially from 10:49–12:45:

[Leo Boyd]

Apr 2, 2024 3:35:46 GMT 1 met said:

Apr 1, 2024 13:39:35 GMT 1 Leo Boyd said:

Ah this is amazing news.
I have just found out that my work (and my studio) are being featured in the art edition of Unicode Magazine!
And I’m on the front cover too!
Head on over to Unicode to read the full feature or pop down to your local Newsagents to pick up the latest copy.

Congratulations on what seems like a fun feature.



Some feedback and comments regarding the above photos and text, whether to be taken on board or dismissed:


1.  There is a risk of unintentionally coming across as a bit narcissistic, given the number of self‑portraits in your studio.


2.  Minor typo corrections:

    (i)  Scott (not "Scot") McCloud; and

    (ii)  query whether the McCloud book referred to should instead be, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1993).


3.  Along with other notable figures including Art Spiegelman and Matt Groening, Susan Kare has also paid tribute to McCloud.

If interested, check out this 2018 talk by Kare at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., especially from 10:49–12:45:

Thank you!
I hadn't time to do a spell check before rushing this out for April1st
Thanks for the Mccloud video. I'll give that a watch tomorrow. 

[cwlscots]

I thought it was a brilliant April Fool prank Leo