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this website goes online 7th October 2000
+ this page chronicles the up-dates to this website and something about
the life and times and opinions of the artist Justin Bailey
8th January 2008
Welcome to the start of new year - I hope you have good fortune, love and happiness this year. Hopefully, this year I will be able to update the website more than last year, because I now have a computer that works - my macmini. My powerbook(s) just didn't last. It is not as if I treated them badly either. Processor fried.
So, I have actually changed a lot of pages on the website over the past month or so since getting the macmini set up. Mostly just improvements on navigation on some pages, I also added a few steps on the Journey and an entry into Fun Stuff called "Fake Home", sometimes a bit of misdirection is good for the soul.
The work I am doing at the studio at the present period of time comprises of the continuation of the "bling" paintings. This is a series of abstract paintings that will eventually number 100 in total. I have now done more than two-thirds of this series which I first started back in may 2006. About 70 so far. Bling 69 is one of the most recent ones.
I have also been making more of the face drawings/paintings. Apart from the drawings, wallpaper works, and the stamp drawings, I have started a new series using marker pen on canvas, approx. 12 x 9". I have done about 8 or 9 of these so far. Drennan is an example of these new works.
This is an example of the recent face
drawings I have been making, using
marker pen on primed canvas.
13th January 2008
Added the youtube link of "dawn at studio" to the bling page.
And a panorama of the beach at Bayahibe, Dominican Republic, taken when I was there in november 2007.
15th January 2008
I have become a Google slave. There are now adsense pages on all the main topic pages. If someone clicks on them, I may earn a cent or two, a euro or four, a penny maybe. Mostly I click on them. I actually quite like finding out how Google deciphers the information from my various pages to generate the ads that it does, and then I enjoy visiting those sites. As I mentioned last year, I eventually earned $100 after about 2 years having adsense ads on this site. I got a cheque in october 2007 - the bank took about $10 converting it to £sterling. So it pays for the hosting of the site which is fine by me.
So if you, dear reader, feels like clicking on an ad it may earn this poor and struggling artist a bob or two. Why not click the ad to the right right now? Go on, it won't hurt. Please. Thanks.
UPDATE 17/2/2008
I have been removed from the google adsense scheme. Entirely my fault. There I was merrily clicking away on the links. not really realising that you weren't supposed to, at all, under any cicumstances whatsoever. Oh dear. It wasn't that I was clicking to make money - I was just interested in the ads that google generated - other art sites. And also I was not allowed to plead to any visitors to my website to click on the links. Um - see left. So I have been removed and all the links de-activated.
I have also added a randomly generated youtube link to the "This is Planet Earth" intro page. Now that Youtube has been bought by Google for quidzillions, this is a way that Google will try to generate income - targeting specific vids to particular webpages that share the same subject matter. Again, please click on the video or ad links. In fact I will insert a youtube film right here, right now. Just go completely commercial - sell my artistic soul to the great heathen god Google. Oh why not. It livens things up. Mostly though the vids on this site will be mine.
I AM NO LONGER A google SLAVE!!!
I am FREE!!! FREE!!!!
15th January 2008
It's now daytime, and it is a really yucky day out there, rainy and windy. I am staying at home today. Can't face going to the studio. So I may as well do some more updates to the site. I have added counters to this is planet earth and earth intro, just want to see how they pan out, because a lot of people enter the site on these two pages instead of the home page.
22nd January 2008
Today the money markets have gone into meltdown. As the USA is the driving force behind the world economy it seems to me that things might be a bit more rosy if less money was being spent on war. The counter on the right shows the cost (in dollars) - let alone lives lost. I wonder how much the United Kingdom has spent so far. Is it worth it?
British soldiers lives lost in Afghanistan (87 to date)
British soldiers lives lost in Iraq (174 to date)
24th January 2008
Think you are having problems in your life? I feel really sorry for this guy. Not for the squeamish!
I have now completed 69 of the 100 "bling" deries. So I have done more than two-thirds. 31 to go. I have added another large picture of a bling painting - a recemt one in yellow (see right). I have also poste a picture of the studio sgowing many of this series,.
This is an another example of the recent face
drawings I have been making, using
marker pen on primed canvas.
I have also done three more of the portrait series using marker pen on canvas. I have now drawn 11 of these. I have bought 48 more of these canvases from the 99p store in Camden High Street - all they had left! They are looking good though I say it myself This is one of those I did yesterday - his name is Kepper. see left
14th February 2008
It's been one of those periods when I have been having to do other stuff. Non arty stuff. Suddenly everything has got a bit more complicated. Basically, I am moving home soon, so that is going to involve a lot of sorting stuff out.
I am also busy doing other websites and I just seem to be busy, busy,busy. Haven't been to the studio recently - lots of things to sort out and which are more on my mind.
My aunt and Uncle had their 50th! wedding anniversary on Sunday, and it was great to meet up and see all my relatives again - and for the first time too. Hello Janet!
Oh, I have been having fun too. I have finally become a DJ!! Not half! See right
21st March 2008
I'm still in this period of not getting much "art" done. I have rarely been to the studio recently - just got other stuff to do. The most creative things I have been making are the reggae videos I have been posting on youtube as wikidub. I'm still hooked on being a dj/vj. These vids had gradually gone from being just a film of the platter, (like Oldwah or firebladerr1) to more of an abstract light show. Like a fluid canvas. Mostly still, but with some movement. The record spinning; the l.e.d. lights flicking. My shadow. This is the artist coming out. A few people have objected (some quite strongly, f-ing n blinding), to my voice-overs, but most think it is great it seems. I want to add more as time goes by.
But soon I will be moving home. And my mind is occupied about that. Because it is fraught with complications. They say that moving can be one of the most stressful things to do! Everything about where I am moving to is still undecided. I have been at this place for many years - it is time to move on.
This is the latest person in the drawings on canvas series I have been doing lately. He is called Manatee. He came into being yesterday.
PRINCE ALLAH - Lot's Wife. 29 January 2008
The first reggae wikidub youtube vid. This shows just the turntable basically. Compare this to a much more recent video which is much more of a light show - much to occupy the eye, as well as the ear. WINSTON FRANCIS - Mr. Fix It 20 March 2008
3rd April 2008
I've added a youtube video of the face drawings on canvas that I have been making recently to my wikidub page.
WHAT'S NEW 2008 
