Lauren Goddard/Blog

2012-01-15T12:57:00.003Z

list of fruit and vegetables liam has never eaten:
strawberries
blueberries
blackberries
blackcurrants
bananas
grapefruit
avocado
squash
courgette
aubergine
artichoke
pomegranate
mango
beetroot
broccoli
asparagus
brussel sprouts
cabbage
cauliflower
leeks
peas
radish
apricots
pineapple
oranges

what a badass

2012-01-10T22:17:00.002Z

i'm in love with you

2012-01-03T15:55:00.000Z

excited for yoko ono at Serpentine

2012-01-03T15:51:00.001Z

hanging with liam, his photos are cool and sorry rashy i'm wearing your shirt here.

2011-12-27T20:25:00.002Z

Awaiting On You All by George Harrison

2011-12-26T14:16:00.000Z

ode to a spinal cord

2011-12-26T11:48:00.001Z

Spiders saving themselves from the Pakistan floods.

2011-12-24T15:17:00.003Z

I have lost a telephone

with your smell in it

I am living beside the radio

all the stations at once

but I pick out a Polish lullaby

I pick it out of the static

it fades I wait I keep the beat

it comes back almost asleep

Did you take the telephone

knowing I'd sniff it immoderately

maybe heat up the plastic

to get all the crumbs of your breath

and if you won't come back

how will you phone to say

you won't come back

so that I could at least argue

Waiting for Marianna by Leonard Cohen

2011-12-24T09:56:00.003Z

505 by Arctic Monkeys, if I listen to you sing this one more time i will cut out your tongue (note to self)

2011-12-22T18:24:00.001Z

Supernatural Fairy Tale by Art

2011-12-22T15:24:00.000Z

two pint words

2011-12-20T19:47:00.000Z

First roll of film in so long, headpiece I made earlier this year.

2011-12-20T09:28:00.002Z

Remembering times like this I really don't wanna go back to London.

2011-12-19T18:45:00.001Z

few bits from last night, university related and not.

2011-12-19T18:21:00.000Z

Secret Door (Acoustic) by Arctic Monkeys

2011-12-18T13:55:00.001Z

if you look these guys up, you wont be sorry i assure you

2011-12-17T19:44:00.000Z

My Girl sung by Otis Redding

2011-12-15T21:33:00.001Z

John Bauer
Am i in the forest yet?

2011-12-15T21:32:00.001Z

Sophia by Laura Marling
what am I to do without the jersey nymph for these weeks??????

2011-12-15T20:03:00.002Z

Miroslav Tichý in the bushes

2011-12-09T20:30:00.000Z

new pets, i'm in good company.

2011-12-09T20:28:00.000Z

always words for you.

2011-12-03T11:19:00.000Z

bland bits from the past.

2011-12-03T10:46:00.001Z

the home of Henry Darger.

2011-12-03T10:01:00.002Z

Photographs taken in the village Eishishok between 1890 and 1941, before an SS mobile killing squad murdered the entire Jewish population of the village.

2011-12-02T18:35:00.001Z

Fist City by Loretta Lynn

2011-11-30T12:18:00.002Z

The eternal depravity of guilt, the greatest sleep of your life, brown bread = dead.

[photos from Highgate Cemetery by John Gay]

2011-11-30T12:04:00.000Z

Old home.

2011-11-30T11:58:00.001Z

Cocaine sung by Ramblin' Jack Elliott

2011-11-30T11:53:00.001Z

New collages. Let's not jump the gun here.

2011-11-20T11:27:00.001Z

Murder In The First Degree by Victoria Spivey

2011-11-19T23:15:00.000Z

A girl can dream.

2011-11-19T09:42:00.001Z

Astrid Furnival's knit of Samuel Palmer

2011-11-18T21:40:00.001Z

Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out by Bessie Smith

2011-11-18T21:03:00.002Z

I would like there to be ambrotypes of me when I'm long gone, I think that is an unrealistic wish.

2011-11-13T17:50:00.001Z

You Turn Me On I'm A Radio by Joni Mitchell

2011-11-10T18:36:00.003Z

Probably the best book I've gotten from the school library so far, just Barbara Jones' studies and encounters with different death idiosyncrasies. The way she draws is really cool and I guarantee if you like good things, this will be right up your alley.

2011-09-12T18:35:00.001+01:00

bestival showed me how rad spoken word is and also Kate Tempest. Silent tears whilst listening to this being recited

2011-08-28T19:33:00.001+01:00

Really got a thing for Henry Darger right now

[via]

2011-08-27T10:47:00.003+01:00

"I sometimes think, would I drink the milk from the breast of a woman I don't know? No. So I think, why would I drink it from a cow"

I hear ya DEVON AOKI

2011-08-26T09:48:00.001+01:00

Katsuya Kamo's staircase walls.

[selby]

2011-08-21T21:46:00.003+01:00

Black Wezel from the Blackfoot tribe

Antonie from the Flatheads

Spies On The Enemy from the Crow tribe

A member of the Arapaho tribe

Native American tribe photographs, incredible souls, look at the eyes.

[photos]

2011-08-19T17:00:00.002+01:00

My hair is so close to reaching my butt that I can nearly taste victory.

[photo by rash]

2011-08-19T09:37:00.000+01:00

Got some henna and now I can't stop, I think it's great. These are the only two I've done on myself in the last couple of weeks, it stays on so long!!

2011-08-17T15:54:00.002+01:00

Marko lives in a space that is probably two times more of the stuff that I have amassed but now I'm renting a new house, I'm not gunna have the option to put stuff everywhere. I've read that he has just collected all of this rad stuff and holds it all in his place to serve as a museum. BUT, you have to be invited to look at it and meet the dude himself. It's seriously my idea of utopia.

[via]

2011-08-17T15:44:00.003+01:00

I haven't posted in forever and I don't even have a decent excuse for it. This blog is meant to show what I've been making and what made me make it (so many makes) but all I seem to have done the past few months is wallow in fear of the world. How lame does that sound? Laziness, selfishness, materialism have swallowed me up like some plankton to a one eyed sperm whale. I hate rent. I hate money. I hate consumerism. And I hate not wanting to make shit. From now on I'm gunna resurrect this blog in a less fictional style than Jesus Christ.

2011-07-11T16:32:00.002+01:00

If i manage to get some more white jeans I'm gunna dye some more like this for the shop. Make me feel like i'm floating around woodstock

2011-07-05T12:35:00.001+01:00

I opened an etsy store to sell cool things that I find and prints of my photographs. Help send me to uni!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/byssandabyss

2011-06-29T18:18:00.001+01:00

I'm going to listen to this song throughout my entire life, kinda like a soundtrack. It's just one of those things you know, ya know?

2011-06-15T21:49:00.000+01:00

enjoy the full moons' energy tonight everyone.

[stereograph,1864,etsy]

2011-06-13T19:59:00.002+01:00

All our lives we sweat and save

Building for a shallow grave

-James Douglas Morrisson 1969

2011-06-13T19:45:00.003+01:00

Ilona is a beautiful soul.

2011-05-27T20:05:00.002+01:00

Got this book out of the library, it was jammed down the back of the 'interiors' section. Probably the best book I have found this month, and I just got my own hardback copy through from ebay (£1). There's everything alchemy, occult, egyptian etc. related in it and a whole lot of meaningful ideas from all kinds of people.

Magic Symbols by Frederick Goodman

2011-05-20T22:12:00.002+01:00

Boehme's magic figure that talks of the two polarities causing the archetypal world, a depiction by William Law.

I can't get the words from this print out of my mind, it's bizarre. Feel like I've read them before, i don't know, this is like an epiphany.

2011-05-07T20:25:00.005+01:00

this is all getting a bit narcissistic but I kinda felt like i should post these photographs that Max took because i wanna look like this all the time!!! I wish it was totally cool for humans to be naked in the public eye.

2011-05-07T13:03:00.002+01:00

milky got this done for my birthday and i wanted to do a little cry, it's so gooooooooooooood. Darth Vader calls me God now too, take note creationists, i am your leader.

2011-04-28T19:25:00.003+01:00

Noir Ohio vintage did a lil feature on my photos over at their blog, HERE, their clothes are always sweet so go check them out! Got my first ever piece of vintage from them years back!!!!

2011-04-28T18:38:00.001+01:00

Photo Maxxy took of me and Jessica.

I suck at this blog, sorry, gunna finish my art courses then I'll come back to my teeny but great audience.

2011-04-18T10:09:00.002+01:00

Another shoot with Jessica and another new skull woooooooooooo.

2011-04-12T18:16:00.005+01:00

Told ya I'd bring you somethin new!!!! This is a veil that I machine knitted and hand sewed every bit of fringe to for my final textiles project. I still have a wooden headress to go on top of it because it's inspired by the devil dance masks worn by Native Americans, but gotta get off my ass and make that.

2011-04-10T22:00:00.001+01:00

Things have been dormant here for ages, but I'll bring u some stuff soon I swear!!!!

2011-03-28T21:22:00.001+01:00

Best fuckin' version of this song.

2011-03-26T20:04:00.002Z

You know when you've been searching for that certain genre of music that you didn't think existed? Well Dark Hills are that, and it makes me feel at ease to know these two beautiful men are on the planet.

2011-03-15T20:19:00.001Z

Two illustrations from my Textiles research book on Native Americans. I can't get away from suede, it follows me and never let's me love any other material.

2011-03-12T19:18:00.002Z

Jess took us on her first legal driving outing to Nomansland. It was rad, these ponies just wander and neigh and shit wherever they want!!!! Most of these are double exposed over Natural History Museum photos.

2011-03-09T20:40:00.002Z

Last of my topshop and h&m clothing going for cheap on eBay, buy buy buy and feed this student.

2011-03-09T07:27:00.002Z

Finally got round to messing these photos up with chemicals and some watercolours. They turned out pretty sweet I think, might try this again sometime.

2011-03-08T22:26:00.002Z

In 5 weeks I will have totally finished my Fine Art and Textiles courses, no idea how I feel about that. Our final ESA project is everyday objects so I just threw together my skulls/religious memorabilia and crystals for subject matter. Easssssyy peassssyyyy. Etching from today, not sure whether it looks better on brown paper or just plain cartridge.

2011-03-04T23:35:00.001Z

Max took some rad photographs of me and Mills. See more here, here and here.

2011-03-02T01:51:00.001Z

Fuck Tactics feat. FOE & Ghostpoet - ENTREPRENEURS

Bubblegunk - ENTREPRENEURS

Milky passed these tunes to my gracious ears.

2011-02-24T09:05:00.002Z

One of the only shoots I've done and actually really like myself. They came out so grainy even though it was pretty decent daylight and my aperture was a-o-k, kinda dig them this way regardless. My art teacher gave me a new sheeps skull yeahhhhhh

2011-02-16T20:36:00.002Z

This was the most fulfilling thing I did all day. Got samples of some great people's hair. I am quite happy with this.

2011-02-13T09:37:00.002Z

I found another Edgar Allan Poe book in my garage and this one has illustrations by someone other than Harry Clarke. The dood is called Arthur Rackham and his work is insane, much more freeform than that of Clarke, I think.

2011-02-12T20:25:00.003Z

I started a tumblr to post photos of stuff that I buy and to scan all my books to. These are some porcupine quills and hairs that I bought from my favourite etsy seller, she's the nicest woman in the whole world, I swear!!!!

2011-02-10T22:15:00.001Z

These earrings are spectacular. This lady makes the best crystal jewellery on etsy.

2011-02-09T12:06:00.002Z

'Apache devil dance masks, worn by dancers representing mountain spirits during the girl's initiation ceremony' - More native research, thinking of making some of these to go with my final design outcome.

2011-02-08T22:43:00.002Z

I'm pretty lucky that me and my Dad have identical taste in music and that he's a crazy hoarder who keeps gold dust like this. Weird part now. On Sunday morning he was shuffling his huge mass of old kerrang magazines around and this was the one he picked out blind, first.

2011-02-07T21:43:00.003Z

For my Textiles ESA project. Research on the Native Americans. Took three enormous books out of the college library, full of info on every other tribe than the Navaho's. What a breath of fresh air.

2011-02-07T17:14:00.001Z

Your spirit is bent on destruction.

2011-02-06T22:02:00.003Z

I think the intricacy of Sorcha's work should be something everyone aspires to. Always blows my mind!!!!!!

2011-02-06T17:58:00.000Z

Gary Moore is now dead. Life sucks so much sometimes. R.I.P you shredding great.

2011-02-06T11:25:00.003Z

Philip Lynott - Tattoo (Giving It All Up For Love) ALBUM VERSION

Philip Lynott - Tattoo (Giving It All Up For Love) ORIGINAL VERSION (slower with dirtier lyrics woooooo)

Motivation for you on a Sunday morning.

2011-02-05T20:49:00.002Z

Excuse my hair in every corner of the shots, orange blur on a windy day. I'm not gunna post these photos to Flickr until I've mucked around with the originals with sandpaper and corrosive chemicals one night. It's only when I write things like this, that I realise I have no social life.

2011-02-05T20:31:00.002Z

My Dad once told me this story of when he was younger and his father took him to these gnarly caves where a viking(?) ship was said to be buried. My Grandad neglected to tell him that these caves were a specific form of rock that had preserved the bodies of the shipmates and scared my Dad shitless when he got there. He said that you could go up and touch these dead dudes and it was totally normal!!!! I have no idea why I told you that but these photos reminded me of it a lil bit. This etsy is rad by the by.

2011-01-30T10:23:00.004Z

The trousers that I made for my Textiles collection fing. They're made of chiffon, stingray and pig. Ripped so much 'cause I sewed them real bad at the start but I think they're on their way to goodness now.

2011-01-28T19:51:00.000Z

By Jim Fitzpatrick.

Contemplating this as a tattoo.

2011-01-28T19:16:00.003Z

'Still In Love With You'- Thin Lizzy

So many people talk about Philip Lynott's death as 'a lesson to all about drugs' and 'another fall of a young rockstar' but that's such a load of shit. He was the best, and it's a tragedy that he's dead but there's no need to make out that his passing should be a warning, still 25 years after it. I don't care that he dabbled in smack or that he drank too much 'cause he's my favourite person in the world! I don't even care that people are gunna tell me I'm lame for writing this 'cause I love him that much. I will never adore another human being as much as him and that is the most pathetic truth ever.

2011-01-27T22:40:00.001Z

Me by Jessica Sandwell. All clothes made by me, hair grown by me, genes from parents, stupid expression from rogue field mouse.

2011-01-27T19:32:00.003Z

The Magic Sword, Quest for Camelot. Whenever I work, I watch kids films. Mainly the ones that involve my favourite singers. Steve Perry is King Arthur's voice in this film for fucks sake!!!!!!!

2011-01-25T19:25:00.001Z