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0:20Thank you very much don't be here me okay good it's good good good so just a brief caveat before I start there we go if at some point I say we rather than I or me tonight it's not because a mental it's because I worked through the geico Ryan Doyle who moved last year to France to live with his now wife and we now work together via the internet so good so two years ago we came down to London because my mum Julie Edwards who's a taps tree Weaver had a show at collect at the Saatchi Gallery his picture of me Ryan and my mum whose birthday is today. Actually so have a birthday Julie we're in kilts because Ryan is Scottish and I like to crossdress a little bit and when we came down we stayed with out what we stayed at an Airbnb that is owned by a guy called Paolo grd who makes wonderful collage work we didn't know this at the time but when we arrived his work was absolutely as a big penis when when we arrived we didn't realize that he was a collage but his work was just like floor-to-ceiling it was just incredibly inspiring and made us think a lot about how immediate collages and how exciting it would be to do a project on a daily basis so we started to do a thing called 365 days of college which as the name suggests is where we made a college day for a year originally we set ourselves some restrictions the first being that they had to be 230 millimeters by hundred eighty millimeters which is the size of this envelope because we wanted to charge 10 pounds for each collage and it didn't make any sense to charge 10 pounds and then charge 20 pounds for the postage and also we were going to post one each day at 1:00 p.m.

2:32Which I'll come back to later but I'm just going to show you all of them very quickly you okay finished yet so I'm just gonna read through with the drawbacks and some of the positives that came from the project so going to the post office every week is something that I hope never to do ever again not only did I hate the experience of having to cycle there in normally the pissing rain in Manchester but the looks they used to give me about halfway through the project it's like ah it is yeah rubbish every day because we're posting that one o'clock had set a reminder to post it every day at one o'clock we wanted to get into people's like daily schedule so they go and check here on the phone over so it went off at the worst times we went to Miami to give a talk at Art Basel went off then I took my girlfriends Paris and it went off everyday there which she lived and I went on a stag do and we went up Snowden and it went off halfway at the mountain so that was rubbish this is kind of nice drawback but a drawback nonetheless went to one of my friends and a beam messed me halfway through projects and said I've got loads of national Geographics do you want them oh yes yes we do now it looks like a lot there the picture she sent me did not look that many and when I got there with one suitcase she was like okay you maybe don't have enough suitcases right two suitcases we were late me and my long-suffering girlfriend were late for the train dragging them down using train station. Now isn't it bit 2015 national Geographics do not make you faster at running does not matter what the adverts say positives money three thousand six hundred and fifty pounds we sold them all wonderful helps toward the studio rent a beer at the end of the day always helps it was really great seeing a lot of friends strangers and is buy them.

9:32This is a guy called Liam who lives just outside of Manchester who bought a tea which still kind of blows my mind a little bit we had a show at a wonderful art institution called home which if you ever visit Manchester is very nice shows great films has nice art exhibitions and a good restaurant now what really his talk about is that when we will halfway through the project we kind of thought this is looking quite good and it would look really nice at the end of it if we could gather it all together in say a book.

10:06So we had to look at our bookshelves and I like right we have a lot of times in Hudson books let's approach them and they said and I quote we only do artist monographs for people who are famous or dead and as we were neither of those like okay fine but what they did say which is quite smart was that did we have a idea that we could pitch to them about doing a book about collage so we came up with the idea for cut that out which say book about contemporary collage with InDesign so designs using affair poster our record sleeves advertising etc and is all good book shops and some bad ones and if they really likes been a pleasure to do to speak to and receive work from some of our favorites you know LeapPad had Sookie I'm terrible at pronouncing his name every time Jessie Drexler Hort sure you all know and loads of others yeah this has been a real pleasure from start to finish this book please Thanks and one last thing just on the 5th of October make sure you all freaks we're going to do a exhibition at the wonderful KK outlet then