This years contribution to the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal takes a somewhat different direction allowing a high level of publicity also for the Kendal Castle Poppy Bid.
This year the RBL celebrates its 90th Anniversary, 89 years of caring, providing and supporting the Veterans of the UK's armed services, moreso than ever its services are needed as since the First Gulf War in 199/91 our armed services have been involved in several long term and psychologically destructive conflicts, Gulf War I, Bosnia, Gulf War II, Afghanistan and Libya meaning more servicemen are seeking support than in previous decades following the Second World War.
This year Kendal's Royal British Legion Branch is providing a celebrationary float, for those less familiar with the term ' a float ' is the flat bed of a truck, bedecked with a particular theme, its purpose two fold, firstly to provide the Towns folk with an annual Torchlight Carnival as the vehicles and supporting crews tour the streets and secondly to promote, advertise and collect much needed funds, apparently we are no longer able to 'throw' freebies, sweets, promotional cards and items to the people lining the streets making the secondary purpose all the more difficult.
The carnival is on Friday 9th September and will, hopefully, come to you on this BLOG as well as the associated facebook sites the week following, I say hopefully as I find editing such a tedius and confusing task and far from the splashes of paint around the studio.
This year the RBL celebrates its 90th Anniversary, 89 years of caring, providing and supporting the Veterans of the UK's armed services, moreso than ever its services are needed as since the First Gulf War in 199/91 our armed services have been involved in several long term and psychologically destructive conflicts, Gulf War I, Bosnia, Gulf War II, Afghanistan and Libya meaning more servicemen are seeking support than in previous decades following the Second World War.
This year Kendal's Royal British Legion Branch is providing a celebrationary float, for those less familiar with the term ' a float ' is the flat bed of a truck, bedecked with a particular theme, its purpose two fold, firstly to provide the Towns folk with an annual Torchlight Carnival as the vehicles and supporting crews tour the streets and secondly to promote, advertise and collect much needed funds, apparently we are no longer able to 'throw' freebies, sweets, promotional cards and items to the people lining the streets making the secondary purpose all the more difficult.
This year, instead of creating an artwork for the RBL I am working with them to help design the float, to this end I am creating a large number 90, decked in poppies and Legion bugs, this video, Part one, shows the construction of the skeleton of this piece taken over a three day period, video two will show the finishing touches, the preparation of the flatbed truck and the carnival both from the vehicles perspective and, hopefully if all goes well, the RBL float, (and others), from the spectators viewpoint, fingers crossed that the person holding the camera on the street manages to control their excitement and capture it creeping along.
The carnival is on Friday 9th September and will, hopefully, come to you on this BLOG as well as the associated facebook sites the week following, I say hopefully as I find editing such a tedius and confusing task and far from the splashes of paint around the studio.
