Tag: painting
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Back to YouTube Part 1: Hard-Up Hiker – Reviews & Tips To Save Money
Related to some of the ideas that I was talking about at the end of Jaunt 3 was to work more with video. Now this new Hard-Up Hiker / Bankrupt Backpacker channel ostensibly might not seem that related to my artwork, but all going well it will. I have big plans – I am eventually…
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My new art site
I’ve recently started life drawing, collaging and painting again, you can see some of the results of that on the latest podcast and also on a new site here. Going to add more of my ‘skratchbook’ in future as well, as soon as I dig out the scanner.
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The Fluid Dynamics of Van Gogh
Vincent had a turbulent life, but it seems he depicted a reality of the universe that no-one could see with fluid turbulence, later described by mathematics and physics. Spook! Art leads science shocker. (via Jez Biggs)
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To BP or Not BP
On Sunday I was on the People’s Climate March with Queer Bloc (pictures here) and earlier that day British Museum was targeted by activists from ‘BP or not BP’, the Dharma Action Network for Climate Engagement (DANCE), and the London Quakers for a performance called ‘Gross Negligence’. (from John Hoggett) I’d heard of some of…
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Molly Crabapple’s Shell Game
Love these painting about the uprisings of 2011 by Molly Crabapple in an exhibition called ‘Shell Game’. It’s unusual to have artists working with political themes, and to do it so well, like a 21st century Hogarth…as she described it: “It was the year when everyone sat down in the main squares of their cities…
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Aaron Smith
As an ex-artist (well certainly in the traditional sense; John quite rightly said you can’t train to be an artist) you tend to be critical of art you see, it either falls into the camp of ‘I could do that, why should I buy it?’ or ‘I can’t do that’. Certainly in the latter case…