Tag: Art
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An unfortunate Rolf Harris sketch in hindsight
Hindsight’s a bitch, especially when it catches up with you and bites you on the bum. Obviously as the About of this Not The Nine O’Clock News video points out, John Lloyd did not intend the modern reading of this sketch, more than his show was so bad they had to round up kids. But…
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Everybody’s doing the twist (even pop artists)
I saw clips off the 1962 film Pop Goes The Easel aeons ago, but never watched the full BBC Monitor documentary by a young Ken Russell until now. It featured an equally young looking Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, Derek Boshier and Peter Phillips. What I love about this, and the clip I saw many moons…
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Sofles – Limitless
Wow this is an amazing video, stop motion a bit like those old Vision On videos but cooler with graffiti and a very big warehouse. (via Cartelmike)
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Art isn’t cheap
Not as instant as my Freelance Aint Free t-shirt but a more elegant explanation why art & creativity costs. And yes I’ve had the ‘I could paint that’ or ‘my 5 year old could do better’ – I’ve usually said ‘Well why don’t you/they do so?’. It’s a lot harder than it looks – but…
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Steal This Film II
Shiny new post on a shiny new host, and something that’s been in my torrent download queue for ages – the film Steal This Film II – a great freely downloadable documentary about file sharing, information sharing in cultures (like teaching) and the social and legal issues within and looking at past technologies like the…