Tag: Visual Arts
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Lifehacks and Buzzfeed: made of dumb
Love Maddox and the ‘Best Show In The Universe’ and agree with these videos – Buzzfeed and the copy sites are full of lame, uncredited images and pointless listicles. And Lifehacks do sometimes get very dangerous – some of the electricity ones I’ve seen actually look like Darwin Award submissions. Let’s wrap that power cord…
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Tim makes a showreel
https://vimeo.com/91718110 Usually promoting other people’s work – or sometimes mine in musical form. But finally got round to doing a showreel – a highlights reel more accurately. Just thought some of you might be interested what I do for a sort-of day job… It includes everything from my video mashups to idents, stings, apps, tube…
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Black and white chairs
Excellent response by queer Russian artist Alexander Kargaltsev to this image showing Dasha Zhukova sitting on a black woman chair, from Out There magazine. I love this because it not only joins into the discussion around the original chair, it points out that many prefer their submissives to be female, especially non-white, and their active…
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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…
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Banksy on Advertising
Although I think there is some irony here with Banksy’s now superstar status and the fact some could compare having his street art pop up is also like someone throwing a brick to your head (and I won’t even go into the copyright controversy from the Bristol Museum exhibition) I think the message is a…
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The grandaddy of VJing – Len Lye
Years ago I bemoaned the lack of the amazing animator and grandaddy of all VJIng and music video animation on DVD, getting a response from Roger Horrocks that the Len Lye Foundation and the New Zealand Film Archive were working on it…well several years later it slips out unbeknown to me on Re:Voir, and you…