X hib ishun (trumpet blowing)
A couple of weeks back I was invited to put some work in an exhibition called Cluster near Regent’s Street in central London, so I put this in. Seemed rude not to.
It was a three storey gallery of new talents, some old talent, and some dead talent, like Jean-Michel Basquiat.
I missed my own privat…
Anish Kapoor
A couple of weeks ago I dropped into the Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Royal Academy in London, the massive shiny collections of balls in the courtyard convinced me to cough up the slightly over priced entrance fee.
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Seizure
If you ever find yourself south of the river, and wander east from Elephant and Castle tube station, through some suitably bleak housing estates, you will stumble across a derelict and boarded up 1960s housing block.
You will probably check you know where your wallet is.
If you head into flat 151, you w…
You Never Forget Your First Art Teacher
Went to see Beardyman last night on the Complete and Udder Shambles Tour, inside a giant purple cow.
In was possibly the highlight of the summer, if you don’t know Beardyman and have any interest in beatboxing at all, then, well, you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Grafitti
This is technically vandalism I suppose, but I reckon the RB sticker is a damn site more attractive than all the daft comments and ramblings that various Beatles fans and assorted tourists have plastered all over the previously delightful Abbey Road Studio gateway.
Love a bit of Wendsledale
If you can get yourself near the Science Museum in London, and have any interest whatsoever in animation, I’d recommend their new Wallace and Gromit’s Cracking Ideas exhibition, although I think it’s probably designed for children.
I was just keen to see the set pieces and original models. Most of them from the l…
0.25mm
Nat wrote this post about pinhole cameras yesterday. And it got me all agitated. It’s one of those things that, along with ‘washing’, has been on my list of things to do for years, and I’ve just never got around to it.
So last night, when the plates had been cleared and four empty wine bottles put car…
Literary Autopsy
I bought this book Tutankhamen, but I did not enjoy it. All this piffle about curses from people who were nothing more than thieves. So I cut into it in anger, like Howard Carter desperately trying to find the tomb. Vaguely attempting to replicate Brian Dettmer’s book autopsies, but knowing in my heart I’d just never be quite that good.
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Foamboard, Batteries and LEDs
After seeing the community post on light painting yesterday, I thought I’d throw up some of the work I have been doing with LEDs.
It’s actually for a stop motion film idea I have, except it’s going to take until 2046 to complete, I expect, so to feel like something is being achieved I have made some c…
Highlights of 2009. Hang on...
...but it’s only March? Yes I know, but it’s been a cracking year already. And as you’re aware, I’m a pretty positive chap, so I thought I’d concentrate on the good times and make sure I wasn’t taking anything for granted.
The first highlight was only 1 second into this year, impressive start you’ll agree. A friend of mine who happens to work in The Adelphi,...