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• Powerstations and Plastic Balls
  by .... rdmn

  Battersea Power Station is clearly the finest structure in London, forget Apsley House, you want imposing might, you can’t go further tha…

  Battersea Power Station is clearly the finest structure in London, forget Apsley House, you want imposing might, you can’t go further than Sir Giles Gilbert Scott’s magnificent Art Deco monolith of brick. / So he had a stab at the telephone box, and Bankside (or the Tate Modern) is alright, but those four chimney’s rising from clutter of terraces and railway sidings strike an imposing figure over the city skyline. And it’s not surprising, it’s the largest brick building in Europe. / From Pink Floyd to Children of Men, via The Beatles and The Dark Knight, it is scorched into our modern cultural psyche, the Bank of England burnt tens of thousands of pounds in the furnaces there when they thought the Bosch were about to conquer us during WW2. Meanwhile the RAF were using the plumes of smoke to guide them home. Screaming Lord Sutch wanted to cover it in wool and make it look like a dead sheep, John Broome tried to turn it into a theme park. Now they want to turn it into a naff collection of faux pot plants and cafes, with a riverside walkway way, exterior designed to within an inch of it’s life. They’ll probably fail. But I don’t care, it meant that it was opened for two days for the public to get inside and have a wander, and this just hasn’t happened very often. (PVZ would have wet himself) On a different note, but while I have your attention, the next day I attended the Lovebox Weekender, and aside from Goldfrapp having these totally ace guys dressed up like colourful carpets pinging it all over the stage, Wayne Coyne from the Flaming Lips came out in a massive plastic ball and went walking and crawling all over the crowd, oh, and yeah, their show was amazing too

• Featured in eight groups so far!
  by Sam Mortimer

  A huge thank you to these groups and their moderators: >Bits and Pieces, for featuring “Deco” >Current Issues, for featuring “N…

  A huge thank you to these groups and their moderators: >Bits and Pieces, for featuring “Deco” >Current Issues, for featuring “No Simple Issue” >Yellow Fever, for featuring “Decisions!” >Stillness Speaks, for featuring “Peace” >Art Action Union – Creative Acivism, for featuring “Whale” >The Torch, for featuring “Embrace (t-shirt)” >Abstract Digital Art and Writing, for featuring “Bullseye” >Ebony and Ivory, for featuring “Embrace” So, many thanks!

• sold so far this year (2007)...and now 2008
  by Samantha Van Stralendorff

  weeeheeee I can now add, sold from gallery26! lucky lady, Talia is the new proud owner! rainbow stripes...

  weeeheeee I can now add, sold from gallery26! lucky lady, Talia is the new proud owner! rainbow stripes / merge to Rob ‘the guy’ clements / and also “emerge” ( a variation) to Theresa, Rob’s lady and now in 2008 summer flow dots / as well as recent painting (image to come) / from the last exhibition at North Sydney / More sold than I’d ever imagined, so I thought I share what did sell with all and sundry! fish / / (it was a different version, on two canvases, but did I take a photo of it? nope-forgot!...another small yellow landscape also sold which I don’t have a photo of…) / and commissioned paintings sold(for someone on a tight budget!) all three together / yoga star (also a t-shirt) / and earlier this year, dandelion / the irony is, I always think people like light coloured work, because they’re easy to live with-but I love the bright stuff…and everyone who’s bought my art also seems to! update, update! from north sydney-3more to add! the red / the blue / and the brown, which is the same as the blue. There you go! 10 from the north sydney show. How wonderful. It really made my day! ( I heard yesterday!) Life gets better everyday!

• Old Skool
  by Paul Baines

  Yep on a lighter note this groovy little number came to me while I was watching Jack Nicholson losing it for the umpteenth time in the Sh…

  Yep on a lighter note this groovy little number came to me while I was watching Jack Nicholson losing it for the umpteenth time in the Shining. Started making me think, that whole Charleston vibe, the Flappers and such, they could have done with a few hip hop beats. Hence the gramophone decks and top hat ‘n’ tails. Anyway no deep message, just having a laugh with this one ;)