Saturday 25 September 2010

Andrew Lewicki


"acordian obscura" brilliant. reminds me of camera lucida for some reason.
from here.

Friday 24 September 2010

Angela De La Cruz




I just saw a post on someone's website about her and remember how brilliant her exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre was. With the title's making the pieces and the arrangment of crippled canvases. Really liked it.

Websites I like

yayeveryday
hardworkersclub
ffffound
happyaccident
itsnicethat
booooooom
holyghostzine
mullitover
powerbastard

4thdimension


4thdimension
Originally uploaded by Adly M Elewa
Really like this

Finnished my sketchbook.


More to come, but for now this is the end.

Ben Skinner


from here.

Mike Piscitelli



from here.

from a lomo website

Lemonworld


Wednesday 22 September 2010

holy ghost


from here.


This is pretty cool too.

The Temporary School of Thought

This is England '86








Really enjoying "This is England '86" on channel4. Thought it wouldn't live up to the film but I think it stands on it's own. Some really lovely shots, sometimes incredibly uncomfortable, but well done. Even the awful moments capture the non hollywood-ness of a real life. The rape scene is made so much more hard hitting by just having it in that crap 80's living room with the horrible domestic lighting. If it had been done all horror movie like, fast pace and darkness, it wouldn't have had nearly the same affect. And all the shots of the dull estates and skinhead outfits are cool to watch.

Timo Klos


from here.

Roses are

Deer Tick

Maurizio Anzeri





from here.

Anna Barribal

pot kettle pot kettle

Friday 17 September 2010

Basic space


Looking at these by Meredith Danluck (from here)

Caffeine - SledGad & Gaskel Greed by SledGad

And listening to this.

Obsession with going to drive across America grows.

Wednesday 15 September 2010

excited


http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/snapshot/09/ba-fine-art-2010

when you are part of the air and remember things

As I have moaned about, I am in quite a limbo state about my work, I think the mini summer project asking for "a piece of work best representing my current interests" has been a good thing for me as I realy am trying to pin down what that is, and in that struggle, am making a lot. Not a lot that Im actualy that happy with, but its still good to be doing. I think its having completed a foundation where really you are just continually trying to make work for a portfolio for an interview to get a place on a course, just like at A level, and not really for you. And I know my final major project came after that but it still felt like a conclusion to all that other work. Even though it was a really good example of the type of thing Im interested in, I feel the aesthetic of it in particular- I have really exhasuted. And even though I continue to be attracted to that type of work its not what I want to do. I think. So Im in the midst of a quarter life art work crisis, thing. I know what Im drawn to, but trying to coherantly and concisely and articulatley sum up my interests, in one piece, I am drawing a bit of a blank. I finnished a sketch book of musings and collections of crap I like and have made and put together etc. But no piece on its own sums it up, and I considered using the book itself as one piece, like an object as all the bits did work better in relation to each other. But again, I feel like it doesn't quite show what Im about. And its a tad nerdy to show up on the first day with a whole sketchbook, not realy worth it for what it is as well. In the past few days I think I've come a bit closer, I found these photographs of my Dad's that aren't really any good but they have a light and a colour and a mood about them that is quite nice and represents a sort of era or a generation, and even though I am removed from that generation I think I can relate to the age of them, teenage-ness about them. I am reading a lot of books, by coincidence, from the perspective of an angstful teenage mind at the minute, all quite different- Perks of being a wall flower, Less than Zero and Catcher in the Rye. So maybe that is influencing me. That sort of sense you can't really describe you just know when you're of that age. Glimpses. I've gone on and on about glimpses before but realy that's what it does come down to in my work; glimpses that show things about people and times and places. Highlighting them in strange ways that you might not have thought about them in before. But how to represent that in one piece? Ugh. Rut.
cool website from Josh Smith

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