Das Pop
Belgian 80s tinged indie rock. Not bad.
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Boots backs bestiality!
Pushes back like a billy goat on a cliff edge, apparently. Not a bad ginger beer, far more tingle than my home made stuff.
The Caravan Gallery is parked in Piccadilly
The smallest gallery in the world.
Mark Powell's creepy dioramas
Mark Powell makes mini visions of hell. I’d like to work my way towards building fanatsy dioramas like this one day. Click on the picture and then explore his Flickr gallery.
Mark Powell’s creepy dioramas
Mark Powell makes mini visions of hell. I’d like to work my way towards building fanatsy dioramas like this one day. Click on the picture and then explore his Flickr gallery.
Painted Eee
Tor.com are running a competition to win a painted Asus Eee laptop, which is rather pretty. At just over two hundred pounds for an Eee, and less for an Elonex One, could we be seeing a rash of customised baby laptops? It’s certainly not as big a gamble as, say, a Macbook.
A Posse’s worth of severed cowboy heads
Trust me, there is a plan for these. Not a very nice one, I admit.
A Posse's worth of severed cowboy heads
Trust me, there is a plan for these. Not a very nice one, I admit.
Mending Time
The first of a series I’m going to call Strange Little World, which will place models and toy soldiers in odd places.
MMU Degree show 2008
I’ve spent a few hours over the last few days checking out the degree show at the Manchester Metropolitan University, looking for ideas to steal. (Note to lawyers- not really.)
In fact, it felt as if some of them had been stealing ideas from me. Lots of the photographers have discovered the post industrial landscape, where I don’t remember any being that way inclined last year. And at least two people were doing stuff with toy soldiers, including one who had been leaving them around town. It was also a little depressing to see the poor standard of spelling and punctuation on some of the artist’s statements. You’d think someone would check them before they were printed and stuck to the wall.
I picked up a wad of business cards. Not all of them have websites, but I’m listing all the ones that do below-
Adam Senior
Sophie Petter A minimalist site, highlighting experiments with form in book and magazine design.
Andrew Duxbury Exercises in branding. Slightly annoying Flash bits.
Charlotte Watmough Production design. She has a blog, but it’s not been updated much.
Jonathan Wan Nice cartoony style, though it reminds me of someone else’s work.
Olivia Moss Cute illustration style that looks a lot like South Park characters.
Danielle Noel Advertising and art direction.
Katherine Aherne Good looking but Flash heavy site.
Daniel Fernandez-Arias Has created a lush looking graphic novel/multimedia western called Redemption.
Livid Thorn The colours hurt my eyes.
Ross Platt Design with a skate or recycling theme.
The mini art car parade
The first few of a series coming soon from Spinneyhead’s studio.
Toys!
Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles recently held a show of work inspired by old school toys and featuring forty customised Hot Wheels vans to celebrate the brand’s fortieth birthday. A lot of the art can be seen here.
Technorati tag: Scale Models
Go faster toilet seat
I think I want a pinstriped toilet seat, only 60 quid from Nefarious Pinstriping. In case I nab it before you can, there’s a load of other stuff in the shop.
366 listings in 366 days
The eponymous EBay trader is trying to live up to their name, listing one piece of art for sale every day of 2008. So far the pieces tend to revolve around skips, toast and spraypaint. I just bought three notebooks with spraypainted covers, because I wasn’t so sure about framing toast.
1000 True Fans
A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author – in other words, anyone producing works of art – needs to acquire only 1,000 True Fans to make a living.
A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name. They bookmark the eBay page where your out-of-print editions show up. They come to your openings. They have you sign their copies. They buy the t-shirt, and the mug, and the hat. They can’t wait till you issue your next work. They are true fans.
Illuminations 1
I can’t remember the thought process that led me to it, but I decided to put illuminated letters at the start of each scene in Global Weirding. This is the first of two pages of sketches that resulted. I’m currently cleaning them up/redoing them for the final version, which shall be available through my Lulu shop soon.
If you’re impatient, here’s a rich text version of the story.
The Post It Note Project
This looks like fun. Do a piece of art on a Post-It note and stick it up somewhere around town on February 1st, then photograph it and send the image to the organisers with location details.
via Drawn