February 2012
5 posts
“People as toys, enslaved by the pleasures of consumerism, addicted to the...”
– Wieland Schmied
January 2012
20 posts
WatchOooo this gets me way too excited. NASA- Complex Solar Eruption recorded by NASA’s solar dynamics observatory
“If half [of the United States] feels so threatened by two people of the same...”
– Ariel Levy on G.W.Bush’s push for the illegality of gay marriage in the USA to be entered into the constitution (53% for in February 2003) from ‘Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the rise of Raunch culture’
“Sexual freedom can be a smoke screen for how far we HAVEN’T come”
– Erica Jong (Extract from Ariel Levy’s “Female Chauvinist Pigs”)
WatchNasa - Black Hole Eats Star
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“Artists who aren’t trying to deal with the implications of new media on...”
– John Hill! http://digitalarts.ft.com/
YOUTUBE KILLED THE VIDEO STAR
Review I wrote a little while ago, could use another draft
‘Emotion driven YOUTUBE DJ Party-Beta Version’ run by the artist Mitchell Bridges is an atypical art exhibition. The event (which it is probably better described as) makes a concrete affair of what is usually done in the houses of skint under-graduates. The show comprises of two DJs, two laptops and two projections that stretch across...
Disappointment
Disappointed that my blog has inevitably become about others’ work and ideas and appears to lack my own work.
December 2011
13 posts
WatchUntitled and Uncompleted
Video piece in progress. Will hopefully be separated and extended into about 6 films and eventually be part of a sculptural installation. (No sound)
Sampat Pal Devi and the Gulabi Gang
from: Sampat Pal Devi: The Guardian, Top 100 Women)
Dressed in pink saris and wielding bamboo sticks, the Gulabi gang are an all-women vigilante force, and their warrior leader is Devi. The daughter of a shepherd, she taught herself to read and write. When she was 12, she was married to an ice-cream seller and by 20, she had five children. One day in her village in Uttar Pradesh, one of the...
November 2011
7 posts
Beard Compliment Translations..
“Wow, that’s a really nice beard you have.”
I want to have sex with you.
“Are you working on growing a beard?”
I would be extremely attracted to you if you started growing a beard.
“I hope you’re planning on growing out your beard for winter.”
I would be DTF if you had a winter beard.
“Your beard looks good today.”
My pants are coming off.
October 2011
11 posts
“Frieze is now over, luckyPDF tv done, is this a good thing or bad thing?”
