November 2010
1 post
Jackson Ernest Wise
With this kid, there’s no need to bother paraphrasing. From the caves themselves…
The value of ‘the image’ is at an all time low. and its going to be even lower tomorrow, much like the value of money. The role of texture in the history of representation has become my main concern and reasoning for this visual crisis. It seems our materialistic nature increases in ...
September 2010
1 post
VENTRAL IS GOLDEN
Ventral is truly a giant worth reckoning with.
http://ventralisgolden.com/
A healthy abundance of titillating creations on the website, Ventral Is Golden maintains mountains in a multi-coloured birds-nest of collage, inks, geometry and the magic eye.
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The zine is indeed a medium worthwhile in itself. Celebrate with Ventral. Suck it in. Hold your breathe. Taste the death. Release....
August 2010
2 posts
NADIA CHALABI
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to find Nadia’s Experiments with Pattern and Colour on her blog.
Subsequent to having delved through her archived content, it’s safe to say her work will leave an everlasting impression, what with the fruit-pastille tones for clarity and variety of mediums on offer, Nadia’s talents instigate a compelling discomfort towards the familiar,...
WatchGUPPOLOGY Sounds like some sort of ideological statement in reference to a state of mind related to astrology….right? The dood underSTANDS textures like no other. Mr.Guppy appears is a well versed multi-faceted artist of sorts. From speech cut ups to screen-prints, typographical - related studies within the home or group pursuits collectively working together in analyzing form to help...
July 2010
1 post
luke jinks
It was in the basement of the Here Gallery (Bristol) when my eyes were apprehended by Jinks’ bold, distinctive use of colour and immediately developed a persistent desire to see more and more and more.
Adhering to the self-initiated brief of “not using more than three colours”, his pictures depict time-periods of native iconography with a healthy does of mythological...
June 2010
1 post
SUZI KEMP
Suzi Kemp is an illustrator currently residing amongst those empty shells you find between the pebbles of Brighton Beach. Next time you’re wandering THAT shore, pick up and put one in your pocket to adorn a fellow filaments window-shelf on the walk to your nest with four walls and a goblet of sunlight hanging from ceiling.
Having worked on found materials and an array of mediums, Suzi...
May 2010
2 posts
Martin Ernstsen
Subsequent to venturing beyond the high-level security of Konstfack in Stockholm, Martin was hard at work gluing the pages of his bold, 3-coloured concertina epic depiction of a story he had written. A mail delivery frog is forced to adventure into dangerous territories and leave his native and safe-haven of Bottomland Swamp..
Kodok is the name of our hero, in case you were wondering..
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March 2010
1 post
COVERED.
http://coveredblog.blogspot.com/ is the bang-bang.
So you know how the true essence behind every ‘new’ creation is a re-appropriation of the past, a way of empowering our present selves in an act of stabilizing a foundation of sense on our own grounds, outside of our parents culture? Right…Covered embellish on this idea ten-fold, asking comic book artists and illustrators to...
February 2010
4 posts
ESTHER STOCKER
Fumbling through flip-books is always a joyous past-time but the internet allows magical aesthetics to land in your lap without a predetermined path to the finish line, thank you for the internet CERN. Playing with the structure of lines, ESTHER STOCKER assembles immaterial visions of a textual context in correlative juxtaposition of her final output. Stocker’s astonishingly...
Sleigh Bells
I think they’re from...
25.01.10 - 31.01.10
So many hours spent coiled in tin, cloaked by the all-seeing eye of Others and justifying pleasures of our self-gratification.
The performance exists, we have proof to provide in the evidence of Us.
Whilst we dribbled down the shin of Irish and British lands like drop of blood protruding from the grazed knee, the musix below helped keep the flow of blood on it’s pre-determined course of...
January 2010
10 posts
WatchA good friend Nicos Livesey created what can only be described as a phantasmagorical video for the single ‘Propeller’ which was released in…I can’t remember now, some time in 2009 though.
carrots.
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December 2009
11 posts
Koppen hail from Strømmen in Norway. I could...
Thomas Prior
Thomas Prior is a 30 year young photographer based in Brooklyn, NY.
Judging from the content of his website, he travels around quite a bit which gives his portfolio a vibrant abundance of colour, breathing a fresh perspective on those who choose to inhibit their photography skills with a subject matter confined to describing the aesthetics of urban decay (urrrrrrrr).
Instead, Prior allows us...
WatchOur buddy Hugh has been immersed in light experiments recently, in this process, an orb of tangible light with phantasmagorical effects has materialized.
Early morning 3am sessions with caffeine boosts, burning filaments pursuing efactist conversations and the quiet whirrrrrrr houses make when people sleep. Somewhere in Australia a flying squirrel glides.
http://inlikeerrol.blogspot.com/
20.12.09 - 27.12.09
Gathering songs from the chilly outside and into the warmth.
Keeping them close to me, under my wooly hat and being played through headphones has kept my mind buoyant and able to avoid any form of despondency over this festive period. Where is the room for such negative thrills?
Berlin soon, this time via coach, without a platform in sight…
1. Jeffrey Lewis – Roll Bus Roll
2. Wale –...
Watchthis….is christmas.
