Sunday saw almost 200 models in the shape of children’s TV favourite Morph arranged in a terracotta army outside Tate Modern to honour the memory of the late TV artist Tony Hart. If you don’t know who Morph is, he appeared alongside Hart from 1977 on several of his UK TV programmes, notably Take Hart and Hartbeat. Tony Hart influenced a generation of artists and designers, including me. Check out the different morph renditions here.
Heres a lovely flickr collection of vintage tape inserts. The collection features inserts from Dixons, Phillips, BASF. If your into 70’s and 80’s material check out the full collection here, brace yourself for some brave typography and colour combos.
At noon tomorrow Barack Obama places his hand on the bible and takes his oath of office. CNN, with a little help from Microsoft’s Photosynth and a million friends, plan to create the most detailed experience of a single moment ever. They are asking everyone attending the inauguration to take a photo at noon and send it to them. They will then use Photosynth to stitch all the shots together in a 3D space which should be spectacular – let’s hope it’s more successful than John King’s virtual pie chart.
Of course they could crowd-sorce video footage too, as Michel Gondry did for the live video of Daft Punk’s HARDER BETTER FASTER STRONGER. Maybe next time.
Farrow has recently reprinted a limited run of the Haçidenda 15th Birthday poster, which they first produced in 1997. This was sadly the last birthday that the Haçidenda celebrated before shutting its door in the summer of the same year.
This beautiful poster design has been screen-printed on “Campaign MG Poster Paper (120 GSM) with Pantone 810, black, cool grey 9 and reflective ink”. You can see the printing process used to reproduce the poster here. It’s a shame they don’t capture the smell of the print!
Raymond Biesinger’s illustration is instantly recognisable and has been featured in a slew of publications too many to mention. His stuff is always so wonderfully dark and subversive, like a Luddite who has a go on the printing press just before he destroys it. I had the opportunity to commission him last year for a BMW book (above is a poster from the same project), which was a real pleasure. Not content with being a nice bloke and an awesome illustrator, he’s also a musician in The Famines and a fledgling publisher too – how infuriating.
One of his first publications is 100 Black on White Illustrations by Raymond E. Biesinger, a snip at $14 on Etsy.
Here’s a really nice Levi’s advertisement that I spotted down on Old Street. The ad is made up of different styles of real 501 jeans cut into the shape of butterflies. Check it out before it flies away!
Christian Marclay has some new cyanotypes on show at the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York until the 11th. Standing in front of these wall-sized blueprints of unspooled cassette tapes is an immersive experience – these tiny images really don’t so them justice. Here both subject and reproduction are legacy, analog formats and the resulting images are stunning and ethereal.
Also on show is “Looking for Love”, a video work in which a close-up camera is trained upon a record-player needle which is forcibly skipped around vintage pop records, trying to find any mention of love. Mesmerising.
Becoming briefly the most stylish stuntmen ever, Noah Sakamoto and Patrick Rizzo don suits by Adam Kimmel and hurtle down an open road in Claremont, CA. The white-knuckle ride, promoting Kimmel’s Spring Summer ’09 collection, is directed by the Sonoma artist Ari Marcopoulos. Hang on to your lunch as you watch them dodge traffic in both directions and trade the camera between them. (via The Moment)
I have got something for all you synthesizer anoraks out there! AQ Interactive has come up with an amazing little program that converts
your Nintendo DS into a Korg DS-10 synthesizer. The Korg DS-10 program boasts a two analog simulator, drum machine and a 6 track sequencer.
What more could you ask for!
Sadly, it is only available in Japan at the moment. I am hoping that it will get a full release in the UK. I will keep you posted.
The V&A was awash with con’s by the end of this years Village Fete. And what a sorry looking bunch of miscreants you all were – Dance Floor Murderers, Fraudsters, Racketeers, Fashion Criminals and Nuclear Arms Dealers all rubbed shoulders with the other law-abiding visitors.
Criminality saw no boundaries as offenders young and old queued up to have their fictional Civil Liberties stripped. Some followed in the footsteps of other dynamic-duos and chose to be photographed with a partner-in-crime, others took the wrap for themselves and stood in the docks alone. Either way we caught some real hardened crims and did our part at ridding the streets of some of society’s most dangerous transgressors.
Our thanks goes to all those who took part and kept us busy for the entire event. And, if there are any of you felons reading this who received a Fibre Criminal Record, can you send us a scan of the picture side of your cards so that we can add it to our files.
