It’s that time again folks, the Village Fete at the V&A is back! This year we’re giving punters the chance to show their darker side with a replica vintage Criminal Record:
“Impress your friends with the Fibre Correctional Facility Criminal Record. Walk in the footsteps of your celebrity heroes - Steve McQueen, Bill Gates, Hugh Grant, Bob Fosill - and get your very own bespoke Criminal Record complete with mug-shot, finger-prints and all your personal details, without the need to spend a second at Her Majesty’s pleasure.”
In conjunction with the Street Art exhibition at the Tate Modern, various works
have appeared in the area surrounding the Fibre studio.
Artists from Spain, Italy, France and Brazil were all showing works at the gallery
and in the nearby streets. Some placed legally, some appear to have been done
without permission. Either way, the message would seem to be the same:
Street art’s ok so long as the perpetrator’s not from Britain.
In a decision I support, the gallery purposefully excluded Banksy in an attempt
to draw attention to other just as accomplished artists and aspects of the art
form. Just a shame I think not to celebrate some more of our own emerging
and already established talent.
On my way back to Elephant & Castle train station yesterday I came across the most amazing sculpture of a “Stag”, standing in the centre of a construct site. The “Stag”, by Ben Long, is 35ft tall and made solely from scaffolding poles. This the fourth in a series of scaffolding sculptures, and it will be on be on display until July. Check it out while you can!
Perhaps the most amazing, creative and ambitious stop frame animation I’ve ever seen by artist Blu from Bologna
Soon to be appearing on walls of Tate modern.
A sneaky peek at Director Guy Ritchie’s two minute blockbuster for the new Nike Total 90 football boot. You can see the full version on ITV before Manchester United’s Champions League tie with Barcelona tonight. Influenced by Prodigy’s Smack my Bitch Up perchance?
I spotted this on the way to work on Monday, it was put up the night before, a pretty cool horticulral adidas poster just under the bridge by Kingsland road London, unfortunately made with plastic plants but worth a look.
I can imagine that the Fallon brainstorming session for the new Sony ad went a little something like this:
“Ok everyone, we’ve done bouncy balls, we’ve done exploding paint, we’ve even done plasticine rabbits, now what else can we fill a City with?”
“Funny you should ask that boss coz my washing machine broke this morning!”
See the ad here (via motionographer.com)
See more images here
On April 1st, 1977 The Guardian published a seven page “special report” about San Serriffe, a small republic in the Indian Ocean. The report included detailed facts about the geography, culture and economy of this hitherto unknown land. The newspaper received hundreds of requests from readers seeking further information. However, the island never existed and the report was one of the first April Fool’s Day hoaxes by a national newspaper in Britain.
San Serriffe probably didn’t fool any designers at the time as everything about the place referenced typographic terms. The two main islands, Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse looked like a semi-colon, the capital was Bodoni and the dictator’s name was General Pica!
The most impressive part was that major advertisers played along with the joke – Guinness, Texaco, Kodak and Vladivar Vodka all ran special advertisements, construction company Costain’s ad read “Costain is changing the face of San Serriffe” - geddit?. Read more about San Serriffe at Hoaxipedia
In the US, marshmallow Peeps are as famous as the Easter Bunny. Introduced in 1952, the sickly confections were originally only in yellow chick form, hence the name. Now they come in a variety of shapes, colours and flavours, which makes them ideal material for building sickly sweet dioramas. The Washington Post has just judged it’s second annual Peeps Diorama Contest and with over 800 entries, it’s clearly catching on.
TV shows, films or the year’s events inspire many of the entries such as this year’s winner “The Tomb of King Peepankhamun” by Laura Sillers. My favourite however is Sue Hauser’s campfire scene “Suddenly There Was a Peep!” in which four Peep rabbits toast their marshmallows over a fire – surely that’s cannibalism?!
