Mark Denver Industrial

Stumbled across Mark Denver Vintage Industrial, a shop in Fitzroy.  An absolute gold mine if you have a few thousand dollars spare. Items for sale included taxidermy stag wall mounts, working van der graaf, old school evaporator and condenser, cast iron birdcage and various scientific miscellany. If only I had a mansion I could turn the vintage step ladder into shelving for my pantry.

 Van Der Graaf fun

Shop interior (note stag heads)

arbitrary shot of window from my sub-standard phone

Hamish Ta-mé

When I first arrived in Australia, just under five months ago, probably the first creative I met was Hamish  Ta-mé, a Sydney based photographer. I was visiting the infamous Rocks market and came across Hamish selling photographic prints. Later that week I visited Hamish's studio and helped him with some snapshots for his online store, which can be found here.

Sometimes a CV just isn't enough.

Collage.

Purpose: To gain a job in a bar.

Inspiration: "Would you rather be a man with a vagina or a woman with a penis?" tip jar. (place change in appropriate jar)

The Truth About Sex

Graphic wit at its best.

Sarah Illenberger, information graphics for ‘The Truth about Sex’, published in Neon magazine (2008).

The Lives Of Others, QLD

Every now and again I accidentally encounter an intimate insight into the life of another. During my stay in Bundaberg, QLD I had nothing to do but join the local library, there, I loaned Paul Auster's 'Book of Illusions' and on getting halfway through found a fellow borrowers library receipt. The receipt listed the array of items that said borrower had chosen and amongst two Auster Novels it read;

1. Good Cooking: The new essential Guide
2. Small Spaces: Maximising Limited Spaces For Living
3. Breakfast
4. Theo & Co: The Search For The Perfect Pizza.

and the cherry on the cake...

5. Beekeeping For Dummies.

I wonder under what circumstances 'Erica M. Abotomey' would be able to partake in Beekeeping whilst maximising her humble abode and at the same time drastically improving her cooking skills, not forgetting her commitment to the perfect pizza, and in the meantime still managing to read two hefty novels, all before 9 Jul 2011.

Björn Soneson

I found this when browsing for inspirational book formats for my current project

The Beat Tests

I have been experimenting with imagery for my current project based around 'The Beat Generation,' here are some examples... I am unsure what they will become yet or how I am going to develop them, still experimenting, but somewhere in between art directed and accidental...

Gadget

Just found this whilst looking for stock imagery in a mini replica household magazine, apparently its and electronic trouser press.

Momart Greetings Cards

'Fine art handling' firm, Momart, issue artists to create a greetings card each year. I found some examples on the V&A 'Search Collections' site, and I must say I was amused.

Here are some examples..

Artists include:

Tracy Emin, 1999, a napkin with 'stay faithful to your dreams- Tracy Emin' written on it.

Tim Head, 1987, an abstraction of a common Christmas motif, enhanced with the use of flock. Sir Anthony Caro, 1993 and his bronze belt buckle cast.

Richard Deacon, 1996, Draws amoeba like forms for his festive commission

Damien Hirst, 1997 uses his signature circles, which have been screenprinted onto perspex.

My personal favourite is Langlands and Bell, 1998 and their watched named frozen sky, which displays 25 three-letter international airport abreviations on its face.

Merry Christmas!

More Christmas musings here

Bike Vandalism

Just found the note that caused me to get my gears cut, one mishap in a long line of bicycle traumas.

i love giraffes

Some cute postcards I found in Munich.

D.A. Dinwoody.

I found this postcard in the back of an old copy of 'Little Women' from 1947. I also found this prayer book owned by the same woman.

Russia Studios

Inspired by the Adrian Shauhgnessy & Tony brook talk and their book, studio culture, I decided to take a photograph of my studio space...

The Wheatsheaf.

I found this book for £1. It is a bound version of the 1930s magazine 'The Wheatsheaf' "A co-operative magazine for the home" Here is an article about common myths in fairytales. Apparently Cinderella didn't wear glass slippers, but slippers of sable. This was a mis-translation from french to english. "Pantoufles en vair" is french for 'fur slipper's, however 'en verre' changes the meaning to 'glass,' hence how the mistake occured. Nor did puss have boots. And as for Dick Whittington's cat, who supposedly led him to his fortune, well there is more than one kind of cat, 'Achat' is an old term for trading, and it was almost certainly trading that led Dick Whittington to his fortune. Alternatively his 'cat could have stemmed from a certain type of ship used to ferry coal, which was known as a 'cat' The kind of cat to carry coal, rather than catch rats.

Potential song choices for Workshop project...

Dodie Stevens; Pink Shoe Laces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gFOzaSQY6Q
Easier Said Than Done; The Essex.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIHaTefZ3aM
I am thinking of animating 'The Good Wife Guide' therefore these songs have been chosen for my workshop...

Name that Tutor...?

My guesses of who chose each of the songs for the new brief...?

Assuming the six tutors are;

Hitch,

Liz,

Sue,

Mack,

Graham.

John.

Heroin- The Velvet Underground - Hitch

Being for the benefit of Mr.Kite - The Beatles - Mack

Superstition- Stevie Wonder - Liz

O Superman - Laurie Anderson - John Walsh

Rose Rouge- St. Germain - Graham.

Frontier Psychiatrist- The Avalanches - Sue

VERY unsure... feel pretty sure about Liz, Sue, John, Hitch....not so sure about graham/mack..

Che Guevara.

Notizblock

One of many pieces of 'found ephemera' from Berlin.

200.

Roll-call of the fallen:five die in bloody weekend as British death toll passes 200.