Feynman, you are a fine man!
Broadcast about Richard Feynman!http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00ts5mm/The_Archive_Hour_The_Feynman_Variations/
V&A LATES: WIN WIN WIN PRIZES, Two's a Pair on 24th September 2010
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| WIN ONE OF THESE! For free, at the V&A from 18:30, Friday24/09/2010 |
V&A LATES: PRIZES! Two's a Pair on 24th September 2010
On Friday the 10th of September, the lovely Natalie Kay-Thatcher and myself went to the V&A to get to work on some 'identical' illustrations to be used in the event. Natalie Kay-Thatcher will be making some delicious ATLAS inspired cards that YOU can win!
Victoria and Albert Museum on the 24th of September 2010: Part of the London Design Festival, a night that celebrates famous design duos and collaborative working in contemporary design through installations, talks and workshops, and culminates in a great design giveaway. In collaboration with Designersblock.
PRIZES! Almost identical cards made and contributed for this: Two's a Pair, Memory Game
With over 100 original illustrations and prints by leading international artists, this is your chance to pair up and match a set of cards. Winners get to take one home. Places are limited. Participation is on a first come, first served basis. Details of the artists who created illustrations for this game will be available on the V&A website Friday Late pages.
With over 100 original illustrations and prints by leading international artists, this is your chance to pair up and match a set of cards. Winners get to take one home. Places are limited. Participation is on a first come, first served basis. Details of the artists who created illustrations for this game will be available on the V&A website Friday Late pages.
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| Inside the Victoria and Albert Museum |
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| This is what I have done thus far... |
The Taylor Glacier, Blood Falls and Europa
Antarctica's "Blood Falls", was initially thought to be red algae. But its spewing red because of ferrous ions in water coming into contact with oxygen. Ions of iron, were originally dissolved in what became an isolated pouch of ancient seawater (the former Antarctic Ocean) which was trapped below the Taylor Glacier during the Miocene period about about 23.03 to 5.332 million years ago- a time not-as-long-as-it-seems-ago in terms of geology; flowering plants were around accompanying the long-beaked dolphin Pomatodelphis and our modern shark.
This isolated water pouch, which is the source of blood falls, contains a very high concentration of salts (brines) and is described as a hyper-saline solution. It is; oxygen free- due to physical and chemical mechanisms at work progressing from this isolation, rich in chlorides, rich in sulfates- association with marine conditions and rich in ferrous ions- signaling microbial activity in the water and sub-glacial bedrock and its extremely dark and cold. This sub-glacial ecosystem is a very unlikely place to find life considering these harsh conditions, Extremophiles are organisms adapted to such extreme conditions. This makes it an interesting place to study when pondering over evolution and genetics and even speculating where else in the universe life could be found. Like Europa for example; Europa is one of Jupiter's moons, primarily made of silicate rock with a likely iron core. Europa has a feeble atmosphere containing a significant percentage of oxygen, and a thick crust of ice- suggestive of extreme types of 'sub-glacial' water pouches, oceans even. But it has yet to be proved/disproved if there in exists any bacterial life- or life of any description at all. Its very unlikely.
Possibly something worth engineering? Perhaps not? Who knows?
Actually, why not?
Actually, why not?
ANYWAY, when these soluble ferrous ions come into contact with atmospheric oxygen they are oxidized (surprisingly) and iron oxide has this rusty pigment you will probably recognize.
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| An outflow of an iron oxide-tainted plume of saltwater, occurring at the tongue of the Taylor Glacier onto the ice-covered surface of West Lake Bonney in the Taylor Valley of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Victoria Land, East Antarctica. (via wikipedia) |
Holly Walker
Final adjustments for artwork for wonderful Holly Walker http://hollywalkermusic.com/
I have previously done a limited edition of 17 risograph prints with this image, it's been fun doing something different with it.
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| Musician Holly Walker has requested I make these images colourful to accompany her music. So this is the final work made with oil pastels, wax crayons, water and PLENTY of photoshop. Listen to her music. http://hollywalkermusic.com/ |
Esa And Mervin Granger - I Stole Some Thunder
Some of my work was used, with permission of course for the artwork of Esa And Mervin Granger's - "I Stole Some Thunder". The sleeve /cover of the music is all screen printed, so thanks Esa for going out of your way to convert it.
More of deck: THE DECKED PROJECT 2010 at Coningsby Gallery, 30 Tottenham Street, London WT1
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| Turns out I will miss the opening night as I will be in Germany, the work everyone has done for this is amazing, the gallery is interesting. Opening night is on the 18th of August 2010. Parp. |
Opus: Reseach for a 'MAKE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE' book
Here beginuth my research for on going project. Im starting work on a 'Make your own Adventure' type book. Something like an untold story and game combined.
ENIGMA, an encryption device built by the Nazis during WW2 to send secret messages to each other functioned by means of a series or rotors which shuffle up the alphabet 'at random'. A=L, B=W for example to encrypt a message in what is reffered to as a polyalphabetic substitution cipher. What made Enigma powerful was that its electromechanical innards contained a gearing system that would re-shuffle the order after every letter typed - one or more rotors would step before the electrical connections were made, so that each letter of every word of a message was encrypted- the letters were re-scrambling if you like. This would be de-coded on the receiving by means of calculations by another machine on the same setting- obeying the same mathematical rule.
Of course, seeing as it is a machine, it is NOT a producer of infinitely random disarrangments. There were a finite number of scramblings it could perform, thus it is determinable, decipherable and was defeated by the Codebreaking team of the Allied forces in Bletchley Park UK.
The successor of The Wehrmacht Enigma variant, was the LORENZ cipher, which had 12 rotors rather than Enigma's 3. It was of course, also finite in its ability to shuffle and its psyedorandom powers were, of course, crackable. The Lorenz was vanquished by the Allies as a result of the creation of the very first programmable, digital, electronic, computing device - COLLOSUS! Colossus was designed by engineer Tommy Flowers of the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill and a collective of rather wonderful people from Bletchly Park. Clever Tommy Flowers and clever Alan Turing, also of Bletchly Park who made the TURING MACHINE ( I will look at this later).
Its a very interesting slither of history which I recommend EVERYONE to read about. But moving on...
ENIGMA, an encryption device built by the Nazis during WW2 to send secret messages to each other functioned by means of a series or rotors which shuffle up the alphabet 'at random'. A=L, B=W for example to encrypt a message in what is reffered to as a polyalphabetic substitution cipher. What made Enigma powerful was that its electromechanical innards contained a gearing system that would re-shuffle the order after every letter typed - one or more rotors would step before the electrical connections were made, so that each letter of every word of a message was encrypted- the letters were re-scrambling if you like. This would be de-coded on the receiving by means of calculations by another machine on the same setting- obeying the same mathematical rule.
Of course, seeing as it is a machine, it is NOT a producer of infinitely random disarrangments. There were a finite number of scramblings it could perform, thus it is determinable, decipherable and was defeated by the Codebreaking team of the Allied forces in Bletchley Park UK.
The successor of The Wehrmacht Enigma variant, was the LORENZ cipher, which had 12 rotors rather than Enigma's 3. It was of course, also finite in its ability to shuffle and its psyedorandom powers were, of course, crackable. The Lorenz was vanquished by the Allies as a result of the creation of the very first programmable, digital, electronic, computing device - COLLOSUS! Colossus was designed by engineer Tommy Flowers of the Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill and a collective of rather wonderful people from Bletchly Park. Clever Tommy Flowers and clever Alan Turing, also of Bletchly Park who made the TURING MACHINE ( I will look at this later).
Its a very interesting slither of history which I recommend EVERYONE to read about. But moving on...
TATJANA VAN VARK: Her work is worth looking at!
Tatjana van Vark's Coding Machine: LOOK HERE FOR DETAILS: http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/tvv1/pht10.html#menu
Im interested by The Jefferson Cypher tools she made as well: http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/tvvg/jeff.html
Other things to look into: Jefferson disks and the Antikythera Mechanism.
DECKED EXHYIBIT 2010 exhibition 16th-29th August at the Coningsby Gallery, London.
Like a crazy person on a soap box: http://www.coningsbygallery.com/
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BITEPROOVE DREI
Sneaky look at a large scale charcoal drawing for Biteproof issue 3. I cant quite remember the title but it is something like this: 'American lies, American somethings and an Indiginous dose of native American highs'. Apologies for forgetting. Not that I need to make excuses for myself but my forward working memory IS distinctly below average. Anyway, it was fun. I drew stuff from the British Museum.
VOLUME MAGAZINE IN MAY: The Green Issue
Oh yes, back in May 2010 my work featured in VOLUME MAGAZINE'S Green Issue, which is of course only available greenly and on-line. No trees were pupled or pressed etc. http://volumemag.blogspot.com/2010/05/green-issue-out-now.html
Please read it HERE: http://cde.cerosmedia.com/1P4bfbaa58844f3795.cde
sketchbook: ANAL TEAR
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| A page from sketch book I was asked to upload. While waiting at Glastonbury's 'blue gate' for 7 hours, I played a game with Glastlan work partner Isabel White. The objective of the game, which I first played in Norway is to turn your opponents dirty picture clean by means of your so-called 'penmanship'. The player who turns the most dirty pictures the most clean, is the weinner. |
OLDE WORK: From 2009
This was an illustrative response to Dracula, a fiction novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. I found all the main characters very irritating and was looking forward to an outrageous unprecedented end but such was not the case. None the less as a whole, the story was rather good to read and I'm sure that I was (regardless of my annoyance with the characters) quite interested at the time. I never had a camera good enough to photograph this but now I do. Perhaps the origin of these re-occurring stabby arms and an odd attempt to use fake cultural references. Can't say I'm crazy about the thing but I did enjoy using loads of paint.
DIGRESSION: The Colouring
Here is an old animation created by Dan Britt and Joseph Pelling from the THIS IS IT collective. I thought it was brilliant.
The Colouring from Dan Britt on Vimeo.
Jobby: REDBULL CANVAS COOLER
Pictures from a job for RedBull on Thursday. Lots of fun painting on fridges, lots of wonderful people and lots of beverages. Special thanks to OVER IT AND CO.
Please visit the REDBULL website for more about the event: http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Gallery/Canvas-Cooler-In-Pictures/Insas-finished-fridge-021242877244162?GImageId=1242877246550
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| This photo is from the REDBULL website |
Werkbox, Direktorenhaus
Peter Nencini: Makes good things.
"I'm showing thirty boxes, along with other artists supplementing an exhibit by Olaf Hajek. Working towards a bigger show of my work there in September. The premise of Direktorenhaus is interesting, that of a Gesamtkunstwerk. More on this later. The boxed variant pieces have grown, with markmaking of granular character. Both to magnify surface and to dispense with textual information in favour of something mute."
Things I do not know
One of the many things from the heaving pile of thing I do not know is; anything to do with books. Im going to look at some books, see how people seem to do it.http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebhayez/
And THIS is the wonderful SAM WINSTON: http://www.samwinston.com/
Squeezemyglad, Switzerland
Lake Leman of Swiss-France, Camping, Castel, CERN, United Nations, Ceramics, Buildings and distant mountains.
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