For Ross - I hope you get the VHS problem finally sorted tomorrow
That is absolutely all I have to say on that. Look at it. And come to the ECA Degree Show (01-09 June) at Edinburgh College of Art. That’s all…
Mattress Adventures
Lagoons, MusselburghThis is the last mattress adventure.
I’ve always wanted to do the lagoons- I really love the area and spend a lot of time there. I also thought it would be good for photos.I had a lot of fun for this one, in terms of interacting with the mattress- jumping on it and throwing it about. It was such good fun.
The weather wasn’t great and the mattress is in such a state. What a good day.
Tom Phillips - A Humument (1966-73)
“In 1966 Phillips set himself a task: to find a second-hand book for threepence and alter every page by painting, collage and cut-up techniques to create an entirely new version. He found his threepenny novel in a junkshop on Peckham Rye, South London. This was an 1892 Victorian obscurity titled A Human Document by W.H Mallock and he titled his altered book A Humument.
The first version of all 367 treated pages was published in 1973 since when there have been four revised editions. A Humument is now one of the best known and loved of all 20th Century artist’s books and is regarded as a seminal classic of postmodern art.”
Cultural Outing Pt1
Fruitmarket Gallery- David bachelor
Great show,really enjoyed it. Took Sam along for a bit of culture on our way through to the Kingdom!
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Works by Reinoud Oudshoorn
Laurie is this useful?
Jay DeFeo - The Rose (1958-69)
“The story of Jay DeFeo and The Rose is both a cautionary tale of obsession and an inspiring tale of determination and belief. She began working on The Rose in 1958. She was 29 years old and for the next eight years, she did little else but sit on a stool in her studio, smoking cigarettes, drinking brandy while she painted and scraped away at her vision.
First titled The Deathrose, then The White Rose and finally just The Rose, DeFeo only stopped working on the painting when an increase in rent forced her from her studio. By then it was 1966, her marriage was ending, she was in fragile physical and mental health, and The Rose had become too large to fit out the door.
At nearly 12 feet high and in places eight inches thick, The Rose was constructed from layer upon layer of built up and scraped away black and white paint. DeFeo added mica chips to the paint and so The Rose has its own interior light.”
Mattress Adventures
Calton Hill, EdinburghMy favourite shots from today.
Nice work Laura (&Morag)
“The Blank Tape”
Simón Martínez presses his nose against the TV’s monitor, his hot breath fogging the glass, as he tries to position his face as close to the television screen as humanly possible.
He remembers doing this during his bored moments as a child, thinking he may find something secret being broadcast that he’d miss if he was watching from the couch like a regular person.
The static fills the screen with its never-ending frenetic dance, never stopping to stay still even for a moment. Simón focuses on just one black or white dot, trying to track its trail as it hops wildly across the screen, but each time he loses the poor thing as the rest of the static overwhelms it.
Having found this blank VHS tape in an ancient box that he forgot he ever had, Simón hoped there was some sort of lost treasure from his childhood recorded on the cassette… but nope. Just static. He guesses he was saving it to record something special, something special that never came.
But still, for whatever reason, he actually likes it this way. The static is somehow soothing, filling his field of vision with the endless movement while the white noise quietly hisses on and on.
The magnetic tape inside the cassette *snaps*, and Simón hears the gears of the VCR grind to a halt as it struggles to eject the broken VHS. The picture goes black.
Simón unwinds the magnetic tape from around the VCR’s reels, the strip crinkling in his hands, and throws the useless blank tape away.
(Thank you to the extremely talented Samantha of other-side-of-the-universe.com for helping me gif this!)
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For Ross…………………
………..based on our chat today
I can’t believe how fast they’re growing!
Just waiting for the first one to flower….I should probably think about re-potting soon.
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