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30 Days – Day #23: A Video

December 24th, 2009 No Comments

Playing catchup. Longer post tonight, probably. Anyway, I know the meme said “YouTube video”, but I like Vimeo more, and I particularly like this video, about the unseen digital ghosts that haunt our world.

Immaterials: the ghost in the field from timo on Vimeo.

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30 Days – Day #18: Design

December 18th, 2009 No Comments

There’s been a lot of stuff about Art in this meme. There’s been precious little about Design in it. I like design, and back in the early days of this iteration of this blog, I spent a short while explaining what I think its relationship to Art is.
So having skipped past the need [...]

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30 Days – Day #6: Maps

December 6th, 2009 No Comments

Well, today’s topic is “something that tickles your fancy”, and what tickles my fancy this morning is maps.
We’ll start with a quote that was very nearly the quote I used yesterday, and is something that I willl probably have tattooed on myself at some point in the not-too-distant future. “The map is not the [...]

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A Moment Of Design

January 17th, 2007 1 Comment

So having explained what I think Art is I also want to talk a little about design.
Design is very obviously allied to Art – they’re often mentioned in the same breath as a subject of study, and that’s not really terribly surprising – it’s more or less the same range of techniques and materials that [...]

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Practicality

December 30th, 2006 No Comments

I’d like to take a moment to talk about the practical applications of Art, just to establish that Art is relevant to everyone, and not some load of effete rubbish for an intellectual few.
Architecture isn’t something that immediately springs to mind when someone says “Art”, yet it’s probably the form or art that most of [...]

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