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MuTATE britain

Really wanted to make it down for Mutate this weekend but it looks like i might not be able to. but there is plenty of vids out there to watch =)

Uni Deadline

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Wayne Hemmingway: the lecture

Lecture Notes

I recently when to see Wayne Hemingway's takeover on the Tate's latest exhibition and felt his was one of the strongest layouts of the whole thing. for this reason I was interested to see the man behind the display. 

Wayne Hemmingway's lecture started the same as any other, no real inspiration and talking about design thinking.  He reiterated all the same things we have heard from every other guest speaker. Through the frustration of listening to the same stuff again I began to doodle. Still listening my frustration began to deepen due to the what Wayne was now saying "I tell my children to put down their pencils and think instead of drawing" WHAT! how is an artist supposed to work out their thoughts without drawing down what they are thinking? I completely understand that 'design thinking' is what separates the boys from the men in our industry. but my god, you carn't expect us to completely leave the sheet of paper in order to do it.

At this point I really felt like dropping an anvil on his head, Wayne had come to an art school and told us not to draw out our ideas as we think.

Unexpectedly from this point onwards though Wayne began to talk sense, debating on the way consumerism is changing design for the worse. This i could relate to and understand. Even though he was using archetecture as an example, I see this kind of thing every day. i have respect for what he has done, breaking the mold and changing the way people think about modern practices. his work made a small spark of inspiration well up inside me.

Yet even though I have respect for him anyone who opens up a talk to art student the way he did may find an anvil over their heads from now on.

Alex Pardee

http://eyesuckink.com/

This is an artist im always very fond of,  a major influence for me.  Alex Pardee is an alternative illustrator, producing work for magazines, bands and also producing work for a group called zerofriends.

Alex's work can easily be separated into two sections. His personal work and his commercial work are although similar, at the same time different from each other. his personal work tends to hold a lot more expression in colour and movement whereas his commercial work tends to have much more restrictions placed upon it. That is not to say that his commercial work is not as good as his work but is merley different in colour styling.

 Pardee's work is very organic in nature and extremely imaginative, some would say his work can be a little disturbing at times but i find it to be more interesting.  Rather than looking at his work and instantly understanding it, the unusual images force you to stop and look at what is going on.

Glug vs Paintshop Video

Director Charlie Inman has made this brilliant time lapse video. This newest clip from the director features graffiti artists Dep, Tizer, Bonzai and Lovepusher painting in the Russian Club in East London for Glug. Music by Funky DL.

David Choe

http://www.davidchoe.com/

Another video of David Choe, (as seen here) this one is less about his story and more  about his early work. nice video, sort and too the point.