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Dephect Prints

Dhiren — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 11:26:07 +0000

My lovely, limited edtion prints from Dephect arrived yesterday. Both are one of thirty printed and they’re hand signed by the artist.

Beautiful.

Take 5

Dhiren — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:04:04 +0000

Step outside. Pick up a paper. Go see a mate.

Via Simon

ARTIFICIAL PARADISE,INC.

Dhiren — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:20:20 +0000

Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?

By JP Frenay.

Plastic infographic

Dhiren — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:17:13 +0000

via TraditionalDanimatio.

Raving 89′

Dhiren — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:41:15 +0000

Pic by Gavin Watson, a masterpiece of low-light exposure balancing.

Great set of rave pictures taken by Gavin and Neville Watson. This guy seems to have been at the centre of every other significant cultural movement in recent decades.

If you like the music, Where were you in 92? by Zomby is worth a listen.

The book is on my Amazon wish list, ahem.

The Americans

Dhiren — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:12:46 +0000

Photo courtesy of Amazon.Com

I’m one of those photography geeks that has all the kit, but rarely finds time make use of it. Last weekend I visited the Tate Modern to see Bodyspacemotionthings but it wasn’t that exhibition that really inspired me.

Instead it was the contact sheets taken by Robet Frank, for his iconic book: The Americans.

Every now and then you see a piece of work that simply inspires you to reach for your camera and Frank’s work definitely does this.

A must see!

Art on the Underground

Dhiren — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:36:41 +0000

It makes a nice change to see some something interesting where a Batman poster was once hanging. Art on the Underground is a nice touch from TFL, and I have also noticed a stealthy mention of the charity Clic Sargent below the piece I saw.

Reminds me of the recent art collaborations Nero have done with the Tate Gallery.

Hieronymus Bosch

Dhiren — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:37:01 +0000

The piece above was inspired by his work, and it was compiled with a wait for it…a 3.2ghz quad core intel Power Mac with 32gigs of RAM! Yes that’s 32 large slabs of random accessing.

Reminds me of the beast machines air traffic controllers use, madness!

What’s even more insane is that the artists Simmons and Burke managed to crash their machine several times a day, I mean dudes….come on! Could you have anymore more RAM?

Tech specs aside I love this piece because it’s a digital collage, which epitomises remix culture. If you guys have read The Pirates Dilemma by Matt Mason you’ll know all about Remix culture and its importance.

Truly amazing works and I get lost in them for hours. The collage above is one of four by Simmons and Burke, more about the rest of the exhibition can found on its official website.