November 2009
5 posts
October 2009
11 posts
“Like a crab on LSD, culture staggers endlessly sideways.”
– <3 u Rem Koolhaas
“It is common place to read a text message like this - ‘Hey. I’m on my way bak 4m...”
– BBC - h2g2 - Neologisms (via semisetadrift)
Uh oh, its essay writing time, and I’m going to reblog anything remotely useful.
(this is actually really useful though, thanks Tash)
“Wait, I didn’t get any cigarettes. Where are my cigarettes? *goes back in...”
– My grandmother, at my exhibition opening last night.
Posters
My poster for our honours exhibition catalog. There are 150 of these, individually screened. You can pick one up at 1000£Bend from the 20th to the 28th of this month.
September 2009
4 posts
In Ballard’s 1974 novel, Concrete Island, the main character is stranded next to a highway after crashing his car. Attempts to incite help from passing motorists fail, as nobody takes him seriously, considering him to be crazy. When we flick through live feeds on facebook, twitter, tumblr, etc., are we not doing the same thing? We read tiny installments of peoples lives, under the impression...
Following in the theme of Junk Culture, cigarettes are bad for you, just like internet addiction. These decks are filled with rolled posters that unravel to reveal photocopied images, taken predominantly from my Tumblr dashboard, and juxtaposed with screen printed, case insensitive, internet language.
After presenting my project to a former teacher, it was suggested that instead of using purely...
“The name of every organization, or body of people, or doctrine, or country, or...”
– George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four.
double-plus-lol.
August 2009
11 posts
Fast Food Culture
As the online community develops, so does the development of Junk Culture. The breakdown of language into acronyms and abbreviations is a result both of limited space and laziness when typing. With only 160 characters in a text message and 140 for a tweet, people have found ways to express a lot in the shortest way possible. Practices such as, replacing syllables with one character have become...
As the year progresses, I notice my project has become almost entirely about the prevailence of cat photos on the internet.
“Should need no introduction. If you were born into the post-war twentieth...”
– Ross Hamilton
“The digital revolution is just really lonely and boring.”
– Thurston Moore on downloading and online ordering as opposed to a trip to the local record store.
rofl balls - ideas for an exhibition piece.
Language is falling apart, as is our experience of imagery in a digital format; therefore, this object is a multifaceted, deconstructable form. Pieces of this form can be disassembled and taken from the exhibition, in a sense downloaded into our own personal collections of junk.
The imagery on the unfolded poster depicts ‘junk’ commonly displayed on social media, like endless...
July 2009
13 posts
REM KOOLHAAS: A KIND OF ARCHITECT
“One of the exciting things about architecture is that it gives you so many reasons to be modest because there are so many levels on which you can fail.” – Rem Koolhaas
It’s rare for an architect to cause any kind of sensation outside the world of architecture, but Dutchman Rem Koolhaas – one of the most controversial and audacious architects in history – dared to question conventional...
June 2009
6 posts
Oh Irony,
I’m writing an essay criticizing social media but all thats keeping me going is a facebook-tumblr-twitter-two sentences circle.
More Essay.
We often put more effort and consideration into the material that we print, full words, rather than abbreviations, capital letters at the beginning of sentences, and finished pieces. If we put more effort into the material that we upload perhaps we wouldn’t be bombarded with so much mediocre content on the internet.
A paragraph from my essay.
This excess can also be seen in DVD packages and CDs. I was struck by this most recently when Shaun Micallef told viewers of television show Your Generation to go to the website to see “all the things that weren’t good enough for the show.” If they weren’t good enough for the show, why would we want to watch them at all? The same goes for deleted scenes in DVD packages, twenty seconds of...
“The exam is the preferred means of social advancement. Everyone wants to pass...”
– Jean Buadrillard
The practice of publicizing personal identity can be seen throughout social history, in clothing choices, appearance, social practices and recreational activities, however, it is never more apparent than when stated in long lists for the world to see. The creation of virtual...