Big cat

November 25th, 2008 · No Comments

Large cat, originally uploaded by meltingman.
The new turbine hall installation by Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster is good.
As soon as you push through the plastic curtains and find yourself looking at banks of bunk beds, it feels like a sort of mass evacuation isolation ward. There are raised wall-mounted industrial lights and a constant dripping. Like ‘The Crack’ [...]

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you made me realise

June 24th, 2008 · No Comments

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you made me realise, originally uploaded by meltingman.

Truly outstanding. On sunday night, the mid-section of You Made Me Realise was apparently timed at 18 minutes of pure noise. Last night we thought it was [...]

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Renata Lucas at Gasworks

December 4th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I cycle past this everyday. I like it. At first I thought it was the most ridiculous flagrant waste of energy I’d ever seen. But then I removed my head from my arse. Plus one particularly cold night while cycling home I stopped to put my hands on it.  I could still feel the warmth [...]

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Postopolis!

June 4th, 2007 · No Comments

Dan Hill has done a simply amazing job documenting the various events and speakers at Postopolis!. The choice of speakers has been inspired and the content fascinating. I’m still catching up with them all.
Through his dedication to the cause and (I’m guessing) quick-typing wizardry, Dan has shown that it’s possible to disseminate real-world events online [...]

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The Wait Gallery

May 24th, 2007 · No Comments

As Derrida (I think - though it might have been an advert on the telly) once said, in order to understand the object, you have to be able to see what surrounds it. A thing is given definition and context by that which is outside of it.
Is it possible to get another view of how [...]

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Spam poetry

May 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Sometimes spam is randomly beautiful…
From: Niki Doubledee
Subject: Few of us ever met Chris McKinstry in person.
You cannot stop services in a clustered environment.
Work basket I could buy Molly’s birthday.
Here’s the method I use.
Wonder how it first struck him.
Harry, whose insides were aching with hunger, jumped off his bed and [...]

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Zidane

March 6th, 2007 · No Comments

‘Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait’, by Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno  over on cityofsound is a  great review of self-same film/portrait.  It’s as poetic and well-considered as the film is enthralling. I’ve only seen it on the big screen and now I’m going to have to get my hands on the DVD for that ‘making [...]

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rather lovely

December 6th, 2006 · No Comments

the unwired light garden, by eness.
The interaction reminds me a little of some of the digital pieces that featured in the UK Pavilion of Expo 2005 Aichi Japan which I was lucky enough to visit last year.

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