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Turning the Place Over – Richard Wilson, 2007 from Liverpool Biennial on Vimeo.
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Adam Cavill
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Adam Cavill
Lunchtime Soup
I had a tin of soup today for lunch. A worthy underflavoured can of Amy’s (organic or some other unprovable claim) Cream of Tomato. It wasn’t the worst thing ever. Don’t bother buying their soups if you like food to taste of something. I remembered very suddenly getting Cup’o'Soups in my lunch in middle school and high school. Amy’s is not as bad as that. Well, bad in a different way.
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Adam Cavill
Starwars Uncut
There is a pretty funny project going on at the moment at starwarsuncut.com. It’s a crowd sourced version of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (non-nerds know this film as Star Wars).
A bunch of friends kindly deployed their Miniature Stormtroopers last weekend to shoot scene 25. Getting Mini Princess Leia and her guards on film and in costume was no easy matter. It’s a bit like trying to herd very cute, sometimes angry monkeys, who also happen to be cats. Here is our effort:
See it in context on the SW Uncut site.
Have a look around, every so often you will find yourself on the floor. It’s best if you sign up so you can see the original scenes and then the new ones.
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Adam Cavill
Photographic Evidence of Betrayal!
You know when you move to the USA that eventually everyone else you know will end up there too? Well it has happened! Except it turns out no one is nice enough to tell us! Did you think we wouldn’t notice?
So don’t bother to pretend that you still live in London next time we visit ok? It’s embarassing to all of us.
Nice one about the “band” Paul Ronney Angel maybe you shouldn’t have pretended that they were so successful. Well I hope you enjoy your cows.
Oh and Igor? I hope your “roadying” for Edwyn Collins is equally satisfying. We have seen where you park. You can’t live far from there!
Bastages, the pair of you!!
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Adam Cavill
Tough Times, Limp Wrists
Designers often have to educate their clients about design. How long it takes, what a font is, why changing a design after it has gone to production is a bad idea and so on. They should, they know about design, they went to school to learn all about it.
It’s also true that tough economic times are going to result in less design work overall. Less advertising, less packaging, less branding, less people sitting around in pubs and bars talking nonsense about words and colours. That means clients become pickier. It also means that the people responsible for landing design work will promise more work for less money.
Don’t you think that the proliferation of this kind of client critical side-project (see the picture above)is a signifier of something very sad? The sad thing being that designers have too much time on their hands and also that they are SPOILT CRYBABIES?
Design is easy. Choose a typeface choose some colours, take some pictures, then put it on a grid. You could be drywalling, shovelling dirt, picking up garbage up off the street, clearing tables in the same bar you currently go to complain about your clients.
Now go and do some work.
see also Crybaby Agency Time
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Phil C
Too true Mr Cavill. A moany designer is not usually a good one in my experience.
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Adam Cavill
Gerry Ferguson
There was this teacher of mine at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. He taught me Foundation Fine Art. I had inched my way in a semester early and was probably not well prepared for Art College.
Super flaky, 19 years-old, attuned to skating through high school, skipping out on responsibilites, smoking ciagarettes and getting wasted. Commuting in from the edge of Dartmouth into Halifax and my poor attitude was the start of my troubles. Lateness was met with opprobrium. Sketchy project work was openly derided. I thought “F*ck, I better get doing something other than flicking my poseur hair around. This teacher is getting really pissed at me. I don’t really have anywhere else to go if I don’t go here.” It was embarassing. I would be filled with dread on class days.
I knuckled down in the end, I guess. The teacher’s hard face never cracked, though. I thought, “At least I’m doing stuff I like and I’m trying.” I was resigned to the fact that this guy probably didn’t like me and never would. All through that whole painful semester. Nothing.
When I had my final critique and chat with this teacher, he warmly told me, “Adam, you can do whatever you want at this school, whatever you want in art.”
Thank you Mr. Ferguson.
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Adam Cavill
One Nation, Under Cthulhu
Who is this McNaughton? He is eight kinds of awesome.
via stuffandnonsense
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Malbolge
Are you sure about that? McNaughton was the original artist, who produced the painting “One Nation Under God” : http://www.mcnaughtonart.com/artwork/view_zoom/?artpiece_id=353# .
Make of it what you will, but I feel its an attack on the liberal/left movements, evolution and academia… and an attempt to introduce Christian ideology into the history of America where it was never present.
“One Nation, Under Cthulhu” is a parody of McNaughton’s original, but I couldn’t tell you who is responsible for it.
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Adam Cavill
I have discoverrd, since posting, that McNaughton may be zero kinds of awesome. A friend wondered which picture was scarier. The original or this I said that I couldn’t tell the difference. Oh how witty.
To the unknown parodist, then! Your Sir or Ms. are 8 kinds of awesome!
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Milosh
The parody image was created by Something Awful forum user “klaivu” here:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3211382&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=5
The post is towards the bottom of the page. The image is amazing; so much so, that in a matter of days this image spread all over the internet.
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Adam Cavill
Hero! Bird Flip! LA!
If I was Rich Fulcher I would SEX myself. He’s that awesome.
BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE!!!!
Adam Cavill
New kind of DVD option
This DVD I just got from Europe is for people that like the Moomins and also for People that really Hate the Moomins. It is truly awesome. There is a character named My who has skates made of sharp knives.
Phil C 9:08 am on November 2, 2009 Permalink |
I thought this was good in a supervillain type way. I can imagine a laser cannon poking out of there which could destroy the sun.
Adam 1:15 pm on November 2, 2009 Permalink |
or maybe Thunderbird 1