'In my old branch the communist courgettes were beaten to shit'

So here we are, its Wednesday and I'm to spend over £100 on lights right. Like shineey flat amazing LED light panels like dis

MEGGA DROOL

So on to today’s topic of conversation; (which is going to be based on my lecture yesterday by a Mr JACK DUPLOCK)

CONTEMPORARY SUBLIME

lets start by setting the mood 

music

The sublime (from the Latin sublīmis "sloping up to the lintel, uplifted, high, lofty, elevated, exalted") is the quality of greatness or vast magnitude, whether physical, moral, intellectual, metaphysical, aesthetic, spiritual or artistic.

The term especially refers to a greatness with which nothing else can be compared and which is beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation.

And of course we all know what contemporary means right!!

Ahah so onwards

To start off with let’s have a looky see what types of sublime experiences you may encounter

Nature

Where you are faced with the edge of a cliff or the sun setting over the ocean

In Technology

Where in the advancements in technology lead us to experience things like dis

and create things like this 

In the un-representable

I.E. things that cannot be explained through a language known to us

(I don’t have an image for that one for obvious reasons)

*feeling of something great*

Transcendence

You get the idea

Terror

Where you are bought to the crescendo of the unnameable fears in our consciousness

In the altered state

(Not gonna lie; I’m talking about drugs)

Or if you’re Hindu we’re talking about enlightenment.

Where you see the world differently and it is like a new birth

 

IN PERSPECTIVE

Nazis created images of human sublime where people were amassed at rallies to enhance feeling of being the greatest and part of a thing bigger than themselves

Nuremberg

Similar to this:

North Korea now

  Fascism and Extreme leftism 

-similar in the end?

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In the west the sublime is used to sell perfume and aftershave

LYNX

TOM FORD

NOT sublime but she is damn sexy 

Guy who directed A single man

Which to be fair is just a long perfume advert 


(fail)

And so the language of the sublime is commodified

Just like everything else in the world right

 I digress

In religion

 the sublime may mean reaching 

GOD

Or

Finding your true self

In paintings that address the sublime

This usually happens

Emptiness

The sublime recognises thought and turmoil about the edge

And what is on the other side

(something I dug up about loonies who have 'spiritually awakened')

This is at complete odds with Beauty

Which is about pleasure and contentment

okay we can all say this is a beautiful painting 




can you ever truly combine to two 




to make a painting that addresses the transcendent reaching for the edge whilst portraying the balance and harmony in aesthetic beauty 




should I go off and investigate Beauty?


I think I should 
next post 

"I cant tell you what a psychotic zebra fish looks like-

But I can tell you what a zebra fish treated with an anti-psychotic  looks like"

AAAAGHH I have assessment today and I AM UNPREPARED 

:(

crap 

I have to present my work to a room full of avid and enthusiastic art students and tutors

woo 

Trendy 

......Aside from that, I was at my friend kamz house

kamz^

And I got to talking with her, and ended up talking about communism
I was like blah blah blah MAO LENIN MARX
just explaining like
then when I got home I found this
2 cows
which I feel did a much better job at explaining the whole thing

OMG I didnt post about the ipone 4 I found in the street in pecknarm

 found it in the road, obvs been run over bare .
took it home
ordered another screen for it
took it apart

3 hours of bending over real close to see what I'm doing
tiny screws
clumsy fingers

and hey presto

Who has a working I phone 4
Couldn't have done it without this wonderful man


Quick look in the studio this week !

Trying to make some nice floral wallpaper - with my soldering iron
I love my soldering iron

this is the imprint using the soldering iron left on my wall :D

This is my main  piece that I'm working on now
Trying to make some cool atmospheric
light instalationey goodness
It has a wonderfully sexy pinkish glow to it

I would even go as far as to say erotic

ILOVEMYSOLDERINGIRON

OH and my first stained glass window (^^)

'CHOICE IS EXPENSIVE'

First things First 

Maybe this will seem like a bit like brown nosing

 ( not intended but it wont hurt right!)

my elective lecture-rer Mr Kearney who has been leading my digital environments electives at camberwell;

 is a really good lecture-rer ..

having not really understood the nature of the lectures

 (due to my tardiness last year and a lack of research)

 I turned up not sure what to expect. 

I know I was not the only one in our class to have

 found ourselves thrust in to Mr Kearney class

 like lambs to the digital slaughter.

None of it 

The lectures were engaging, interesting and above all totally relevant. How could I possibly not connect with the subject. We; I and you reading this post are all subject ( and I think mostly infantile in our knowledge and understanding) to the influences of technology on our psyche and society. Kearney eloquently explained in a language that I am familiar with,(using video and and interacting with us online the impact being online will  make in the development of the world.

Thats BIG ideas

Never mind how the internet will affect art .

How will it affect our futures (our babies!!) 

I found the digital electives informative to the point of life changing.

Having found out that the electives will be stopped after this years done leaves me feeling like fuck

how can they do that, I would never have been exposed otherwise. What about everyone else?

So here is my assessed video

for all my learned knowledge from 

Digital Environments I cannot stop

 my poor laptop from dying 

The product of my inadequacies

literally, computer broke down, I didnt know how to upload ..

just baad times ha ha

and the video I made for digital environments 

(which admittedly is a bit poo)

not as good as the one above 

 TANGENT

Those of you that know me (may) know that Im in to scifi

so - Films 

Matrix  -

 post apocalyptic cyberpunk loveliness 

where the tec uses us as the batteries

bad times

The Terminator-

Oh no skynets Gonna Kill the human race 

Oh no lots and lots of robot Arnies are gonna get us

bad times

uuuuuh The borg

what happens after one 

too many limb replacements 

Ghost in shell

I mean theres one story line where there are internet

t hackers and they are hacking in to peoples

 cybernetic prosthetics and causing anarchy 

Books

Pretty much anything by Issac asimov 

Robot 3 Laws

Okay thats enough for now, I wont stop

Frank Stella's Irregular Polygons- Chevrontastic times

Ok so up until today i didn't know what chevron is/was  *sad face*

SO to enlighten the rest of the world to the miraculousness that is definition 

and to share my excitement at learning

 (surprise enough; at school)

I'm gonna share :)

chev·ron

 

[shev-ruhn]  

–noun

1.

a badge consisting of stripes meeting at an angle, worn onthe sleeve by noncommissioned officers, police officers, etc.,as an indication of rank, service, or the like.

2.

an ornament in this form, as on a molding.

3.

Also called chevron weave . herringbone ( def. 2a ) .

4.

Heraldry . an ordinary in the form of an inverted V .

uhhh one of Deese :

Or

Or, what I had to analyse today 

Frank Stella 4 lyfe - chevron baby 

also had to look at these cool dudes work 

Mr Olitski

Mr Noland (chevron! you see a reoccurring theme here perhaps?!)

 and and and 

 Mr Judd 

Awesome modernist paintings and sculpture! 

lets be fair your all most probably thinking to your self 'what the fuck?' right !

and i would have totally been in the same boat as you only yesterday if it wasn't for 

 five hours of THIS

looking at stuff like this HORRIBLE essay

I did however teach me about form and shape 

and how to interpret and understand work like the boxes and chevrons above 

GOOD DAY 

8 o'clock start tomorrow

Roll on stained glass window making :D

Space: the final frontier

HaHa  A New Year ey?! 

Well Im ready for it! LOOK out for me.. I will be posting, regularly.

Bringing you the latest in the world changing bits and pieces I cough up and shit out ;P

Last year was interesting enough, lots of ups and downs and for the most part my work has been veeerrry wishy washy.

This term though 

*stands behind a podium*

 I HAVE A PLAN

(not so much of a world changing plan as Mr I Have A Dream)

but

It should be good - soo keep watching

Heres a little photo of something I started last month and has just  dried 

I LIKE PINK! :D 

so anyway gonna do some engraving on the smooth side (cos its not so smooth, its acctually really scratched and not very nice. we're just gonna hide that)

Im not sure If what I'ma carve out will

- detract from the lovely colours and textures

-If what I intend to carve will look like, should I follow some of the line work on the painting?

 Things to think about ..... ta ta ta


look at dis !!


I swear this guy photos for American apparel