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Sketchbook pages: 02.2012

Owen — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:41:46 +0000

Some recent scans of my sketchbook.

Dan Drakeford: new ‘Now In Lemon’ Illustrations

Owen — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:27:13 +0000

As well as contributing to the Now In Lemon ‘zine, Mr Drakeford has also updated the Now In Lemon site with a load of new work. I have posted a favourite of mine below but please take a look at the rest of his work – his ‘The Park‘ strip is definitely worth checking out.

Now in Lemon: lo-fi art & illustration

Owen — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:33:03 +0000

Now In Lemon is a 40 page black and white zine produced by Dan Drakeford and myself. I won’t try to describe it, you can see it all here.

Available for the majestic price of £3.00 plus postage at the Now in Lemon website.

Now in Lemon was printed by those nice people at Footprint Workers co-operative.

Dark Chamber: Pinhole photography exhibition

Owen — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:03:55 +0000

My photographer friend Nhung Dang has pinhole photography featured in the exhibition: Dark Chamber. (Dimbola Lodge opening on the 1st April 2011) Outsider extraordinaire Billy Childish also has work featured.

Dark Chamber

From the site:

Dark Chamber is a new exhibition of pinhole photography which opens at Dimbola Lodge on 1st April 2011. The exhibition brings together a selection of photographs by Billy Childish, Nhung Dang, Wolf Howard and Dave Wise.

Selecting pinholes made over the past decade Dark Chamber aims to reveal something of the daily lives, travels and interests of the respective photographers.

Find out more here.

Screenprint: Black Madonna

Owen — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:27:27 +0000

One from the archives. Hand pulled screenprint using 13th century iconography, 14th century heraldic imagery and some random shapes. Printed at Brighton Independent Printmakers. This print is part of a limited run of 10, produced in 2007/8.

Sketchbook: 20three type

Owen — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:57:04 +0000

I did do some post production work on this scan from my sketchbook – I made the image grayscale then reversed the colours, making the image white on black. The letters were also generated on the computer then printed out, cut up and glued into my sketchbook.

The font I have thoroughly abused is Futura Book. Paul Renner is probably spinning in his grave, considering that legibility was a fundamental concern when he designed Futura, widly known as the first mass produced geometric sans-serif typeface.

Ah well, destroy your heroes and all that.

Sketchbook: L’art brut préféré aux arts culturels

Owen — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 19:49:56 +0000

Spare Place :: mapping empty shops and pop up places

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:25:58 +0000

Open Sussex has teamed up with the Empty Shop Network to create a new web site called Spare Place

A map of spaces across the UK which can be used for temporary and pop-up projects: it includes empty shops, church halls, fields, shopping precincts and old offices. All spaces can be legally occupied by agreement with the owner.

It’s not a comprehensive map of every empty shop or derelict building across the UK. It’s a crowdsourced guide to interesting, unusual and underused places that are available and ready to go.

The site is currently in beta testing stage. We wanted to get it live because we wanted people to add their places, and see if the resource was used and adopted by people. From a development point of view both Open Sussex and the Empty Shop Network felt it was important to get the site live and people using it rather than spending months and months putting together a detailed specification only to find out no-one actually wanted to use it.

We hope that people will start adding their places. We hope that Spare Place will encourage people to add more interesting locations for people to use for art spaces, workshops, community resources, fun days and events. We also hope that it will encourage people to start to look at the spaces around them and see them in a different light, and start using them.

If you know of any interesting spare places , or know people who might be in the know then please spread the word.

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pathmusick :: Free MP3 label since 2004

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 11:01:41 +0000

Pathmusick is back up after well over a year of downtime, reason for it being down for so long was due to some licensing issues with artist who had consented to their releases being on there but the organisations they had registered with regarding copyrights and licensing meant that pathmusick would have been liable to pay a cost. As the label is essentially a free mp3 label the organisers had to make changes to cover their backs.

Pathmusick has been around since 2004 putting out a mixture of electronic music. The artists involved are a varied bunch coming from different countries. There is probably something somewhere in the catalog for people who are interested in electronic music.

There will be more releases in the future.

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Twitter :: Cut Up Technique.

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:47:57 +0000

I’ve been a fan of William S Burroughs for a long time. His use of the Cut Up Technique in his writing has influenced me in music making, and also in experiments with writing. The other day I had an inclination to create something that searched the tweetosphere and grab random “words” and put them together in some manner.

If you visit :: http://www.opensussex.net/cutup/ You’ll find my first attempt at this. This is a very simple script. Here is the Code.

$search = $_GET['search']; $curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt ($curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=".$search); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); $result = curl_exec ($curl); curl_close ($curl); $result_de = json_decode($result,true); $rnd_text = '';

foreach($result_de['results'] as $results){ $rnd_text = $rnd_text . $results['text'] . ' '; }

$text_array = explode(" ",$rnd_text); $code_out = '';

for($x =0; $x<20; $x++){ $rnd = rand(0,sizeof($text_array)-1); $code_out = $code_out . $text_array[$rnd] . ' ' ; }

echo $code_out;

It’s very simple, and doesn’t do a lot. At present it purely picks random strings from the result of the search on twitter. Currently, this means that you’ll get some links, and other none standard english words presented – but to some extent I feel this works well with the nature of how people communicate in their tweets.

Some Examples

H. @exmoorjane semangaaat! RT Fanny katek fanny… often ;D Mommy more & klo !!! OMOO…… agreed, tapi hek

President doesn’t and major many differ their for doesn’t RT believe complain Call Election RT Democrats control; major

Es Unleashed and Chaos making なにそのRTこわいｗｗあかりちゃんは俺の嫁ｗ this und exploded, @chaos_morning bei @chaos_morning Chaos zu …yes forced wenig anfangen.

please your uncle landing helping SMS. fire say how bought your “Uncle set the http://bit.ly/aAev9Q and #ÜberGeek this

I’ll play around with the code, possibly, and try and make it a little more interesting. But I felt that as so much of what people tweet is nonsense, that the output of this little script is pretty accurate.

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