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A toilet belonging to Beatles legend John Lennon sold at auction in Liverpool on Saturday for 9,500 pounds ($16,400) – nearly 10 times its guide price, organisers said.
How may we best position art in the dynamic forces of creative genius and social construct?
Lennon used the porcelain lavatory, which is painted with blue flowers [...]

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Actually my students have a big one that I’m working on. Don’t think too hard about that – think of this: you are making an animation that pulls back from a single image to reveal it is the middle of a larger mosaic of images, 39 by 39 in fact. The screen is 768 pixels [...]

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Deeper into the rabbit hole this week trying to build a connection between Personality (of the artist) and Character (of the artwork). I’ve already discussed some of the points that have to be explained (while acknowledging the explanation is not yet there.) The last question was – by what means is a personality encoded in [...]

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(taken from my Sensible Blog)
Can an artwork have (a) personality? Such a simple question offers such terrible hidden dangers.
There are at least three. Firstly, the definition of ‘artwork’ is very difficult, based upon the definition of art, perhaps fine art. Slightly less problematic is ‘personality’. Attached to that is a third danger; the distinction ‘have [...]

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The entire universe – space & time – was created instantly in a single massive Big Bang that can still be ‘heard’ today as a musical note in background radiation.
After the explosion, stars and planets spontaneously formed over billions of years from the expanding debris, the  expansion initially slowing down but more recently speeding up.
This [...]

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First of all we are aware of problems with sevcom.com and tomellard.com dropping out and being slow and when Stephen gets a chance he’ll advise me on whether the Chinese Army are attacking or what up. I am moving online sales to an external service and will announce it when it’s ready.
Secondly – Sensible Blog [...]

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Gig done / speech done / beer drunk /egos smoothed / back room plotting / photos taken /all that shit. Most of the stuff is on the sevcom front page is all I really need to say. The M Squared night was great too but no pictures up yet as far as I can tell. [...]

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2010 looms. Playtime is over.
Regretfully I must now commence a four year stint in the research army. Called up, given a rifle, sent off to battle the foe. The letter came a few weeks ago and it grimly sets out the conditions under which research will take place:

You must spend 35 hours a week researching. [...]

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Haven’t been able to write. Too busy filling in the application to start the next layer of academic cake. The process of proving artistic worth (“provide evidence of action painting – include section of canvas torn by police officer”) is disheartening.
I can understand that they need some kind of proof (“photograph of audience disapproval – [...]

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There. Got your attention.
The problem revealed by The Spirits Within and The Polar Express; that synthetic actors look like freshly dug corpses dragged about on invisible meat hooks – this is not going to hold Hollywood back for too many more years.
Please view this pictorial comparison. One of these is DAZ3D’s latest ‘unimesh’, Victoria 4.2. [...]

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