The original P. Diddy

let's make it look (and sound) like this...

Anna

made thought (click for link)

projects with great attention to detail, a lesson production values, printing and presentation.

Triangle space & Dynamic Suprematism (1916)

Thinking out the box (or the triangle) for a moment Kasimir Malevich (1916)..

(from modernism exhib. last year)...Kasimir Malevich supplies some cerebral coolness, with an oil on canvas entitled Dynamic Suprematism (1916). An empty, pale blue triangle floats against white space. Other forms and shapes are layered against it – random, unidentifiable, clustering together or drifting apart in this infinite half-light.

Malevich said:

Colour and texture in paintings are ends in themselves.

If this sounds like the usual abstract musings of a contemporary artist, what is useful in the V&A's show is the reminder that these artists had a social vision. Malevich developed the ideas behind the genre he called Dynamic Suprematism, in which forms appear to be in flux, because he wanted to:

free art from the dead weight of the real world, the State and Church.

After the Revolution of 1917, he founded a collective called Supporters of New Art in order to promote abstraction as an art form for a new society. Somewhat charmingly (these dizzy artists!) he announced its end in 1919.

outvoted but here's what your'e missing.

tiki bar: when the weight of the world is on your shoulders hitch up a stool to your nearest tiki bar and let Nigel make you a cocktail or three. Available for hire and fun included but if you prefer the minimal solid bar just go ahead..

fab show cakes from paris

as seen in Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette available here

quick detour to neon 80's & video arcades etc for visual stimulus..

video arcades flickr collection here

born in the 80's, the 80's

This 80's shoe is being reissued in new colourways, this is a semi-graphic treatment for an ad in wallpaper in the 80's neon on black look from the 80's - blogged here as I know some of you are looking at similar colours for the show? (in the original pic all the colours are very bright)

the actual trainers are here and a lot less intresting

although there is an 80's trainers memphis style boom at moment here and here (turn the colour down on your laptop first).

some cool tron trainers.. here

More Signs

Oooh! These only cost £10 a day (minimum hire period is 5 days) but they'r ein Kent. At least we're getting somewhere!

Neon Sign Rental

I enquired today at a prop hire company about hiring a neon sign, they have a good collection (click on the link in the title)







(!)

BUT it's £125 including VAT, they're based in Criclewood and that doesn't include delivery costs.

whatevs, that's what i say to that.

Anna

Domain Names

www.brighterchelsea.co.uk

www.brighter-chelsea.co.uk

www.brighter07.co.uk


Which do you prefer?

I prefer www.brighterchelsea.co.uk because i think the words look nice together, the word 'chelsea' gives us added status and affliates our work with chelsea, and i don't like numbers in websites i think it looks cheap, especially the number 07 because it reminds me of James Bond. But what do you think?

Anna

WRISTBANDS, WRISTBANDS, WRISTBANDS.

So after yesterdays conversation, here are the best 3 choices I think we have with regards to sectioning off the VIPs from the common people:


I think this is best - it's paper, it can come of easily, but it tears when it does so it's non transferable to the plebs etc, it comes in neon colours, AND you can print one colour on them (if we want to, i quite like them plain)


These are what's used for many festivals etc, (my sister still has hers on from last summer, the grot-bag) they look nice cause they're woven, but obviously a bit more expensive. I like these, don't know if they have neon threads though...


And these are just an amazing blast from the past. I remember running around the garden with my sister tring to slap eachother as hard as we could with ours. Novelty value - amazing, security - obviously rubbish.

Anna

sound bombs

the blurb...

Soundbombs are New-Media-Accessories. Each one a lowtech object for interactive transmission. An integrated soundmodul makes it possible to record any given sound and then activate it through a motiondetector. As a Non-Visual Graffiti, with its origin in streetart, Soundbombs give the possibility to tag a place in an accoustic form: a welcoming greeting at the entrance or a warning of a bad restaurant. Each owner can leave a personal message anywhere and at any time. Soundbombs can whistle, laugh, belch or recite a poem.

One can apply for the purchase of a Soundbomb – only those who deserve a Soundbomb, get a Soundbomb! if one is elected, he/she obtains an unique "accoustic" email addresse (e.g. thud@soundbombs.info).

video here

>>sounds like a good thing for the show?

Sean Gall's robot in production.

Another unknown so far for finding a place in the show is Sean's giant metal robot - see diagram, have also included this pic from stockholm's science museum of their giant robot which you can control from behind.

Indian 6m wide painted poster

Ravi is off to have his poster made soon in india (skip the details here until we know more) but if its as big as 6 metres wide where will it go? on a hoarding outside the show or in the parade ground or running at the back of the show or even on top of the triangle space or on the front of the space?

folio quandry/beetlelady

At the moment we use A4 wide folios (oversize A4) from muji (link&pic)
As we will not be using our usual folio holder we can now look at other makes but still based around the oversize A4 model perhaps even binding our own. The muji ones are cheap but they can be a bit floppy and budget looking. Beetle lady here has a guide to binding your own books with decent results.

Please can you post pics of any folios you see here.. thanks

ikea wall-mounted folio holder with reading flap?

could see a row of these with images slipped in behind or one continuous image, could have one per student but they are a bit too big and a bit pricey at £50

perhaps better than led icecubes..

Glow-sticks.org have allsorts of led party geekery on sale. More for our show would be led cups (they change colour slowly over time) or swizzle sticks (led cups on another site). Some really bad items here so would have to be very choosy about which works - buy a few as samples? The cup featured here glows (not led) when hit on a button and the straws illuminate when broken ala glow sticks. General drinks link here.