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NEW RESEARCH BLOG

2011-09-09T08:09:00.001-07:00

here - http://cargocollective.com/jmcolegate

EXHIBITION

2011-07-13T12:20:00.000-07:00

THURSDAY 14TH JULY - 17TH JULY

SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL BASEMENT GALLERY

PRIVATE VIEW THURSDAY 14TH JULY, 6 - 10PM

COME AND SEE THE WORK FROM CAMBERWELL COLLEGE OF ARTS DESIGN GRADUATES!

PLUS...FREE RUM.

http://sundaybelowground.co.uk/

http://sundaybelowground.co.uk/artists/colegate/index.html

(image © Justine Melford-Colegate.)

Jennifer Lee

2011-05-25T05:08:00.000-07:00

'Lee's pots are hand built and she has developed a method of colouring them by mixing metallic oxides into the clay before making.'
Stunning and extremely skilled - certainly something to aspire to.

See the work here.

Chad Kloepfer

2011-05-14T08:21:00.000-07:00

Fox Roman - very very sexy.

Soviet Poster Boy

2011-04-20T14:02:00.000-07:00

The first man in space - 50 years ago this month - Yuri Gagarin.
Great BBC Radio Witness episode here.

Jules Verne

2011-04-20T13:30:00.000-07:00

My new read. Published in 1865, 103 years before man walked on the moon; it is still one of the most accurate predictions of lunar expeditions and man in space. An incredibly switched on Frenchman.

Ibon Aranberri

2011-04-20T13:27:00.001-07:00

Floating Garden (2004-07)

Lunarscapes

2011-04-14T07:13:00.001-07:00

Image 1 - Apollo 1 Lunar Mission - 1969 (NASA photography Archive)

Image 2 - Sheffield - Winter 2009 (own photograph)

Visual experimentation with familiar imagery.

Exempt from the naked eye.

2011-04-14T05:40:00.001-07:00

Vitamin C

The small intestine.

Conifer wood.

Carbon dioxide crystals.

Diamonds are Forever

2011-04-12T08:16:00.000-07:00

'The market for uncut diamonds is worth an estimated £5.5 billion annually. That's a lot for a stone made from nothing but carbon, just like the graphite in a pencil lead.'

Mark Dion

2011-04-12T07:42:00.001-07:00

'Tate Thames Dig 1999' and 'Raiding Neptune's Vault 1997/8'

'It may be art but is it archaeology? Science as Art and Art and Science.'

La Lune

2011-03-30T06:19:00.000-07:00

Moon at full disc on return trip to Earth from Apollo 11

Courtesy of Nasa Gallery

Deceitful Moon

2011-03-24T04:49:00.000-07:00

A really interesting exhibition I saw at the Hayward gallery about 2 years ago - new inspiration for my recent work.

"Permit me," he continued, "to recount to you briefly how certain ardent spirits, starting on imaginary journeys, have penetrated the secrets of our satellite."
- Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (1865)

'Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, Deceitful Moon is an exhibition in the Hayward Gallery Project Space that explores the moon as a site for misinformation, misrepresentation and mistrust. Touching on a long-standing tradition of hoaxes and conspiracy theories that found its first modern expression in the 'Great Moon Hoax' played by The New York Sun in 1835 (in which a series of newspaper articles detailed life on the moon as observed through a powerful telescope) the show, like the tarot card that bears its name, turns on obfuscation and doubt.

Deceitful Moon is, in part, a response to the current vogue for exhibitions marking the anniversary of major events in world history. But rather than commemorating Neil Armstrong's famous 'one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind', it pays tribute to a lingering uncertainty somewhere on the dark side of our cultural imagination as to whether human feet have ever touched the moon's grey, inhospitable surface.

While the Apollo 11 mission was concerned with scientific verification and the glory of a nation and of a species, the works in Deceitful Moon propose speculative 'lunar landings' of a different sort. Satires of social and political control share space with meditations on technological absurdity, perception and misperception, and a very earthbound form of moon-gazing romanticism.'

The Furnished Man

2011-02-23T09:57:00.001-08:00

An ongoing project that has been constructed over 3 years of collection and influence.

‘The Furnished Man’ is a phrase that I came across whilst researching for my dissertation. In a book written by Walter Benjamin he refers to an individual with a mind furnished with dreams and scientific knowledge. Recognising the modern man as both artistic and scientific in thought and approach.

The concept for the website is that the selection and memory process has been taken out of my own hands and controlled digitally by the html script. The reproduction and choice is secondary to my own preference. This secondary approach is an idea that I find compelling about artist and curator relationships as well as alternative methods of display; it is something closely wed to my personal practice.

check it daily HERE or make it your home page - like an artistically inspiring advent.

DRS

2011-02-16T06:48:00.000-08:00

Pulling together an interview and a shoot.
Dead Red Sun for [b]liminal magazine - coming soon.

Stephan Jaklitsch

2011-01-30T14:26:00.000-08:00

“I was driving through a remote valley in Norway and came across these nine old milkmaid huts clustered on a mountainside. They were extraordinary and caught my attention right away. When I travel in general, I try to look at the seemingly 'undesigned' structures that are everywhere. Sheds, barns, storage buildings, dwellings, warehouses — these can demonstrate so much about the character and climate of a place because they’re usually reduced to their most essential elements and constructed with a simplicity of materials and details that is tested over time.”

Amazing architect who has done wonders for the unique nature of the Marc Jacobs stores.

See here.

Walton Ford

2011-01-26T07:01:00.000-08:00

Had the privilege of seeing Walton Ford's exhibition in Copenhagen over Christmas. An amazing artist, who's labour intense illustrations are not only inspiring but a reminder that not everything has to go through a computer to look good. His Political Birds etching series is outrageous.

'Everything in the artist’s pictorial fables is painted with a wealth of details and accuracy that lures the viewer into a close study of almost every brush stroke.

Stylistically, Walton Ford’s animal tales recall classic naturalistic, zoological illustrations from a bygone age, executed with technical perfection; but on close examination they are far from the objectivity to which science aspires; rather, they are strangely horrifying representations of among other things the lust for power and evil, sometimes with a humorous angle.

In addition, Walton Ford’s watercolours, devoid of human figures, stand out in being surprisingly large, since the animals are shown life-size.'

View exhibit info here.

Tone Poems of Color, 1956

2011-01-17T11:56:00.000-08:00

"Frank Sinatra again took up the baton in advocacy of music between the cracks, this time with a near 60-person orchestra of Hollywood musicians and a set of 12 commissions from eight composer/arrangers.

With the poetry of radio writer Norman Sickel as a guide, each composer was assigned different colors to muse upon, with Victor Young, Jeff Alexander, Alec Wilder, and Nelson Riddle receiving two each, and Billy May, Gordon Jenkins, Elmer Bernstein, and André Previn one apiece."

Listen here or on Spotify.
Put the playlist on random and try to guess the colours.

Bram Stoker's

2011-01-10T15:14:00.000-08:00

Sweet gift.
Thank you very much Fradge

Boxing Day

2011-01-08T06:35:00.001-08:00

Boxing Day at the beach.

flickr

Copenhagen

2011-01-06T07:57:00.000-08:00

I went to Denmark and partied in a meat factory.

flickr

Steve Reich

2010-12-01T05:19:00.000-08:00

Steve Reich titled as the 'greatest living composer of our time' has pushed musical composition into the future.

He creates melodies and rhythms using a process called Phasing. Phasing is when melodic patterns gradually fall out of sync; he pioneered this practice throughout the sixties with pieces such as 'Pendulum Music' and 'Piano Phases.'
Reich's work encompasses musical concepts by creating machine like processes and compositions. 'Its Gonna Rain' highlights Reich's fascination with repetition and the use of language as a musical component. The beat that you hear in the background of 'Its Gonna Rain' is a pigeon that takes flight at the exact same moment that the preacher screams It Gonna Rain! supposedly warning his fellow Americans of a flood (filmed by Reich himself.)

What I enjoy most of all about Reich's work is his attention to detail and the disguised complexity of his ideas. Phasing the music engages the brain into counterpointing the lost rhythm when it comes out of sync, meaning that your brain compensates for this loss, so it will always sound like a melody.
His productions are far from simple (although they may sound that way) and include a huge range of instruments and vocals which all have a fundamental purpose; his 'Drumming' pieces were created after his research trip to Africa, in order to understand the instrument better and how musicians form complex pieces without a Composer.

The complete works of Steve Reich are available on Spotify - you should listen just for your health.

War of the Worlds

2010-11-24T02:22:00.000-08:00

'The War of the Worlds (1898) is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. It describes the experiences of an unnamed narrator who travels through the suburbs of London as the Earth is invaded by Martians. It is the earliest story that details a conflict between mankind and an alien race.

The War of the Worlds was an episode of the American radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on October 30, 1938 and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network.

Directed and narrated by Orson Welles, the episode was an adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds.
The first two thirds of the 60-minute broadcast were presented as a series of simulated "news bulletins", which suggested to many listeners that an actual alien invasion by Martians was currently in progress.'

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds is a 1978 concept album by Jeff Wayne, retelling the story of The War of the Worlds with Richard Burton as the narrator.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egudvdwtDIg

Angelo Badalamenti

2010-11-20T04:08:00.000-08:00

If you get a chance, listen to the music by the incredible Angelo Badalamenti - the composer behind the sound of films such as The City of Lost Children, Dark Water, Secretary and most favourably David Lynch's Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive.

(Leonard Cohen (an incredible man even at his age) sings I'm Your Man for the film Secretary.)

Walker Pickering

2010-11-20T03:12:00.001-08:00

Inspiration for my travels next month.
A portfolio of quiet excellence Walker Pickering

Brooke Shields by Garry Gross

2010-11-10T05:18:00.000-08:00

"An image, which should have belonged to the rich range of works for the exhibition “Pop Life: Art in A Material World” has raised a number of polemics which have led, for now, to a temporary censorship. The Tate Modern has withdrawn a controversial photo of the actress Brooke Shields when she was very young, after a visit of the police, concerned about a possible breach of the laws on child pornography. "

The image at the POP LIFE retrospective last year was replaced by the below photograph.
The photographs were taken in 1975, commissioned by Brooke Shields’s mother, who was anxious to make her child become a star. Therefore, the fame-driven mother gave up all the rights of that photo, and others taken by Gross, to the photographer for him to use them as he believed most appropriate. In 1981, Shields unsuccessfully tried to get the negatives back and started a legal battle against Gross. At the time the judge ruled that she was the “unfortunate victim of a contract … to which she had been bound by two grasping adults”. Gross, now seventy-one, commented what has happened in these days saying: “The photo was infamous since the day I took it, and that is how I wanted it to be”.

Article here.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

2010-11-10T04:31:00.001-08:00

'Untitled (portrait of Ross in LA)' 1991

Approximately 175lbs of candy which can be intercepted by the viewer, allowing them the freedom to take a piece of candy from the pile. The diminishing candy represents the weight loss of Gonzalez's lover who was dying from Aids.

Ann Hamilton

2010-11-10T04:12:00.000-08:00

'Between Taxonomy and Communication' (1990)

'A table holding approximately 14,000 human and animal teeth.'

Chris Watson

2010-10-19T10:27:00.000-07:00

Chris Watson - Whispering in the Leaves from Whispering in the Leaves on Vimeo.

'Whispering in the Leaves'

"Chris Watson’s Whispering in the Leaves is an extraordinary sound installation, using recordings and natural history broadcast to transport us to the far-flung, dense rainforests of South and Central America. Throughout Kew Gardens’ Summer festival, the Palm House will be diffused with the dawn and dusk choruses of the myriad of creatures native to these lush tropical landscapes."

Jill Cole

2010-10-13T11:03:00.000-07:00

"Created over eighteen months on British military land, this series shows birds captured for scientific and conservation research on a nature reserve within an army garrison in North Yorkshire."

Jill Cole - Birds

Zimoun

2010-10-05T08:32:00.000-07:00

Zimoun : 25 woodworms, wood, microphone, sound system, 2009 from ZIMOUN VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo.

"25 woodworms, wood, microphone, sound system | Zimoun 2009
Sound installation based on live sounds of woodworms.
Size: variable. Edition: unique."

ZIMOUN

PLANET magazine 2010 Global Travel Photo Contest

2010-09-28T07:34:00.000-07:00

Established art and design New York magazine PLANET are taking submissions for their international photography competition.

Now in it's third year, the prizes have grown in size; first prize being an around the world ticket and a published portfolio of your work which will be sold via the PLANET gallery, on your return.

GET ON THIS HERE.

Also take some time to look at PLANET's website, some incredible articles and interviews, one of which, TV on the Radio's David Sitek, discussing the cultivation of MAXIMUM BALLOON.

Flambo

2010-09-22T13:17:00.000-07:00

"Upon closer inspection, you can see there is a device for each day of the week, one for every month, every letter in the alphabet. There is a rich variety of shapes and colors..."

Addition to a charming collection HERE.

Pleix

2010-09-15T11:05:00.001-07:00

"Dogs? or Birds?" Music by french electro outfit Vitalic.

"birds" (pleix) from pleix on Vimeo.

Alberto Seveso

2010-09-08T05:17:00.000-07:00

"These are simple photographs of varnish
into a fish bowl."

Seveso

Whiskey in the Jar

2010-09-01T07:17:00.000-07:00

I went to Dublin. Lots of stuffed animals and Guinness, pretty sweet.
All images copyright © Justine Melford-Colegate

FLICKR

New Morocco photographs

2010-08-24T15:30:00.000-07:00

Richard Wilson

2010-08-24T05:51:00.000-07:00

"Viewed from the entrance platform 20:50 appears as a holographic field: simultaneously a polished floor, infinite clear pool, an expansive and indefinable virtual space that clinically absorbs and mirrors the gallery architecture. The room is in fact entirely flooded in oil."

Currently showing at the Saatchi Gallery

All images Copyright © Justine Melford-Colegate

Carsten Höller

2010-08-16T02:44:00.000-07:00

Carsten Höller, 'Psycho Tank' 1999

"After climbing a salted staircase you have to manoeuvre your naked body through a small hatch. Once inside, the saline water makes you float. Not only do you have a sensation of weightlessness; the temperature of the air and water also exactly matches that of your skin, meaning you feel next to nothing. Your body becomes the image."

UNKLE

2010-08-13T02:01:00.000-07:00

"Directed by The Road's John Hillcoat, the video for UNKLE's new single features Ray Winstone describing how a brush with death gave him a new lease of life."

Andrew Bush

2010-08-04T08:16:00.000-07:00

envelopes.

Flavour Tripping

2010-08-04T07:24:00.000-07:00

The latest craze in NY with 'Miracle Berries.'

"...drizzled Tabasco sauce onto her tongue. She swallowed and considered the flavour: “Doughnut glaze, hot doughnut glaze!”

do you read me?

2010-07-29T01:04:00.001-07:00

Amazing book shop in Mitte, Berlin. Incredible magazine collection, they also do international delivery.

Stefan Sagmeister's reading list '10 on there blog.

do you read me?

The EyeWriter

2010-07-28T05:58:00.000-07:00

Eye Writer Trailer from The Ebeling Group on Vimeo.

"It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes."

EyeWriter

Serpentine Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel

2010-07-28T04:01:00.000-07:00

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2010 by Jean Nouvel from O Production Ltd. on Vimeo.

Listen HERE.

Margaret Durow

2010-07-28T02:45:00.000-07:00

Margaret Durow is 20 years old.
Found here.

Aimee Brodeur

2010-07-28T02:24:00.001-07:00

Installation by Aimee Brodeur.

Galaxy Part I
"Poly fiber, spray paint, acrylic spray, glitter, mirror, lights."

Thomas Prior

2010-07-28T02:10:00.001-07:00

Interesting portfolio, found here.

Alan Charlton

2010-07-17T02:45:00.000-07:00

"...understood as an object, an application of painting..."

(Currently showing at the Saatchi Gallery.)

Benbo George

2010-06-25T05:48:00.000-07:00

Incredible works by Liverpool/London based illustrator Benbo George which reminds me particularly of works by Michael English and Michael Oldfield's Tubular Bells Vinyl Cover.

Joseph Papendick

2010-06-25T05:34:00.000-07:00

"Outdoor sculpture for birds and other living things."

Papendick birdhouses.

ICA Mash Up feast benches

2010-06-15T01:53:00.001-07:00

Designed and made by GLASSHILL a really exciting London based product design/architecture studio.

"Taken from the Mash Up event feast at the ICA, the ICA bench is 4m of southern yellow pine, 6 no. 45mm pine dowel and 6 no. solid birch blocks.

A single length of Southern Yellow Pine is ripped to width, the off cut slotting underneath becoming a fin that stiffens the entire length. The birch blocks rebated and mated to the 45mm round dowel legs, then bolted to the underside - removable should the need arise.

All finished in Osmo Polyx-Oil, a hard matte floor lacquer from Germany.
Now resident of the Rochelle School, London."

Dokter and Misses

2010-06-15T01:45:00.001-07:00

Lighting.

The House of Viktor & Rolf

2010-06-14T13:01:00.000-07:00

spring/summer collection 2010. couture geniuses.

V & R

Livia Marin

2010-06-11T06:14:00.000-07:00

“Broken Things highlights the meticulous work of Livia Marin, a process–oriented approach, which appropriates mass-produced and mass-consumed objects, turning them into precious and uniquely, handcrafted art objects."

Ice Sounds

2010-06-09T08:04:00.000-07:00

Using hydrophones in ice, it picks up the sounds of movement and cracking under and above the water of frozen lakes.

Listen to more recordings HERE.

Simon Memel

2010-06-09T07:48:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine, approached by It's Nice That to design the new identity for the graduates listings. Seriously good work and prints - see his work HERE.

Frank Buchwald

2010-06-09T07:35:00.000-07:00

Machine Lights made with brass and steel. Serious symmetry.

Pathetic Fallacy

2010-06-01T14:23:00.000-07:00

Pathetic Fallacy from Justine Melford-Colegate on Vimeo.

The subject of the weather and it's terminal effects over a period of time, filmed on location at cliffs in South East Kent. The cliffs have fallen over quarter of a mile in the last 6 years, the area is tarnished with dozens of warning signs.
The locals have said that many near the coast fear they will lose their gardens and out-houses if there is another heavy rain fall this winter; including the old radar shipping tower which has been there since WW2.
The hanging rope in the later scenes is where I learnt to climb as a child in my Grandfather's garden, it's now almost in the sea.

Hybrid

2010-05-28T09:44:00.000-07:00

Cover for the Hybrid book project. Acid embossed zinc plate.

Armin Hofmann

2010-05-27T13:26:00.000-07:00

"Because it is circumscribed, balanced, non-figurative and weightless, the smallest dot is particularly well adapted to demonstrating the most important principles of composition." A.Hofmann

Jason Lazarus

2010-05-26T11:16:00.000-07:00

"These photograms were made with a portion of the cremated remains of Robert Heinecken, with the permission of the Heinecken Estate."

Jason Lazarus

Francisco Infante-Arana & Nonna Gorunova

2010-05-26T06:07:00.000-07:00

More dissertation research into physical illusions and visual deception. Arana & Gorunova break up a particular view into sections using angular mirrors and markers to define shadows.

M.C Escher

2010-05-26T02:35:00.001-07:00

"And so I can keep on going on and on never to make a new picture again... But that I flatly refuse to do, because there's a Mobius strip waiting in my soul. Every now and then I hear it scream. I want out! I want out!"

Letter to his son George - Escher, January 1961

Ready to sell

2010-05-25T12:40:00.001-07:00

On sale at the Clinic Book Launch
Tomorrow at the Amersham Arms

Edgar Martins - 'When light casts no shadows.'

2010-05-21T04:28:00.000-07:00

"I chose to photograph almost exclusively at night, utilising large format cameras (8x10 and 8x20), the airport's floodlights and long exposures of up to two hours in order to register minute tonal differences between blacktop and night sky, my camera picking out fluorescent signs and markings on the ground - and also the patterns of the weeds that had grown in cracks that had occurred due to lack of maintenance. The result is an imagery that is even more abstract and enigmatic."

www.edgarmartins.com

Ames' Window

2010-05-20T03:42:00.001-07:00

SUPERBIEN

2010-05-19T10:09:00.000-07:00

ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo.

Matt Stuart Shoots Rabbits

2010-05-19T09:47:00.000-07:00

Lighthearted take on illusion and perspective.

Fred Lebain

2010-05-19T08:55:00.000-07:00

Ideas for latest project and developement for third year.
Illusions and interactive perspectives.

James Cooper

2010-05-18T00:55:00.000-07:00

James Cooper

Basic Forms

2010-05-10T04:19:00.001-07:00

Since the beginning of the 1960s, Bernd and Hilla Becher have documented industrial building whose architecture is totally dictated by their function.

Becher's timeless series of photographs has captured a cultural treasure and technological history from a vanishing industrial era.

These pictures are taken from 'Basic Forms of Industrial Buildings' - Thames & Hudson publishing. From the Plates, each photograph is from these categories: Water Towers, Cooling Towers, Gasometers, Winding Towers, Preparation Plants, Gravel Plant, Lime Kilns, Grain Elevator, Coal Bunkers, Coke Quenching Towers, Blast Furnaces, Filter Plants, and Interior Forms.

Suzy Poling

2010-05-09T04:04:00.000-07:00

"I am interested how cyclical forces of nature can triumph. The work on this site is collage, chemical experiments on film, photographs of abandoned mental hosptials, defunct amusement parks, geysers, bacteria mat and other signs of Earth's decay."

http://www.suzypoling.com/

Eyke Volkmer

2010-04-27T08:12:00.000-07:00

Eyke Volkmer's cover designs; a selection of science fiction books for Wilhelm Goldmann publishing house. A unique airbrushed style which he brought to height in the late 60s and 70s.

1x1x1

2010-04-27T07:07:00.000-07:00

One week project in which we had to create something within the boundaries of a metre squared.

Looking at a metre in terms of scale rather than a measurement three times, led myself and Natasha Phillips to create a video depicting this idea.

The video references the metre as a scale according to perception. A metre for a human being is not a long distance but for something as small as a snail, a metre is something quite different.

The video was projected in real time and at real size on the wall to demonstrate the idea of time and scale literally.

It took the snail 32 minutes and 16 seconds to get from one end to the other.

(That was after 5 hours of filming and 7 different shots.)

This video is a sped up version, compressing it down into one minute.

1x1x1 from Natasha Phillips on Vimeo.

Nike Sweet Tooth

2010-04-23T05:45:00.000-07:00

Air Royals inspired by the famous French pastry called the Macaron. The new trainer is comprised of moulded leather in a range of pastel shades.

For the launch party fashion house Colette hosted ‘Cooklette’ where people were able to design their own “Macaron” Nike Air Royal using decorative ingredients like frosting and smarties.

We have just got these in at work, if I was cool enough to wear them and potentially not eat them, id buy them.

Ron Arad - Restless

2010-04-19T05:54:00.000-07:00

London design maverick Ron Arad's entourage, definitely left you questioning his artistic discipline. Product designer? Architect? Artist? Who knows, and who cares. A stimulating and overwhelming collection of smart and well considered works that are magnificent to look at and above all function as ergonomically designed objects.

The Barbican's contemporary approach towards the curation of Arad's work was refreshing. They left the place cards and signs overhauled with decades of written information at home, and had each section of work narrated by Arad himself on a small video screen. The viewing situation was almost casual as you looked at the works and had Arad's own descriptions about his pieces spoken to you as if in conversation. Totally fitting for a practicing artist such as Ron Arad.

(There is also the plus of behaving like an absolute 3 year old in the area designated to sitting and clambering over Arad's original works and playing on the mirrored ping pong table,without being bellowed at by a Barbican 'officer.')

'Ron Arad - Restless' certainly installed the level of excitement that was hoped for. Go and check it out at the Barbican until 16th May 2010.

Also, don't miss out Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's commissioned piece for the Barbican's Curve space, it's quite an endearingly strange experience...

Morocco in Black & White

2010-04-14T09:21:00.001-07:00

Jarvis Cocker and Laurie Anderson

2010-04-13T05:39:00.000-07:00

Jarvis Cocker interviews American experimental performance artist Laurie Anderson, who was the first and last artist residence at NASA.
A really good listen, plus a serious music collection from the Pulp hero.

LISTEN HERE.

Ballet Mecanique

2010-04-13T04:52:00.000-07:00

'Ballet Mecanique' a project by American composer George Antheil with film makers Fernand Leger and Dudley Murphy in 1924. Antheil's music for Ballet Mécanique became a concert piece, premiered by Antheil himself in Paris in 1926.

Incredibly radical for it's time which has no doubt influenced artists of today, with its chaotic composition and detached, kaleidoscopic visuals.

You can watch the entire film at 'VAN DOESBURG & The International Avant-Garde' at the Tate Modern, which is on until the 16th May. An extensive collection of De Stijl works; the highlights were undoubtedly the animations/films and typography.

Etirement Lamp

2010-04-06T06:54:00.000-07:00

The Etirement has both a skin and a skeleton. Pulling the rod adjusts the intensity of the light when it's pulled down and rises up according to the distortion of the fabric membrane.

Mode Atelier since 1858

2010-04-02T08:40:00.000-07:00

'The unavoidable question of style begins with the overcoming of fashion.'

KNIZE

In the 1920's with the help of the designer Ernst Dryden, KNIZE became known throughout the world as the first label of stylish menswear.

If I happened to be of the male species and endowed with a substantial amount of money, i'd be shopping here.

Bécassine

2010-04-02T07:48:00.000-07:00

Bécassine is a comic strip and the name of its heroine, appearing for the first time in the first issue of La Semaine de Suzette on February 2, 1905. She is considered the first female protagonist in the history of comics.The character Bécassine is a young Breton housemaid. Seen as a stereotype and always depicted without a mouth. Her nickname Bécassine is the French name for a number of birds in a Snipe family.

Morocco in Panoramic

2010-03-31T03:46:00.000-07:00

Lunar Archive

2010-03-26T10:56:00.000-07:00

An archive film by Al Reinert.
Compiled NASA footage 20 years after it was recorded throughout the Apollo lunar missions. The astronauts were given cameras with each mission and told to film anything that happened whilst on the moon. So they had a ball.

IMDB

Morocco in colour

2010-03-26T03:18:00.001-07:00

"We are surrounded by worn-out images, and we deserve new ones." - Werner Herzog

Cloud 9

2010-03-23T04:26:00.000-07:00

I had the ultimate pleasure of meeting Troika and going to there studio. An incredible team of 3 people who have avoided categorising themselves with a particular style or discipline, as you can see from their entourage; from books to public installations, each piece of work is unique and considered.

TROIKA

Smultronstället

2010-03-18T02:43:00.000-07:00

Swedish director Ingmar Bergman 1959 film 'Wild Strawberries.'
An incredible 'rite of passage' picture about an elderly physician Eberhard Isak Borg (Victor Sjöström; who also happens to be a Swedish director.) He drives to Lund to receive the honorary degree Doctor Jubilaris, 50 years after graduating. During the trip, he is forced by nightmares, daydreams, his old age, and his impending death to reevaluate his life, meeting a variety of characters on the way.

A moving film, with an incredible dream sequence at the beginning (worth looking into if you are a Surrealism enthusiast.) Bergman's films are soothing and easy on the eye yet paradoxically disturbing.

Ingmar Bergman's themes and style of execution will definitely be idolised when I compile a narrative to accompany my found photographs from Stockholm; which I hope to make into a book over the Easter period.

WATCH WILD STRAWBERRIES HERE

Graphic Perception of Space

2010-03-18T02:32:00.000-07:00

"This book is primarily concerned with the spacial cues that help us interpret the visual world. There are examples of spatial relationships employed in architecture, interior design, photography and other visual media. Spacial organisation of the printed word is also described.
THE EXPERIENCE OF SEEING IS AT THE SAME TIME A SPATIAL EXPERIENCE
How does the visual artist create illusions of space on his canvas? How do photographers and graphic designers control spatial effects in there various media?"

Frank Mulvey's book is designed to deal with these questions by relaying a page by page sequence of situations where you are asked to choose a 'correct' statement concerning the spatial interpretation of the image. Your answer may be different from the one described as 'correct' in the book, but keep that in mind.

Print Nouveau

2010-03-05T08:54:00.000-08:00

Inspiration from painter and 1960s poster designer, Michael English for my next series of screen prints.

English was in partnership with Nigel Waymouth for design company Hapshash and the Coloured Coat who created posters for the likes of Pink Floyd, The Incredible String Band, Julie Felix and the UK Underground UFO Club.

They worked together initially and very briefly under the name Cosmic Visions, only producing one poster and then Jacob and the Coloured Coat, only producing 2 posters; before settling on the name, Hapshash and the Coloured Coat.
Their posters were printed and distributed by Osiris Visions, a division of the underground press publication International Times. The duo also provided illustrations and posters for several editions of the London Oz.

Despite my love for the 60s generation and Jimi Hendrix above all, im not interested in the festival and band posters especially; but more so of English's personal work of high definition, lacquered photographic painted object portraits.

Stockholm

2010-02-28T16:24:00.000-08:00

vacker plats med vackra människor och miljö

courtesy of the Olympus OM10 (all images copyright.)

Everything Is Connected

2010-01-27T16:38:00.000-08:00

The Mobius strip; a surface with one continuous side formed by joining the ends of a rectangular strip after twisting one end through 180°.
Stephen Hawking wrote about the mobius strip in his book, ‘A Brief History of Time,’ by which he discusses it’s form as a shape perhaps representative of the universe.
I thought that the attributes and functionality of the mobius strip would be suited perfectly to a continuous print design. It’s shape and perplexing nature can not only be applied to paper in a strip but also in terms of the technicalities of colour and fade.
Looking at suitable typography, I used a Palindrone so when in a loop, it also supports the continuation design element, so it's beginning and end is indistinguishable.

There are 12 limited edition copies available, 6 high gloss and 6 matte; contact me if you'd like one.

Printing took 3 hellish weeks, 80 double sided try outs, a custom fade and a 3 foot squeegie. Do not fuck with me after this.

Fabulous model Jamie showcasing the flat print.

(All work and photographs // Copyright Justine Melford-Colegate.)

Caving

2010-01-21T12:52:00.000-08:00

Spent all day monday in the darkroom playing around with the black and white film i developed.
Here is a taster.

DE-cide

2010-01-14T05:07:00.000-08:00

Cant decide what exhibition to design a poster for. I think i've made a good choice with de-code yet im still struggling. Posters are not my thing, I am definitely no Raymond Sauvignon.

New Years Resolution

2010-01-13T10:33:00.000-08:00

A working progress of my Beyond the Boundaries project. I developed my black and white film today ready to enlarge on monday. The tutor in photography is absolutely incredible; a fountain of knowledge with a lot of dedication and time to people who are enthusiastic about photography. He spent a good 2 hours helping me out today whilst we discussed cameras and paper qualities. I felt like I actually got my £3,145 a year's worth tuition today, thank you.

Resolution - spend more time in the darkroom/learning from that man.

Talk

2010-01-13T09:54:00.000-08:00

Everyone is talking about the snow. Its only a fragment of what the weather is actually capable of; but it is beautiful. I went to the northern part of England and photographed it to prove just how good snow can be in the right place.

(all images copyright.)

11. Good Design is Dieter Rams

2010-01-10T16:26:00.000-08:00

Celebrating 25 years of Design at (you guessed it,) The Design Museum.
The head of design at Braun, the German consumer electronics manufacturer, Dieter Rams emerged as one of the most influential industrial designers of the 20th century. The exhibition showcases Ram's designs for Braun and furniture manufacturer Vitsœ.

His visual aesthetic a simple, elegant one with complete functionality. His products always consisted of only what was necessary, no spare, 'gadget' parts; making them timeless,
“Question everything generally thought to be obvious.” (Rams.)

Looking at the collection of products you can see the minimal influence on so much of what we use now; most of the artifacts could be sold in shops today.

Dieter Rams' Ten Principles of good design:

Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design makes a product understandable.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is long-lasting.
Good design is thorough down to the last detail.
Good design is environmentally friendly.
Good design is as little design as possible.

What I really enjoyed about the exhibition was not only the collection of flawless, beautiful design but the comparison to designs of today such as Jonathon Ives designs for Apple, including the new MacBook Pro; who has in fact been accused of 'ripping off' Ram's style.

FEAR

2010-01-10T07:37:00.000-08:00

My submission for Clinic's exhibition FEAR.

A short film compiled of found footage and archive material from old horror and classic horror films.

Studying the conceptual nature of horror in cinema led to a hybrid of many put together as a template with the ideals of what variables are used in horror to create fear.

The colour red, long extensions of subdude and mundane sections of suspense, screaming above all, and running to or from the horror in question.

The film is choreographed with all of these variables to result in a one minute horror film, or a potential template. The red intervals distort the beginning and end of the film, so it becomes an eternal loop.

The video is titled REDRUM, spelling Murder when viewed in a mirror - taken from a scene in one of the most successful horror films to exist, Kubrick's 'The Shining.'

In the exhibit, the film was played on loop from a TV in the corner of a hallway. The hallway was lit by a red bulb (pictures to come.)

Beyond the Boundaries

2010-01-10T07:07:00.000-08:00

I took photographs inside a cell of a prison to identify physical and psychological boundaries.
Because of security reasons I cannot identify the location, the officers involved or the name of the prison.
I took 3 films and made the ridiculous decision to get the 2 colour film developed at Asda. They completely destroyed both negative sheets because some Peckham noob exposed them. FUCK.

I salvaged some.
NOTE TO SELF: Do not go to Asda to get photographs developed.

Im now relying on a black and white 35mm and a 120 medium format from the Agfa to take into the dark room on Monday. Have Mercy.

Poster War Design?

2010-01-09T12:07:00.000-08:00

Who thought a poster could be so hard? Im stuck and just making really bad design. Some rough ideas for my christmas project.