In this BBC series from 2004, Dr Nigel Spivey investigates everything from cave paintings to ceramics, pyramids to palaces and icons to artifacts across five continents and 100,000 years of history. Although this one isn’t available online, you can rent it from LoveFilm (or Netflix) and failing that, it is available in Amazon UK and [...]
Read Full ArticleCheck out this fantastic video of TED talk by Aaron Koblin who creates visual images and video using data feeds and crowd-sourcing.
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I love art and history TV documentaries and books, and thought I would start summarising this information not only for my future reference but also for those of you that either cannot get hold of the documentary (if you are not in the UK for example) or can’t be bothered with sitting through the hours [...]
Read Full ArticleI found this gem of a clip on YouTube about how the Greek sculptors were the first to use their eyes and create realistic sculptures of the human body, but a generation later, abandoned this altogether to produce exaggerated sculptures of the human body. As Professor Ramachandran explains, within us lies the primal instinct to [...]
Read Full ArticleI am a big fan of Abelardo Morell and some of his ideas were the inspiration for my Reflactions project. One thing that I saw back in 2009 on the BBC’s excellent Genius of Photography series was how Abelardo used a room as a giant Camera Obscura. He does this by covering up all the [...]
Read Full Articlecreative commons is the way to go. It’s the reason I get 175,000 photo views per day. – Trey Ratcliff There seems to be more arguments against releasing your images with a creative commons licence than arguments for, and I want to put forward my case for releasing my images under that licence.
Read Full ArticleIt’s important that nobody gets mad at you for screwing up. We know screwups are an essential part of making something good. That’s why our goal is to screw up as fast as possible.Lee Unkrich, director of Toy Story 3, Wired magazine Following on from my post about when is it the right time to [...]
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Sculpture is a fantastic art form which unfortunately isn’t as popular as it should be. If you want to give it a go, how do you go about learning it?
Read Full Article“I had a very strong belief — I still do — that the act of going public is a very important decision. Everything you do from the point when you go public is part of the public record and is out there and you cannot get it back. Anything before the time when you go [...]
Read Full ArticleWith watercolour, you can’t cover up the marks. There’s the story of the construction of the picture, and then the picture might tell another story as well. – David Hockney Coinciding with their latest exhibition at the Tate Britain, the Tate has been doing a fantastic job over the last month promoting Watercolour paining as a medium to [...]
Read Full Article“It’s like adding a tail onto an animal painted by Picasso. It’s ridiculous”- Sir Anthony Caro Last week ARTINFO reported that Sir Anthony Caro was caught up in an arguement with auction house bonhams over a sculpture of his, that had been modified by the purchaser but was being sold as his work. Disowning the [...]
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