Without the state

links for 2010-08-15

• Blog of Art Admirer and History Lover
  (tags: art history)
• Walter Ernest Webster
  (tags: artist painter)

On Fylingdale Moor

Fylingdale, originally uploaded by ibanda.

A monotype print inspired by the famous 'golf balls' of Fylingdale Early Warning Station.

When I last saw them the heather was in bloom and the air was thick with the scent of honey, while the three structures loomed on the horizon. A surreal experience.

I'm also working on a painting with the same theme. I keep meaning to post a photo of the work in progress.

links for 2010-08-07

• White Stones Cafe Art Gallery (Sculpture, Painting, Print, & Photography) exhibitions
  (tags: gallery)

links for 2010-08-05

• Xtranormal | Text-to-Movie
  (tags: movies animation online)

Brilliant video showing turn of the century New Jersey

links for 2010-08-03

• walterbenjamin.html
  (tags: philosophy literature culture research reference art walterbenjamin theory history politics)
• Making prints match your screen
  (tags: photography color printing management photo colour colourmanagement calibration monitor graphics)

Three dangers - Wassily Kandinsky

1. The danger of stylised form, which either comes into the world stillborn, or else, too ill to live, quickly dies.
2. The danger of ornamental form, the form belonging mainly to external beauty, which can be, and as a rule is, outwardly expressive and inwardly expressionless.
3. The danger of experimental form, which comes into being by means of experimentation, ie, completely without intuition, possessing, like every form, a certain inner sound, but one that deceitfully simulates internal necessity.

From 'The Cologne Lecture 1914' in "Art in Theory 1919-1990"; Charles Harrison and Paul Wood (ed) 

I've posted this as a follow up to my earlier post about Rothko. It seems to tie in - especially 2 - with my concerns in that post about abstraction as mere pattern.

links for 2010-08-02

• Okehampton People | Villagers set up ultra-cheap broadband
  (tags: broadband community bigsociety)

Cherhill white horse under cloud

Cherhill white horse under cloud, originally uploaded by ibanda.

I've started posting on Flickr again, after a longish hiatus.

links for 2010-07-31

• Printer review - Canon Pixma Pro9500 mk II A3+
  (tags: canon printer review pro9500mk2)
• The Packaging Store: Buy Cardboard Boxes, Bubble Wrap, Pallet Wrap & Packing
  (tags: packaging packing resources project supplies boxes uk pictureframeboxes)