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links for 2007-12-08: Strummer’s memorabilia

Clash man’s widow plans book | UK | Reuters Joe Strummer’s personal memorabilia stash unearthed, now to be turned into a book in collaboration with… Damien Hirst. Yeah, that’s what I thought. (tags: Joe-Strummer, Lucinda-Mellor, Damien-Hirst, Clash, punk, music, commerce, … more…

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Ferrofluid sculpture

Sachiko Kodama, Yasushi Miyajima, Morpho Towers – Two Standing Spirals, 2006-7 “Morpho Towers–Two Standing Spirals” is an installation that consists of two ferrofluid sculptures that moves synthetically to music. The two spiral towers stand on a large plate that hold … more…

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more tentacles

I haven’t discovered any information from the site this came from. The relevant information is displayed as an image, and there’s no alt text provided. (via FFFF again. I am thinking that perhaps I should be looking at setting up … more…

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Threadless T-Shirts – That Way by Henrique Lima

Threadless T-Shirts – That Way by Henrique Lima Another of those pics, from the endless stream of them flowing before me, that happens to go with the decor around here. What are you gonna do? (via FFFF again)

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in which bandwidth is unnecessarily bickered over

The above image appeared on FFFFOUND! last night. The description of the link implies a meaty 2000x1351px version — but the owner of the site from whose upload folder this was linked, a Netherlands blog called Sargasso has evidently noticed … more…

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Eduardo Recife

Eduardo Recife, Detail from animations for HBO, commissioned by Raygun for Assume the Position, 2006 There’s a short video clip also, with some of the animations in situ. Assume the Position looks like it might be worth looking at, although … more…

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Crap Shadows

Untitled, Tim Nobel and Sue Webster (slightlywarped via Rebecca Blood)

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links for 2007-10-31: Kuksi interview

Dark Roasted Blend: The Art of the Grotesque Interview with Kris Kuksi (blogged previously) with a lot of new images. (tags: art surrealism Kuksi sculpture grotesque)

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Coptic and Ethiopian binding

Daniel Essig, Double Banded Centipede Book Daniel Essig draws his inspiration from the ancient Coptic style of book binding: chain-stitched bindings and wooden covers, engraved and decorated with found objects. peacay, of course was onto this stuff ages ago. The … more…

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Arrivederci, Giornale Nuovo

Giorgio Ghisi, Venus Pricked by the Thorns on a Rose-Bush (detail) Sadly, misteraitch has decided to cease blogging, on the fifth anniversary of Giornale Nuovo. This is a great shame, GN was one of the better arts blogs, and will … more…

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