David Thompson (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
Speaking of the Arts Council and its casual arrogance, Karen steers our attention to this little nugget: A dance artist with epilepsy is to try to induce a seizure on stage. Rita Marcalo has stopped taking her medication ahead of...
ASIFA - Hollywood Animation Archive (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
This weekend, the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive will have a booth at... CTN-X Burbank Marriott Convention Center November 20-22, 2009 http://www.ctnanimationexpo.com/ CTN-X=Talent Driven. For professional animators, studio executives and art students, it takes place at the Burbank Marriott Convention Center with ample discounted parking, conveniently located near the Burbank Airport and Amtrak...
ASIFA - Hollywood Animation Archive (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Before we get to today's post, a couple of announcements... We will begin deleting the earlier posts in this series next week, so if you haven't downloaded them yet, do it now. Also, we have only 15 sets of the Zim Cartooning Course left. We may not be able to get more copies before Christmas, so if you hope to have them under your tree, order now . Thanks! This is the eleventh of twenty posts where...
ASIFA - Hollywood Animation Archive (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
In case you didn't read the Rufus and Flook comic because there were too many images to click... YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE MISSING. Don't take what all of us at the archive are providing to you for granted.
David Thompson (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Yesterday’s post mentioned in passing a 2008 Arts Council project that typifies the standards we’ve come to expect from publicly funded art. Jarvis Cocker, the country’s foremost bespectacled socialist pop musician, was sent to the Arctic for “inspiration” and to...
David Thompson (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
From the Telegraph: Faith groups are to be given a central role in shaping government policies, a senior minister has vowed. John Denham, the communities secretary revealed that a new panel of religious experts has been set up to advise...
David Thompson (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
A reader has complained that this site doesn’t feature enough sculpture. Conceptual art, yes, and music, quite a bit, but the sculpted arts have been shamefully neglected - apart from the odd appearance by some slightly indecent balloons. Keen as...
David Thompson (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
[Margaret Thatcher] was the closest thing Britain has ever had to Stalin and Pol Pot. And, It is not at all dumb to suggest that Thatcher was the closest thing we have had to Stalin and Pol Pot. That does...
ASIFA - Hollywood Animation Archive (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Today, I'm posting a complete story by a comic strip artist whose name won't be familiar to you unless you grew up in England in the 50s and 60s... he went by the name of "Trog". The nickname, short for "Troglodyte", came from his days hunkered down in air raid shelters during WW2. His real name was Wally Fawkes, and he was one of those artists who had two equally noteworthy careers-...
David Thompson (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
In the following BBC clip, lifted from today’s ephemera, the sculptor and artistic luminary Antony Gormley shares his wisdom on matters ecological. “Dispense with your socks,” says he. “This is a time of global warming. Through our feet we can...
The Cartoon Blog (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I’m pleased to be able to announce that a new cartoon series, ‘The Dave Walker Guide to Youth Work’ will be appearing every month in Youthwork Magazine, starting with the January issue, available in December. I’m very excited about this, not last because it is only the second publication that my work is appearing in [...]
David Thompson (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
This is rather marvellous. A wearable paper craft self-portrait by Eric Testroete. Do click to embiggen. Assembly instructions are included so you could always build your own. And then go shopping. See also: Bert Simons.
David Thompson (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Heather Mac Donald on racial quotas in school discipline. Schools that suspend or expel Hispanic and black students at higher rates than white students will now get a visit from a district “Equity Team” and will be expected to remedy...
ASIFA - Hollywood Animation Archive (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Before we get to today's post, a couple of announcements... We will begin deleting the earlier posts in this series next week, so if you haven't downloaded them yet, do it now. Also, we have only 15 sets of the Zim Cartooning Course left. We may not be able to get more copies before Christmas, so if you hope to have them under your tree, order now . Thanks! This is the tenth of twenty posts where...
David Thompson (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Readers may recall Phil Wolstenholme’s ongoing digital photography project Wide Area Network, in which Sheffield’s surrounding countryside is writ large in a series of enormous, eerily detailed prints. Aesthetes among you may be interested in Wolstenholme’s first book of photographic...
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