Xmas Art Fair and Lucky Skip - Sat 27th Nov (2-6 pm)
If anyone’s at a loose end this weekend please feel free to come along to the Cecil Court Christmas Fair (Saturday 27th November, 2-6 pm), a short walk from Leicester Square tube station, London. The fair sees the launch of Tenderproduct’s new print space - a basement area featuring a brand new collection of books, limited edition artist prints and original artist drawings and sculptures.
Although my new Swirly Skull prints aren’t yet ready (hopefully they’ll be available in time for Christmas), my Spidey Pods prints will be for sale at the launch. However, if you would like to buy a print from me at the ‘direct from the artist price’ feel free to get in touch at waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk. They are hand pulled, 3 colour, screen prints on acid-free, archival paper. The paper size is 58.6 cm x 54.2 cm (image 38.7 x 39.4 cm). Every print is signed and numbered (being from a maximum edition of 300). And if you would like to get your hands on one, my ‘commission-free’ price is £100 (around 33% off the usual gallery and shop price), unframed.
To find out about the inspiration behind the print check out the original Spidey Pods sketch on my Oodles of Doodles blog.
Tenderproduct’s print space launch also coincides with Garudio Studiage’s Lucky Skip. A hand made artist skip full of wrapped goodies direct from Garudio Studuiage and tenderproduct: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO GET FOR JUST ONE POUND? An excellent way to kick of the Festive season, Garudio Studiage’s Lucky Skip will provide Cecil Court visitors with an afternoon of delight and surprises.
The Salvation Army Brass band will add to the Court’s festive mood by playing some Christmas Carols. Tenderproduct will be serving sweets and hot drinks to keep you warm as you take your lucky dip in the skip.
As well as myself, other artists participating in the Tenderproduct launch include: Janne Malmros, Junko Otake, James Irwin, Irene Pérez Hernández, Dan Arnold, Reena Makwana, Joseph Whitney, Katy Binks, Lizzie Cannon, Rachel Gannon, Tomasz Goli, Hannah Waldron, Akiko Ban, Glyn Walton, Nicko Straniero, Jacob Love, Mimi Leung, Sally Spinks, Lisa Slominski, Jeremy Wood, JL Murtaugh, Nicholas Phillips and Luzelle van der Westhuizen.
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Karen and I watched Oprah's Favorite Things 2010 the other day
The Saturday Night Live parody almost isn't an SNL parody so much as an SNL reenactment [sorry, no high quality versions online]:
RCA No-longer Secret 2010
Number 411 (Jellyscuttle). Quite a few people worked this one out because it’s a copy of one of my quick-fire drawings.
This tentacle orifice box pencil sketch which was bought by Mr Adam Stone (one of the many dedicated front line RCA enthusiasts who braved the cold weather and camped out for the opening) was number 701 in the show.
Like the previous drawing, this orifice box sketch (number 2002) was probably quite easy to work out as being one of mine, especially if you’ve look at my new series of sculptures.
Number 2441 is a follow up piece to last year’s Love Is card – and features one of the same creatures. A friend told me that they thought the Love Is drawing seemed cynical so I thought I’d up the ante a little with this one.
I drew this winged torpedo one, number 605, after I got back from viewing an exhibition by a Russia artist in Shoreditch. In the show the artist (whose name I shamefully can’t remember) had made a model submarine that travelled up and down a massive water-filled Perspex tube that ran the length of the gallery.
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Game Releases Week Recap
- Sonic Colors (Wii, DS)
- Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Limited Edition (Wii, PC, PS3, Xbox 360)
- Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (Regular and Limited) (PS3, Xbox 360)
- Xbox 360 Controller with Play and Charge Kit [SILVER] - 360
- EA Sports Active 2.0 Bundle (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (PC, Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, DS)
- DanceDanceRevolution Bundle [MOVE Compatible] - PS3
- DanceDanceRevolution Bundle - Wii
- Michael Jackson The Experience - Wii
- Zumba Fitness: Join the Party (Xbox 360, PS3, Wii)
- Game Party: In Motion [Kinect hardware required] - 360
- Deca Sports Freedom [Kinect hardware required] - 360
- 999: 9 Hours, 9 People, 9 Doors - DS
- Apache Air Assault (PS3, Xbox 360)
- Create (Wii, Xbox 360, PS3)
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This one took quite a long time to construct as I wanted to cobble it together from multiple bits and pieces – to give it a bit of a Frankenstein’s Monster look. As with most of my box structures, I’m interested in the play between the organic and the geometric. Hopefully this can be seen in the interaction between the carved orifice and the angular interlocking wooden sections.
I’ve only just got round to putting the wheels on it – which is the part that I really look forward to as it gives a piece a sense of completion. However, this one isn’t totally finished yet. I’m working on a smaller cubic box (with an exploded front and back so that you can see straight through it) on stilts, that will sit inside this the sculpture. I’ve already completed the main structure of the inner box (which has now inspired me to make a series of them as sculptural pieces in their own right. This is one of the problems with sculpture – each piece can inspire multiple spin-offs) but before it is ready to install I intend to cover it in a thick coat of rusty nails, similar to my Nail Box sculpture.
This is me conducting rigorous structural integrity tests (don’t try this at home kids).
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RCA Secret Artists Party
Ooh - I can see one of my cards here.
WANTED - New Studio Space
I’ve not been having a great deal of luck lately on the studio front. After just a few months in my new space in Whitechapel I find out that the building is to be redeveloped and we all have to be out by the end of December.
So if anyone out there knows of any suitable East London (Shoreditch, Bethnal Green, Hackney, Whitechapel etc) space that I can use as a studio please get in touch. Anything over 130 square feet would be perfect. Here’s my email address – waynechisnall@yahoo.co.uk . Cheers.
Maru the cat tries to fit in oddly-shaped boxes
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I imagine if I would have opted in to the newsletter, I would have gotten a "welcome to our newsletter" email
RCA Secret Time Again
To anyone that doesn’t know about The Royal College of Art’s annual RCA Secret postcard show, here’s the info (lifted direct from their website – cos I’m too slack to type it out myself) –
RCA Secret is a unique annual exhibition and sale of original postcard-sized art, made by professional artists, designers and illustrators, plus current postgraduate students at the Royal College of Art.
THE SECRET
The postcards are displayed anonymously and are signed on the reverse, so that the artist remains a secret until after the cards are purchased and their signature is revealed on the back.
THE ARTISTS
Over 1,000 artists have donated work to RCA Secret this year, including Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, Yoko Ono, Jake Chapman, Olafur Eliasson, Yinka Shonibare, Sir Peter Blake, John Baldessari, fashion designers Manolo Blahnik, Mary Quant and Sir Paul Smith, animator Nick Park, photographer David Bailey, film maker Mike Leigh and designers Ron Arad and James Dyson, as well as up-and-coming students and graduates from the Royal College of Art.
THE EXHIBITION
The exhibition opens on Friday 12 November, then from Sunday 14 November until Friday 19 November, 11am-6pm, with a late opening on Thursday 18 November until 9pm. Please note we are CLOSED on Saturday 13 November due to Government security restrictions for the Festival of Remembrance. Free Admission. The postcards will also be available for viewing on this website from Friday 12 November.
THE SALE
The cards are sold to the public at a one-day sale on Saturday 20 November, from 8am-6pm. Each postcard costs £45 and a maximum of four cards may be purchased per person. Postcards will only be available to purchase in person at the sale. It is recommended that you prepare a list of cards in advance, as the exhibition will not be open for viewing on the day of the sale.
You must have a Collector's Number to purchase a card. Click here to register.
THE RAFFLE
There is a raffle for a chance to win a place in the first fifty people at the front of the sale queue. Raffle tickets will be on sale at the exhibition (with a maximum of 10 tickets per person) until an hour before closing on each day.
WHERE WE ARE
Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Tube: South Kensington/High Street Kensington
Buses: 9, 10, 52, 452
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Kinect blankets a room in points of light
If you look at a room with night vision goggles on, you can actaully see how it has blanketed the room in little points that it uses to map out the room.
Joystiq has a link to a video of what this looks like in action.
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Lawyer threats
"Every time I open the closet, I hit my head," she said
"I know your work order was put in, and they're not always able to stop projects they're working on right away which is why we say everything will be fixed within 24 business hours as long as we don't need to order a part."
"They were at my neighbor's apartment, I don't know why they didn't just come by then." [I later looked this up: this, as far as I can tell, isn't true]
"I'm sure they'll come by to fix it today."
"I don't want to have to file suit against your apartments because every time I open my closet I hit my head."
"They'll be by to fix it today."
"Alright, thank you."
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Someone made a typewriter that plays the text-based adventure, Zork
A new way to interact with fiction from Jonathan M. Guberman on Vimeo.
Gone Postal
This is the third piece in the set – BEFORE I added to it.
This is the third piece in the set – AFTER my addition (note the naughty tentacle).
This is the fourth piece in the set – BEFORE I added to it.
This is the fourth piece in the set – AFTER my addition. I’m not quite sure where the long armed egg thing came from – I think it was getting late and I was getting tired.
The basic premise of the project is that Adam sends out sets of four 18 x 18 cm paintings/collages (that he has started) to various artists around the world. These artists then add to the works and post them onto another artist in the group, who does likewise. Once an artist feels the work is complete they return to Adam. Eventually, when all the works have been returned, we’ll have a small show somewhere and exhibit the end results. The artists currently taking part in the project are Tony Deleon in New York, Dale Devereux Barker in Ipswich, Katie Waller in Brighton, Larry Crittenden in Texas, Irene Runayker in Eastbourne, Carmen Dominguez in California, Kunigunda Dineikaite in Lithuania, Saara Konttinen in Helsinki, Peter Scribetta in New York, Adam Monaghan in Finland and myself here in London.
Face made out of board game pieces
Hope that he had fun putting them all back in the different boxes they came from. Made by Els Timmermans
Breakups over time
Taken from facebook data. Check out the pit right on Christmas Day
From the Atlantic from here. Via Tim.
People reading this on my site (instead of RSS feed), sorry that this image breaks the tables. I'll try to post new something soon to fix it so it's not covering up all my links and stuff.
EA SCORES ON PENALTY KICK BUT MISSES THE FREE THROW
EA has announced that Fifa 11 has sold close to 8 million units to retailers worldwide since its release. "Our soccer game, FIFA 11, is breaking worldwide sales record," EA COO John Schappert told investors during an earnings call last night. "The game has sold in almost eight million units to date, up more than 20 per cent over last year's great performance. However, the news wasn't all good for EA. EA's John Schappert also confirmed during a recent investor's call that "we have elected to cancel NBA Elite 11." All NBA Elite preorders with us here at VGP will be cancelled and anyone who has prepaid will be refunded. Hopefully, EA can get it right next year but thankfully we have the great NBA 2K11 to keep us going this basketball season.