Mishmash

Currently (apart from the new series of channel 4's Utopia) I am obsessed with the idea of combination. Mostly this rears its ugly head in the form of papers I write for my degree at Wolverhampton University that focus on Applied Arts and interdisciplinarity but anything that seeks out a kind of cultural mishmash is something I am drawn towards.

The "digital taxidermy" by some magic internet person referring to themselves as quebectango or the beautiful paintings/stylistic abominations by Cesar Santos are artworks that have recently made their way into my internet reading allowing me to make this kind of observation.

In a world where nothing seems original (simply because nothing develops without context) combinations seem attractive to me, and the more honest and blatent, the better.

Artistically Challenged

http://instagram.com/actheseries
http://actheseries.com/

Just keeping these links here for myself, somebody made a comedy series for instagram based on the New York art scene <3

http://www.imaginaryfriendstheatre.com/p/no-hopers.html

Also this film sounds cool. I'm enjoying work based on the post-university slump at the moment but I'm not sure if it's because I'm trying to morbidly peer into the future or because I have watched a lot of people leave education fresh and ready to take on the world, and show up a few months later depressed and poor and it's good to see that disparity recognised.

Here's a picture of some of the Jamaica-based batik wall hangings from Kemball School in Blurton, Stoke-On-Trent where I have been helping out the Cultural Sisters this week. Even though my semester is over at university, I still really enjoy helping out there every week and it's great to have direction and a sense of purpose.