February 15th 2008
Friday, February 15th, 2008
the horses for courses issue
I went to the Breaking the Rules exhibition at the British Library recently. I wasn’t that impressed by it, weirdly. I think it was largely to do with the curation, which didn’t grab me at all. The flow of the show didn’t draw me in to the avant garde project and seemed to be lacking in focus. But my ambivalence was perhaps also due in no small part to the fact that I’d seen a lot of what was there in books and on websites. Or at least I’d seen similar.
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Category context | Tags: Tags: aura, Breaking the Rules, De Kooning, derrida, moma, reproduction, saussure, Vermeer, what is digital art?,
February 4th 2008
Monday, February 4th, 2008
the thinking aloud issue
Just had a quick fiddle with flash experimenting with a mini idea I had earlier. i've shape tweened all from times new roman to arial and back again. it works reasonably smoothly. some of the other fonts I tried (a rough looking calligraphy font called gutenberg textura and current flavour of the happy home catalogue, century gothic) I couldn't get to tween so well.
anyway, here it is.
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Category thinking aloud | Tags: Tags: ambiguities, butter, derrida, differance, difference, fonts, lurpak trumpet player, saussure, semiotics, trace, visual thesaurus, wikipedia,