SFX Sci-Fi Awards

SFX are shouting about their Sci-Fi awards and what's more they're giving us (Us! have they run mad?!) the opportunity to vote on it...check it out: http://awards2011.sfx.co.uk/

How to figure out the space/time continuum

Why is there never enough time? I'm sure many people have asked this question thousands of times before, but as far as I know, no-one has come up with a satisfactory answer.

Let's face it, it can hardly be beyond the wit of man to fully grasp the mysterious complexities of the space time continuum - we came up with velcro after all. Frankly, it's a bit of a let down.

Even a rudementary grasp of primary school problem solving can get you pretty far down the track on this one - break the problem down into bits. Seems obvious, but bear with me.

Space / time continuum. Firstly, ditch the 'continuum' bit. I have no idea what it means, I'm pretty sure it's just there to make it all sound too complicated to deal with and it's therefore irrelevant. So, let's go with 'space / time'. I'm not designing a frikkin' people-carrier here so why am I bothered about space? I'm not, so I'm ditching that too.

Now we have something we can work with - 'time'.

Right, astro-quantum-temporal science dudes, I've done my bit, it's over to you.

FS

Something contemporary...well, at the time anyway

Here's something I did a while ago as part of an exhibition I had in Bristol.


I guess sunsets are a perennial subject for artists and why should I be any different?!

Actually, they aren't so tricky I guess although when you see a painting of one it's easy to think "what the heck is that? There was never a sunset with colours like that...!" But the bizarre thing is, if you take the time to look, the colours are often incredible - more varied, vibrant and intense than you would believe if you weren't actually looking at it.

Anyhow, I'll probably do some more sunsets - why not eh?

Paid work for New Internationalist magazine

Hey, guys. Here's an opportunity to russle up some visionary art of a zero carbon world for New Internationalist mag - I'll post this on DA too so more people can see it.

Contact is Jess Worth, the mags co-editor: jess@newint.org You can also Tweet her @jessnewint

I know some of my top artists could nail a brief like this...I'll send to you people directly...

Rolf Harris exhibition

At the weekend I visited an exhibition of Rolf Harris' work at The Art Room in Taunton (that's in Somerset, UK in case you were wondering).

Like everyone else my age, I remember Rolf slapping paint on a huge canvas with a 4" brush and creating the most amazing images live on TV in the 70's. Since then, I've seen quite a bit of his work in various places but never actually got to see an exhibition of his work 'in the flesh'.

This great little exhibition has some really nice pieces from Rolf and even includes an original ink sketch and an original oil. The guys in the gallery are really friendly and were up for a chat when we visited so if you get the chance, head for Taunton and check this out.

You can get directions and other details here: http://www.artroomgalleries.co.uk/

Back to the grindstone

I've been on holiday for a couple of weeks so no posts...sorry about that.

Actually, we went to Germany and whilst it was great to see our friends as always, I realised that they are all about function - which is fine of course but they seem to see the aesthetic as very much a secondary consideration (if a consideration at all in fact) so I figured I'd cheer us up with a look at some cool art.

Here's a great little portfolio on Imagine FX's website (the greatest art magazine of all time incidentally...)

http://community.imaginefx.com/fxpose/ashess_portfolio/default.aspx