The Museum of Everything
Me and Lou went to The Museum of Everything the other day up near Primrose Hill (bloody jolly nice area as well you know), which was ace. It's a temporary gallery of sorts for 'Outsider Art', so basically lots of people who were or had been in psychiatric wards and mental asylums drawings, paintings and objets de art accompanied by introductions written by contemporary cultural/artistic types- Ed Ruscha, Jarvis Cocker, etc. As I imagine is the case with alot of outsider art, the context and lives of the artists where as interesting as the work itself. Also it's worth mentioning that alot of the works had a scale of spectacle about them- a dedication of immense amounts of time spent which adds to their effect- be it either immensely detailed drawings (they provided magnifying glasses) or the physical size of the pieces- one triptych was about like 6 or 7 metres tall,- or the number of similar pieces displayed, repetition seemed to play a fair part and coming from my collections point of view I reckon that the cumulative effect was very much a factor in the museum. (There was a nice moment where i heard a guy on the telephone saying 'I'm still at the Museum' which I thought was great, I think the distinction between a art gallery and a museum of curiosities is an important one- for some reason i feel closer to museums than galleries.) It didn't feel like a typical art space either- they museum guided you first up some steps and then through a series of small rooms and corridors- here was one of my favourite collections: Russian military enthusiast Aleksander Lobanov, 
but the route then rounded a corner and you were standing at the top of some steps overlooking a massive double height space where the walls were dripping with paintings and drawings- the space was a warehouse like space too and the structure they'd erected to hang things on was brilliant- there were more rooms downstairs and at the end a place to get a cup of tea for a donation- brilliant. The graphics for the show were also spot on- the whole space thing was excellent and at the moment it's only on until the end of December so get down there.
Ted but not Ted
Found this conference called Lift- long story short- it seems to have videos of lectures/talks given by interesting guys in tech vs. design areas. James Auger has got a talk so you know... I've not worked my way through all of them yet and the site is a bit crap to be honest but it seems like a good resource. Give us a shout if anyone finds any gems. Check it here: Lift Videos
Allotment Away!
So we (Lizzy and me), started the allotment project this weekend- we just went round some allotments and a local archive- was good- I'm excited about this bad boy- I'm not going to post everything here I don't think. I've made a separate and purely functional blog for it- over here: Allotment Project Blog- I'm hoping to put all and everything that comes to us up there- but I'll probably post the highlights here. Mostly images and bullet thoughts I guess. Allotment Project Blog.
Happy Halloween
A Painting What I Done
Them Thangs
My new favourite blog- I know, I know, another blog. But seriously if I could repost every picture on that site here, I would. It houses some of the sexiest photography I've ever seen- like real achingly beautiful photos. Then it goes and mixes in a healthy amount of guns, textures and generally inspiring intriguing content. Check it out: here
In B Flat
Incredible and ambitious project- I think it's Lou's third year dream. I've seen similar things before, and although this one is made from submissions rather than found videos, the effect is really brilliant. Makes for actual listenable and more than that enjoyable and beautiful compositions. Go there: here
