Sorry for the late notice, but coming up tonight…
Zhang Liang (Ray) and Wang Ning
U Must Be Funking Joking!
Studio 41, Glasgow
11:00 – 6:00pm, 18 – 21 May, 2013
Opening night: 6:00pm, Friday, 17 May
Campaign to Save the Kinning Park Complex (Artist Studio and Community Centre Complex on the Sth Side).
More info on the Kinning Park Website: http://www.kinningparkcomplex.org/
KPC Important update. Please read and Act. On 15 April, without any prior notice or discussion, City Property on behalf of Glasgow City Council sent us a Notice of Removal telling us to be out of the building by 27 May 2013. The first thing to say is – Don’t panic! We won’t be leaving. But please do take action.
For the last 15 months we have tried to talk to the Council / City Property, funders, other agencies and councillors about how we all might work together to secure the long term future of Kinning Park Complex as a community facility.
We are a strong community making good use of the building and intend to do so for the long term. We have written to City Property asking for urgent clarification of their intentions and asked our local political representatives for an urgent meeting. We will update on progress with that next week.
The number of building users has grown again enormously in the past 2 years and that is fabulous. We need now to ask you all to make your voice heard in support of KPC.
This City Property letter reminds us that despite the huge efforts made by many in the community to keep this building open and in daily use there is still a long way to go to secure our long-term future and fund the major repairs needed.
The main thing to remember is that it is business as usual at KPC. Future bookings are secure. Please continue to make bookings and conduct all business as usual.
But please act to support us – MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.
Please:
Contact local councillors, MP, MSP and MEP to ask them to support our call for City Property to withdraw this Notice and meet with us to discuss the situation (see contact list at end of this message).
Contact City Property directly. Ask them to withdraw the Notice. Feel free to raise any questions or thoughts with them – eg. you might also want to ask them why, while they claim to be the new landlord, they are not prepared to spend a penny on the essential repair work?
Sign-up as a supporter of KPC so that we can provide more evidence of the numbers of people who use the building. Please also encourage all of the people who attend your classes or events and all other building users and friends to sign-up as well.
Below is our new Supporter of KPC sign-up form. Please add your contact details and return it to us.
Become a KPC Supporter
Kinning Park Complex is an independent community centre, used for dance classes, theatre projects, benefits advice, art and music events, kids’ activities and much more.
We would like to be able to keep you up to date with what’s happening around the building. We’d also like to be able to include your name in a list of KPC Supporters.
Please sign up below. We need all the details if possible.
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I want to be a registered supporter of KPC
Name:
Address:
Post Code:
Email:
Tel:
Your name will be added to our Supporters page – no other info is shared.
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Please fill in your details and email this section back to us at info@kinningparkcomplex.org
Please use the subject title: Another KPC Supporter
Here at Vis Com HQ, we get a fair amount of spam, but occasionally get some real gems. This is the latest to add to the list:
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Coffee Chocolate & Tea, (a friendly local coffee shop that help contribute to keeping me awake during the working week, and which is run by vis-com-des person Kotryna Ula Kiliulyte) are looking for 3 different designs to produce as greeting cards to be sold and used as promotional material. They say; “We’re looking for 1 coffee related, 1 tea related and 1 chocolate inspired design. The themes can be interpreted very loosely and produced in a variety of techniques, from typography to staged photography.”
“We will pick three winners, one for each theme, and will award them with 6 month freshly roasted coffee subscription (different single origin coffee bean every month along with tasting notes) or a luxurious tea hamper of similar value (generous amounts of handmade truffles included in both!). Your name will obviously be stated on a back of a card.”
Extended deadline – 1st of June. Submit to wakeup@coffeechocolateandtea.com
BlackMagic will shortly release a new affordable video camera. It is uses micro 4/3 lenses. A sample of the quality is in this video above. you can see more about the pocket sized HD camera at;
http://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/blackmagicpocketcinemacamera/
This short was shot with the The “MōVI” – a digital 3-axis gyro-stabilized handheld camera gimbal. The completely silent device weighs under 3.5 pounds bare and can be operated solo, or with the help of a second “gimbal” operator with a joystick to pull off some incredible moves. To read more about it go to: wp.me/pjtZ0-2a4 The resulting video from this shoot is at:vimeo.com/62917185
Estimated to cost around $15,000
To download extra features go to:
vimeo.com/ondemand/movi
“Dedbullets is a software construct. A generative identity. He reads my blog, and my twitter feed, and any other textual content we point him at. He munches it, remixes it and spits it back out in the form of tweets. For extra authenticity he has, at times, been allowed access to posts I haven’t made public, so occasionally quotes content I’ve never before shared. If his tweets sound like the kind of thing I’d say, it’s because they are the kind of thing I’d say.”
via Social Networking With The Living Dead – Matt Pearson (@zenbullets).
John Beagles gives an interesting talk on BANK - an artists collective which used print, publishing and some of the cruder techniques of graphic design (and advertising) to subvert the art world and creative capital. I particularly remember them for a excellent headline mentioning ‘Nicholas Stoat-ghoster’ (lampooning Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, as a paranormally-fixated detector of the ghosts of stoats, or something like that, at least that’s how I remember it).
In my new role as self-appointed events organiser I feel that I should take this opportunity to advertise some upcoming events.
Firstly, Myself and Lydia Brownlee are having a ‘partial book launch’ in Aye-Aye books at the CCA this friday, at 6pm.
Secondly, I’m doing something midway between Djing and holding a record sale at The Art School Union this Saturday, 8 – 12.
And finally, comrade Kieran Startup and myself are hosting a table tennis tournament, incorporating the first iteration of a live projection installation that we’ve been working on, at Good Press in Mono on Thursday the 2nd of May at 8pm.
That is all.
For all those struggling fourth years that need some type inspiration look no further!
Some of these are very nice and extremely well executed for free fonts. Enjoy…
*TBTB or ‘Too Busy To Blog’ is a symptom of modern life whereby sufferers experience a chronic build-up of hyperlinks that can only be dealt with by a long, disjointed and dissociative blog-post. The following are all reference points and links that have come up through, or as a result of, studio discussions over the last term or so. The approach borrows a little from the excellent things.
We begin with objects that are ‘alive‘. Pipilotti Rist. The Form of the Book, Book. Facebook’s social graph and the exploitation of ‘weak-links‘, (and an amazing resource of freely available critical writing on the subject). Danah Boyds early, but influential essay on myspace, facebook and class divisions. “If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product“, which echoes something Serra said. Unlike Us?
Elsewhere in the world, a dataset speaks a thousand words, and we can (thanks to Paula Scher) track the deterioration of a blog comment thread.
To architecture, the power of the manifesto, and the politics (to be viewed with the utmost criticality) of ‘progress’. Ant Farms, ‘fake’ villages (and more); Clip/Stamp/Fold, and the Fountainhead in 5 seconds.
Live surfaces, media surfaces. Augmented reality (think ‘clinic brief‘). Reality reality (think ‘everything else‘). Razzle Dazzle, and the New Aesthetic. Pixel Sorting for Dummies.
No-brow culture (E4?) and cutting through the clutter. “A brand is nothing, wanting to be everything“. Unexpected Creativity.
A long way from heterotopia? The anti-library, and Benjamin, unpacking. Perspectives on reading. Information Landscapes (of 1994). The Library of Babel. Unreliable narrators. Authentic translation.
Meanwhile, ballet meets synchronised swimming, or fashion? And movement, underwater. (‘Gorgeous’ say CraveOnline, ‘Sally worked on this’ say gsavis.com/blog)
Laika, Neutral, Univers; Typeface as programme (my machines). Printing as process, (and just-in-the-nick-of-time). The computational and generative, meets InDesign. Calligraphic lettering. And this article by Robin Kinross offers some interesting insights about the work of Wim Crouwel.
An Open School might look a bit like this.
A Feral Studio are delighted to be contributing to a small part of Wim Crouwel – a graphic odyssey. We’re helping to host an opening night panel discussion with the exhibitions curators: Tony Brook and Margaret Cubbage. Tickets are available here, not many left.
There is a Kickstarter now set up to raise funds for this years Com Des degree show. There are a number of Com-Des pieces of work on offer, plus the added feel-good factor of supporting a good thing.
(Due to a seemingly innocuous, yet ultimately catastrophic resolution to not look at the internet as much and to ‘get out more’, I failed to notice that Michael has already posted this story earlier. I’m going to leave it here though, as a warning to others, that if you take your eye off the internet for a moment, bad things can happen).
GSA Vis Com students are currently contributing to 1913 Rite of Spring 100 Years On including MONAD. The performance is on the 18th May, and tickets are available via that link there. The project blog documenting some of the work is here.
Those of us unlucky enough to be in 4th year and nearing the end of our time here in ComDes need your help! We have a Kickstarter up to raise money for degree show so we can have fun making an interesting catalogue and putting together an amazing show before we depart. We would greatly appreciate any donations you can offer.
Find the page here.
Tweets, reblogs, carrier pigeons or anything else to get the word out there would also be fantastic.
Thanks!
Keep forgetting to post this but I am finally getting around to it! The Dutch just do things better than we do (as Mikey will attest to)… And if you want to see pretty much anything from the Netherlands from the comfort of your own screen, now you can! The digital archives of 100 Dutch institutions have been collected here. Pretty easy to get lost/spend hours looking and weird things.
Thanks to Sam and everyone at Suite 2/2 for putting me onto this…
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