One from the archive here: It’s rare for old blog posts here to attract many comments*, but Foreign Report: Pixacao – a report on Street Art from Argentina by Gordon Carmichael – has attracted a few of late, one which is in Portugese (I think, give it a go in google translate), and another of which offers a link to the video above, a really interesting segment from Style Wars. Thanks to Gordon for writing what has turned out to be the sleeper ‘hit’ of the Vis Com blog.
* please complete the “or new posts” or “only when you and lizzie comment on your own posts” jokes at your leisure.
For anyone who missed Greg Philo‘s recent talk at the CCA about his new book ‘More Bad News from Israel,’ here’s some footage of another talk he did on the same subject in London. The Glasgow Media Group’s website is an excellent resource for any students interested in Media Bias and the impact the Mass Media has on the Public’s Perception of Current Affairs.
News from the Save the GSA Technicians Facebook Group:
“More redundancies are taking place in GSA and we are about to loose yet more technicians. We need to show our support. A few of us have been chatting about ways in which we as current GSA students can express how important the technicians are to the work we make and the quality of the school in general. The situation as it stands is crap. Obviously cuts are affecting everyone, but our technicians are already spread very thin. If we show our support and show how important technicians are to us, then maybe the school will give them the recognition they deserve and find other ways to make the cuts.
So, the plan is two fold.
a) It has been suggested that over install week we all wear a t-shirt with I (HEART) TECHNICIANS written on it. We can organise this individually and just paint onto old t-shirts. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy but if we all do it then hopefully it will make the point
b) In SEA we are making a catalogue of our work. We discussed getting a blurb written by one of the tutors. How about if we write something in support of the technicians? I think I speak for the majority of us when I say that most of our work for degree show would not have been possible with out the support of our wonderful technicians somewhere along the way, either in a big or small way.
Any more suggestions are very welcome!! Please take part in supporting the technicians and spend ten mins one evening this weekend making yourself (and your helpers) a t-shirt.
Seeing as the Rapture didn’t occur on Saturday, you might want to tune in to Adam Curtis’s new series, ‘All Watched Over by Machines of Love and Grace‘ – What I hope will be an entertaining, insightful, and probably eclectic look at the politics, culture, society and technology we’re currently immersed in. All this on the back of a weekend where Twitter has been at the centre of a legal storm over privacy, and the geographical impotence of national laws has been tested, firstly by the aforementioned micro-blogging site (or rather the users of) and secondly by a shrewd Scottish Newspaper.
Conflating the issues of ‘freedom of speech’ here with the widely reported use of Twitter and other social media sites in the Arab-Spring would devalue the latter and elevate the former, but they possibly feature somewhere on the same spectrum.
Meanwhile, closer to home, super-injunctions at GSA prevent me from telling you that the Head of ———– was recently seen ——— a ——— with a learning outcome.
It’s Nice That have been in touch about 2 themes they’re running on their website; Student of the Month and Graduates of 2011. If you’re interested in having your work profiled on the site please get in touch with Bryony at ‘It’s Nice That’ [bryony -at- itsnicethat.com] with a folio of your work or link to your website.
Hi all – I’ve written a bit about the upcoming 2011 Degree Shows here: http://bit.ly/DS11Intro (mainly inspired by finding Edwin Pickstone and Neil McGuire in The State Bar at unsociable hours). That hackneyed intro aside, the purpose is to help promote and share your events, work and more on Central Station. We’ve also partnered up with a-n’s degreesunedited, so it’s a good opportunity to get some more exposure. Look forward to seeing your work, reviews, recommendations and more. More soon, Emlyn
Red Tape is (I believe) the latest in the ongoing series of student-curated discussions (operating under various different names and guises) coming out of Communication Art and Design at the RCA.
More from Paleofuture, set against this more recent exploration of tablet news and magazines from Berg (bottom). (The Berg piece has featured on the VC blog before, but not together with this interesting predecessor). N.B. there are some online queries about the originality of the 1994 clip, but it seems to be genuine.
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