SmashingMagazine has this list of 60 Concert Posters from 10 Amazing Artists. The spectrum of art featured seems to be pretty narrow; still can’t say I really enjoy 90s graphic design!

For $15 (60 x 25c), you could get these all printed on a 7×4 digital photo processor and make a big canvas of the things (5 high, 6 across?)

Edit : OK, this is a bit sneaky. I’ve been hunting around and found NO easily available high quality images that you could really print. This site sells actual posters (here’s a link to a pink floyd poster for $815) but you cannot save the image that is displayed in the preview box. However, if you ‘view source’ (Command-U on a mac in Safari) and scroll down you’ll see this line :

And, of course, “http://images.wolfgangsvault.com/images/catalog/detail/TSY680816-PO.jpg” is the location of the actual image used for previewing. This one is only 480 pixels high, which means can be printed about 2.5 inches high at reasonable quality (200dpi). 4 inches wouldn’t be much of a stretch.

If you open the JPG above in a new window/tab, you can just replace the ‘TSY680816-PO‘ part with the name of another poster you are looking at (found in the address of the page).

You could also simply do a directory listing of all the images in the detail folder on the webserver, but this crashed firefox for me - maybe there’s too many. There is also a lame watermark in the corner of all the images :(

I don’t have any useful updates about Perth and stuff, so here are two three things I got recently. (more…)

It’s pretty late, but this is so deserving of posting. The old Arcane Bookshop has been taken over by The Intercollective, who aim to reinvigorate empty, unused (wasted) urban spaces throughout the city. Their first project is SITE FICTION in the Old Arcane Bookshop until 3rd Oct (opp Brass Monkey on William St).
There are performances on every other night and changing temporary installations which greet me each time my inner-city bus crawls past there in the morning. How refreshing to get a fresh dose of public art every morn!
Basically their aim is to get passerby’s interested and interacting with these empty spaces. It’s all very topical for this period of land shortage! How cute is the photo of Claire above interacting with a common face in Northbridge! No amount of colour/light correction will do it justice!

The blog is great, and documents how hard it is to get your hand on land in the inner-city, even disused, empty space.
Here is a small smatter of some of the cool stuff they’ve already done. They are a dedicated bunch, a stroll down William St on any given evening might uncover some surprises… head down! Check out the Blog for more updates.

Playing with light and space.

An installation involving cut hands and salvaged bus shelter glass has an ethereal effect.

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It’s ARTRAGE festival time again and this year ARTRAGE celebrates its 25th birthday!  In celebration, the aptly named and freakin’ HUGE SILVER Festival (link!) will be taking place from the 16th Oct- 9th Nov. Seriously kids, it’s just going to be an awesome few weeks. I love how this festival kicks away arcahic traditions, with not one ounce of ‘Silver’ in its design theme. Instead replaced by the colourful works of Rose Skinner’s (of previous post fame).

Check out the website for the complete programme. Better still, get your hands on the real thing, a beautiful full colour pamphlet to hold in your hands and to cuddle at night. When it’s all over, show the bitterness in your heart by pulling it apart and cutting it up.

Here is a selection of the banners used in the website. Nice… real nice….

There is no more… because the websites are so fresh, they speak for themselves. Navigate and fill your diary! Call me if we want to get a crew going.

This’ll be great - FLEXHAUX is doing a Windows on Williams piece, too - so keep your eyes peeled. - Jeremy

This thing sucks.

Amanda turned 21 last Saturday so - completely contrary to her instruction - we threw her a surprise party!

From Amanda’s Surprise Party Album

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I finally got my camera in the same place and time dimension as this cat-themed art.
This stuff has been popping up all over the place (3 at the back of the Bakery alone!). I have no idea who it is, but it’s super rad. Best paste-ups I’ve seen for a while in Perth. I mean, Cat Copy? KILLS ME!

Anymore sightings, please post away! I want to find them,… and talk to them about cats.

Look on! For close-ups… Yeah you know you like it.
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I just read this article - Color Photos From the World War I Era, written by Alan Bellows From DamnInteresting.com. (The site has been hammered by Digg which is why, I think, the stylesheet doesn’t load - but you can still read the content fine)

Here’s an excerpt :

“Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii embarked on a photographic survey of his homeland and captured hundreds of photos in full, vivid color. His photographic plates were black and white, but he had developed an ingenious photographic technique which allowed him to use them to produce accurate color images.

He accomplished this with a clever camera of his own design, which took three black and white photos of a scene in rapid sequence, each though a differently colored filter. His photographic plates were long and slender, capturing all three images onto the same plate, resulting in three monochrome images which each had certain color information filtered out.

Sergei was then able to use a special image projector to project the three images onto a screen, each directly overlapping the others, and each through the appropriately colored filter.”

Damn those ruskies! How clever of Sergei. There’s a page here (Library of Congress) with a few more images, which I assume have been digitally restored back to perfection. Really amazing - have a look.

A friend pointed this out to me. I’m very into lightbulbs.. (Clicky Enlargey)

They are, apparently, repurposed lightbulbs, salvaged from bins (whatever…) and the set above costs in the order of US$650. I asked how they’re fixed to the base - apparently, using neodymium magnets (’scary’ magnets) which is quite clever. He might try and make one, so we thought about perhaps using a dense liquid (or even pouring in a molten metal like lead) to keep them stable - because you don’t really want them rolling away from you…
While the concept is great (though I’m not sure where I’d put it..) I’m not sure if I like the execution - I know from experience (pulling apart lightbulbs myself, okay?) how fragile and thin the glass is, and how difficult it is to separate from the base. I also can’t see any mechanism to pull the wick through. Should it be classified as art? Do you like it?
By the way, there’s 64 left (out of 70) so get buying.

Edit : Oh look :) (They don’t seem to realise I’m being gently critical)