Symbolics

oldest web page, check it on wikipedia!!

Duchamp,Duchamp,Duchamp,**

From reading the notes in the essay on tout fait issue three."Why the Hatrack is and/or is not Readymade: with Interactive Software, Animations, and Videos for Readers to Explore

i.e what is a ready made? well a “ready made” is a ready made word that was used in the garment industry that Duchamp used when talking to certain people, to describe what he had been working on. The ready made is a “brain fact”*, it exists in multiples, both in 2d and 3d forms in the outside world, i.e drawings and sculptures. These have been made at different points and times, obviously the originals have been lost!!. They relate to the notes he made to accompany the large glass, in which he talks about a new kind of perspective. This is a perspective that relies on movement. The article illustrates that the black and white photograph of the coat rack for example incorporates multiple perspective which have been subtly cut and pasted into the background image of one perspective. So Duchamp was in one of the very first photo shop's manipulating images on multiple layers!! (Always way ahead, always way ahead!! oh shut up!!).....ahmm.....So the article goes on to explain that the top plan and side elevation that Duchamp gave in the notes, which creates a 3d model of the bachelor apparatus from the large glass does not fit correctly with the perspective drawing of it in the large glass. So was Duchamp a shit draughtsman when it came to perspective? Apparently not, computer modelling using the 3D model from the plan and elevation drawings he made shows that the perspective drawing in the large glass is made up of multiple views of the 3D model all combined to create this slightly strained or new perspective of movement and time!!
check it out you all!! I implore you!!! its completely fascinating and pointless at the same time
*what the hell is a brain fact!!!
It only exists in your brain?
**To be chanted like.... rounder, rounder, rounder etc
where is charlie brown?

Dads can draw

I love the marks that dad has made in this Jazz drawing. There is real movement. I think that I would stop and look if I saw these marks on a wall. In places its almost like calligraphy, I like the 21 – 6 that makes up the character on the lefts feet. I don’t think that dad intended them as numbers. Dad spoke about this drawing, which I recorded on the mp3 player, that my wonderful Chloe got me for Christmas. I will try to get the recording on here in the near future.

Collaboration

Big thanks to Dave over at http://www.hackleyspress.com/ once again, for great coverage and shooting skills. Thanks to Tom the partner in crime who's recipes went like hot cakes and who had the vision to get people making pizza, for friends and loved ones. Thanks to Chloe and Freya and Jenny for their support. Also thanks to Selvie for the soundtrack and Jane for the opportunity to show in the bar. Oh yes, thanks to mum, who of course put the icing on the cake. Keep um peeled for further updates on cooking conversations number 2!!

Merchandise

watch this space

cooking conversations 01

I need more power captain

what are we looking at?

Selvie adds the soundtrack

Laminations what you need

The soothing sounds of Chisel number 8

cooking conversations #1

Well, we got all the recipes printed out. Even managed three laminated deluxe editions in colour!! Popped the DVD into the player and sat back. Nothing, just a blue screen with the words no signal written on it. Good start!! After a jiggle of some wires and switches from the technical assistant from the media lab, who kindly agreed to come and have a look, the Film jumped into life and we where off. On the bar stood my miniature wooden easel with the Cooking conversations #1 DVD case, sitting proudly above a folded piece of paper with the words Now Playing written on it. Unfortunately the bar was now pretty empty with a couple of blokes playing pool and a few people scattered around the place. But the film was on and running, and in-between potting balls the blokes playing pool watched. Dave, Jenny and Chloe watched and began to smile in places, I began to smile and take pictures with Dave’s Digital camera.

Everything was going like a dream until the film started to skip, jump and freeze. It even chucked in a few pixel blocks in green scattered across the image. This corruption seemed to just heightened the tension and was actually playing an active part. The DVD player had decided that it was going to show us what it was capable of, and strangely it was pretty cool. At one point the image froze with me kneading the pizza dough and my hand was jitteriness itself, shaking back and fourth in quick succession. We continued to watch in anticipation, I wondered which frozen image would be the last?, Is the DVD gonna right itself, and more importantly how long will it take to do it? The films intended form had long since vanished now as the DVD player decided to jump back to near the beginning of the film before it had finished. It was clear, we would never see the pizza going into the oven. We decided to go out for a cigarette. Back in the bar Sylvie had chosen to put the music back on. The film was still struggling on, but now there was a sound track!! It looked fantastic. Sylvie had really created something and Dave got to work filming the new film with his Digital camera. It looked great, the way the image of somebody making a pizza worked with the sound. More people where in the bar now, and without the sound it was less apparent that the film was going wrong. Now the staccato movements and freezing from the DVD player had its own musical accompaniment. I got a great shot of a bunch of people sitting on the other side of the bar, and we all laughed and smiled at what was going on on the screen. It was out of our hands, we where no longer responsible for what was happening. We where the audience and we where in the dark not knowing when the film would freeze or for how long

pooh e pooh pooh's

Thanks to Sue for the photo