March 2008 Archives

Nice list, but who can possibly rank all the greatest works of art into a top 50? Try something a little easier, like "Top 50 paintings" or "Top 50 works from the 20th Century".

The World's 50 Best Works of Art (and how to see them) - Telegraph

4. Terracotta Army (c220-210 BC) near Xi'an, China Getting there: difficult

Neither photographs, nor the British Museum exhibition can prepare you for the full army. The dead seem to have marched out of the ground, and are awaiting their next command, rank after rank, all subtly different. Some have been left as they were discovered - toppled, fragmentary, like old photographs from the trenches of 1916. This is a direct encounter with a distant, but still formidable antiquity.

Direct flight to Beijing (10 hours), then short internal flight, or rail to Xi'an

Working on some designs for One Red Chair, a neat coffehouse in Bradford. They'll show an artist's work with the stipulation you give them one piece for their own use, and it needs to have a red chair in it (go figure).

Here's some designs I've been tuning, all in the comic book style, made famous by that excellent app, Comic Life:

These aren't a new project, but I finally got them photographed when I began archiving all my art (a process which, while ongoing, is made a little easier now that I have the bulk of it done). They are painted CPR dummy heads, in one of which I've implanted a flashing LED. They are currently on display in my home, in the second floor stairway. Seems weird, but I hardly notice them anymore, which is why they only recently got photographed.

A while ago, a friend of mine worked at a cryogenic plastic recycling plant, and they would get such strange things, including circus displays, toy and doll body parts, and many other strange things. I had her keep a lookout for anything strange and weird that I could use in projects, and these CPR heads were probably the best things she brought back (that I could keep).