A few weeks ago, I picked up 20 NFC tags. But what to do with them? I know, let’s make something impractical! I had this gorgeous Barret Biggers – Link Blot poster which had lain in a drawer for far too long. So I turned it into an Amiibo. Nestled in the corner, sandwiched between…
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I have a vivid memory of my school days. I’d completed a pencil sketch in art class. For once, I was impressed with my dexterity. Then the teacher demanded that I colour it in. I was terrified that I would ruin it. I begged to use the photocopier – but to no avail. So the…
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One of the problems with buying a house, is that you’re inevitably stuck with someone else’s taste in decor. Our new place isn’t too bad – it’s just a little dull. With lockdown in full-force, some of the boring bits of the house have been annoying me more than is reasonable. I’m not a big…
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One of my favourite works of art is The Great Bear by Simon Patterson. At first glance, it appears to be a normal London Tube map. But look closer… Cool! But there is something about it which has always bothered me. Each Tube line represents a theme – therefore, a station at the intersection of…
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Yesterday at the CogX conference, I sat in a room listening to companies pitch their blockchain based startups. Because I hate myself. One in particular caught my attention. On the surface it seems to solve an important economic problem – art forgery and provenance. By putting your artwork on the “BitCoin Blockchain”, Verisart will ✨hand…
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Nestled in a sleepy corner of a 12th Century church in Iffley, is this delightfully modern sculpture. A large knot carved out of stone and placed upon a plinth. Look carefully and at the top of the base you’ll see a series of strange runes hewn into the rock. It was a soggy day –…
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There are plenty of QR generators which will render the code in ASCII, but I wanted to try something a little different. Is it possible to hide ASCII Art into QR Codes? Errr…. yes… It’s pretty damn simple! I was surprised I couldn’t find anyone else doing this. (_/) (=’.’=) (“)_(“) Becomes: Which, when scanned,…
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I was wandering round The Henry Moore Foundation last Friday – thanks to the delightful wedding of my good friends Mike and Nikki. Looking at the abstract statues and carvings, I was struck not only by their beauty, but by how easy they would be to reproduce with a 3D printer. Ok – ok! I’m…
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While we were in New York City, we went to see Nathan Sawaya’s The Art of The Brick. The artist uses Lego as his medium, and the art he produces is breathtaking. The mixture of 2D and 3D is incredible. But there are aspects of the exhibition which left me with questions about the nature…
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I spend yesterday wandering around London and, as is my wont, spotted some QR codes which I think may interest readers of this blog. Tracey Emin The Hayward Gallery are having a Tracey Emin retrospective. At the start of the exhibition is this rather odd QR code. Why odd? Three main reasons. It leads directly…
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