Jim Barter : Digital Imagination

Sheffield Indie Music Label, a mate of mine Rob Cohen is involved somehow…

…anyway he’s given me a CD and asked me to pimp it for him, i’ve just had a listen - ’tis quite good.

…check it out.

Arf!

I want a cat, or two…

…but my lodger has a dog…

…If I had a cat, or two, one would be called ‘atora’, and the other one, ‘trex’…

…nb, there’s a joke in there somewhere - for those that don’t get it - there’s always google

Half of young Americans can’t find New York on a map.

And it is supposed to be the most powerful nation state on the planet? How the GWBUSH did that happen?

(Hint, the answer is in the question…)

I don’t normally blog about art, I just like to appreciate it - but I was introduced to this guys work today and what I saw blew me away, stunning, beautiful, meaningful images…

It was this piece he’s just produced which is on show in germany that did it…

*The wolves were produced in Quanzhou, China, from January to June of 2006. The commissioned local workshop in Cai’s hometown specializes in manufacturing remarkable, life-sized replicas of animals. First, small clay models were created as movement studies, out of which Cai subsequently developed Head On’s artist editions of cast resin wolves. However, the realistic and lifelike 99 wolves that grew out of these models and drawings possess no literal remnants of wolves: they are fabricated from painted sheepskins and stuffed with hay and metal wires, with plastic lending contour to their faces and marbles for eyes.

More info at the Deutsche Guggenheim and the Artists homepage http://www.caiguoqiang.com/