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The Life and Decline of Cover Art

With our new willingness to digitise everything we are loosing a major part of our culture. A whole art form is dying as we trade the convenience of downloading the bestselling novel to our kindle, our favourite album to our iPhones and the latest blockbuster to our AppleTV. You may not care, but I think you should. It has produced m...

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The New Street Art of Video Painting

SWEATSHOPPE is a new multimedia performance collaboration between Bruno Levy and Blake Shaw, who have created a new style of temporary street art they call Video Painting. [blockquote blockquote_style="elegant" align="none" text_align="center"] Video painting is a technology the duo developed that allows them to create the illusion that ...

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The curious case of the princess, saint, mermaid and a chair

There she was again, her beauty was unforgettable. It must have been years since she had last attended service. She had caught the attention of the entire congregation when she entered the church accompanied by a force of wind and rain from outside. The villagers stared as she took her seat on a small chair at...

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Some great new Banksy work

This is just a quick post to share some great new Banksy pieces that have recently been posted to his website. Banksy has done a new range of comical indoor work. Three of my favourites are shown here. You can see the rest on his website.

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Why you shouldn't put all your eggs in one social network's basket

If you are promoting your work, business or brand online then you probably already have a Facebook page, Twitter account, Flickr profile, etc. I do, and use them all regularly. I use them as a communication channel, to update users on each particular network, interested in my work. What I don't do is use them as a home or base for my...

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John Baldessari's great promotional video

I recently came across this amusing 5 minute video about conceptual artist John Baldessari. It is an inspirational bit of marketing that very much suits John's story and sense of humour. If you don't know John's work the video will get you up to speed. The key things to take away from John's video are his three tips for all artists:...

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Neil Gaiman's six tips on being creative and successful

Continuing my series of inspirational videos from the likes of John Cleese and Aaron Draplin.  Legendary comic writer and author Neil Gaiman shares his wisdom on everything he wishes he had known, a few things looking back he did know and the best piece of advice he got but failed to follow. His advise applies to all ...

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Eleanor No. 2

Following on from the images I posted a few weeks ago of Eleanor, taken at the Miss Aniela Fashion Shoot Experience, here are another two showing Eleanor on the bed. Credits (as before) Photography Jon Milet Baker Dress Reem Juan Model Eleanor Cooper Stylist Pash Stylecreative Hair Tati Zarubova Make up Corne...

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