COMPUTERSPIEL & TRAVEL

Without wanting to come across as some kind of travel blog, I'd just like to post a few quick photos from my recent inter rail trip around Europe. It was really great and refreshing to spend time in cities rich in culture and with a creative heartbeat.

Quite a shock to see how much Berlin (& its art scene) had changed since I was last there. Still had the Warhol banana graffiti signifying the location of an art gallery, which was useful as some were a little hard to spot. It was also excellent to visit the Computerspielemuseum which exhibited a few nice examples of Game Art.

HAND MADE SIGNS viii

THIS SHOP IS NOW CLOSED

1024by768.net

With a little bit of Turner esque colour theory.

1024by768.net

NEW PAINTINGS

A little preview of some fresh out of the studio work.

SHOPPING

IN ROATH

HAND MADE SIGNS vii

WHATS THE MEAL DEAL?

HAND MADE SIGNS vi

The message is very down to earth in the top photo. And I like the spelling mistake in the bottom.

ALBUM COVERS

MATCHES



Some matching album covers with guitars on them.

DO NOT TOUCH

CLAS OHLSON CANVAS

I like that someone painted this and they displayed it in the art materials section of my local Clas Ohlson store. It was oil on canvas- very brave!



So tempted to touch. I think its some kind of crazy Macbeth thing going on. Nice one Clas.

CRT LOVE III

MORE CRT






This year I have not been travelling around so much, so apologies for the lack of CRT findings. Here are a few of the better ones I have spotted recently. I like that I had named this series CRT LOVE and then there is a little love heart on one of these monitors.

REVERSE PAINTINGS

LANDSCAPES

Just and idea I had about playing around with old landscape paintings. Reversing the paintings has completely changed the composition. I like the idea that Sisley could have sat outside with his easel and painted the bridge back to front. We have seen these paintings so many times that it is taken for granted as an accurate depiction. This kind of mind messing is right up my street-the kind of thing I have been doing with my Half-Life paintings.

I guess it ties in kinda with what Glenn Brown was doing by meticulously recreating those Auerbach paintings, but instead making them as flat as possible. Or somewhat similar to Richard Prince when he photographed photographs. I love self referential art. Art about art is the best.

This work probably wont go further than this blog. There is no point in me reproducing these paintings back to front. But as images they are certainly very striking. Perhaps I'll continue on the series with some attempts at other paintings. Self-Portraits seems to be a given. Watch this space.







Prizes for anyone who can name the artists!

HALF-LIFE ERROR

In a recent replay of Half-Life I encountered this nice pointy error.

HAND MADE SIGNS v

Cant take credit for this one. Stole it from my brother. Its a great representation of rural life in Northern Ireland.

On a separate note, I was looking to do a link to this in Google Street View, but genuinely could not find it. Thats an indication as to how remote this is. What a fantastic find. If anyone can find the location of Dregish Hall put a street view link to it in the comments.

HAND MADE SIGNS iv

HAND MADE SIGNS iii

More hand made signs for you.







Click to make them bigger

iPlayer Countryside II

MERLIN



Castle Coch has been butchered with the Clone Tool for in a recent episode of Merlin.