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Desktop Detritus 3

Desktop Detritus comes around every time I have a desktop that is crammed full of images I've forgotten the origin of.  It's kind of like when driftwood piles up on a beach, but instead of trees that have been floating around at sea for years, Desktop Detritus is made up of lonely jpegs who no longer know where they came from.  The intention is to give these poor lost images homes once again, and to reunite artists with their creative offspring.

So far the response has been enormous, with up to two people claiming jpegs in the space of a giddy nine weeks.  One was even the brilliant Scott Teplin, who was nearly on Boing Boing after I sent in a link saying how cool it would be to have a post that Mark Frankenwelder and Cory Doctorow could both geek out about.  The other person was actually quite a long time ago, but I still appreciated it, and so did the jpeg who finally found peace at last...

P.S. Scott - you don't need that Boing Boing crap.  You'll always have a home here at neverhappened, with a fresh cardboard box and half a bottle of Black Cat Whisky.  Actually a quarter of a bottle, give or take.

UPDATE - I'm out of Black Cat, but the cardboard box offer still stands.

 

London Design Festival

You have nearly missed the London Design Festival - unless you are actually in London and way ahead of me, in which case good for you.

You can see a bit of stuff from last year's festival here.  That stuff looks good enough to make it the Design Event of the year, but in fact it was last year, so it may have to be disqualified.  No scented candle for you, London Design Week 2005 - so there.

Above is a chandelier of miscellaneous everythings, by someone unknown.  If anyone knows who it is, you know the drill - unmarked bills, train station safety deposit box.  Thanks.

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Stas Orlovski

There's something about finding ridiculously large images of an artist stashed somewhere online.  Traywick Contemporary has been generous enough to provide enormous scans of Stas Orlovski's etchings, at resolutions almost approaching the real things - You could just about print them on cartridge and pass them off as a bought one...

Not that you'd want to.  Here's something I didn't write about Stas:

Romantic imagery of the decayed garden – broken statuary, overgrown vegetation among flowers, moths and song birds – form the visual literature of Los Angeles-based artist Stas Orlovski.  The artist pries at the question of why we are attracted to images that evoke memory, loss, and nostalgia in these new works that combine printing, handwork and collage.  Undeterred by sentimentality, Orlovski pushes the edge further by orienting his compositions under faded night skies and oversized moons.  Here the artist embraces rather then skirts the nostalgic quality inherent in the works from which he draws inspiration: mid-century Russian children’s storybooks, Indian miniatures, 19th-century Japanese woodcuts, and Victorian botanical drawings.  The results are a suite of monotypes that invite the viewer into a place both familiar and innocent, a place dreamed about and remembered.

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Victor Pasmore

Victor Pasmore
(1908 - 1997)

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Cutting Up Knives

produced by Pervisioni

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Story:
Cutting Up Knives is a production of selected knives, modified to become bottle openers through the application of an industrial process.Each bottle opener is individually chosen and cut. Beautiful name brand knives have been ruthlessly transformed, while factory rejects and second hand knives have been recycled, modified to become useful once again, functionally reassigned , yet still connected to their own unique history.

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Tristan Marco's Stencil Graffiti

Probably a wee bit on the dodgy side of the copyright laws, Ben Perry has posted scans of every page of Stencil Graffiti on Flickr as well. Remember the best thing about Flickr:  Click on ALL SIZES to see the full size images.

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Ben Perry's Russian Poster Collection

Amazing collection of old Russian posters on Flickr.

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Jeff Brouws

Shades of Edward Hopper in these photographs of Jeff Brouw's.  And I'm getting a bit of Wilco.  Possibly.  Though that may be my imagination, and this wine.

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Ida Borg

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Scott Teplin

Newsflash! Scott Teplin has claimed 8 of the 36 images in Desktop Detritus part one.  That's a pretty good ratio.  I'm thinking he may even win something for that - I'll have to think about what.  Maybe some hypnotherapy, or possibly a scented candle.  Haven't decided yet.

By the way, Scott is still firing on all cylinders over at teplin.com - he posts a drawing a week.  Some people in Second Life are even making one of his architectural type drawings in-world.  That has got to be a Cory Doctorow post in the making if ever I heard one...

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