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Black out poetry 

where can we get ideas from? all ideas are un-original. Black out poetry comes from that idea.  see this ted talk shown in monstrous workshop run by illustration students. 

my thoughts are.....

Where can I get ideas from words? And from other peoples words? When they are mashed up are they really my own or their own? No one owns these individual words, so how can people own ideas? Whatever ideas there are should be there for the taking, since all ideas come from experience. going back to my previous work, even ideas found in dreams are unoriginal since we can only dream of what is a mash up of things we’ve experienced. 

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postcards + tourism

I wish to involve postcards in my work because they are very closely linked to tourism, which is one of the biggest industries in Cornwall today. Locally, where I’ve lived, I’ve known there to be a lot more work available in the summer, due to tourists wanting to come to Cornwall. While boosting the economy in some areas, holiday homes ruin communities in other areas. As it is such a controversial issue, I wish to hint at it in my work in some way. 

Cornwall Council even recognise tourism as a big industry...even modernising information by putting it online...“In the last decade Cornwall has emerged as one of the world's iconic destinations... For all your holiday information needs (including accomodation) in Cornwall please see the official VisitCornwall website.“

Postcards are infact great advertising for tourism. According to this online post, even Birmingham’s tourism industry has benefited from postcards, because when sending a high quality postcard to a friend, you’re showing them what the place has to offer. 

Despite the rise of technology and that “text message is now the most popular way of communicating with people back at home, the postcard pips email when it comes to sending greetings to loved ones, according to a new survey.” - Mail Online

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This Art Show Is Dedicated to Figuring Out What the Internet Looks Like

Extracts from an article by - BECKETT MUFSON -Feb 23 2017 for Creators on Vice

“If you were to take a family photo of the internet, it might look like the collection of artifacts on display at Kunsthal Rotterdam's new show, Human / Digital: A Symbiotic Love Affair.“

“The artists involved invoke a gestalt of how the internet sees itself in this moment. Visitors sift through a variety of experiences, letting the most resonant imagery stick in the mind on its own accord.“

“Representing mediums as diverse as physical sculpture, textile art, and multi-screen television display, these artworks are united by the concept of the "post-internet." In a press release, the Kunsthal writes that, while difficult to define, "The new 'Post-Internet Art' movement is not about art made for or by the Internet, but art which reflects the existence of Internet and its effect on culture and society."“

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Image 2:  Rafaël Rozendaal Abstract Browsing 16 03 09 A B C (Waze), 2016, 175 x 144 cm (tryptich), tapestry Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij Hugo Brown Family Collection

Image 3:  Shezad Dawood Kalimpong, 2016 Virtual Reality installation duration variable Hugo Brown Family Collection

https://creators.vice.com/en_uk/article/art-show-dedicated-to-figuring-out-what-the-internet-looks-like

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This Is Not an Interview with Poppy - motherboard - vice 

extract from an article by: DANIEL OBERHAUS Jan 9 2017

“Poppy’s internet presence can be traced back to… 2014… this account is populated with hundreds of absurdist videos… the vast majority of which feature Poppy in a featureless space, posing existential questions over an ethereal soundtrack. ….

But if you have the patience to work your way through all the videos on this channel, certain trends start to emerge. The most obvious is Poppy’s fixation with the internet and social media culture,...more interesting is the general tone of the videos, which have gotten progressively darker over the last two years. ...

Poppy’s early videos feature a bright-eyed young girl clearly enamored with her glamorous pop lifestyle and her fans. Yet Poppy’s character soon changes—she begins posing increasingly dark questions ("Do you know what’s happening? Have they told you? What rhymes with breath?”), talks about running away and wanting to disappear, references secrets that her “handlers” won’t let her tell her viewers, and suggests that she is being controlled by a vague “they” from whom she cannot escape.“

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An article on That Poppy from NKD Magazine October 2015: Issue #52

Available online at: http://nkdmag.com/october-2015-issue-52/

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It is hard to remember which words mutate in Cornish, when forming sentences, but luckily there is a mutation table, in the dictionary of which I have  copy of...

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Alice Wellinger 

“Alice Wellinger is an Austrian based artist | illustrator. Beneath her editorial work she develops her personal art, which is surreal, ironic, dealing with the troubles of daily life and childhood memories.“ 

I came across this artist on the internet and I love some of the images. They are imaginative, and almost remind me of Alice in Wonderland. The shapes used in these images are very interesting because they have connotations with some of the aesthetics you would find in glitch art and Vaporwave themed photoshop edits. The square/rectangular shapes taken out of images remind me of a pixelated effect you can get with digital images. Another picture looks like a 3-d effect which is widely used. 

https://www.behance.net/aliceWellinger

http://www.alice-wellinger.com

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In the images within this book you can see all the paintstrokes, and that is probably the most interesting thing about it. To me, everything looks like a sloppy mess, and although it seems that composition has been considered in these works, the colours just feel very dirty, so dirty but bright in fact, that I can't help but be drawn to them. What's interesting is that it feels like the paintings have been blown up bigger to fit the book, although they are really original size. The paintstrokes feel so very visible. I think maybe we are used to scaling things down for print. With larger images you have to stand back but here you can stand close and focus on every detail like every bust streak. Howard Hodgkin - small paintings ( Book )