art ← the digital glebe

Chess Break

May

2013

Yugoslav chessmen, simply the best. “You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.” Stanley ...

Conspiracy Meme Gold 5

Mar

2013

The evolutionary model of cultural information transfer is based on the concept that units of information, or “memes”, have an independent existence, are self-replicating, and are subject to selective evolution through environmental forces. Starting from a proposition put forward in the writings of Richard Dawkins, it has since turned into a new area of study, ...

A European Asterix? 3

Feb

2013

“The idea of Europe is dying, yet the sense of identity is strong -at least in intellectual elites. Perhaps it is less so among the common people, used to celebrating as heroes people who killed citizens of neighboring countries.” Umberto Eco l’Espresso Feb 2013 ‘Bad times for those who believe in the European Union courtesy ...

Unhappy Meals

Feb

2013

About teatime, in a parallel universe far far away:

Roll Me Up 1

Dec

2012

Willie Nelson’s ‘Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings from the Road’ is finally out in the UK, you can buy it from my favourite tax-avoider amazon for under £12inc delivery. Can’t wait to get my hands on it. It’s always now And nothing ever Goes away Everything Is here to stay ...

More on Man 1

Nov

2012

‘For very truth, I am not fully determined with myself whether I will put forth my book or no. For the natures of men be so divers, the fantasies of some so wayward, their minds so unkind, their judgments so corrupt that they which lead a merry and jocund life following their own sensual pleasures ...

Who Killed Pico? 4

Nov

2012

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola 24 February 1463 – 17 November 1494 In 2007 it was discovered that Pico was poisoned under mysterious circumstances, together with his close friend Angelo Poliziano -who it was found had also died as a result of arsenic poisoning just seven weeks before, on the 24th September 1494. Pico was interred ...

Politique 3

Nov

2012

Printing’s on-going revolution

Oct

2012

Today’s metal prints are tomorrow’s incunabula. My ‘Nexus’ by Bathsheba Grossman 2005 “To start with, the design is laid down, one layer at a time, in stainless-steel powder held in place by a laser-activated binder. You can see the layering on the finished pieces, it is the source of the characteristic texture of my work. ...

Signore Freelance 5

Oct

2012

In 1436 the administrators of the Opera del Duomo in Florence commissioned Paolo Uccello to paint a fresco in the Cathedral, a monument commemorating the English condottiere Sir John Hawkwood who had died in 1394; Hawkwood had led the Florentine troops to victory in the battle of Cascina (1364). The fresco was restored in 1524 ...