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"Distance viewing": A visual analysis of Ernst...

Introduction Ernst Gombrich’s The Story of Art has proven to be the most successful history of art book ever written. Today buyers of the book, now in it’s 16th edition, are greeted with a red sticker informing them that 7 million copies already exist. The book is a survey of art from prehistoric cave paintings up to the early 1980’s, the last painting in Gombrich’s story is Hockney’s My Mother,...

Jan 25th

The All Seeing iPad

Jan 5th

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Epic Account

Relevant links Legendary Account - an art performance by Joel Holmberg Exhibition catalogue for Free (Oct 2010 - Jan 2011) at the New Museum, NY where Legendary Account was exhibited Joel Holmberg’s Legendary Account is a good artwork because it is a critics artwork; which is to say, of course, that it is not a good artwork at all but rather an artwork that contains a suitable level of...

Oct 13th

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Reclaim the Like button rehearsals

Oct 9th

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Choose Life

Oct 9th

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My iBooks Bookshelf

I love having it all in the palm of my hand. And remember, if you own a Kindle you don’t have any friends because who would lend a book to a friend for a maximum of 14 days after which she was forced to return it to you even if you said she could keep it for longer, and where she had to download some propriety system to read it but only if the publisher had decided to allow it to be...

Oct 8th

Peering into misery

What is the museum? A construct served to you on a handheld digital device by a global corporation that makes products irrelevant to any content it contains in which you are encouraged to blindly and meaninglessly support through a fake button? From Mashable

Sep 14th

VID 00008 20110814 1557 (WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW)

Sep 1st

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Skanky - Blindspot directed by the LOL Boys

The LOL Boys invite you to brunch at the café of ideas – what could possibly be on the menu? Last time the preparation was solid but lacked seasoning. This time. Well this time it’s fascinating. Firstly, Blindspot by Skanky is the most obtuse outing yet filled with ambiguity and possible readings. I’m going to stick to just one but feel there’s a bunch possible solutions. I won’t for...

Aug 19th

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You were always on the brandwagon Tracey

So Tracey Emin then - chosen to create the London 2012 official poster. Seems like the point of hiring artists to create Olympic posters is the idea that both sport and art are about transcendence. Seems like the point of hiring Tracey is to generate PR in newspapers. How will Tracey work her obsession with narcissism, fame, money and sex into the image of a global community empowered through...

Jul 26th

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Reply to "Mondrian vs Rothko: footprints and...

(Note - images come from the web and are not meant to faithfully represent the canvases they are merely provided as an illustration) The Software Studies Initiative at UCSD has produced an information visualization comparing the development of Mondrian and Rothko’s canvas painting in terms of brightness and saturation. Information visualization, Mondrian vs. Rothko by UCSD (see original UCSD...

Jul 21st

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Marble Players - Let You Go directed by the LOL...

Another slice of Lol Boys culture – can it possibly live up to the ridiculously high standard set by previous videos? The conclusion ends up being - no not really. It contains none of the political excitement of 123 or Blockz and in the end Let You Go is something more like pure style. The magic of 123 and Blockz was the transformation of found, web based images into a coherent ideological...

Jul 20th

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Mater Suspiria Vision - ZOMBIE RAVE VOL. 5

Latest of Zombie Rave series for those who didn’t get in on the first 100 official downloads! ℑ⊇≥◊≤⊆ℜ (of Mater Suspiria Vision) - Zombie Rave 5 Mixtape 1. The Art of Noise - Moments in Love (Zombie Rave Mix) 2. Gazebo - I like Chopin (Italo Flesh Eaters VS Pasta Rave Mix) 3. Ritualz - Third Eye Sixth Sense 4. BBE - Flash (Invasion of the Zombie Raver Remix) 5. Usher - More (Umbrella...

Apr 25th

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LOL Boys - Blockz

Latest LOL boys, which is solid but perhaps not quite as good 123. The ramping up of the production values, whilst welcome in purely visual terms, has the tendency to distract the viewer from the ideas. These ideas were delivered plainly and explicitly through a less visually self-assured strategy in 123. In a general Blockz seeks to establish a similar set of ideas. Through the evocation of...

Apr 15th

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Google Art Project explained

Don’t you just love it when Google throws a bunch of money at yet another marketing campaign?

Mar 16th

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Do you see what I see?

The entire history of art is nothing more than a bunch of digital images passing more or less rapidly in front of your eyes. Images that mark the development of human aesthetic existence rendered inert through the most basic of computer technology. Must we insist on shitting all over the things we hold dear? Head on over to Google Art Project and decide for yourself. The animated GIF...

Feb 2nd

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Happy shitting Mr. President

D & AD - I have no idea what it is or does but it’s clearly evil. It seems to be an organization whose sole purpose is to give out awards to their friends. Friends in this case being people who have purchased a ‘classy’ membership. Greatest fascist dictator. Adolf Hitler. The advertising for this years awards has a ‘presidential’ theme in which the...

Nov 8th

The creative must create

As well as being thoroughly creative, the good people of Hackney are also public spirited. This lost and found ‘advert’ appeared in my building recently. It’s a prime example of the heady cocktail produced when the imaginative impulse meets a profound sense of civic pride.

Nov 1st

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Breadth times depth equals range

Saw Javier Bardem and Alejandro González Iñárritu at the 2010 BFI film festival explaining the concept of breadth times depth equals range.

Oct 27th

I invented Windows 7 with a billion dollars

Oct 27th

Sep 11th

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New Manifesto of Freedom - MDMA On Your Pizza

Pizza Express are running a seriously distasteful competition where you are supposed to provide free marketing for the company whilst transferring to them your intellectual property rights. Their idea is that ‘Joe Public’ come up with a new pizza for their menu. You do all the work they get all the benefit. By dangling the promise of having your pizza on the menu and the...

Aug 31st

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Damien on Damien on Damien - The Analysis

What follows are a few observations about this video. I shall be analysing it alongside Julian Stallabrass’s book ‘High Art Lite: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art’ to demonstrate that many of the concerns and features of Hirst’s art, as highlighted by Stallabrass, are present in the video. In doing so I hope that Lawrence Lessig’s notion of remix video...

Aug 18th

Thames and Coke

Aug 14th

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ELECTION GUIDE 2010 - FOCUS ON BALLS

Balls has been giving his opinion on the issues that matter. He’s due to deliver a speech this afternoon outlining something. Afterwards he will be visiting the vegetable aisle of a leading supermarket. A full transcript of the speech has been made available and can be viewed HERE

Apr 26th

WHERE'S MY FUCKING MEOW MEOW

Apr 23rd

YOU ARE CREATIVE GUIDE - ELECTION 2010

Who’s going to win? Gordon the Gopher, Dick Clegg or Dave ‘Nitrous’ Cameron? Vote cock get dick etc. etc. What we need is a sensible debate in which the YOU ARE CREATIVE GUIDE TO THE ELECTION 2010 will attempt to highlight the key points of campaign using a random corner of the internet - the internet list. The internet list comprises two things: 1 - list and 2 - repetition....

Apr 23rd

Kings College London Graduation - Professor...

Edit of my graduation video. Kings College London Graduation - Professor Lifestyle Edit from You Are Creative on Vimeo. Best viewed full size on Vimeo and with the sound at full volume - links above.

Apr 21st

Ryan Lazzeur

Feb 6th

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Rare Dan Brown Interview

Dec 1st

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The Ding Dong Bass

RESPECT THE BLOOD CLOTT FINGER.

Nov 12th

Damien Hirst on Damien Hirst on Damien Hirst

Oct 23rd

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OH JESUS. IT'S THE FUTURE.

You can see the entire dating montage video here if your interested in seeing anything other than the searing rod of things to come.

Oct 12th

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YOU ARE CREATIVE vs. the Land Rover Freelander 2

Copy Cunts the blog which exposes the advertising industry for the plagiarising bastards that they are revealed the blatant stealing of Taijin Takeuchi’s ‘A Wolf Loves a Pork’ by Flo & Pet (directors) and DSG (agency) for the Olympus PEN ad. In the comments of that post, Speshal posted a further even worse act of cuntishness by Land Rover in which they not only rip off...

Aug 19th

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**Listen to the track above** Stormy Pronto...

Jun 9th

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Jah Lifestyle

Job in the media getting you down? Depressed about the fact you think other peoples tweets are better than yours? Still don’t really know how to use that entry level digital SLR? YOU ARE CREATIVE has the solution. Jah lifestyle stickers. They consist of twenty individually themed stickers designed to bring Jah sunshine into your life. Stick them on your everyday household items and let Jah...

Jun 5th

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JESUS - I WANT THAT ONE

May 12th

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Resurrection

A nation mourned Jane the Cake’s tragic death. But what happens to cakes after they die in drug fuelled car accidents? This is a story of biblical proportions - more epic than Sweeney Todd The Musical and quarries in northern France combined. It’s redemption in action raisin style. Jane is the new Jesus - the parallels are obvious. What is Second Life - a place where memes go to die? A...

May 10th

JANE THE CAKE DIES

Tributes have been pouring in for Jane the Cake who died last night in a tragic roadside accident. Photographers were at the scene in minutes and initial reports indicate drugs were involved. Jane was driving home from Mcdonald’s in Lewisham when she was hit by a white mini-van. Eye witness reports suggest the driver of the van was ‘cracked-up’ and ‘waving his gun in the...

Apr 21st

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Mar 26th

Me not wearing Ed's jumper pt.4

Mar 26th

Mar 19th

CREATIVITY DOESN'T GET MUCH TOUGHER THAN THIS!

This is Andy Oliver doing his impression of a lightly scorched red mullet micro salad on Master Chef. This is an original 1950’s Italian postcard I bought for £2 when I was drunk. And this is Andy’s declaration of friendship to me on the back of it! THIS IS ONE TOUGH COMPETITION. YOU ARE CREATIVE.

Mar 16th

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OM NOM NOM NOM

Actually doing something constructive with - http://bacolicio.us

Feb 12th

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Feb 12th

THE YOU ARE CREATIVE NERVE CENTRE

THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS!! No Ryan, YOU are creative.

Feb 10th

Dear Sam

This morning I received a copyright claim on the picture of Sam Robertson’s ass. Below is a copy of that claim - “I own the IP rights for that picture. Its illegal unpermitted use renders you liable to pay me damages plus any commercial gain you stand to get. I await a cheque, but in the meantime please provide me with your address for service concerning the issuing of...

Feb 5th

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YOUR WHOLE WORLD IS SHIT

Professor Alfie Roche gives you a step by step guide to world geography from his poo glazed garden. Watch your step! You might stand on shit Sri Lanka. Brazil Suez Canal, Egypt Africa Japan Ethiopia and Somalia Ghana, Togo, Benin India and Bangladesh Norway and Sweden North and South Korea New Zealand Venezuela Russia Self-portrait Panama and Colombia ...

Feb 5th