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Why Human-Led Art, Design and Ethical Creativity Matter More Than Ever. Artists, designers rise up and say NO to AI
We recently talked about creating our own LLM (Living Language Memory) at a talk for Norwich Book Festival. As Artists and Designers, this is what we do. We create our own nexus of data points that we experienced, saw, felt, heard, tasted and thought.
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Let’s Zine is a powerful workshop tool for shaping new stories about our lives
It’s important to us to provide a robust critical methodology of how young (newly forming) creatives can develop their own insurance policy against AI SLOP by starting their own LLM – we have reframed this as a LIVING LANGUAGE MEMORY that AI training data cannot penetrate or steal from us because it is not shared…
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We talk with Fredrik Öst founder of the world renowned Snask about turning up the volume, conservatism, fuckups, saying yes to life, love and getting back to nature
The new world order really is Snask. We met Freddie at Art School, Rebecca was a student and I was a tutor teaching the course Freddie was attending. Our collision happened in the weirdest of locations (CARLISLE) a place that was alien to Freddie and us.
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3 ideas for making fearless art and design you believe in
Making fearless art and Design is a confluence of your experience and interests. That’s why this story is about discovering your own voice. Not someone else’s but your own innate ability to connect to the soul of the universe.
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Graffiti scrawls dance to the sound of the city, transforming surfaces into a beautiful opera of tagging, drips, daubs, overspray and movement
Stop following and you too might find stunning pinks, reds, purples, blues, oranges, silvers, yellows, greens and black scrawls, defined as irregular, possibly illegible handwriting.
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I heard you making patterns rhyme like some new romantic looking for the TV sound the ultimate 80s Mix-Tape
We were seven years old when 1980 arrived. The currency of music in the playground was without doubt the compact cassette tape and the beloved 80s mix-tape.
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Seven Stars Yard drips with ripped colour, paste up and painted layers in a living street art collaboration of accidental narratives
Stumbling out the dark cave of Liverpool Street Station on to a windswept Bishopgate we head toward Hanover to replenish our ‘Plant Based Food System’.
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Terence McKenna tells us following is a tasteless position to find yourself in, pets follow … & bad acts follow
Terrence McKenna argues for a dissolution of boundaries and release from phony beliefs systems. In doing so he reaveals 4 secrets for modern living: Don’t Believe, Don’t Follow, Don’t Consume, Don’t Watch.
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Switching The Television Off Might Just Save You!
If we told you it was possible to improve your physical and mental health with a simple life hack would you consider it? If we told you it only required a single act, in fact it was so straight forward all it required was pressing a button (or more accurately to stop pressing a button).
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The Theory of Dérive explains how through walking, looking and enjoying purposeless movement we discover the ecstacy of movement
Think about your journey to work, or class from home each day, how far do you stray from a well trodden path slash route? With the advent of hand-held illuminated devices (location services willingly enabled mapping your position on the earth) we are, sheepishly some might say, directed and overseen by the shadow of humanity.
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Wildlife has plummeted by a devastating average of 70% since 1970
Find your nearest nature reserve, park or botanical garden head for whatever is flowering and take your time. It’s good for your mental and physical health to get outside and nature provides a wonderful distraction.
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Bridget Riley’s paintings of purring lines, zips and tongues cavort playfully on an epic scale
Bridget Riley experiments with an obvious love for nature and careful consideration of forms that enable repetiton and complexity of moving parts and associations — emitting and colliding across the canvas in lines, vortexes, spots, triangles, zips and tongues of colourful rhyme.
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The Revolutionary Pleasure of Thinking For Yourself
Do you feel upsdoe down? with a nagging feeling that the world is far from ideal and free revolutionary pleasure of thinking for yourself is considered over–rated, in an ever expanding media induced 21st Century haze. If you are feeling upside down it’s time to switch off and tune into yourself.
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With Pale Blue eyes, sometimes I feel so happy, sometimes I feel so sad… but mostly, you just make me mad, baby, you just make me mad
The opening lines to Pale Blue Eyes written by Lou Reed and recorded by the Velvet Underground has become a personal and abstract expression for a feeling I have been experiencing lately.
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UK Lockdown Stay-at-home order arrives with vibrant hues of blue and yellow ochre tones
The lockdown of the UK was announced on 23 March 2020 by the Prime Minister with measures to mitigate the spread of a virus and to protect the community. It included wide-ranging restrictions on freedom of movement, enforceable in law, under a stay-at-home order.
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Positive affirmations and street art tribute–acts dance against a psychedelic explosion of colour
Stumbling out the dark cave of Liverpool Street Station on to a bright sunny Bishopgate we head east for Commercial Road and immediately run into Minty, a Street Art SKELETOR hopelessly in love with his closest friend: Frida.
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Pavements gleam with a kaleidoscope of colourful pollution
Why are these Kaleidoscope images intoxicating to look at? Is it because there are both beauty and destruction all in one spectacle? The blends found in these expanses of colour are fascinating to stare into, the way they twist and wave into a glowing pattern is like a tractor beam of sorts.
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Is Death the end, what if, when you die here, you really die?
Inspiring photographs and surreal tale about the street art of London. Take a walk down the past streets of Brick Lane in London July 2020.
