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Alan Moore’s Dogem Logic, Wordfest, London’s Round Chapel

Woah, I was a total klutz. I went to on the wrong bit of the Northern Line, and then found out I was just in the wrong damn area and needed to get to Hackney. I made it, pausing only to buy a Double Decker, and found the round church (note: not the round house) where I saw Alan Moore and Stewart Lee say smart things.

I did watercolour drawings. Some cool kids mocked me. They were fairly on the money; my indoor watercolours are pretty sucky. But I got too into it and missed my train. I ended up catching a night bus (so exotic!) where a crazy person stared at me (so London!).

And when I say “kids”, I mean young whippersnappers in their early twenties, all London-cool and confident. In a better world, you could picture me saying “What’s that, kiddo? My use of watercolour is an outdated medium that doesn’t really relate to this environment? Really? Well fuck you. I would have got away with it, if it wasn’t for you pesky meddling twats.”

 

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Let a Thousand James Hugonin Paintings Bloom

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3539565&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=c9ff23&fullscreen=1

James Hugonin is an artist who lives in Northumbria, and makes paintings that reflect his surroundings by taking the predominant colour for each day and painting a square in that colour. This is very procedural art, and therefore it lends itself very well to make a computer program that does the same thing.

This would probably annoy the bejesus out of Hugonin. Sadly, this is not my concern, as this is another exercise set my Jamie Allan, my tutor. Obviously, if you’ve seen my last piece of work for him, you might be getting concerned that Jamie is actually running some form of art world Project Mayhem, and that all graduates of the DM course will be changing their name to Bob soon. This is probably not the case.

I am Pete’s complete lack of surprise.

If you’re going to procedurally fake something, why just fake one? Therefore I set the program to stop cranking out fakes at a thousand. The colour’s a bit off, as if Hugonin had suddenly found his Northumbrian idle surrounded by flesh tones, but it holds together. The video ends up being 8.20 long, with two “paintings” every second.

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