☛ Barnaby Barford: “Stick that on YouTube!” from the Private Lives series, bone china, porcelain, earthware, enamel paint, other media, H 27 cm x diameter 29 cm, 2007. Image credit: Theo Cook. © Barnaby Barford. I wrote about Barnaby Barford’s art before (Barnaby Barford: “The Good The Bad The Belle”, 2009). He is currently having […]
• By Philippe Theophanidis on December 16, 2013 ― Published in Art | Tagged: Barnaby Barford, ceramic, modernity, porcelain, postmodernism, tradition, United Kingdom, YouTube
☛ Techno Tuesday: “Best Clip Ever” (CC: by-nc 3.0) Recently, I came to understand that such a predicate (be it “best… ever” or “worst… ever”) is less indicative of the subject of the sentence in which it is used (clip, film, song, beer, show) than it is of the subject making the statement. Techno Tuesday […]
• By Philippe Theophanidis on November 26, 2010 ― Published in Art, Communication, humour, Technology | Tagged: best, clip, comic, critic, history, kids, opinion, worst, youth, YouTube
A short film by Chris Beckam, winner the 2010 Vimeo Award for the category Experimental: “Somewhere between a home-video mixtape and a postmodern travelogue, “oops”—a ten-minute art video composed entirely of appropriated YouTube videos, seamlessly stitched together via a motif of camera drops—serves both as transportative adventure and metaphorical elucidation of YouTube itself (i.e. endless related videos)”
• By Philippe Theophanidis on October 25, 2010 ― Published in Art, Movies | Tagged: appropriation, cinema, experimental, film, home-video, movie, YouTube