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More beautiful ink drawings, this time from German artist Ralf Ziervogel.

Camera Constructs Workshop 4th-7th April, UEL.

Designing in stereoscopic space. With Richard Difford & Penelope Haralambidou.

Results to follow!

A novel by Flann O'Brien.

Such a unique writing style. Beautiful use of language. Twist at the end - making for an interesting second read. Fantastic book.

I stumbled across her work in the Artkrush newsletter in the run-up the opening of her MOMA exhibition.
Immediately beautiful images, to me suggesting a barely suspended animation, time and space distending and ballooning under the grip of focus.

Jean Baudrillard - The Intelligence of Evil

Having gained an interest in Baudrillard's thinking from quotes in various sources, this was my first full-length work.

I wasn't expecting it to be easy, and it was hard going in parts, but there was plenty of meaty stuff to chew on.

Sections on contemporary art and his well publicised thoughts on the media and the role of the event were perhaps the most personally intriguing.

Foam Of The Daze - Boris Vian

A pretty unique and evocative writing style. Builds an atmosphere of saccharine unease which dissolves in a quite disturbing descent. Beautiful and frightening in an unexpected way.

Interested in the way the illness leaked into everything, pervading the space of the appartment which reconfigured itself into a manifestation of the physical and mental malaise.

Nature article on the use of fractal geometry to analyse Jackson Pollock's paintings, and it's implications in identifying fakes.

Anamorphism

The dome and vault of the Church of St. Ignazio in Rome, painted by Andrea Pozzo, represented the pinnacle of illusion. Due to complaints of blocked light by neighboring monks, Pozzo was commissioned to paint the inside of a dome instead of constructing one. However, because it was flat, there was only one spot where the illusion was perfect and the dome looked real.