A Vague Idea http://vagueidea.co.uk You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea - Picasso posterous.com Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:07:46 -0800 my chair http://vagueidea.co.uk/my-chair http://vagueidea.co.uk/my-chair

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ok so.. a quick sketch and maquette of a chair. like the one in the previous post it is more of a back rest. so you sit on the floor in front of the flat bit and lean onto the back rest.

ideally I think a high sheen version in plastic would be cool.

it looks like an animal in the desert from a distance, the legs do it.

I like it :-)

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:32:45 -0800 an awesome chair http://vagueidea.co.uk/an-awesome-chair http://vagueidea.co.uk/an-awesome-chair

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it's from drc, it's about 200 years old, and it looks incredible

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:06:56 -0800 angel five http://vagueidea.co.uk/angel-five http://vagueidea.co.uk/angel-five

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ok so last of the iconography. to be honest prefer the background of stylised lightening to the foreground

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:08:16 -0800 acid lemon ants http://vagueidea.co.uk/acid-lemon-ants http://vagueidea.co.uk/acid-lemon-ants
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So continuing from the ant wallpaper.. the original 70's style flock paper but done with tiny composite drawings of ants... 

high effort and low yield

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:24:00 -0800 angel 4 http://vagueidea.co.uk/angel-4 http://vagueidea.co.uk/angel-4

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another soft pastel sketch, which seem to be getting more obviously angelic... i did add acoupel of photo filters on the original and may blow it up so the scale of it is a lot bigger than the 6x8 original

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:52:25 -0800 untitled triptych... http://vagueidea.co.uk/-triptych http://vagueidea.co.uk/-triptych

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so I was debating names for this post, and really couldn't decide.. anyway, just trying out some Conté Crayons and feeling a bit bleak, this is the result

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:47:36 -0800 Babagajinka http://vagueidea.co.uk/babagajinka http://vagueidea.co.uk/babagajinka

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every good villain needs a creation myth.. and this is the modern setting of an old south american legend... it looks a bit gaudy but was an excuse to use some new crayons

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:38:30 -0800 Anty chamber wall paper http://vagueidea.co.uk/anty-chamber-wall-paper http://vagueidea.co.uk/anty-chamber-wall-paper

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I have finally got around to finishing off my damask/flock wall paper design that is made up of lots of little ants.. I'm not sure if it works 100% using a pattern within a pattern but it's along the right lines!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:37:02 -0800 word... art... http://vagueidea.co.uk/word-art http://vagueidea.co.uk/word-art

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the brief was to express a word within itself, in the typographical treatment...

I tried to tell an intercontinental love story...

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:36:50 -0800 modernist font for a Dadaist letter http://vagueidea.co.uk/modernist-font-for-a-dadaist-letter http://vagueidea.co.uk/modernist-font-for-a-dadaist-letter

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all punctuation is the artists own

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:24:04 -0800 found object: framed jigsaw http://vagueidea.co.uk/found-object-framed-jigsaw http://vagueidea.co.uk/found-object-framed-jigsaw

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something a bit compelling about this jigsaw of ships (or boats) I saw lying on top of a pile of rubbish. it must have taken hours to make, and someone so clearly like it they then mounted it and hung it on their walls.. for years..

I just like the way the individual tiles force you to examine their details minutely as you put it together, and perhaps whilst hanging. but also always mar, or mark, the whole as they remind you that you are looking at a jigsaw of a picture, never the picture itself.

unlike a maker's mark or tool marks they outline the democracy of construction, the skill set of the creator, and most promisingly the investment of time...

bloody awful looking though, isn't it?

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:15:46 -0800 I have much to post... http://vagueidea.co.uk/i-have-much-to-post http://vagueidea.co.uk/i-have-much-to-post

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I think I have dire pictures of a collage in response to a poem.. and maybe three more to draw in response to another...

I have some visceral abstract sketches to encapsulate my excitement at going to futuregov's #benefitscamp next week.. up wonder if I could livedraw it?

I shall be doing a bit on politics falling between the cannons of normal inspiration....

lastly I wanted to say I found someone who I think is an awesome artist, the wonderful #hollymcglynn.. see the photo and marvel.. marvel I tells you!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:19:30 -0800 the art of war http://vagueidea.co.uk/the-art-of-war http://vagueidea.co.uk/the-art-of-war "Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war ... against brutality and darkness." Picasso

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:50:22 -0800 self portraits in blue http://vagueidea.co.uk/self-portraits-in-blue http://vagueidea.co.uk/self-portraits-in-blue

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so this is a little painting I did today (on my exciting first day of art class).. I want to play around with the image now I have it digitally..

all of those bubbles are going to be little personas..

I think it's a very introspective piece, but cheerful...

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:04:00 -0800 Radio 4 box http://vagueidea.co.uk/radio-4-box http://vagueidea.co.uk/radio-4-box

One of the gifts that will be available in the Museum of Modern culture is the Radio 4 box - celebrating the station famed for it's intellectual rigour and innate whimsy. This simple cardboard 'four' has two little speakers and some controls. It is loaded with every episode of in our time and I'm sorry I haven't a clue, to show the range the channel had. 

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Unfortunately Otto hadn't time to fabricate one yet, but let me photograph his orignal sketch. "It seemed an excellent way to express the station", he told me, "an expression of a specific sound in a single artefact. It seems strangely counter cultural in the iPod age - luddite even. However, the technology inside has to be infinitely complex to create an object so simple, especicially when compared to our last such audio comparator, the CD or vinyal record."

Otto has also considered adding a discovered digital object as a 'bonus track' - It was created by long time Radio 4 enthusiast Russell Davies. However, Otto would like to also attempt a hard house remix of it before inclusion.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:00:57 -0800 Ants.... http://vagueidea.co.uk/ants http://vagueidea.co.uk/ants

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I'm really enjoying small living things making up other things... Here I have tried a very large print damask filled in with ants.

I think it will work better with a stronger design, but the ants look fun.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Sat, 03 Dec 2011 11:02:17 -0800 Why bother storing this stuff? http://vagueidea.co.uk/why-bother-storing-this-stuff http://vagueidea.co.uk/why-bother-storing-this-stuff It's quick to see that Otto Schmidt has been incredibly busy. The range of items and objects he has thrown together is huge. From a set of drawers that contain all the tweets from the Arab Spring, to a book that chronicles the procession of members of the German 2012 Olympic hand ball all joining twitter. He even reverentially shows me a trunk that he had hidden from public view that entombs the very first Lolcat.

But what does Otto hope to achieve by trying to archive this horde of ephemera. I ask him if he doesn't feel like the opposite of King Canute - desperately trying to hold the tide towards him, as it slips through his fingers. "It isn't like that", he depletes in the modular accent of expensively taught business english.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Sat, 03 Dec 2011 09:47:00 -0800 A box of prof stephen hawking's google searches http://vagueidea.co.uk/a-box-of-prof-stephen-hawkings-google-searche http://vagueidea.co.uk/a-box-of-prof-stephen-hawkings-google-searche

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So I got the box of stephen hawking's google searches from the Museum of Modern Culture in Berlin. If it looks a bit amateurish, that's because it is. The plain card boxes come from a famous large European flat packed furniture store. The museum's curator simply labels up what he can find and stores them. The museum is four rooms that makes the entirety of the first floor of otto schmidt's bauhaus inspired town house.

The MMC was established in 2010, as a place to store some of the most precious and transient knowledge that has floated from the depths of the internet before it is sucked out to sea by the rip tide of time.

I wanted to share the box from prof hawking, as it is a bit like the box of sound I made earlier. Although a box full of ten months of web searches is about half the size! I got a few objects from the curator Otto Schmidt, which I will post periodically.

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/1393526/267554_10150327168726913_508941912_9367833_7102755_n__1_.jpg http://posterous.com/users/hcl4hDRfI2wsO Adam Dustagheer adamdustagheer Adam Dustagheer Thu, 15 Sep 2011 04:42:00 -0700 The Plan - Sophie Hannah http://vagueidea.co.uk/the-plan-sophie-hannah http://vagueidea.co.uk/the-plan-sophie-hannah

Take any mind. Open its doors.

Remove all news, all views on wars,
The thought of censure or applause,

The ratio of slights to cheers.
Peel back the clutter of the years,
Paranoid doubts, ungrounded fears.

Evict the hearsay, then the fact,
The wondering how you should react,
The dream of what your life has lacked,

Smugness for all you have achieved.
Banish whatever you've believed - 
All doctrines, proved or preconceived,

All shopping lists, tasks underway,
The papers piled in your in-tray,
Tomorrow, ditto yesterday.

Take your own mind. Knock down the walls.
Let wind gust freely through its halls.
Empty the grand tier, circle, stalls.

Then, with the view completely clear,
Real life as far as it is near,
Sit back and have your best idea.

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Hanging on the telephone - where are all the social network songs?

 

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