Saturday, March 12, 2011

Goodbye friend



I didn't know for a good while what to call this but I settled on the one above. Television recently has become a very frustrating process involving much grating advertising and pointless, vapid shows. I also remember learning a lot from tv growing up and as a current non owner of a tv and a occupier of the internet I thought that this was fitting to not only break an old , dated tv, but that just breaking a tv might sever whatever old ties I had to the old pastime. Many hours spent watching pointless, unengaging programming, with the odd ever decreasing good viewing thrown in led me to the point of wishing to unmake a television. My initial intention was to see it off a roof but weather, time, and health and safety put paid to that. This I would recommend to anyone wishing they could ever get away from the tv, or anyone sick of being pestered to buy things they don't need or want. Football is all you had left for me and now the internet has taken that too, not to mind the fact that a lot of news is now second hand reporting from the internet. TV, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, upgrade already.

Pieces from the end of the brief











These videos are sideways, apologies, and these were the first attempt at the spinning mechanism.



This part was very enjoyable.






The final arrangement of this odd construct. I like the way it continues to spin as if hovering in mid air.



Satisfied
All the screws that came from the various devices.
I like order.






Vibrance







CD Unrecorder

Video pieces.




Electropsy







This one's a bit long but it's most of my photos from the project

Typographic incidents and electronic parts








The process

Minidisc shots. Big fan of these colours.













Interesting dismantled electronics (unintentional faces a plenty)

It began with a mouse.

Fairly limited space to work in here. Stuff just builds up around me wherever I am.

This is almost tribal.  Nice deep greens in it.

This wire is anxious

This wire is progressive

Determined

Add caption

Half an hour V a year (roughly)

Dead mouse.

The old walkman. The level of detail in this is incredible. All under a bland black casing.

Submarine/fish

They are everywhere. EVERYWHERE.



What is this witchcraft that goes on under the covers?


It's a problem I know.


Black, white and colours!



Drawing award entrant. Rejected. Bit cheeky really. 


Everywhere.





There's such interesting colours in the devices.

The hidden precision. 




















Neigh.










Quite the bomb quality to this radio.

Which wire?