Some more curious discoveries.

First of all Id like to share with you a video I came across today entitled "One Plastic Beach" its basically a documentry piece from Richard Lang and his wife Judith Selby Lang. Video available here at vimeo.com

"Richard Lang and Judith Selby Lang have been collecting plastic debris off one beach in Northern California for over ten years. Each piece of plastic Richard and Judith pick up comes back to their house, where it gets cleaned, categorized and stored before being used for their art. The couple make sculptures, prints, jewelry and installations with the plastic they find washed up, raising a deeper concern with the problem of plastic pollution in our seas"

More information is available here

http://www.plasticforever.blogspot.com/

http://beachplastic.com/

Secondly id like to share with you a new found love. Ive already ordered a couple bottles to experiment with but if your interested in photography and the process of developing photography, or perhaps even if your interested in printmaking, fashion textiles or even painting. You should check out this product.

Video available from Vimeo.com

http://lumi.co/

image from the lumi website

Lumi is a photosensitive dye or ink which goes on clear and when exposed to sunlight colours. The untouched ink then gets washed off leaving you with a permenant image.

Im not sure what I would ever use it for atm but it would be great to experiment with perhaps with perhaps tracing the movement of the sun, even letting go with some sunlight drawings. It could be a great idea to even trace a days weather and may become a documentary series. Who knows the potential of this product. Its kinda like another type of smart materials which are available on the market today.The video available from Vimeo gives you some great ideas to try out so if your a student looking for something similar to this product let me know ill bring it into college whenever it arrives and we can experiment with it :p

The last video I want to share with you is something I came across by sheer chance. Its called "Goldfish Salvation" and I bloody love it.

The whole run of artwork created by Riusuke Fakahori 深堀隆介

Is just bloody awesome. I honestly wish I could paint the way he does let alone come up with a drawing idea to put his process of resin use to experimentation. Its just such a wonderful series of work which Id personally love to own a piece of. 

I suppose what first attracted me to his work is that Ive used the imagery of a Goldfish, albeit a dead one. To do a piece of work in my HND. 
Check out his work I promise it will if your into painting, sculpture, installation or still life creation. Or hell even if your into Goldfish. You will love his work. 


Anyways Im currently awaiting on some goodies Ive ordered from http://www.artstore.co.uk/ For years Ive wished for the Artstore located in Glasgow to have a store and now they do... so happy btw... And with free delivery when you spend over £40 (which I found rather easy to do) You cant really lose. Plus loads of stores are having decent sales especially online. 


Some of my top favourite online art stores.


http://www.artstore.co.uk/


http://www.artdiscount.co.uk/


http://www.cultpens.com/ (especially if your a pen junky like myself)


http://www.greatart.co.uk/