First shot from my most ambitious Redux project to date..

Hunt & Darton Cafe: Clapton Launch

Congratulations, Pork Baby.

Weekender

On Saturday and Sunday I led an Artsadmin Weekender.

Here are some of the things we got up to:

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Jo hangs a sign, found in the gutter by the closing-down Women's Library, on the door of a nearby recently-opened lap-dancing club:

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In a vast frosty wasteland, cleared for a perpetually postponed skyscraper, Deb addresses the ambiguity of the HAND CAR WASH by asking them to WASH her HAND CAR:

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It's a quiet day, so they enthusiastically oblige:

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The high-pressure hose causes serious damage to one of the headlamps, but we pay them for their services nevertheless:

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On the rooftop of a multi-storey car park, soon to be swept away by a financial brokerage, Claire plays golf on the green:

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The other Weekenders survey the terrain:

 

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And Hannah has a big skip:

It's Jim's Birthday. Happy Birthday Jim. 

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His balloons intervene with the perpetual surveillance of the Congestion Charge border: 

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David's has the idea to insert a moment of antisocial behaviour..

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into an otherwise anodyne computer generated representation of a forthcoming luxury apartment complex:

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And as the sun sets, the Weekenders reinvent the Maersk logo: 

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by duct-taping me to a wall opposite the company's London headquarters:

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Our work here is done. What a busy Weekend. 

Video footage here. 

Die Shard

The laser show planned to mark the completion of The Shard tonight is nothing but a smokescreen.

Buried underground for millions of years, The Shard is, in fact, an alien artefact designed by evil extra-terrestrial insurgents to annihilate mankind. 

However, it's not too late to mount a massive international pre-emptive strike.

I shall be watching via wifi from the safety of an undisclosed deep-level tube platform. 

Tonight is our Independence Day.

Good Luck everyone!

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Boris: 'I love the design Anish, but what it could really benefit from is a massively overpowering grey staircase.'

Mister Pyrite

I recently ordered this:

And actually received this:

Can you spot the key difference?

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More to follow..

Feel Revolting? Syrious Relief.

My Panacea for Syria's ills:

























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31 things to try and take into Zuccotti Park

Ridiculous rules are often the hardest to enforce, and the easiest to subvert.

Here, then, is a list of items to carry upon one's person on policed entry into Zuccotti Park, to test new Health & Safety rules banning tents and sleeping bags.

In ascending order:

1. A picnic blanket

If successful:

2. A picnic blanket with an integral collapsible pole system

3. Energy bars

If yes:
4. Solar Energy Bars
















5. Hammock

If yes:
6. Rotary washing line

















7. Folding camping furniture

If no:
8. Deck chairs

If no:
9. Deflated inflatable furniture

If yes:
10. Inflated inflatable furniture

If yes:
11. Inflated inflatable furniture filled with helium














12. Heat packs













13. Space blankets

















14. Rubble bags





















15. Gaffer tape


















16. A photograph of a tent












17. A sign with the word TENT written on it














If yes:
18. A tent with the words THIS IS NOT A TENT written on it













19. Children's paddling pool











If yes:
20. Children's play house




















21. One of these

If yes:
22. One of these
















23. Construction worker's tent
(remember to dress as construction worker to increase your chances of success)















24. A mobile hot dog grill























25. An ice cream cart













26. Ingredients with which to produce lemonade















Advanced Projects


27. Design three triangular placards, made from correx or similar, that can be transformed into a teepee structure. Carry separately.


28. Conceal a sleeping bag under your clothing

If no:

29. Repeat, but conceal inside a body cavity

30. What is the smallest tent one can pitch in Zuccotti Park?

Find out by making an extremely small tent (I'm talking the size of a pack of cigarettes).

Pitch it in Zuccotti Park, then photograph it, using depth of field to make look much bigger.

Post photos online in an act of digital defiance.

Repeat with incrementally larger tents until you are asked to stop.


31. An enormous inflatable Rudolph





Good luck!

Richard DeDomenici
Backward Solutions For A Progressive Future

Siri = HAL?

Royal Wedding Banknote Confetti

What better way to celebrate Kate Middleton's fasttrack entry into the landed gentry, than with confetti illustrated with the face of her mother-in-law?


Don't answer that.

It was a rhetorical question.