RIP Kodachrome

They say all good things in life come to an end. Today we announced that Kodak will retire KODACHROME Film, concluding its 74-year run.

It was a difficult decision, given its rich history. At the end of the day, photographers have told us and showed us they’ve moved on to newer other Kodak films and/or digital. KODACHROME Film currently represents a fraction of one percent of our film sales. We at Kodak want to celebrate with you the rich history of this storied film. Feel free to share with us your fondest memories of Kodachrome.

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Protest Apathy

 

TRAFALGAR SQUARE, LONDON – SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2PM

COME DEMONSTRATE YOUR APATHY TO THE NATION!
THIS WILL BE THE WORLD’S LARGEST APATHETIC DEMONSTRATION! COME ALONG AND BE PASSIVE!
Come and declare your passivity and indifference at Toby Huddlestone’s large-scale intervention artwork Protest Apathy.
Slogans will be provided in the form of a limited edition newspaper in which you can tear/fold pages from to proclaim your apathy.

 

See event on facebook here
See event and more on artist’s website here

This intervention is linked to the exhibition A Line, A Road, Abridged at HOLD AND FREIGHT gallery (http://www.holdandfreight.org/) running til 27 June 2009. Nearest tube: Stepney Green

Before the Show

Cleaning loose pile from the carpet…

Quite a journey from the clean graphic below.

Ireland/ Modern

‘So it’ll be kind of modern-y then.

Oh well, it’ll be nice all the same.’

(in discussion with bean-an-tí about the new carpet design).

Just Some Videos

The new gallery at the National College of Art and Design opens with a superb show by Phil Collins: see here for more info about the inaugural season.

Visiting a few weekends ago I was told (quite apologetically) at the front desk, ‘Well there’s no art here as such. Just some videos.’

So it seems the mediation programme has a way to go yet: it is really a shame that staff who have worked in the institution for twenty or thirty years, or more, are so uninformed as to the kind of cultural products it sends out into the world. And also instructive that the role of gallery ‘front desking’ is perhaps something that should not be underestimated in terms of the specific training that is required (vocabulary; interest; the ability to ‘put a face on yerself’) .

Local Money

Local currencies produced to ’support local economies’ in the Sates: via USA Today & Huffington Post.

Artists on the New Economy

David Ross has done a series of video interviews asking artists to talk about the new economy. It can be found in the cover story of the still in beta online magazine FLYP

via Newsgrist

Artificial Paradise

New work in the public realm by students of the National college of Art and Design:

Niamh Moriarty; Oonagh Comerford; Emily McFarland; Hilary O’Mahony; Siobhán Carroll.

The Artificial Paradise project tries to analyse how we approach each other and our surroundings in such a rapidly changing and evolving city-scape often in a whimsical and entertaining way.  Five third year NCAD students have made unique and engaging pieces of art reflecting their thoughts about this regeneration.  A wide range of research and experimentation has been undertaken by these students since the project began late in 2008.  The works presented include community interactions, sculptural performance, intervention and large-scale public constructions.

Artifical Paradise Website

Image: Niamh Moriarty

Amateur Hour: Bolex Baby

From www.petermiller.info:  ‘Bolex Baby is a love song for my 16mm film camera.’

Amateur Hour is a showcase for exciting new learning, skills, entertainment and public actions. Submissions in any form welcome to selfinterestandsympathy [at] gmail [dot] com

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A Building Protests

Liberty Hall, Dublin, Friday February 20th. Photo by Sarah Browne.