Navy To Study On PSP

Fighter pilots train on PC flight simulators, so now the Royal Navy has just invested £50,000 in 230 PSPs to help marine engineers prepare for exams. As you'd expect, the PSPs come with custom software explaining aspects of the work under scrutiny, with both video and audio explanations for the hard of reading.

However, it has had at least one somewhat sniffy review from the Navy brass.
Commander Trevor Price said: "We are working on the premise that looking at a book is now seen as dull and boring. When I was at school you sat at your desk and you did your work and that was it." That's them told.

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Water Glory (2009) - Waterlily Series

Size: 51.5cm W x 55.5cm H x 4.2cm D

Click on images for a supersized view!

(Completed 14th November 2009)

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2 Hip Hop Tracks You Must Hear

U God feat. Method Man (Wu Tang)


Foreign Beggars - Contact - Produced by Noisia

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Insane Roof Jumper

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Creativity Videos

Joshua Allen Harris' Inflatable Streetart in New York [VIA]


Dep, Tizer, Bonzai and Lovepusher painting in the Russian Club in East London for Glug, filmed by Charlie Inman


Timelapse aerosol graffiti by probs // endofthleine //// promotional video for Avatar - commissioned by Casio and 20th Century Fox for the new James Cameron blockbuster.

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Paolo Parente Mech Walker Kits

DUST is a "What if world", a fictionary world based on our true history and mixed-up with science fiction, created by Paolo Parente. Toys, Kits & Comics all available on his site!!

The setting is around 1950 the "cold war" where all the superpowers are developing new high-tech armaments, getting ready for a new war…

The difference is that amongst them we find Nazi Germany and their Axis allies, who were the first to develop new weapon technologies at the end of 1944, ending the ward in a different way compared to history.




Thanks to Toybot Studios for showing this to me!

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Sun and Shadow

I always find the best spots to paint at noon with the sun glaring down. The downside is that the contrasts are sharp. The advantage of this is that it provides me with an opportunity to study the features we need in our South African homes to provide shelter from the heat.

Driving along the highway to Malmesbury this cottage suddenly appearred 'in the middle of nowhere' near the main road. That it seems so solitary is an indication of the abundance of space we are used to in the West Coast region. The house was built in what we call Victorian style in our country, but whereas Victorians had to consider heating, architects here had to incorparate into their design our lenghthy summers and providing natural cooling. The most important feature these little homes had was the deep shady verandas. It kept the dining- and sitting room, which were always near the front, very cool and provided a lovely sheltered outside area to sit during the day. It provided symmetry and order to the design, and here the two large trees were used to provide a neat frame.

I noticed that the building now had a religious use, but my memories were stirred and I thought back to a time when a man would read his newspaper outside on the veranda while his wife sat there preparing vegetables. Besides a comfortable bench there would be an upright table which could be laid so that the family could enjoy their supper outside on hot summer nights. Yes, sitting down to dinner wherever you were, was a great South African tradition! How things have changed with the advent of television!

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Lost In Translation

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321 Solstice Show Hong Kong Pictures

The launch of "321 Solstice", Adapta's 4th show in 12 months, was really well received by the HKG public, with way more people than the beer could handle turning up! I just want to say a big thank you to the Artists, (Bill London, Cept, David Bray, Friendly Liu, Graphic Airlines, Jon Burgerman, L1ES ONE, Phil Ashcroft, Swoon & Vesna Parchet) and the Schoeni Gallery team for hosting such a good night in conjunction with Adapta and we hope we can continue to do more group shows in Asia for 2010!

The lovely Nicole Schoeni and her close friend, Ankie Bielke

The space in all its glory...

L1ES ONE

David Bray's newest works

Swoon's "Bethlehem Boys"

The result of Graphic Airlines' Live Paint on Nov 17th

Graphic Airline's Print

To see more pics of the art, the venue and event, please visit this slideshow HERE.

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The Guitar Pulsar

Discovered in 1992, this pulsar is flying through a gas cloud and producing a shock wave that looks, at a closer inspection, like a guitar. Scientists have now deduced that the pulsar's path indicates that 800,000 years ago it was fired from a cluster of massive stars that now lies about 6500 light years away from Earth.

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Bombing With Stealth

2 videos on how to make a stealth spray can......

....and how to silence your spray can.

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Graffer Runs Out Of Paint

In Palm Bay, Florida, a graffer has a bad day.

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Alex Fakso X Adidas Originals Nizza

Good friend, Alex Fakso has just released a hot new collab project with Adidas Originals Nizza. (The Highly Limited Adidas Five Two-3 City Artist Pack)





They are available to buy from many places, including HERE.

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Shades Of Things To Come Art Show

AVAILABLE FROM OPENING NIGHT:
• NEWLY CREATED ARTWORKS FROM ALL THE ARTISTS
• LIMITED EDITION PRINTS - ARYZ / DOES / NYCHOS / PROBS / TIZER
• LIMITED COPIES OF GICLEE PRINT - BOM.K
• LIMITED RUN OF BISER STENCIL PRINT
• LIMITED EDITION POSTCARD PACKS
• MEETING OF STYLES COMIC BOOKS - LIMITED RUN OF 500
and much much more for your eyes....

End of the Line presents ‘Shades of Things to Come’, an exploration into the contemporary world of freehand graffiti. We have selected incredible artists from across Europe who really push the boundaries of freehand aerosol art. Each artist has a unique, individual style and represents a different discipline of dirty handstyles and technical dexterity.

Location:
Maverik Showroom
68-72 Redchurch street, E2 7DP

Really looking forward to this show!!! See you there!

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Is Your Child A Tagger?

Your kid might not be, but you probably are!!

LOL!!!!!

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Custom Homemade Toys

Sabretooth, a member of Figure Realm, has the whole custom toy thing down! Whether its making a toy from scratch from bits and pieces, or just customising other toys.

This figurine, from the movie District 9 was built from a Transformers Thundercracker 2007 movie toy, half of a broken Lego Bionicle, some chopsticks, sheet plastic, paint and "a lot of time and patience." He stands approximately 3 3/4" tall and is highly poseable.

This Optimus Prime figurine was repainted using Tamiya acrylics and some weathering techinques. As for his gun it was scratch built out of pieces.

This is the Big Daddy character from the game Bioshock. He started off as a Kingpin Faceoff Marvel Legend and through about a weeks worth of toil and trouble and a pack of leds here's the end result. The wire guard around his head is actual wire, and there are 8 leds in his head. All the detail work was hand sculpted. The drill was made from scratch, using alot of magic sculpt.

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3 Great Paper Art Designers

Rotterdam-based artist Bert Simons makes these scarily realistic papercraft models, by first making 3D models of real subjects.
"Howl's Moving Castle" was created by Ben Millett. It took Ben about 72 hours to build it, spread over 3 weeks and looks exactly like the anime version.


Japanese art student Wataru Itou, took over 4 years to create this amazing castle and features lights and a moving train. It's probably the most stunning papercraft sculpture ever. The sculpture is called "A Castle on the Sea," and is currently exhibited at Uminohotaru.

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Fly Advertising and Herakut Videos

Ronzo recently sent me these two videos and so I thought I'd share them with you.....


To promote their exhibition stand at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Eichborn the publisher prepared 200 flies with an ultra light banner. The banner was attached with natural wax. After a short time the banner dropped off by itself. And the flies were not harmed.


Herakut live painting in Berlin on the 18th October, 2009

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Cape Dutch Architecture

I spotted this building on a street corner in Malmesbury. This is one of the typical white Cape Dutch homes that is such a feast for the eye because of the clean symmetry. Of course this style originated in the Netherlands, but in a very different way and developed here over the years in our own gracefully unique style. In Dutch cities we can still see tall narrow buildings, several storeys high that are topped with gables. In South Africa with so much space available the building style transformed itself into spacious floor plans and usually a single storey. Because the rules of symmetry were followed, the homes were either long or in an H or a T shape.

The burghers had tiles for roofing at first, but those early tiles cracked in the harsh climate. Reeds was the best local material available and the roofs needed to be high-pitched to prevent water from settling on the roof and creating rot. Soon the white gables and high thatched roofs became characteristic of the Cape Dutch style. I mentioned in an earlier blog that the large gable also freed the front door from burning thatch blocking the entrance in the event of a fire.

High ceilings and thick walls lead to cool interiours. Flagstones that came over to the Cape as ships' ballast were used for the floors and sometimes highly polished. Windows are always higher than their width, and rhythmically placed.Today many of these homes are beautifully restored, authentically furnished and lived in or preserved as national monuments and museums.

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Close Encounters Group Show Tokyo Pictures

Adapta Gallery’s third curated project will be held from November 12th - November 29th 2009, with a show in Tokyo called Close Encounters. The show consists of 8 British-based artists, including Best Ever, Cyclops, D*Face, David Bray, Matt Small, Sickboy, Word To Mother and Vesna Parchet.

Exhibition venue : Time Out Gallery, Liquidroom 2/F, 3-16-6, Higashi, Shibuya-ku,Tokyo

Opening Date : 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, 12 November, 2009

Exhibition runs : 13 November 2009 – 3 December, 2009

Website : www.ukadapta.com/closeencounters.html

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