As I explained in my post last week, I’ve been working on assignments for an online course about art history, and trying to use these assignments as a springboard back into artistic practice. For the second assignment, we were instructed to choose an object or an image, turn it into something else, then turn it […]
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Responding using Art 1
I’ve been doing an online course through Coursera for the past few weeks, looking at how artists and animators can use an awareness of art history to enrich their own practice. This is partly because I teach Contextual Studies at work, and also because I miss art historical practice. My undergraduate degree is in art […]
Spring is Coming
We’ve finally had a respite from the fog that’s been sitting across the north east of late (I’m not kidding, my phone’s weather app was stuck on ‘Fog’ from last Friday until yesterday) so I decided to take an advantage of the slightly nicer weather and take some snaps in the garden. Not all of […]
Instagram – Yes or No?
A rather stunning sky over Jarrow So Instagram, the photo sharing service that was bought by Facebook earlier in the year, have changed their privacy policy and terms of service. I actually read them yesterday, and found that apparently “Nothing has changed about your photos’ ownership or who can see them”…which appears to directly contradict […]
