joy division remembered............madchester @ its best

 joy division......the sounds of madchester.......if you would like to contribute please contact me directly...

a trailer introduced by the late tony wilson mr madchester of factory records.......just watch ian curtis ....girating.....and with the manic stare....a great band.....

this is part of a series of "pavement poems" in tib street in the northern quarter of manchester....this area houses lots of interesting bars...restaurants.....clothing shops...is the home aflecks palace...an alladins cave in an old warehouse...filled with multifarious shops and stalls......vinyl exchange is a mecca for secondhand cds and vinyl....check the area out....

stevenson square the northern quarter....i used to arrive here on a number 90 bus from rochdale....there used to be a lyons cornerhouse....gone now

check this little video out....love will tear us apart....a great collage of images ....leading to fragmented black and white photos.....

 a classic shot on hulme bridge

 great shot with the phone box.....late for practice...a gig...who is he meeting....we will never know....

heres another video with john cooper clarke getting in on the act....seen and heard reading chickentown in some downtown shopping mall....with people malling around....a real performance artist...great stuff..

travels with doctor who......in the" camera obscura bag"

travels with doctor who....charts the good doctors sojourns with his mentor charlie......on their joint expeditions....or just plain visits to interesting places.......the doctor because of his size and demize is often seen or found hiding in odd surroundings.....having a closer look @ and even becoming part of the work he is looking at....he has exchanged his mode of time travel from the telephone box to "the camera obscura bag"

 

the doctor lands on a big collage where will the images take him...

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the doctor visits the faile temple in lisbon

 doctor who and the flying carpet

the doctor lands on an african sculpture......






















and yes hes appeared at the science museum in lisbon.....in a still life.....look carefully at the artefacts.....

cholamondal sketch book.....artist village south of chennai....india

at around this time last year hilary and i were in tamil nadu .....travelling by train...bus and taxi....visiting the most fantastic temples whilst staying at the artists village in cholamondal just south of chennai....i collected posters from walls along the dual carriageway.....this is a sample of some of the collages that i made....i also made some very big ones approximately 7metres long.....in these larger works i combined indian gods.....ganesh....shiva..

.with film stars...and other emphemera collected from the temples....for example maderai...what an amazing place....you can see more at holts in india blog

jakub nepras video artist....................AAAAAmazing!!!!!!!!!!

i first saw his work at the ccb....the barrado in lisbon......i came on it quite unexpectedly...in a small darkened room........wow....awesome....magical....unbeleivable....what is it........how was this done....just a minute there are people in there ....ballroom dancing...cars moving....all these reactions at the same time....it was the "babylon plant"....here in this short video.... you see some of this fantastic world that he creates.....it is one of the best works i have ever seen without a doubt.........

.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgedAFGi2Yw

let me know what you think.......

policromia urban artists...quarteira...algarve....2010

this is a new designated area for " policromia" a quarteira based urban art team......for some time they have been painting walls in the area....but always undercover....quick here come the gnr.....in recent times there has been an outbreak of what i term "visual vandalism"...this has been happening worldwide......closer to home in lisbon....in lisbon there is a dedicated area that has been sponsored by j c decaux the adveretising company...elevador de glorias.....here is an everchanging wall space which is controlled by the artists themselves.......here in quarteira there was a recent clean up campaign.....anibal moreno of loule camera recognised the quality of much of the artists work.....so we have 2 areas for the group...the underpass and a length of wall by the stadium....this is a good positive action by the local politicians....rather than obliterate the work....it now has a stage to perform on....i am really excited by the project......i hope that you will look again at grafitti in a different light next time you see some.....there are some very talented artists out there in the urban metropolis...they are enhancing what could be a concrete jungle with vibrant images.....