WK side update
WKSide under the spotlight
On Friday we did a five minute presentation at the agency meeting.Five minutes, four of us, that’s only one and a quarter minutes each. Doesn’t sound like a lot, but we were all really rather nervous. Everitt was pacing around the room and all the colour left Tubby’s face. Our nervous dispositions were mainly due to Dan Wieden’s presence at the meeting. But it all went smoothly in the end. We mainly talked about how we work together and what we’ve been working on and what our experience has been like here at WK.
They look serious here but we got a few smiles
These are some animations we used in our presentation. Click on the file to play each animation:
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Liza Lou exhibition at the White Cube
The Liza Lou exhibition at the White Cube gallery is worth checking out for this cell alone. You can’t see from the picture but the entire surface of the death row cell, including the bucket, is created with beads. Each is applied with tweezers, and by using different colours and textures of beads she created breathtaking detail down to the watermarks and stains on the wall. Even the ceiling is completely created with varying layers of beads. It was incredible. You literally have to see it for yourself to feel the effect, which is very moving. You view it through a small window, and you just want to get up close to it. When you think how she studied the detail of the bricks it makes you think how a prisoner must know every square centimetre of their miserable cell, and the artist mapping it out and beading it is almost doing time as a tribute. It’s amazing. The other pieces were equally detailed: a razor wire cage which was made of silver beads, even the bolts were beaded.
I took a cheeky photo while the gallery staff weren’t looking, but you can see the detail:
There was also the body of a man leading against a wall, lifesize down to the beaded fingers and toes. It almost hurts your head to think that someone would even attempt it, and not just say, sod it, I’ll just make a little padlock or a small skull (or something). But the result is a shimmering, sparkling reflection in real scale of confined spaces and the human body, capable of both creating and (surviving in) such a horrible thing.
Check out www.whitecube.com for more info. Apparently the film is good too.
Don’t know, I missed it- but it plays every hour.
