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- Spookytim0
Does anyone remember Octavo?
Came out of the RCA in the 80's, did some amazing stuff, then disbanded in about 1993.(co-founder)
- menos0
i don't 'remember' them per se, cuz its a bit out of my generation but i know of them and their work and how influential they were too.
- Dancer0
now now Spooky.
We're not too slow
;)
- Spookytim0
"now now Spooky. We're not too slow"
About what, Octavo? haha, sorry don't mean to sound patronising, but they were doing their thing in the 80's when I started working. I often assume most people here were still pooping in nappies in the 80's and don't really care about the past!Apologies.
(pulls tartan blanket over knees and does a bit more wee)
- Spookytim0
Another great thing from the 1880's was a newspaper that was produced by an Irish family called The Doyles who ran a really bohemian Pub in Maida Vale. The Doyles were a really amazing family, all of them were artists. They were the originators of a style of art that you see a lot of these days. They would stick a pin in a map, go the wherever the pin landed and (if it was a suitable location) they would make a hug 20foot square plastercast of that location, ship it back home and meticulously paint it up to look exactly like the real place, then exhibit it at the old Saatchi gallery on Abbey Road.
But they also used to publish this newspaper with no name, totally randomly, whenever they felt like it, and if you heard about it and wanted to do a page you could do. They would let you print anything you like on your page, and total nobodies would appear next to amazing artists and photographers in it.
How fucking ace was that.
God, I feel so sad that the past has gone and now we all sit here plugged into this insubstantial mesh of luminescent screens.
- Dancer0
I saw a documentry on TV about these guys tim.
definately remeber the pinpoint/map thing
- kelpie0
their work is amazing, there's one on the wall in the kelvingrove art gallery up here; from the other side of the cafeteria (where it hangs), you would swear blind they had varnished some road and cut it out to mount it on the wall.
- _me_0
i remember a time when you wandered in a cd shop and just knew blue source had done the cover - so just bought it... beautiful stuff.
- uncle_helv0
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