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LILAC
Peter Saville/Autechre
When designer Peter Saville spotted an old pink Cadillac under a lilac tree in LA, he invented a spin to set the scene. Autechre remix.
- Story Last updated 6 Jul 2001
- Contributors Last updated 6 Jul 2001
Related Projects: [Performance] [Art Direction] [Music] [Graphic Design] [Peter Saville] [Autechre]
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THE SEASONS
Derek Michael
See how Derek Michael's leaf changes through spring, summer, autumn and winter. See how it changes again when you stretch it with your mouse, then pick a favourite pattern to be waiting for you when you come back to the site.
- Interactive Last updated 27 Mar 2001
- Contributors Last updated 27 Mar 2001
Related Projects: [Interactive] [Graphic Design]
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INTERVIEW
Steve McQueen/Tricky
When SHOWstudio invited the artist, Steve McQueen to interview whoever he wanted, he chose his favourite musician, Tricky.
- Contributors Last updated 21 Mar 2001
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SAFER STEPS
Andy Sticks
Why you should 'always give your new leather soles a bit of a rubdown with sandpaper before venturing out for a night on the town'. A cautionary story by poet, Andy Sticks.
- Movie Last updated 9 Feb 2001
- Contributors Last updated 9 Feb 2001
Related Projects: [Film] [Performance] [Poetry]
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PLASTICINE
Lone Sigurdsson
Guess the label. Try to spot which designer's work Lone Sigurdsson has been cloning in her Plasticine replicas of the A/W '01 collections.
- Interactive Last updated 9 Feb 2001
- Images Last updated 9 Feb 2001
- Movie Last updated 9 Feb 2001
- Contributors Last updated 9 Feb 2001
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Interactive] [Film] [Art] [Collections] [Jane How]
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MELTING HEADS
Jake & Dinos Chapman
One Chapman brother describes Melting Heads as 'the most simplistic B-movie effect'. The other says they did it because 'it scares children'. Judge for your self, whilst listening to one of five soundtracks by Add N to X.
- Movie Last updated 9 Feb 2001
- Text Last updated 9 Feb 2001
- Contributors Last updated 9 Feb 2001
Related Projects: [Film] [Interview] [Art] [Music] [Chapman Brothers]
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CRUSH
Nick Knight/Tom Hingston
The dark side of the saloon. Nick Knight placed a dozen video cameras inside four crusher-bound cars and filmed their destruction down to the final scrunch. 3D of Massive Attack dreamt up the soundtrack.
- Movie Last updated 9 Feb 2001
- Text Last updated 9 Feb 2001
- Contributors Last updated 9 Feb 2001
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Music] [Documentary] [Tom Hingston] [Massive Attack]
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SUPERSPORT
Anders Edstrom/Peter Taylor
It's sunset. Anders Edstrom and Peter Taylor chance upon an elderly Japanese man singing Bruce Springsteen's Born In The USA.
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
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LO-FI: Mark Szaszy
Mark Szaszy
Late one night, Mark Szaszy took three friends, a steel guitar and a lot of vodka, filmed them on his old Hi 8 camera, and then lost the master copy.
- Movie Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Text Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Documentary] [Mark Szaszy]
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1088% Solve Sundsbo
S¿lve Sundsb¿
See the streets of London at very, very high speed through Sølve Sundsbø's thermal camera.
- Movie Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Text Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [City]
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CORPORATE AESTHETICS
Jason Evans
Snide. Patronising. Tortuous. Whenever Jason Evans turns on the telly, he's irritated by those 'annoying little bursts of eye candy'. So he came up with his own version.
- Movie Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Text Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Politics] [Music] [Jason Evans] [Advertising] [TV]
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FERGADELIC
Experience cult 'Silas' illustrator Fergus Purcell's sketchbook drawings as animation. A bejewelled declaration that 'I want to believe' signposts the journey, which introduced a world of dominatrixes with Elvis on their mind, an incredible Hulk in King Crimson T-shirt and a variety of idiosyncratic pop-o-cultural trinkets and postulations.
- Movie Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
Related Projects: [Music] [Erotica] [Illustration] [Animation] [Fergus Purcell]
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GIVENCHY COUTURE
Nick Knight/Katy England/Alexander McQueen
Not any old suits, or even any old Alexander McQueen for Givenchy haute couture suits, but fibre optic haute couture suits that pulsate with light when Katy England spins them round and round on turntables for Nick Knight.
- Movie Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Nick Knight] [Film] [Collections] [Alexander McQueen] [Katy England] [Haute Couture] [Givenchy]
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DIAMONDS
Nick Knight
Follow Nick Knight's lens as it snooped from one Madison Avenue skyscraper to another. Then eavesdrop on Kate Moss while she talked on the telephone to artist, Sarah Morris, about exactly where Johnny Depp hid her diamond necklace.
- Movies Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Text Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
Related Projects: [Nick Knight] [Film] [Performance] [Art] [Celebrity] [Kate Moss] [Surveillance] [Sarah Morris]
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DOLLS
Nick Knight/Camille Bidault-Waddington
Take a model styled by Camille Bidault-Waddington with hair by Sam McKnight. Let a four year-old, a one year-old and two three year-olds do what ever they want with her make-up, and then ask them to draw on Nick Knight's prints.
- Movie Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Images Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Beauty] [Music] [Graphic Design] [Illustration] [Digital Image-Making] [Animation] [Camille Bidault-Waddington]
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WASTE PAINTING
Saville/Hetherington/Wakefield
What do you do in a carniverous culture where whatever you create is lionised, and then discarded before anyone's had time to appreciate it? If you're Peter Saville, you'll recycle your old work into new work before anyone else does.
- Images Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Text Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
Related Projects: [Art] [Paul Hetherington] [Art Direction] [Graphic Design] [Digital Image-Making] [Peter Saville] [Painting] [Howard Wakefield]
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ORDINARY
David Weightman
Ordinary people on an ordinary street in an ordinary town on an ordinary day. If it's all so ordinary, why does one of David Weightman's old ladies seem to be crushing another, and why is a disembodied hand creeping around the corner?
- Images Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Text Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
Related Projects: [Photography] [Documentary] [David Weightman] [City]
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FIRE
Brian Dowling
Ever wondered if it's worth unplugging all that electrical stuff at night? Not once you've seen what Brian Dowling found in his Mum's flat after her telly went up in flames.
- Images Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Text Last updated 20 Dec 2000
- Contributors Last updated 20 Dec 2000
Related Projects: [Photography] [Documentary] [Brian Dowling]
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ONE IN TEN
Nick Knight/Katy England
If breast cancer affects one-in-ten women, why is it invisible in fashion photography? Nick Knight and stylist Katy England, redressed the balance in a shoot starring seven women who have fought breast cancer and won.
- Movie Last updated 17 Nov 2000
- Images Last updated 17 Nov 2000
- Text Last updated 17 Nov 2000
- Contributors Last updated 17 Nov 2000
Related Projects: [Fashion] [Photography] [Nick Knight] [Politics] [Interview] [Performance] [Body Image] [Katy England]
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HOME DANCE
Elaine Constantine
'Just for those two and a half minutes, life is fantastic,' says one of the Northern Soulsters filmed by Elaine Constantine getting ready for a night out on the floor.
- Movie Last updated 10 Nov 2000
- Text Last updated 10 Nov 2000
- Contributors Last updated 10 Nov 2000
Related Projects: [Photography] [Film] [Models] [Music] [Dance] [Elaine Constantine] [Northern Soul]