Lamp?

I have discovered a great problem in art works with no real use, other than to be looked at.
It has no practical application in real life, AKA it does nothing but get in the way.

Control/Deliverance! (Which I still call it, in my head) has been sitting in the shed for about two weeks now, and last weekend, somebody bumped it and it very slowly fell down. And then it wouldn't go back together again quite the same. The thin metal supports I used to hold it up in the 'making of' stages are back again, making the whole thing a little lot less impressive. I'm considering buying some of those thin, clear plastic rods to support it, because I can't find the centre of balance that I had found, by dumb luck, the first time round. Chances are the plastic rods will end up costing more than the rest of the thing, but what can you do?

Also, there's the problem of finding some practical use for the thing. My dad came over today and said that he'd take it off my hands, and keep it in his empty beach house, if we could find a way to transport it. Which would most likely mean dissembling it and trying to build it again. But he did mention an idea for a proper use for it. Because the main torso is hollow, he suggested making it into a lamp. Ideas abound.

Would require finding a very low watt light, so that it doesn't burn through the plastic, and probably creating some sort of wire cage inside the torso, so that it's strong enough to support it, which would mean cutting it open, but I would have to do that in the long run anyway...

Oh the ideas!


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Now playing: Bright Eyes - Lover I Don't Have To Love

Watching Late Night TV Is Good For You

Thanks to my sleep cycle being thrown out of wack, I've been watching quite a bit of late night TV lately. Which normally is pretty dodgy, because during the week there's just infomercials about stuff I wouldn't want to buy at any other time, but are strangely appealing after the second hour of continuous advertising.

But on Friday and Saturday nights, I am in heaven. Rage welcomes my zombie like viewing all week long by playing awesome music videos until the sun comes up. This one has to be my favourite of late. I don't remember what the song sounds like (I watch TV with the sound off, did I mention that?) but the video itself is amazing. I give you: The Science of Fear by Temper Trap.



Okay, youtube doesn't want to embed the video, so check it out here.

Control

92 x 95 x 159.5 cm
Newspaper, wire, packing tape, Styrofoam.


If I ever attempt something like this again, please somebody shoot me. Originally I thought I'd have 5 weeks to complete this. I didn't. I had 2 weeks, but I probably spent about a week and a day actually working on it.
Then I died.

But anyway, now I've got all these empty tape rolls left over. 8 or 9 of them I think. So I'm gunna take a leaf out of Dave Lowe's book/blog and make me some shackles. After I take a really long nap.



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Now playing: Operator Please - Terminal Disease

Stealing Titles from Quotes.

"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

-Malcolm X

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Now playing: The Cure - Close To Me

Not Really Finished, But Close

Last picture for tonight.
This is just before it was finished, you can see that the neck hole is still open. I apparently didn't take any photos after I made the neck, so it'll have to wait, I guess.

Bones

The Lighthouse Is An Accident

Title has nothing to do with the photo.