A lot of these new business struggled to cope with the instant pressure of global attention. Time zones disappeared and TV and Radio interviews could happen anytime of the day. These early pioneers of the Internet worked long hours and many of them crashed and burned.

Place A Memorial This service is free

English: Logo of the new Sky News HD channel. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

During these early days the rules of online marketing were written.

Below is a section from the diary of In Memory Of from 3rd May 2000

• 7.45am: Turn the computers on in our Worcestershire office.
• 8.00am: The Financial Times prints an article about us which prompts Mike Sergeant, from Sky News, to ask for an interview with us in South Ealing, London.
• 9.30am: Collect a new batch of postcards from our local printer and approve artwork for new leaflets.
• 10.30am: Collect Mark and drive to London.
• 11.00am: Park the car and have a telephone interview with Bill Mouland from the Daily Mail.
• 1.00pm: Stop the car again and organize a radio interview in Worcester for 10.00pm.
• 2.00pm: Arrive at location for filming.

• 3.00pm: Leave London and head back up the M4 to the Midlands.
• 4.00pm: Stop on Motorway for a cup of tea and a large breakfast (first food of the day).
• 6.00pm: Arrive back in the office and sort through emails.
• 7.00pm: Watch the news item on Sky News.
• 9.00pm: Set off for the studios of BBC Hereford & Worcester.
• 9.45pm: Wait in studio to be connected to London for a live interview on BBC Radio 4.

• 10.25pm: Leave radio station.
• 12.15am: Get back to office. Check emails and reply.
• 12.45am: Turn computers off and leave office.
• The next day in the life of InMemoryOf  (4th May 2000) …
  To cut a long story short, it began at 6.45am and ended at 12.30am on the 5th of May.

In Memory Of is a service to help the family and friends of somebody loved and lost to express their feelings in a lasting way.

Mary Jane Bright 1902 – 1980 When Mary was in her teens she was apprenticed to a chemist in Sheffield, traveling by train every day from her home. She was the woman behind the scenes in their grocer’s shop, where they were famous for their home … Continue reading →

Mary Jane Underwood 1879 – 1966 Samuel and Mary ran a boarding house at, 62 Reeds Avenue, Blackpool, moving down to the Midlands in 1927. Here they ran ‘The Pleck Stores’ in Sidemoor. Their most famous client was Sir Edward Elgar who collected groceries from them. … Continue reading →

Internet Memorials hit the headlines way back in 1999 with websites like InMemoryOf.co.uk making not only page two of the Financial Times but creating waves on TV and radio across the globe. This project was supported by PricewaterhouseCoopers and with their guidance they managed to sign a strategic alliance deal with the National Association of Funeral Directors on the 29th March 2000 – InMemoryOf.co.uk appeared at the first ever national exhibition for the funeral services industry which was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham (UK) between the 13th & 15th May 2000. This gave Funeral Directors an opportunity to experience the next generation of remembrance.

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The proliferation of self help books just proves how insecure we really are. One of the most famous ones is The Magic of Thinking Big, published in 1959 by Dr. David Schwartz.

He argues that the main thing holding people back is the relative smallness of their ideas – by relating  a story of a salesman who sells significantly more product and makes more money than his colleagues, he comes to simple conclusions. He points out that the man was not smarter, more educated or better connected than his colleagues but he simply expected to sell more.

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You really can’t run or hide from your roots – they are always there and to be honest they leave a warm glow in your stomach.

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Coal mining was traditionally the principal industry of Kiveton. Even as early as 1598 the area was extracting 2,000 tons a year. By the middle of the 19th century, the coal extracted from the mine, was transported by canal and  rail. In 1866, the Kiveton Park Colliery was sunk, making it one of the earliest deep mines in the world. As a result of the new colliery, the population of Kiveton leapt from 300 to 1,400 over a period of just ten years. Read more..

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The Internet has been around for such a long time now – it has its own history and fashions and like the real world fashions come back again.

Internet Memorials hit the headlines way back in 1999 with websites like InMemoryOf.co.uk making not only page two of the Financial Times but creating waves on TV and radio across the globe. This project was supported by PricewaterhouseCoopers and with their guidance they managed to sign a strategic alliance deal with the National Association of Funeral Directors on the 29th March 2000 – InMemoryOf.co.uk appeared at the first ever national exhibition for the funeral services industry which was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham (UK) between the 13th & 15th May 2000. This gave Funeral Directors an opportunity to experience the next generation of remembrance.

Where are they now?

It appears that the site is being rebuilt and they are accepting free memorials again…this proves a good idea is still a good idea.

English: English composer Edward Elgar, likely in the early 1900s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mary Jane Bright 1902 – 1980 When Mary was in her teens she was apprenticed to a chemist in Sheffield, traveling by train every day from her home. She was the woman behind the scenes in their grocer’s shop, where they were famous for their home … Continue reading →

Mary Jane Underwood 1879 – 1966 Samuel and Mary ran a boarding house at, 62 Reeds Avenue, Blackpool, moving down to the Midlands in 1927. Here they ran ‘The Pleck Stores’ in Sidemoor. Their most famous client was Sir Edward Elgar who collected groceries from them. … Continue reading →

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New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century that refers to on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around the media content. Another important promise of new media is the “democratization” of the creation, publishing, distribution and consumption of media content. Another aspect of new media is the real-time generation of new, unregulated content

Organic & Synthetic (2002)

Link to final Proposal

Original Thoughts

Materials

Organic: Commercial oil based paints mixed with animal fat and traditional oil paints. Emulsion paints mixed with traditional acrylic/watercolor/gouache paints

Synthetic: Commercial and domestic self-adhesive vinyl tape, cut with a commercial computer based design/cutting program,  Signlab v.4.95 software package.

Prediction = the aesthetics of the system + the aesthetics of failure = Prediction

I would find it very easy not to produce any visual work. The aesthetics of painting, the total confusion that it is still in, has devalued this important medium. It is no longer acceptable to follow Duchampian traditions and say that context is a primary factor. To claim something is art is simply not good enough. Duchamp said that a painting/sculpture died after about 40 or 50 years. After that they become Art History. What will historians be saying in 40 or 50 years time?

Unfortunately the problems of fragmentation and confusion that exist within more traditional art practices, such as painting and sculpture (in the broadest possible milieu) are mirrored in new art practices. Within these technological and new media categories, diverse concepts and imagery has been lumped together to form a hodgepodge of non-related methodologies and artworks. What is this direction?

The Changing Language of Prediction and Explanation

There are artworks1, which as art could be mistaken as science/technology. Such works rely on networking, robotics and systems. (You could include Internet works in this category.2 )  When viewing/understanding Artworks that are based on networking, systems, and communities how do you subconsciously and verbally criticize the aesthetic or concept?

The true aesthetics of a system is not the peripheral. The aesthetics of the system is in the understanding of its detail. The true aesthetics of the system incorporates the aesthetics of failure, a system that is reliant on external forces or structure will always have an element of built in probable failure. (This is a prediction.) The only way to achieve total reliability is to have a closed system, this however discourages growth and system expansion and thus becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The element of failure is important to the success of a system. (A non-homogeneous system, whose terms and relationships are not constant, allows language to break up, to stumble over the rules of its grammar, by necessity it has to respond radically to other linguistic components, creating a new linguistic order and syntax.3 )

The aesthetics of failure, a crucial component of a system, is not Auto Destructivism; Auto Destructivism is a process where machines (or systems) are built to fail. The parameters of Auto Destructivism include various practices, including painting with acid and fire. The aesthetics of failure is not total destruction; it is the disappointment of failure.  The aesthetics of failure, although contained within the framework of prediction can either engender invention or depression. The disappointment felt by painters when the image in the mind is far greater than the image physically in front of them is in reality an exact position. To produce a painting that is better than the image of the mind is to give rise to a product of catastrophe. (To achieve exactness by design and skill is to reach a point of exhaustion and famine.) It is therefore acceptable to assume that an artist that is categorized as a genius has in fact failed more successfully than one who is mediocre.

The challenge that an apprentice required to become a Master is no longer necessary; it is possible to create visual and non-visual works of art without scholarly wisdom or practical experience. However without the foundation of knowledge and skill, the aesthetics of failure cannot be understood. New Media embraces, by its very nature, everything that is innovative. The skills that are required are in many cases prescriptive, an understanding of the aesthetic of the system is not necessary and therefore the ‘imagery’ being produced is becoming predictable, driven by the limitations of the system’s software and not the imagination of the Artist.

New materials and better manufacturing techniques have resulted in more intense colors. Commercial paint, even though Jackson Pollock used it (and I used it) in the last century, has developed into the preferred paint medium for some painters. Technology has also provided us with new exciting materials and different ways to use them.

I am using vinyl, a material I have used commercially, as my preferred medium. The “plasticness” of commercial vinyl tapes, their tactile and glossy qualities make them vibrant and alive; when juxtaposed against natural materials or organic shapes and colors they become a contradiction, a complement, more intense and more synthetic……which is similar to Frank Stella’s work during the 1980’s4 . I have carried out experiments with this vinyl material; I have cut and slashed it to destruction, to gain a better understanding of the inherent stability of this medium. I have rejected the possibilities of cutting out images and shapes by hand…..the aesthetics of the system is more important.

I have subcontracted out my creativity to a computer stencil cutter… this is what I did with machine lithography in 1978/79….I have given the computer cutter more responsibility. The lack of total control is maybe a step towards originality? The fine line that exists between the system successfully (in a commercial sense) succeeding to producing a perfect graphic that can be understood as signage and total failure…where the machine totally becomes auto destructive, is microscopic. By understanding the computer program’s limitations I can exploit its weaknesses. By working out paintings on the computer I can tease the system to fail, bringing into play the aesthetics of failure.

Basic Prediction

Horoscopes in newspapers are based on star signs and birth dates; these predict the day’s events. These predictions are based on the laws of probability and chance. You could read your daily horoscope and make the prediction into a self-fulfilling prophecy, you could go out and find that ‘Tall dark handsome man’ or go on ‘A long journey’. Alternatively you could read your horoscope late in the evening and interpret the day’s events and adapt them to the mystical words. “Yes I did meet someone important today”. The interesting thing about prediction is that you could meet a tall dark handsome man, go on a long journey and meet someone important and never read your horoscope. Does this mean the day’s events were not predicted? Similarly these rules can apply to system-based art and painting.

Title: ‘Self Portrait in Red’

The image above is a proposal for a painting whose width is 20 metres and is derived from the source material below. Costs to produce approximately £10,000 to £12,500.

Politics = the aesthetics of the system + the aesthetics of failure = Politics

The billboards around Cuba proclaim Revolution; the heroic gestures of Cuban heroes symbolize the power of Revolution.  Cuba is still in a politicized state of revolution, a religion of the state. Che looks like Christ.

Dr. Alisha Kaliciak who I met riding with vaqueros in Cuba took the photograph above. The text on the proposed painting has been written by her and scanned into my system. She is in many respects the creator of the image and her handwriting will sign it. My role is to program it into the system and to make the final formal choices.

The red background will be painted in red paint (see materials above) with techniques that are employed in traditional sign writing. (This is knowledge I gained from working for a sign writer in Exeter)

Prediction: the text will be difficult to read, through the system distorting the handwritten quote.
Prediction: the iconic image will be difficult understand, through the system distorting the small graphic.
Prediction: the finished image will not function as a billboard.

Notes: The image of Christ is in fact a metaphor, the finished image should be viewed as a self-portrait. This head of Christ is a design that I adapted for commercial use within the monumental memorial trade (it is based on an American design) and has been copied by system suppliers (for the stone industry) and used as a ‘stock design’ within their software packages. As an artist, who believes in open networks, I am proud of this little iconic image even though I cannot claim its originality. Likewise the use of handwriting is not a new idea for me; during the 1970′s I was fascinated by shorthand and the power secretaries had…understanding a simplified language. During the 1980′s I won a design award (The Crown Memorial Design Award) for the most original memorial design. The design was a simple block of black granite with the signature of the deceased on it.

Link to final Proposal

This page has been created in a non ‘web-prescriptive’ manor. The use of Times New Roman font is a positive reaction to the web’s political and aesthetic values. I do not wish to be cool and use prescriptive methods of page creation. I have written this in ‘Word’ (one of the most frowned upon web-prescriptive creative tools) and not Dreamweaver or any other trendy formulaic program…..I do not want to be a part of  the web’s system of aesthetics. (However if you look at the ‘source’ the urge to fiddle with the code was irresistible. This was done in notepad. I have made this page unstable.)

I do not encourage the use of pirated or hacked software.

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Many of his works were created by simply using the path of the brush stroke, very often using common house paint.

Frank Stella. (2012, May 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 05:22, May 26, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frank_Stella&oldid=494387687

The painting above was painted around 2002 / 03 by Peter Bright (aka This Window)

I hadn’t seen this painting for nearly 10 years – until yesterday…

Materials

Organic: Commercial oil based paints mixed with animal fat and traditional oil paints. Emulsion paints mixed with traditional acrylic/watercolour/gouache paints

Synthetic: Commercial and domestic self-adhesive vinyl tape, cut with a commercial computer based design/cutting program, using  Signlab v.4.95 software package.

Background:

I was using vinyl, a material I have used commercially, as my preferred medium. The “plasticness” of commercial vinyl tapes, their tactile and glossy qualities make them vibrant and alive; when juxtaposed against natural materials or organic shapes and colors they become a contradiction, a complement, more intense and more synthetic……which is similar to Frank Stella’s work during the 1980’s 4 . I carried out experiments with this vinyl material; I have cut and slashed it to destruction, to gain a better understanding of the inherent stability of this medium. I have rejected the possibilities of cutting out images and shapes by hand…..the aesthetics of the system was more important.

@optimiseduk – Original Thoughts = keywords?

Is it acceptable to splatter words on a page and call it optimization?  Organic and Synthetic Link to final Art Proposal… Continue reading →

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Beauty and the BeastPrice: £403.56 Date Added: Saturday 09 July, 2011

Original painting by Peter Bright . Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011. Size: 400mm x 400mm ARTIST + S T A T E M E N … more info Notes on Painting: The act of being creative is a love hate thing – The Beauty and The Beast someone fetch a priest (ref. David Bowie) Action Painting – Pollock. Print dribbled paint. Soft pink landscapes (1980) Richard Hamilton A landscape of soft focus and toilet paper – a turgid landscape. Collotype and Screenprint – text and image. A  remembered exhibition. Duchamp: I would have wanted to work, but deep down I’m enormously lazy. I like living, breathing, better than working. I don’t think that the work I’ve done can have any social importance whatsoever in the future. Therefore if you wish, my art would be that of living: each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It is a sort of constant euphoria. Bright: I would have wanted to work, but deep down I’m enormously lazy. I like living, breathing, better than working. I don’t think that the work I’ve done can have any social importance whatsoever in the future. Therefore if you wish, my art would be that of living: each second, each breath is a work which is inscribed nowhere, which is neither visual nor cerebral. It is a sort of constant futility. Art Since Pop – John A. Walker This little book helped to guide me through my Art College days in Exeter and Wolverhampton and is one of those reference books that follow you and stay with you through out your life. ‘Art Since Pop‘ is a book … Continue reading → My Exhibitions

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drawing for allergy exhibition 2004 (Photo credit: This Window)

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Creativity is a curse

Allergy is a hypersensitivity disorder of the immune system Allergic reactions occur to normally harmless environmental substances known as allergens; these reactions are acquired, predictable, and rapid. Common allergic reactions include eczema, hives, hay fever, asthma attacks, food allergies, and reactions to the venom of stinging insects such as wasps and bees. I am allergic to creativity – begining and creating new works make me panic and sweat. Creativity is a curse.

Old #drawing found in box – worth millions ?

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