Category Archive: Art

The Museum of Subatomic Tourism

Written by LDS, April 2015

 “Subatomic Tourism is an ongoing project to big up the small with a hint of Irwin Allen and Richard Feynman, along with a touch of Marcel Duchamp and Ray Harryhausen; to bring by way of Joseph Cornell and Gerry Anderson a celebration of the wonderful world-sized diorama we find ourselves living in.”

(Museum of Subatomic Tourism)

Stop. Take a moment. Open your eyes to your immediate surroundings. Look closer at the details and imagine yourself scaled down to 1:1000 scale. For now you are looking through the eyes of the Museum of Subatomic Tourism.

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20 Minutes with…. Amy Victoria Savage

Written by LDS, April 2015

We catch up with the incredibly busy and highly regarded young British tattoo artist Amy Victoria Savage as she takes a breather from her usual schedule to focus on renovating and opening her first private tattoo studio; The Warren.

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Digital Stained Glass

Van Orton Designs
Written by LDS, March 2015

Van Orton Design is the cover name of two talented twin brothers out of Italy. The pair have been slowly gaining recognition in the last few years with their digital stained glass recreation of pop culture stills. Amongst recent commissions are Rolling Stone Italia who asked for a portrait of former Guns & Roses guitarist Slash that would mimic his colourful personality.

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Blow the Bloody Doors Off!

Written by LDS, March 2015

UK/Australia Concert Tour, Adelaide Town Hall, 12 March 2015.

Michael Caine is the iconic face of a male Londoner living in the class discarding Sixties. His rough and ready and self assured attitude and rich Cockney voice struck a chord with the new self-made man of society. Caine forged a career as the protagonist in a series of crime thrillers which truly represented the grittier side of the over-glamorised ‘Swinging Sixties’.

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Wonderwalls

Written by LDS / Photos by Vanessa Burton, Jan 2015

Its great to see any town support an art-form that is usually so associated with a shadier side of society. With a growing interest in STREET ART many cities are now providing space for budding artists to legally practice their craft and as a result the quality is now quite breathtaking. Through Renewal SA, South Australia’s Port Adelaide was put forward as a blank canvas, opening a number of sites including abandoned office blocks, back alleys and galleries. The result; project: Wonderwalls 2015.

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