Whether produced at the HoBB Project House or on site at a clients’ works, records of project collaborations are gradually being published here. We’ve got a back catalogue to share and a stream of new works too. Friend and fantastic WordPress guy, Bharat, figures we should be doing vids and podcasts to go along with our blogs, and as we are planning vid trailers for future projects and virtual book tours for new publications, I’m sure we’ll be keeping YouTube or Vimeo very busy.
For now, sit back and enjoy these still photos:
And there’s one very fresh wriggling project that we are happy to be doing and that’s collaborating on the development of a very organic worm farm. Here’s a preview of our plaque design to be fixed on the door of the worm hatchery:
The lines behind my brow
Fizzed then – and how,
As strong as these same lines do here and now.
Equally global for needling cloth together…
Phat’n’ phunky and grouped into 8’s, 3’s, 24’s or ‘mores’ for the back-ends of electric wire connects…
Wrapped co-axially for unbelievable power communication cross cultures…
Bent in Spring to drive time pieces…
Soldered and Pumping multi-message…
Readying the Suburban Universe of Interactive TV Jockeys…
Putting an equal foot on your stairs for Tribal grit…
Totally Trashing the growth in forest devastation…
Aiding Fusion of the F1ip Resource…
Holding back and holding in …
I place my finger
Like a pin,
On random lines
Not on the web
But running round
Within my head.
Notes: I wrote this in moment between pages not mine. They were pages of features, editorials, advertorials and straightforward promotional garbage printed on a spread of glossy stock – the quality you can only get from killing trees for their virgin pulp. Browsing through Wired, Blueprint and the Architectural Review, I lifted word groups that when isolated from their body gave up their meaning. Putting these sectioned outbursts into a poem didn’t improve them although I had hoped it might.
That morning I’d been cursing Geocities for giving up too early on a good thing and casting thousands of web sites into the long archive. My html labours were ghosting fast and I was too busy to learn java, so I let the tide take every digital sand castle I’d built. This included two sites on the *Wallis Collection of citrus fruit wrapper designs collected from the 1930’s – each design reflecting the identity of their farm and created by artists influenced by both folk art and contemporary imagery.
And also into digital heaven went the first HoBB web site, the membership folio site for B.I.G. (British Image Group), a launch site for the first book by UK performance poet, Poke, ( AKA Paul Stanley), one site of the schools work of IOL (Image of Learning) and the “second evolvement of the World’s Longest Artist’s Book”.
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As an update, I have found some pages archived in the cloud so here’s a selection of images – along with a record of stats for The HoBB’s first web site that show three site visits in our first launch month.
Cloud archive part-rescued of the ‘Nine Tenets of Tomlinson & Jesse’ – a collection of nearly 200 original drawings first on public exhibition in 1996 as part of “The World’s Longest Artist’s book”.
Examples from the *Wallis Collection
*The Wallis Collection is housed at the HoBB and includes the Italian collection of citrus fruit wrapper designs donated by Franco Levorato.
