Current Distractions
Thu 23 May 2013
This week, Communications Intern Pep Gorgori tells us his Current Distractions. Pep is a musicologist and journalist from Barcelona who, after working some years in Spain, is now studying an MA at Goldsmiths College, to improve his knowledge in Arts Administration and Cultural Policies.
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Current Distractions
Thu 9 May 2013
Marshmallow Laser Feast. Just think, if you hadn’t stumbled across this arts blog, you could have gone the rest of your life without knowing what that means..but don’t worry, within the next two minutes you’ll be as informed as I am.
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Current Distractions
Thu 25 Apr 2013
A Viola player using the latest technology to create a musical composition, an artist based in Singapore that can create life-like images with just paint and resin – there’s so much to see here and all so culturally nourishing. Plus, if you can make it to the bottom, there’s a picture of Haydn in hair…
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Thu 28 Mar 2013
This week, we asked Jodie Gilliam (OAE Development Administrator) to write our Current Distractions blog. Here’s what’s taken her fancy recently…
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Thu 14 Mar 2013
The strangest thing I ever saw when walking home at night, was a plastic bag full of severed pig’s trotters, and it freaked me out big time. Finding horrible things on the internet isn’t quite as rare, most of the time they find you, then once that bell’s been rung, it can’t be un-rung. What…
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Thu 28 Feb 2013
Anyone who’s seen Spiderman 1, 2, 3 and the new one (basically Spiderman 1 again) will know that there’s only so far CGI can get you. Titanic looks really dated now but Labyrinth still looks great. There’s a lot of things CGI will never be able to do. Look at this picture: CGI will never…
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Thu 17 Jan 2013
It might snow apparently, which has got everyone feeling a bit excited. Here’s lots of nice things for you to enjoy whilst you’re unable to leave the house and forced to stay in drinking tea.
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Thu 1 Nov 2012
It’s freezing outside and miserable and depressing, so in this week’s Current Distractions we’ve tried to crow bar in as much colour and positivity as possible, like the transition scene in The Wizard of Oz or a hot pop-tart bursting in your eyes. Bird ‘em up First up, is Colombian artist Diana Beltran Herrera who…
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Thu 18 Oct 2012
As we’re well into our new Current Distractions blog series, we thought we’d mix it up a bit and invite some guest bloggers to give us their lowdown of what they’re relishing in the arts world at the moment. This time Marketing Manager, Natasha Stehr takes the helm.
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Thu 4 Oct 2012
With so much going on this week, we felt it fitting to show you some of the things that caught our eye in the OAE office. Here’s a lovely picture of some puppies hanging in baby clothes to start things off.
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