Primary Structures

New Website

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:26:18 +1000

After trying out Cargo Collective for a little while, I’ve gone full steam ahead and built a new website for myself with them. As it stands it represents a years worth of work. I will be updating it frequently with new work, such as my remix for the Jarrod Hayne Experiment, which I am quite proud of.

This blog is now www.primarystructures.com.au as opposed to log.adrianclement.com, and will be a separate entity from my solo work and Pineapple Park.

2010 Red Dot Awards for Product Design

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:58:51 +1000

2010 Red Dot Awards for Product Design:

Worth checking out, for sure, even though some choices are perhaps a bit dubious. (Via Jorge San Luis.)

Raising Minimalist Children in a Society of Excess

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:57:01 +1000

Raising Minimalist Children in a Society of Excess

I love the honesty and playfulness in Misaki Kawai’s work....

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:46:00 +1000

I love the honesty and playfulness in Misaki Kawai’s work. Plus, this one’s yellow. (Via It’s Nice That.)

"I think there’s nothing more minimal than impermanent, temporal work that discards the material, and..."

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:33:34 +1000

“I think there’s nothing more minimal than impermanent, temporal work that discards the material, and has no physical consequences on the space where it is installed. And what a better medium to achieve this than performance art?”

- This is perhaps the reason James and I are venturing more and more into performance art.

(Via Minimalissimo.)

Veganism is Minimalist

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:53:01 +1000

Veganism is Minimalist:

Leo Babauta:

In this post I’ll tell you (briefly) why I chose veganism and how it is the diet I believe is most in line with minimalism.

I agree.

Alex Wisser

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:47:06 +1000

Alex Wisser:

Some terrific work on this site, this one being my favorite.

"The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer..."

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:49:52 +1000

“The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. It is the result of the omission of the inessentials.”

- John Pawson, “Minimum” (via mnmal). This is very close to my definition of minimalism, and why I very much identify with the term “reductive art”.

"I intended the film to be an intensely subjective experience that reaches the viewer at an inner..."

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:46:55 +1000

“I intended the film to be an intensely subjective experience
that reaches the viewer at an inner level of consciousness, just as
music does; to “explain” a Beethoven symphony would be to emasculate it
by erecting an artificial barrier between conception and appreciation.”

- Stanley Kubrick, in regards to 2001: A Space Odyssey. This is my mantra for making art, essentially.

Ping

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:56:43 +1000

I just deleted my Last.fm account, so the closest thing I’ve got to that now is my Ping profile.

'Letting Go of Fake Needs'

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:28:54 +1000

'Letting Go of Fake Needs':

Great read. (Via Mnmal.)

FaceBlock

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:25:35 +1000

FaceBlock:

Safari extension for blocking Facebook ads. Works great.

themaddingcrowd: Great night. Some pretty amazing art. This...

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:58:17 +1000

themaddingcrowd:

Great night. Some pretty amazing art. This is the guy we were barracking for. You can see him here, obscured by someone else’s art. Check out the rest of the photos on facebook

Champion Sound

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:56:27 +1000

Champion Sound:

The first collaboration between J Dilla and Madlib. How could you possibly go wrong? Simply put this is required listening. Here’s some proof.

Quietube

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:15:29 +1000

Quietube:

I’ve been using Quietube a lot lately, and it is great. It strips all the noise from the YouTube video wesbite, including comments and whatnot, until you’re left with just the video itself.

Steve Spacek 'Dollar (Let the Dollar Circulate)'

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:05:55 +1000

Steve Spacek 'Dollar (Let the Dollar Circulate)':

Jakub Alexander:

If you don’t want a song stuck in your head than don’t check out this song that J. Dilla produced for Steve Spacek, i’ve been humming it since the middle of last week everywhere I go, in alleys and by the river or in my bedroom, “let the dollar circulateeeeeeeeeeeeeeee”

Neven Mrgn: nevver links to a set of “Informative Prints” by...

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:59:25 +1000

Neven Mrgn:

nevver links to a set of “Informative Prints” by Francisco Seiz. I love these - if you want to make pretty shapes using the aesthetic of data visualization, do it! Just don’t harm any actual data in the process.

Gorgeous.

Turn by Margaret Roberts at Factory 49. God she is good.

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:04:34 +1000

Turn by Margaret Roberts at Factory 49. God she is good.

A Day in the life of Barack Obama

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:16:08 +1000

A Day in the life of Barack Obama:

Jason Kottke:

Vanity Fair has a really interesting but depressing look at how The President of the United States spends a typical day navigating the upfuckedness of national American politics and its capital, Washington DC — which Rahm Emanuel calls Fucknutsville.

Richard Pryor on the N-Word

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:06:51 +1000

Richard Pryor on the N-Word:

Richard Pryor:

I was sitting in the hotel and a voice said to me, “Look around, what do you see?” And I said, “I see all colours of people doing everything, you know.” And the voice said, “Do you see any niggers?” And I said “No.” And he said, “You know why? Because there aren’t any.”

So true, but tell that to the Wu Tang Clan.