British Artist Nick Hersey explores ideas and concepts relating to consumerism, youth culture, contemporary art and the modern condition.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Truth, Credit and other Opiates
...because our experience of the modern world has been thinned by truth, credit and other opiates that have numbed our experiences and ensured that opinion, emotion and intellect are now available to us by proxy, through palatable, bite-sized, sweetened, condensed snapshots of reality that maintain the illusion of freedom, democracy and independence but beneath which the status quo of rampant proletariat consumerism (bread proles) and minority capitalist dictatorship
Friday, January 13, 2012
I am graf
with all the focus on and fashion for street art/graf/bank(sy) me off while I pay you 3mil.. its easy to forget that actually we're all part of that shit- well, by we I mean the old crew from the roller disco, the kids we saw up MASH every sat'diy in carnaby, the wankers from the bus stop at school who beat us up cos we scratched out their tags... we have grown up and forgotten, a bit, that its all part of the same thing. Most became graphic designers or environmental scientists, some became bankers... but we all share that heritage. Whether it was taking a break from playing roller hockey to tag up post office vans, or craCKING OUT THE spray cans at someones parent's party, it was as natural to us as tweeting is to this lot.
Brighton's sad loss of the kissing copper's is a hilarious example of the way in which people are re-writing history to suit the common current zeitgeist. STUMP or SER or GOLDIE or REVS coulsd ll have been in that place, had we been middle class enough to be blessed with vision of the world ibto which we could have injected ourselves. As it is, we stand proud of our heritage, reminisce of glorious days of old in the car parks of lewisham or Brockwell park, and giggle at the media frenzy over what many of us spent our childhoods running from security guards and community police officers for.
Brighton's sad loss of the kissing copper's is a hilarious example of the way in which people are re-writing history to suit the common current zeitgeist. STUMP or SER or GOLDIE or REVS coulsd ll have been in that place, had we been middle class enough to be blessed with vision of the world ibto which we could have injected ourselves. As it is, we stand proud of our heritage, reminisce of glorious days of old in the car parks of lewisham or Brockwell park, and giggle at the media frenzy over what many of us spent our childhoods running from security guards and community police officers for.
Monday, January 2, 2012
Moderation
More notes from soltude, fresh air and dog-walking. Following the latest expedition, I have concluded for the moment that 'moderation' could be the only possible solution to the conundrum of how to cope with reality. Following on from the unbearable weight of the argument that every discussion has a bell curve of opinion, with extremes of cynicism at either end, the idea that moderate views are the only possible sensible conclusion perhaps seems obvious. But from this I considered moderation as a workable solution to the economic proposal to 'make less money without compensation', which clearly has no chance of succeeding, no matter what the overriding socio-political environment- communist or capitalist.
If the ruthless efficiency displayed by progress could be slowed by 'moderation'... if we could settle for not having faster processors, or greater productivity, or more efficient usage... if we could just make do for another year or two with the current iteration, I feel that many of the problems facing humanity etc could be dealt with. I type this on a Macbook that is entering its 5th year of usage... the temptation has been on so many occasions to replace it, yet what it lacks in sharp clean lines (dented, paint splattered and dull) it retains in perfect functionality that Mr Jobs, 5 years ago, thought the essence of perfection. This is not ludditism, it is moderation.
Given the 2012 we all have ahead of us, I would say upgrades won't even be an option
If the ruthless efficiency displayed by progress could be slowed by 'moderation'... if we could settle for not having faster processors, or greater productivity, or more efficient usage... if we could just make do for another year or two with the current iteration, I feel that many of the problems facing humanity etc could be dealt with. I type this on a Macbook that is entering its 5th year of usage... the temptation has been on so many occasions to replace it, yet what it lacks in sharp clean lines (dented, paint splattered and dull) it retains in perfect functionality that Mr Jobs, 5 years ago, thought the essence of perfection. This is not ludditism, it is moderation.
Given the 2012 we all have ahead of us, I would say upgrades won't even be an option
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