Portrait of ex Marine Adams.
1 Metre Square Canvas in Acrylics. December 2009-January 2010.
Jameson (Jamie) Adams served in the Royal Marines Commando Brigade.
Large scale painted portrait of Young Man About Town, Andrew Brown.
1 Metre Square Canvas in Acrylics. December 2009.
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Movies to GoGo was a DVD Delivery business in Brighton -- launched before the likes of LoveFilm! The collection was more Indie Film Club than BlockBuster, and had a fantastic membership… To join, you were encouraged to get a bit ‘noir-ish’, slide into the slighty sleazy GoGo club with an invite from The Maverick,...
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Scrutineer’s Investigation into Narrative
The Hogarthian Project: A mighty task, influenced initially by Hogarth’s satitrical engravings and his ‘Marriage A-la-Mode’ paintings.
‘Marriage A-la-Mode’ was the first of Hogarth’s satirical moralising series of engravings that took the upper echelons of society as its subject. The paintings were models from which the engravings would be made. The engravings...
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A1 Sized Map for Film Lovers
Created in 1995 as an M.A. project to re-categorise film genres. A guide to broaden film viewing, and explore themes as diverse as flared trousers and certain awesome flights of steps…
The Scrutineer offers this guide for a discerning audience. The Scrutineer doesn’t purport to be an academic or...
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The Scrutineer’s Film Chart for ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’
US, 1958, 108m, Metrocolor, MGM/Avon, directed by Richard Brooks. Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, & Burl Ives.
The Scrutineer’s Film Chart for this film reveals a portrayal of family conflict in layers and depth.
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof conveys Tennessee Williams’ vision of the...
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Portrait Project: Monday to Friday, February 2008
Fairly ad hoc, with two students:
All singing, all dancing, Barry Martin
New media graduate Sita Vickery
The Scrutineer cracking the whip and only revealing each task as the day begins.
Barry and Sita relatively new to this kind of observational task…
Day One begins with a self-portrait, monotone pastel drawing – considering...
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Adobe Photoshop 2.5, running on a Apple Macintosh IIsi in early 1994
Who can fondly remember scanning a dozen images, mucking about in Photoshop – drawing with a a rollerball mouse and then attempting to save the ART all to a single floppy disc?
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Studio Manager: David Brown
Age: Unknown
Background: The MAN behind Red Rat Record Rentals, Sydney Street, Brighton (early to mid-eighties)
Early Videobox, (the black & white shops), Baker Street, Palmeira Square and Kemptown, Brighton (no association with those appalling Boozy Top 20 Blue ‘n’ Silver plastic atrocities that they morphed into…)
Master of the GoGo universe, alas no...
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Frankie-boy: goes on the biscuit and iced-gem run on Friday afternooooooooooons
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The Runner: Luther Ivan
Creative all-rounder: Animator, Illustrator, Photographer, Photoshopper, cut & sticker blah blah…
Fizz Pop – A short animated film
Untitled from Luther Ivan Adams on Vimeo.
Pictured before his corruption at Kingston University…
Was Clara Schumann a Fag Hag?
Luther’s first commission: This was his illustration for the cinematographer David Watkin’s Autobiography.
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The Scrutineer, like a cross between the Child-catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and a cross-hatching Mother Goose, has begun an Annual Project…
The Advent Street
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