Tag: art

  • New British Artists Oslo

    New British Artists Oslo

    My good friend Tim, also known as the King of Frames, recently held an exhibition at his workshop in Oslo for his new venture – NBA Oslo.

    NBA Oslo (or New British Artists) is a collaboration between Timothy Raison, with the assistance of Selena Støback, and various British-based upcoming artists. The goal is to bring British art to Norwegian walls.

    The exhibition took place at the King of Frames workshop on the 27th August 2022 at Josefines gate 2, in the Bislett area of Oslo.

    With art on display / available to purchase from artists such as Lewis Hazelwood-Horner, Liubov Edwards, Paul Doherty, David Horgan, Placcyheadface and more – British snacks were served and British art was sold.

    The event was a success!

    The sale of art is ongoing and if you want to browse the latest pieces up for sale, check out @nbaoslo on Instagram.

    If you don’t have Instagram, maybe try dropping by the King of Frames workshop in Bislett and asking about NBA Oslo.

  • Links of the week: don’t touch your face, online card games, coronavirus painting

    Links of the week: don’t touch your face, online card games, coronavirus painting

    In a week where half the world is taking the advice of their respective governments and staying home a lot more, I have been sat at home coughing, fending off heavy headaches and wheezing my way around the apartment.

    I’ve not been tested, but can’t help but wonder if I have had the newly-famed COVID-19 or not. Either way, things will get better.

    In the meantime, here are some new things to look at with your eyes and minds:


    An animated gif showing coxy touching his face and a website alerting him not to.

    Don’t touch your face

    As this beautifully made Kurzgesagt video explains, touching your face is sending germs and viruses on a highway to the inside of your body. That is why the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommend that you don’t touch your face.

    But not touching your face is hard. I touch my face all the time without knowing it.

    Do Not Touch Your Face (dot com) is a website which checks your webcam and will tell you to not touch your face when you touch your face.

    The geeky rundown is that it uses machine learning based on TensorFlow.js code. You give the algorithm a one-time lesson on when you are touching your face and then it works it out itself from there.

    “No!”


    A photo of a sealed packet of cards from the A Game Of Thrones: A Card Game expansion pack

    Play the Game of Thrones card game online

    Quite a few times throughout the history of this blog, I have mentioned the card game A Game of Thrones. I love it and have spent way too much money on it.

    I recently discovered that there is a free online version of the game and so during the past week have played a few games.

    The design of the site is pretty confusing and the game isn’t the most straight-forward game to play. But once you’ve learned the ropes, it’s very fun.

    If, during these self-isolation times, friends of mine wish to hop on a Skype call and play through a game together – give me a shout.


    A screenshot of Brave web browser for computers

    Blocking ads but still rewarding content creators

    Whilst I’m a big advocate of Firefox web browser, I have been attracted by Brave web browser recently – purely for the integration of digital cash. It’s interesting.

    The app has a wallet for digital cash. You can top it up with money yourself or get paid BAT tokens (10 BAT is worth about $1.20 at the moment) for seeing adverts.

    The great thing about this is that if you have digital cash in your wallet, then each month the browser divvies up a handful of cash between the websites you have visited. Provided your favourite websites are signed up as content creators.

    There are many sites registered as content creators – including the likes of The Guardian, Wikipedia and Archive.org.

    This means that even though I’m blocking all the adverts The Guardian want to show me, I end up throwing The Guardian some BAT tokens out of my Brave wallet each month for the content I viewed.

    It’s clever. Maybe I’ll do a full blog post about it in future. In the meantime, you can check out Brave yourself.


    And finally;

    This painting depicts a coronavirus just entering the lungs, surrounded by mucus secreted by respiratory cells, secreted antibodies, and several small immune systems proteins.

    A painting of coronavirus from a molecular scientist

    The image used at the top of this page has been crafted by molecular scientist and artist David S. Goodsell. The painting depicts a coronavirus just entering the lungs, surrounded by mucus secreted by respiratory cells, secreted antibodies, and several small immune systems proteins.

    Goodsell has declared the image as “free to use” and published a super high-resolution version on a little thing you might have heard of before: the internet.


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  • Links of the week

    Links of the week

    It’s been a busy week-and-a-bit. I was mostly in the United States of Donald Trump’s America. Now that I am back, here is a quick round-up of some of the things I have noticed online:

    Norwegian Air to Accept Bitcoin Through Exchange Set up By Founder (CoinDesk) — the Norwegian airline of the same name is due to start taking cryptocurrency payments for tickets in future. FWIW, I also accept cryptocurrency.

    Flamethrower drone can shoot a seven-metre long stream of fire (Deezen) — the robots will take us all. You can get a glimpse into that future with this video of a drone that projects a stream of fire. Only a matter of time before drones are used to carry out murder… outside of the military.

    Elon Musk’s Neuralink implant will “merge” humans with AI (Deezen) — computers, meet brain. Brain, meet computers. Elon Musk gets a lot of credit for things that some other clever people have done whilst working for him. Before the end of 2020, they will drill into a human’s skull in some sci-fi symbiotic fantasy. Your mind could quite literally be blown!

    Pretty bird murals by artist Jade Rivera (Booooooom) — as a little intermission from tech, here are some really nice murals of birdies and people by a talented artist.

    Is the Internet bad for the environment? (Our Changing Climate on YouTube) — Our Changing Climate take a dive into what the environmental impact of the internet is, digging into how the internet works and how that contributes to global greenhouse gas emissions.

    Check out all the Links of the Week posts or just do something else. It’s up to you.

    Also; I started playing Harry Potter: Wizards Unite. You know, the Pokémon Go clone set in the Harry Potter universe? If you are playing, give me a shout-out in the comments or on your messaging app of choice.