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There’s a video of LL Cool J performing in a gym at Colby College in Maine in 1985. Actually, it’s here. There’s something like 100 people, some sitting on the floor. At one point he says, “Yo, what about those sounds I be making with my mouth?” and goes on to explain beatboxing. It’s just incredible. This video is one of the best examples I’ve ever seen of what ambition is all about. Of all the guys in 1985 rapping to crowds standing around in gyms, this guy turned out to be LL Cool J. And the thing is—though skinnier—he’s already LL Cool J. He’s pretty much fully formed as an artist. OK, so what does this have to do with Ian Padgham? It’s a simple point: like LL Cool J in that gym, watching Padgham’s six-second videos feels like watching a fully formed artist working in a brand new medium. The medium here being, specifically, Vine. Padgham even, in his way with “How to” titles to a lot of his vines, explains what vining is. Kind of. |
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Kinetic sculptures made of simple motors, wire, cardboard, restraint. More or less what introspection might look like if it were a thing. |
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The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group (HORG) offers a robust effort in the area of research, documentation and taxonomies of occlupanid both in the United States and abroad. In an ongoing effort to apply scholarship to a hitherto neglected area of culture (read: anthropology, economics, industrial design and retail theory), HORG is doing important and necessary work. |
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Enough already. |
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I don’t really care where you went to school; let’s see your portfolio. A college or university may have a lot to offer, but it doesn’t make the designer. And spending your summers in Italy for “professional development” with the celebrity designer-du-jour does not make you more talented than the next (but let’s at least hope you drank a bunch of good vino). |
