I wanna hold her wanna hold her tight.

We were asked to produce a temporary installation in the newly refurbished Eden Court.

To combine our love for stencil art and music we decided to create "Teenage Kicks".

The installation included 22 LP’s mounted on the wall (as a rather large DUFI!), as well as a living room opposite (yes that is right, we created your gran's front room in the lobby of Eden Court), which included an record player, an 80's medical handbook (our instructions) and the school jotter (our visitors book).



Three of the records were spray painted, the other 19 were removable and could be played on the retro record player.

Now we would love to say that we grew up listening to early hip hop and alternative music, but the truth is it was a whole lot uglier than that.



The albums included in this collection were as follows:

Elvis – The U.S. Male (1970)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
A-ha – Hunting High & Low (1985)
Michael Jackson – Bad (1987)
The Family Brown – The Best Of Country Gospel (1978)
Nana Mouskouri – Alone (1985)
Simon & Garfunkel – Greatest Hits (1972)
Runrig – Heartland (1985)
Holst – The Planets (1981)
Blondie – Eat To The Beat (1979)
Dayuma – From The Stage Production (unknown)
Def Leppard – Hysteria (1987)
Scottish Metrical Psalms (1966)
Rush – The Spirit Of Radio (1980)
Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms (1985)
Deacon Blue – When The World Knows Your Name (1989)
Hits 5 (1986)
The Great Johnny Cash (1970)
Country & Western Jamboree (unknown)
Marillion – Misplaced Childhood (1985)
U2 – The Joshua Tree (1987)
Disneyland Christmas Carols (unknown)

We were asked to produce a temporary installation in the newly refurbished Eden Court.

To combine our love for stencil art and music we decided to create "Teenage Kicks".

The installation included 22 LP’s mounted on the wall (as a rather large DUFI!), as well as a living room opposite (yes that is right, we created your gran's front room in the lobby of Eden Court), which included an record player, an 80's medical handbook (our instructions) and the school jotter (our visitors book).



Three of the records were spray painted, the other 19 were removable and could be played on the retro record player.

Now we would love to say that we grew up listening to early hip hop and alternative music, but the truth is it was a whole lot uglier than that.



The albums included in this collection were as follows:

Elvis – The U.S. Male (1970)
The Sound Of Music (1965)
A-ha – Hunting High & Low (1985)
Michael Jackson – Bad (1987)
The Family Brown – The Best Of Country Gospel (1978)
Nana Mouskouri – Alone (1985)
Simon & Garfunkel – Greatest Hits (1972)
Runrig – Heartland (1985)
Holst – The Planets (1981)
Blondie – Eat To The Beat (1979)
Dayuma – From The Stage Production (unknown)
Def Leppard – Hysteria (1987)
Scottish Metrical Psalms (1966)
Rush – The Spirit Of Radio (1980)
Dire Straits – Brothers In Arms (1985)
Deacon Blue – When The World Knows Your Name (1989)
Hits 5 (1986)
The Great Johnny Cash (1970)
Country & Western Jamboree (unknown)
Marillion – Misplaced Childhood (1985)
U2 – The Joshua Tree (1987)
Disneyland Christmas Carols (unknown)

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Got ma nuts from a hippy.

Inverness is getting all holier than thou! The great artist Matt Baker has recently completed leading a team in the installation of the Three Virtues on Church Street in Inverness. The artwork was created after a year long process with local people suggesting ‘Virtues’ for 21st Century Inverness.

To help mark the launch (on 6 March) several artists were asked to create installations in the shop windows surrounding the virtues. As part of this, we created a two week long narrative in the shop front of a empty shop unit.

But do not fear, with DUFI the surreal is always near. We decided to characterise the virtues and ended up writing our own fable of the forest. The story was written in instalments, on the shop window, over the two weeks leading up to the event. And yes, the animals are real - but as exciting as all this was, I am sure they all felt a lot friskier before they were stuffed! (However, the badger seems to be a somewhat more sociable creature then we all expected – he now has his own bebo page).

Thanks to Inverness Museum for lending us the critters.

Inverness is getting all holier than thou! The great artist Matt Baker has recently completed leading a team in the installation of the Three Virtues on Church Street in Inverness. The artwork was created after a year long process with local people suggesting ‘Virtues’ for 21st Century Inverness.

To help mark the launch (on 6 March) several artists were asked to create installations in the shop windows surrounding the virtues. As part of this, we created a two week long narrative in the shop front of a empty shop unit.

But do not fear, with DUFI the surreal is always near. We decided to characterise the virtues and ended up writing our own fable of the forest. The story was written in instalments, on the shop window, over the two weeks leading up to the event. And yes, the animals are real - but as exciting as all this was, I am sure they all felt a lot friskier before they were stuffed! (However, the badger seems to be a somewhat more sociable creature then we all expected – he now has his own bebo page).

Thanks to Inverness Museum for lending us the critters.

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I got my head checked, by a jumbo jet.

Ok, we admit it, we have a problem. DUFI stencils are not getting any smaller. We have just completed our biggest DUFI to date - a 14.3x2.1M wall at Malliag High School.

The group we were working with were not the noisiest bunch we have worked with, but they had some great ideas, worked like weevils and created a stencil to be proud of.

Ok, we admit it, we have a problem. DUFI stencils are not getting any smaller. We have just completed our biggest DUFI to date - a 14.3x2.1M wall at Malliag High School.

The group we were working with were not the noisiest bunch we have worked with, but they had some great ideas, worked like weevils and created a stencil to be proud of.

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Couldn't get no cooperation if I tried

Well, another DUFI has been born. We recently completed workshops with a group of future stencil artists in Brora. The project was sponsored by the Brora Cooperative and the 2x2M paneled stencil will be fixed to the side wall of the building.

Thanks to the COOP for being such great sponsors – and for cooperating (badum-ching!) – the blog title is the only song lyric I could find with the word cooperation. Yea I know the song is ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’, but thanks to Sesame Street we have the alternative lyrics – go on, YouTube it, you know you want to.



BLOG TITLE 
Sesame Street - I Can't Get No, Cooperation 
Sesame Street Episode #1781 (1983)

Well, another DUFI has been born. We recently completed workshops with a group of future stencil artists in Brora. The project was sponsored by the Brora Cooperative and the 2x2M paneled stencil will be fixed to the side wall of the building.

Thanks to the COOP for being such great sponsors – and for cooperating (badum-ching!) – the blog title is the only song lyric I could find with the word cooperation. Yea I know the song is ‘I can’t get no satisfaction’, but thanks to Sesame Street we have the alternative lyrics – go on, YouTube it, you know you want to.



BLOG TITLE 
Sesame Street - I Can't Get No, Cooperation 
Sesame Street Episode #1781 (1983)

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Raspirit Heron/Tone Aanderaa is nominated as 'BEST ARTIST IN THE CREATION ARTS'

->>> Tone Aanderaa's aka Raspirit Heron is nominated as 'BEST ARTIST IN THE CREATION ARTS' "BEST OF SL ART 2007" Sponsored by Krystal Epic and Virtual Artist Alliance ==========================================
To vote, visit http://art.krystalepic.com and register for an account if you don't already have one. Then login to your new account and follow the voting instructions on the site.

->>> Tone Aanderaa's aka Raspirit Heron is nominated as 'BEST ARTIST IN THE CREATION ARTS' "BEST OF SL ART 2007" Sponsored by Krystal Epic and Virtual Artist Alliance ==========================================
To vote, visit http://art.krystalepic.com and register for an account if you don't already have one. Then login to your new account and follow the voting instructions on the site.

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Art Sanctuary in Machinima movie

Raspirit Heron - and Tone Aanderaa's art- is featured in Enniv Zarf's machinima movie 'Krystal Traveler - Art (Renaissance)'

Raspirit Heron - and Tone Aanderaa's art- is featured in Enniv Zarf's machinima movie 'Krystal Traveler - Art (Renaissance)'

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Art Sanctuary writes for SLEnquirer

A New Look …


Do you know that there are more than 500 galleries in Second Life?
In Second Life art and culture flourish more then ever before. Each day there are new exhibitions opening, new cultural events organized, and it is difficult for you to decide which galleries or events to visit. SLEnquirer asked Art Sanctuary, Raspirit Heron and WieBenIk Beaumont, to write a weekly art and culture page to help you in your selection. We are very proud to start this week with this page.
We don't want to give a list of all events happening next weekend, in a subjective way we select only the ones we hope will give you a nice time by visiting the artists or the events.
The Art Sanctuary wants to promote art which uses Second Life opportunities as much as possible and we will focus on events which combine different art expressions, such as music, story, poems, paintings, building.
Raspirit and I are very subjective in our selections, it is not an evaluation of the artist or event.
Each week we will have three important topics;
We will report on a past event (a pity you weren’t there - you missed it!)
Events happening next weekend
Featured article or interview, focus on an important person, event, SL site

Next weekend events

The SLEnquirer and the Art Sanctuary want to publish an overview of the next weekend events, excluding repeating events. It is not an ordinary event calendar! We only include the events the newspaper reader wants to experience, because it’s new, it’s appealing and the reader looks for quality time. If you organize an art or cultural event then please send an IM to Raspirit Heron or WieBenIk Beaumont or a mail to SLArtSanctuary@hotmail.com. Please include in your message the date and time (we only use SL time!) and the type of event. Please add also an appealing short description (maximal 50 words), convincing the reader. You can also add a small picture or logo (jpeg, maximal 250 on 250). We expect your event description not later than on Monday evening. We prepare the publishing on Tuesday morning.

A New Look …


Do you know that there are more than 500 galleries in Second Life?
In Second Life art and culture flourish more then ever before. Each day there are new exhibitions opening, new cultural events organized, and it is difficult for you to decide which galleries or events to visit. SLEnquirer asked Art Sanctuary, Raspirit Heron and WieBenIk Beaumont, to write a weekly art and culture page to help you in your selection. We are very proud to start this week with this page.
We don't want to give a list of all events happening next weekend, in a subjective way we select only the ones we hope will give you a nice time by visiting the artists or the events.
The Art Sanctuary wants to promote art which uses Second Life opportunities as much as possible and we will focus on events which combine different art expressions, such as music, story, poems, paintings, building.
Raspirit and I are very subjective in our selections, it is not an evaluation of the artist or event.
Each week we will have three important topics;
We will report on a past event (a pity you weren’t there - you missed it!)
Events happening next weekend
Featured article or interview, focus on an important person, event, SL site

Next weekend events

The SLEnquirer and the Art Sanctuary want to publish an overview of the next weekend events, excluding repeating events. It is not an ordinary event calendar! We only include the events the newspaper reader wants to experience, because it’s new, it’s appealing and the reader looks for quality time. If you organize an art or cultural event then please send an IM to Raspirit Heron or WieBenIk Beaumont or a mail to SLArtSanctuary@hotmail.com. Please include in your message the date and time (we only use SL time!) and the type of event. Please add also an appealing short description (maximal 50 words), convincing the reader. You can also add a small picture or logo (jpeg, maximal 250 on 250). We expect your event description not later than on Monday evening. We prepare the publishing on Tuesday morning.

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