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101 panels the exhibition at Halesworth Gallery looks good - it's a really nice idea created by Paul Cope working within given parameters to test and bring together 100 people.  http://www.paulcope.com/100_Sq_Ft/  Bastille Day http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2368619/ is an ok serviceable thriller which was all a little too trite in tone for the content it presented. Daniel Radcliffe conveys suitable vulnerability undercover in Imperium but it feels like there is a gap or emptiness at the films core that is trying to be something but not quite reaching - the endless multiple images of neo-Nazi, clan etc is part of the answer/solution. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4781612/ and then there is now you see me 2 - my excuse is that it was raining. Big Ideas by James Harkin from 2008 it's a little out of date - it's a way in to understand some fairly recent words created from 2 or more concepts which are combined to embody elements of each idea - something I love. my favourite is slacktivism (see it is a little dated). the good news is that a grant application to the Arts Council has been successful  - this matched with support from the Maxwell Centre NanoDTC and NUA means that I will be working with very very small things in a very big way over the next year.....really looking forward to it all, especially sitting in the great spaces in the building! check out http://unfoldingthinking.blogspot.co.uk/ in the coming months. 

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the print I had created for the 100 sq feet exhibition for the Halesworth Gallery - 'tanguramu no ken' (Japanese for tangram sword) ​

http://www.paulcope.com/100_Sq_Ft/artists/artists.html had to be refolded - I hadn't made it small enough to fit it into the proposed box. I've decided that I would like the work displayed folded and sealed so that unless you have a copy you will not know what it looks like. The fixed work becomes a sort of puzzle and references the works starting point - the tangram. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangram

meanwhile I would recommend the 'wacky' comedy series that is Lady Dynamite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Dynamite it's a laugh out loud oddly beautiful and bizarre series of interactions that feels at any point could go in any direction but then there is the truly dull Independence Day: Resurgence - oh dear not even fun in an ironic way apart from Jeff Goldblum who does appear to be trying.