Phil Betts (dot com) Art & thought

Fire

A couple of old, low res vids of me firespinning back in the day. I was somewhat conspicuous as a ninja.

Real Men Wear Skirts

Hello, handsome. Real men wear skirts. And real elves, obvs. A Warhammer High Elf Spearman I painted back in the day. He has about seven million brethren in various states of plastic, paint and...

W_nderings – 28 April, 2016

Things that made me think. Society, complexity, pretties. Is it time to rethink recycling? by Amy Westervelt, Vox [2000 word article] – interesting article about moves to shift the responsibility of recycling and packaging from governments to...

Arran 14 Year Old

“The Arran 14 Year Old is San Francisco in the late 1960s: at its peak it’s vibrant, sweet and herbaceous, but it finishes on a slightly bitter note.” Read my review of the Arran...

W_nderings – 1 November, 2015

Abandoned Chinese Fishing Village Being Swallowed By Nature on Bored Panda [Gallery list] – Just incredible. Artists got ‘Homeland is racist’ Arabic graffiti into the latest episode of ‘Homeland – by Elahe Izadi, Washington Post [647 word news article...

Weekly W_nderings – 25 October, 2015

Things ah’ve been looking at this week. How Tech Companies Are Celebrating Back To The Future Day on TechCrunch [click gallery, mixed media] – It was Back to the Future Day this week, and a...

Weekly W_nderings – 18 October, 2015

Here’s where I’ve been this week: Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec – a brilliant project in which two designers send each other a postcard a week, transforming data from a different aspect of...