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Spot the difference: Starburst and June Bum Park

31-Aug-07
Watch the two videos below and tell me if you think one was influenced by the other. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojsQ4nLX2BA[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS3W9YOuh5A[/youtube] The top video is a new TV commercial for a new variant of the chewy sweet formerly known as Opal Fruits. The commercial is produced by London advertising agency TBWA according to Advertolog. Art director Tom Chancellor has the ad on his site. The bottom video is the creation of video artist June Bum Park. He's been doing work showing people being manipulated by giant hands for at least a couple of years as far as I'm aware. I first saw his work at the presentation of Korean video art shown at the British Museum during the London Korean Festival in 2005. The above work, ...
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Think Korea website now up & running

30-Jun-06
It's taken a while, but here it is: www.thinkkorea.org.uk. It seems to be part of the Korean Embassy website. And it's now coming up on google. It must be a recent creation, because I've lost count of the number of times I've googled in search of "Think Korea 2006" and only found my own site. There's a couple of events on their schedule which I hadn't heard about - a contemporary video art event during May, which obviously we've now missed; and an event at the Bloomsbury Theatre in September, which the Bloomsbury Theatre website doesn't seem to know anything about yet. Other than that I think I'd managed to capture all the events by various alternative means. I won't be posting ...
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