Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 12, 2012, 7:07 am
 You & Me by westlake72 
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Dec 30, 2011, 8:35 am
 Bizarre Love Triangle (Westlake 72 Re-Edit) by westlake72 
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Dec 22, 2011, 6:56 am
 Strings of Life (westlake72 Remix) by westlake72
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Dec 22, 2011, 5:55 am
Deep House, Deep Disco and other Grooves including New-Wave, Old School Hip-Hop and Go-Go!!! Includes Eric Kruper presents K-Scope, Liberty City, Norma Jean, Chic, Greg Diomends Bionic Boogie, Talking Heads, The Human League Orchestra, Sugar Hill Gang, The Junk Yard Band and lots more... From 2 x Te...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Oct 29, 2011, 2:58 pm
Art as an institution (as opposed to a term simply bestowing praise on creativity or skill, or a term referring to man made objects of cultural interest better described as: artefacts) is a construct centred on artists producing artworks. It is not a natural, timeless or universal phenomenon, but a ...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jul 20, 2011, 12:25 pm
It has been established beyond all doubt that the News Corp regularly and systematically broke the law by illegally tapping (pinging, bugging etc) the telephone and email correspondences of celebrities, members of the public and, crucially, politicians. It has also now been established beyond all do...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jul 12, 2011, 6:22 am
 Come Over by westlake72
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jul 7, 2011, 6:15 am
Rebekah Brook’s famous, weird, obsession with pedophiles is that they may have represented the one group she felt able to posture from a position of  relatively moral high ground. The recent revelations - her disruption of the investigation of a child murder for one - take even that away from her...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - May 25, 2011, 9:16 am
http://futurenowexhibit.org.uk/thesis/index.html
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - May 9, 2011, 7:20 am
"The world is full of objects, more or less interesting; I do not wish to add any more" Douglas Huebler - 1969. 1) In advanced capitalist societies we experience  the triumvirate fetishization of progress, production and representation as total ideology mediating all sites of social exchange includ...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Apr 4, 2011, 9:39 am
The Beginning of the End: Art as an institution (as opposed to a term simply bestowing praise on creativity or skill, or a term referring to man made objects of cultural interest better described as: artefacts) is a construct centred on artists producing artworks. It is not a natural, timeless or u...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 25, 2011, 7:31 pm
Art & Science Are Theoretical Physicists the only true artists left in the 21st Century? Conceptual jester Jonathon Keats has suggested that the science fiction of the future will be written in mathematical equations but sci-fi, speculative fiction and futurism are all now things of the past: We are...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 24, 2011, 9:08 pm
Politics Irrefutable evidence from Channel 4’s Dispatches that both the two main political parties and the police are in the pocket of the Murdoch Clan/News International. Former NOTW editor Andy Coulson and current NOTW editor Rebecca Brooks (Wade) were/are engaged in systematic criminal activity...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 19, 2011, 11:43 am
Central Saint Martins’ MA Fine Art - Interim Show 2011 Description: Showcasing the work of Central Saint Martins’ MA Fine Art students Continues: 28 January - 30 January 11am to 6pm Location: Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse St, South Bank, London, SE1 9PH 020 7021 1686 http://www.coin...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 19, 2011, 10:46 am
Nostalgia Remember watching this at the time - People retrospectively hype The Tube as hip and cutting edge but it hardly ever had any black acts when hip-hop/electro and funk/soul/boogie where by far the most innovative forms of music during the period (early 80’s). For more classic electro links...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 16, 2011, 11:25 am
Politics I believe the next Labour PM will be Streatham’s current MP: Chuka Umunna. I was extremely impressed by Umunna’s performance while grilling the vile Bob Diamond. He exhibited three vital qualities that Ed Milliband distinctly lacks: i) Clear, concise, communication skills, ii) A passi...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 12, 2011, 10:12 pm
Politics In Sarah Palin’s video responce to the Arizona shooting it only takes Ms Palin 1 minute 30 seconds before she forgets about paying tribute to the Liberal senator Gabrielle Giffords, who lies fighting for her life and the lives of 6 others (including a 9 year old girl who she neglects to m...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 7, 2011, 9:33 pm
Music an hour of chilled out sun-kissed soul from my podcast.
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 7, 2011, 12:18 pm
 Music Horny Chic (Flying Away) by westlake72 This Trumpet lead, soulful, nu-disco groover is the most popular download from my Soundcloud page.http://soundcloud.com/westlake72/horny-chic-flying-away
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 6, 2011, 5:32 pm
Music Glen Campbell’s Wichita Lineman given an old skool jungle drum’n’bass remix by westlake72 with accompanying mash-up video.
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 6, 2011, 3:41 pm
‘We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us’ - Marshall McLuhan (1964) All paradigm shifts in art emerge in response to social change and technological innovation. In the last 15 years information technology, particularly the emergence of the internet, has began to touch, and often res...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jul 31, 2010, 9:54 pm
Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology as Word Cloud
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jun 27, 2010, 3:51 pm
The World Cup I feel most sorry for the English underclass whose lack of economic power disbars them from fully participating in a culture based on self actualisation through conspicuous conception. Enticed by multination corporations' advertising and sponsorship they attempt to overcome this humili...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - May 7, 2010, 7:54 pm
Politics The LidDems should not coalition with the Tories as the Tories won't seriously offer them any real chance of PR (it would be electoral suicide for them to do so). Instead the Libdems will agree to back them over the Queens speech and budget to allow the Tories to govern. This will allow the...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Mar 25, 2010, 2:56 am
Here is a dub remix I have done for the Britney Spears track Toxic synced with the original video.
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Mar 7, 2010, 8:02 pm
Music The latest edition of my podcast is now available to stream or download. This a live set featuring myself and New York's legendary DJ Sims (Sarah Sims Erwin) live at the Lotus Lounge NYC circa 2003. It starts with about half an hour of chilled-out Street Soul from myself followed by an eclec...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Mar 7, 2010, 8:02 pm
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Mar 7, 2010, 7:42 pm
Time: the socio-political The ways we have marked out time, from the obelisks of ancient Egypt and Babylon to the atomic super-clocks being developed today that are said to be more accurate than time itself, the socio-economic system in place and the way human beings experience time have always rema...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Mar 7, 2010, 7:42 pm
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Feb 13, 2010, 6:11 pm
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Feb 13, 2010, 6:11 pm
I am curating a group exhibition featuring 11 artists exploring the nature of Time from a variety of perspectives including the social, philosophical and scientific. Utilising a variety of strategies and media including interactive software, sculpture, digital print, performance, sound and text this...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 17, 2010, 2:40 am
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 17, 2010, 2:40 am
I've uploaded a new podcaste: a funky Rare groove mix I took out to New York on one of my DJing trips in the early 2000's. The pic I took at block party I played at during one of those trips, Good times indeed, nostalgic sigh...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 16, 2010, 3:00 pm
I am participating in Some You Win, Some Deleuze a group show by a selection of MA Fine Art students at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. It is the culmination of a month long project, ArtSpace 2010, which saw this group utilise Collective, a former industrial space on Camden High Stree...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jan 16, 2010, 3:00 pm
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Nov 27, 2009, 1:16 pm
The last line of Bathes text is 'the birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author' and it is the reader referred to in the first half of this sentence that this essay really focuses on NOT a call for the annihilation of the author referenced in the second (French theorist tend ...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Nov 27, 2009, 1:16 pm
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jul 29, 2009, 7:32 am
I found Adam Curtis's new work incredibly disappointing. Unlike with all Curtis's previous works I did not learn anything new of significance. This was essentially a series of now bland a clichéd infobites such as that the CIA tried to kill Castro with an exploding cigar, Rock Hudson was Gay, and ...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jul 29, 2009, 7:32 am
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jul 26, 2009, 1:31 pm
What I enjoy with Koons is his ability to continuously reside on the razors edge of celebration/critique of the banalities of capitalism and how by making his products so sickly (and slickly) sweet and attractive he implicates the viewer (or at least this viewer). He does so with such bold and unapo...
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jul 26, 2009, 1:31 pm
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jul 13, 2009, 5:05 pm
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Jul 2, 2009, 5:57 pm
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Dan Westlake posted an article on Absolute Zero - Apr 28, 2009, 6:09 pm
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