peartruck http://www.peartruck.com Patrick Donohoe is an artist, meditator, father, picture hanger, web guy, gardener Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:09:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How Artists Can Use Facebook to Engage Their Audiences http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-melber/how-artists-can-use-faceb_b_669762.html

]]> http://www.peartruck.com/2010/12/03/how-artists-can-use-facebook-to-engage-their-audiences/ Seth Godin’s memo to the very small The other day I found a good post from Seth Godin on a way for very small businesses to get an online presence, quickly and cheaply. I don’t agree with the specifics of his method necessarily – it’s quite heavily weighted towards Squidoo lenses. But it had the desired effect which was to make [...]]]> http://www.peartruck.com/2010/12/01/seth-godins-memo-to-the-very-small/ Aaron Koblin’s lovely work Really simple music video for Radiohead but executed in a technologically complex way.  http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/rh/index.html

]]> http://www.peartruck.com/2010/11/25/aaron-koblins-lovely-work/ ARG’s Interesting article from Wired a few years back – http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_args

]]> http://www.peartruck.com/2010/11/25/args/ compARTment pilot project in Brighton The groovy little arts/empty spaces collective I’ve co-founded have secured temporary use of two stalls at Brighton’s Open Market prior to the major developments planned. This is brilliant news for us and in some ways a long time coming!

This is our pilot project in the realms of transforming unused city space for creative and [...]]]> http://www.peartruck.com/2010/07/15/compartment-pilot-project-in-brighton/ Latest artwork A couple of preview images of my latest work.

The work is based around ideas of repetition and deconstruction. Straight lines are scored into the painted paper with a knife tip, creating a strong white line against a dark background. The simple yet repetitive act of ruling hundreds of  lines echoes the process of meditation [...]]]> http://www.peartruck.com/2009/09/28/latest-artwork/ Go Brighton picture hanger, hang those pictures! Maybe i spoke too soon. Just when you think you’re efforts will amount to nowt, along comes life to say “hang on buddy, you don’t know anything about how this stuff works”.
The way I see it is that all our efforts are washing around in the great efforts washing machine/lotto ball tumbler. And [...]]]> http://www.peartruck.com/2009/03/24/go-brighton-picture-hanger-hang-those-pictures/ webby stuff this month Picture hanging in Brighton has not yet sprouted, though the seeds have been planted via web presence and business cards and speaking to local framers. So in the meantime it’s commuter time – back to London for a month or two of ad agency work it seems. My CV seems pretty popular so [...]]]> http://www.peartruck.com/2009/03/16/webby-stuff-this-month/ peartruck reincarnates peartruck is Patrick Donohoe, artist, and the Brighton picture hanger, as well as general web guy, gardener, meditator etc.

This is the new version of my sit. I’ll be editing and playing around with it as time goes on.

If you want to make contact email patrick(at)peartruck.com

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