‘Spotty Dick’ : a research experiment to test design suitability for the use of jewelled spot matrix patterns for UV aware men’s swimwear

The great male Aussie cossie is growing spots. The ‘dick’ tog, as it is colloquially referred to, is linked to Australia’s national identify with overtly masculine bronzed Aussie bodies clothed in this iconic apparel. Yet the reality is our hunger for worshiping the sun and the addiction to a beach lifestyle is tempered by the pragmatic need for neck-to-knee, or more apt head-to-toe, swimwear. Spotty Dick is an irreverent play on male swimwear – it experiments with alternate modes to sheath the body with Lyrca in order to protect it from searing UV’s and at the same time light-heartedly fools around with texture and pattern; to be specific, black Scharovsky crystals, jewelled in spot patterns - jewelled clothing is not characteristically aligned to menswear and even less so to the great Aussie cossie. The crystals form a matrix of spots that attempt to provoke a sense of mischievousness aligned to the Aussie beach larrikin. Ironically, spot patterns are in itself a form of a parody, as prolonged sun exposure ages the skin and sun spots can occur if appropriate sun protection is not used. ‘Spotty Dick’ – a research experiment to test design suitability for the use of jewelled spot matrix patterns for UV aware men’s swimwear. The creative work was paraded at 56 shows, over a 2 week period, and an estimated 50,000 people viewed the work.

Ann and Grete Unger seated outdoors with Dick and Gitta Meier with their infant daughter Karen.

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Landers [i. e. Richmond Wilcox "Dick" Landon] de Yale [sauteur en hauteur américain] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59634

[Dick] Landon, gagnant du saut [en hauteur, porté par Harold Muller et Bo Ekelund, Jeux olympiques d'Anvers, 17/8/20] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 60592

R. W. [Richmond Wilcox "Dick"] Landon (USA) saut en hauteur (gagnant) [des Jeux olympiques d'Anvers] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 60590

Posthumanité et subjectivité transcendante dans l’œuvre de Philip K. Dick

La problématique à l’étude dans ce mémoire est la représentation et conceptualisation de la notion de posthumanité dans trois romans de Philip K.Dick : The Three Stigmata Of Palmer Eldritch, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? et Ubik. L’analyse de ces romans nous permettra de montrer que l’auteur américain focalise sa réflexion sur le posthumain sur la subjectivité transcendante de personnages qui absorbent, et se substituent à la réalité d’autres personnages dans leur environnement. Nous montrerons également que l’écriture de Dick a évolué vers une vision plus spirituelle ou mystique en se détachant graduellement du récit de science-fiction traditionnel. Ce développement aura des répercussions significatives sur sa postérité cyberpunk.

Explorations of identity in Philip K. Dick's Do androids dream of electric sheep?

Mémoire numérisé par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Dick King-Smith collection : E.S.P., horse pie, the guard dog.

Una recopilación de tres historias: la primera cuenta la historia de una paloma con un inusual talento. En la segunda historia, tres magníficos caballos se encuentran en terrible peligro, y en la última historia, un desaliñado perro sueña en convertirse en un perro guardián.

Parallel editing, multi-positionality and maximalism: cosmopolitan effects as explored in some art works by Melanie Jackson and Vivienne Dick

Garfield produces a critique of neo-minimalist art practice by demonstrating how the artist Melanie Jackson’s Some things you are not allowed to send around the world (2003 and 2006) and the experimental film-maker Vivienne Dick’s Liberty’s booty (1980) – neither of which can be said to be about feeling ‘at home’ in the world, be it as a resident or as a nomad – examine global humanity through multi-positionality, excess and contingency, and thereby begin to articulate a new cosmopolitan relationship with the local – or, rather, with many different localities – in one and the same maximalist sweep of the work. ‘Maximalism’ in Garfield’s coinage signifies an excessive overloading (through editing, collage, and the sheer density of the range of the material) that enables the viewer to insert themselves into the narrative of the work. In the art of both Jackson and Dick Garfield detects a refusal to know or to judge the world; instead, there is an attempt to incorporate the complexities of its full range into the singular vision of the work, challenging the viewer to identify what is at stake.