Paul Carter, 1970-2006
Paul Carter died in a car crash yesterday near Edinburgh. We were inseparable as kids. He was an inspired artist, even when I knew him. I’ll never forget him asking of his ZX Spectrum: How do I get...
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for Paul Carter. Paul died a year ago today. The above are static images of the installation. How do I get more colours? was a question Paul asked me just after he got his ZX Spectrum. He’d already...
View ArticleYou’re Not Alone
Withered Hand is one of my favourite artists. Today, I found out that one of his first EPs was for Paul Carter, my childhood friend who died in 2006. Paul’s artwork is on the cover. I’m not ashamed to...
View ArticleAll the Colours We Have (for Paul Carter)
It’s hard to believe that Paul Carter has been gone ten years. I realized that my original ZX Spectrum BASIC memorial to him had got a bit dusty, in that it ran as an outdated Java applet. So I rewrote...
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It’s hard to believe that Paul Carter has been gone fifteen years. Like all things digital, my ten year memorial for him was a bit dusty, so I did a re-encoding that will look better on today’s...
View ArticleSnowy, after Paul Carter
I’m remembering the time that Paul coloured a perfect square with a highlighter on their white family cat, Snowy. She had a pink side for weeks.
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