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Who Needs Enemies... by Mark Gubb

Every episode of the US sitcom ‘Friends’ recategorised to describe what the episode truly contains, using the established format description of ‘The one with…’

Such as…

in S2E10 - The one with Russ - Monica begins dating ‘Fun Bobby’ again and the gang realise he’s an alcoholic (hence why he’s so much fun). So they convince him to stop drinking and he becomes boring, so Monica breaks up with him.

So, ‘The one with Russ’, gets recategorised as, ‘The one with judgement of an alcoholic’

Little Echo by Mark Gubb

An architectural/housing development of a handful of Spanish-style bungalows/shotgun shacks set around a small body of water with a water-feature based on the hi-jets in Echo Park Lake, Los Angeles.

The artwork is the endeavour of building the bungalows and doing the landscaping, but once they exist they can be run as residency live/work studios and low-cost housing for artists.

Ring of Fire by Mark Gubb

A slow-motion video of a 1970s Evel Knievel wind-up toy being jumped through the middle of a burning car tyre (set up like a flaming hoop that stunt-bikers jump their bikes through).

The video starts as a close crop, front-on, to the centre/hole of the tyre.

The tyre is doused liberally in flammable liquid and set alight.

Through the hole, in the distance, we see the toy being wound up and released, jumping through the centre of the tyre off a small ramp.

After the toy has passed through the tyre, the camera slowly pans out to show the entire burning tyre, full-frame.

For several minutes (final length to be decided in the edit) the film focuses on the burning tyre, before fading to black.