{"id":7185,"date":"2010-11-24T00:01:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T05:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7185"},"modified":"2026-11-01T11:13:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T11:13:35","slug":"the-little-artists-lick-yourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7185","title":{"rendered":"The Little Artists &#8211; <em>Lick Yourselves<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/11_2010\/lick_yourself.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/lick_yourself.jpg\" alt=\"lick yourself\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/11_2010\/lick_yourself.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Lick Yourselves (2005, 64MB, 6:27 min, silent)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littleartist.co.uk\/\" target=\"-blank\">The Little Artists<\/a> are a UK collaborative duo, most famous\/notorious<br \/>\nfor their re-renderings of iconic artworks in the childrens&#8217; construction toy<br \/>\nLEGO.<br \/>\nThis brief description doesn&#8217;t do them justice &#8211; their work is rich &#038; complex<br \/>\n&#038; they make hay, playfully but profoundly too, with all sorts of contemporary<br \/>\nobsessions &#8211; remix &#038;appropriation, branding, celebrity &#038; not least the idea of<br \/>\nartistry\/creativity itself.<\/p>\n<p>This video stems from their 2005 show based on the work of Mark Quinn, the casting-<br \/>\nhis-head-out-of-his-own-frozen-blood guy, and the show featured them dressing<br \/>\nup as ice cream salespeople and flogging fruit flavour ice lolly replicas of<br \/>\nthe Quinn piece.<br \/>\nThe vid is a minimal, leisurely and ever so slightly disturbing account of<br \/>\none of these slowly melting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lick Yourselves (2005, 64MB, 6:27 min, silent) The Little Artists are a UK collaborative duo, most famous\/notorious for their re-renderings of iconic artworks in the childrens&#8217; construction toy LEGO. This brief description doesn&#8217;t do them justice &#8211; their work is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=7185\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,93,33,26,13,71,14,45,47,43,54,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-collaboration","category-conceptual","category-documentary-arts","category-ephemera","category-exhibition","category-experimental","category-humor","category-observational","category-portraiture","category-silent","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7185"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12364,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7185\/revisions\/12364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}