January 2010
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Hyperbollix
Would there be much internet left if the hyperbole was removed?
I really like the concrete everyday functionality of swiss army knives. For most online content creators this isn’t good enough - it would simply get lost in the clamour. I would have to be ready to pronounce it the greatest object ever designed and created, virtually residual artifact of divinity.
But really its just a nice...
Give It Time
The social media/blogosphere meeting point concerns me. There are so many sites which put on view new cool and fashionable art everyday, in much the same way The Mini Inquisition does. The problem is that, in viewing actual pieces onscreen, we are already at a remove. Combine that with the need to everyday present something new. We have lost the time to mull over new experiences, to relate to...
Noriko Ambe →
Noriko Ambe probably started the “I cut layers of paper” zeitgeist with archaelogical explorations of form in paper
“If you say you can’t then you are right.”
– Loads of people say this. Mainly petty office managers. But it’s still a good piece of advice, a bit, maybe…
No Sex Please! We're Just Kids! →
Sometimes I get the feeling people are just scared of the whole world. Why ban a dictionary just because you don’t like one of the words in it? The dictionary’s authoritative compiling is not a problem for those of us who are compos mentis.
“The art market is not sexist. The likes of Bridget Riley and Louise Bourgeois...”
– Brian Sewell has an inability to comprehend anything before or after Renaissance Italy, which incidentally, is when his misogyny was last publicly admissable. Brian Sewell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the johnson banks TFTW - The Pew Center for Arts &... →
Wow. I’m in awe.
David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70... →
If you didn’t have faith in Britain’s government under Tony Blair, this won’t exactly change your mind.
How I fought to survive Guantánamo | World news |... →
The saddest indictment of an era of US Foreign Policy that is hopefully now past.
Calatrava →
“On being like nothing else “In my house in Oxfordshire, we have this big,...”
– On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno | Interview | Music | The Observer
“All great truths begin as blasphemies”
– George Bernard Shaw
Tristan da Cunha →
Sounds fantastic! But who is policing the island if he is in England?
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“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”
– Steve Martin
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Privacy no longer a social norm says Facebook →
Zuckerberg has a lot of people on his network, but that doesn’t mean he can go around announcing the end of abstracts like privacy. He doesn’t know his arse from elbow.
Very interesting sentiments from Microsoft at the end though.
An Phoblacht: Iris Robinson's homophobic comments... →
Whnen it comes to Iris Robinson, this is only the tip of the iceberg. She is a free presbyterian, a church noted for their welcoming attitude, philanthropy and laissez-faire stance on any moral issues. Maybe…
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Robert Lazzarini →
beautiful distortions. These are not photographic treatments - these objects are themselves contorted into ‘perspectives’
An Oubliette →
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