Friday, April 27, 2012
Affirmative
I've just watched The Way. You haven't seen a feelgood movie till you've seen this baby. I'm warm, fuzzy and visible from Pluto. Excuse me while I get a beard started.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Conceptual Ceiling
In a Sotheby’s auction in September 2008 Damien Hirst sold £111 million worth of his work. This is ten times more than the previous record for work by a single artist. Opinion is sharply divided on Damien Hirst and his place in the pantheon of significant artists. But if the primary function of art is to illuminate, to chronicle a time, a milieu, a civilization then surely he has no equal.
His work initiated one of the last great, certainly the most celebrated, manifestations of excess milennial wealth. And then the world crumbled. Damien Hirst the artist bookended the days of the fast one with a fast one of his own.
The selling of the art was a greater testament, a greater piece of art than any of the art itself. That's art.
His work initiated one of the last great, certainly the most celebrated, manifestations of excess milennial wealth. And then the world crumbled. Damien Hirst the artist bookended the days of the fast one with a fast one of his own.
The selling of the art was a greater testament, a greater piece of art than any of the art itself. That's art.
Going (Velvet) Underground
In the phenomenon of Banksy the graffiti artist is the neat summation of a conundrum of the media age. Contrary to the famous proclamation, fifteen minutes of anonymity is now the aspiration for many. In the case of Banksy the irony is that the longer his anonymity perseveres the more famous he as an entity becomes.
I don’t think even Warhol had a soundbite to cover that one.
I don’t think even Warhol had a soundbite to cover that one.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Monday As Gaeilge = Dé Luain
In Britain, where Eastenders is broadcast at 7.30pm every weekday evening, they wonder why anti social behaviour is such a huge problem.
Organic shrapnel is the phrase that someone in the US Military decided upon to describe when a bomb blast embeds pieces of one person into another person.
On Liveline a woman said “I would reluctantly send my daughter to the Educate Together School but I am a Catholic. I don’t go to mass every week religiously but I do go”. And she wasn’t even trying.
Jedward are performance artists. They should move to New York to get the recognition they deserve. They should not be performing at the National Sheep Shearing Championships because it is just plain wrong.
Putting precocious kids and people with Northside Dublin accents into radio and TV ads is still hilarious. Puppets on RTE sketch comedy shows? Same story. Fuckin' priceless. Never gets old.
Unexpected item in the bagging area; Samuel L. Jackson.
Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Boating In Naas.
You will be pleasantly surprised by Kilkenny.
Essentially is the new basically.
Organic shrapnel is the phrase that someone in the US Military decided upon to describe when a bomb blast embeds pieces of one person into another person.
On Liveline a woman said “I would reluctantly send my daughter to the Educate Together School but I am a Catholic. I don’t go to mass every week religiously but I do go”. And she wasn’t even trying.
Jedward are performance artists. They should move to New York to get the recognition they deserve. They should not be performing at the National Sheep Shearing Championships because it is just plain wrong.
Putting precocious kids and people with Northside Dublin accents into radio and TV ads is still hilarious. Puppets on RTE sketch comedy shows? Same story. Fuckin' priceless. Never gets old.
Unexpected item in the bagging area; Samuel L. Jackson.
Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Boating In Naas.
You will be pleasantly surprised by Kilkenny.
Essentially is the new basically.
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