― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Right now, on VH1 Classic, they are playing the video for Wide Boy by Nik Kershaw. This is, right now, the greatest thing in the world.
― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Coffee in Tinderbox on Byres Road.Exhibition at the CCABurger & Ginger Beer in MonoThe Necropolis at SunsetKu Klux Klan Exhibition at St. Mungo's Museum.Awesome cider at Babbity Bowsers.
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
what did you make of the KKK exhibition?
heads up: free cinema tonight
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 11:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 11:04 (eighteen years ago) link
The KKK exhibition was very interesting from a documentary/political point of view. The photos themselves were pretty boring.
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 11:10 (eighteen years ago) link
good work. i love it up there.
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 12:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 12:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link
x-post
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
I think "contrived" is the wrong word, for once
I find his work to be too cerebrally weird. It's all too well thought through and lacking in viscerality for my taste. His excessive skill, 'look at how odd I am' persona and ideas frequently get in the way of him doing anything that's actually worth more than a freakshow.
The christ painting works because he is working in a manner oppositie to his usual one. Rather than distorting things to create a surreal and freakish effect, he is correcting the use of such effects in historical paintings of the crucifiction. In removing the blood, nails and horror from the image of christ on the cross, he asserts his view of christ's role as a force for good, rather than an object of pity. His distortion is a return to reality, rather than an escape from it.
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 13:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 13:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ally C (Ally C), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― hmmm (hmmm), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 15:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:03 (eighteen years ago) link
anyway
'the burmese harp' was great
where's the beard guy with the beard details?
and I take it no-one likes d.eulberg?
x
― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lara (Lara), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mooro (Mooro), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 8 December 2005 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Lara (Lara), Thursday, 8 December 2005 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 8 December 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 8 December 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 December 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― scotstvo (scotstvo), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Friday, 9 December 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 9 December 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link
I might pop past the Winchester tomorrow to see Dot to Dot.
― scotstvo (scotstvo), Saturday, 10 December 2005 02:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ally C (Ally C), Sunday, 11 December 2005 15:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 11 December 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 11 December 2005 16:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Foot update: It was a bit green this morning, so I am bandageless and trying to dry it out.
― Mädchen (Madchen), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:43 (eighteen years ago) link
get well soon!
― RJG (RJG), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cathy (Cathy), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 12 December 2005 10:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 12 December 2005 11:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 13 December 2005 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link