Art
4 March 2008
A brand new series in the grand tradition of the Top 100 Singles, the Periodic Table Of Pop and the Top 25 Brands. But this one doesn’t require much in the way of writing, and a pace of one a week should be simple. And we should be able to rustle up fifty two of them. In honour of Starry Sarah’s Fontana edition of Destination Unknown, with the most psychedelic cover of a book I have seen in years. Well I haven’t scanned it yet, and can’t find it on the web – but I did find this one for Death in the Sky.
Which you have to admit is pretty scary (click thru for abject terror).
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Pete Baran in FT /The Brown Wedge • 23 Comments
6 February 2008
a scientific report
the project: to road-test some of the fillings people have (incomprehensibly) not yet adopted
the fillings of the future:
i: mushrooms fried in pumpkin seed butter, with garlic oil and red wine
ii: fried bacon and date syrop
iii: chopped avocado and marmite
iv: spinach and ginger syrop
v: ham and gentleman’s relish
vi: brie and japanese plum sauce
vii: grated carrot and cinnamon more »
pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør in FT /Pumpkin Publog /The Brown Wedge • 6 Comments
24 January 2008
while our whirring engines prepare the latest edition of the Lollards of Pop podcast (broadcast last evening on Resonance FM 104.4), engorge your minds upon this vision of apocalypse by Minnesota artist Joseph Sinness, o readers:
Elisha Sessions in FT • 3 Comments
29 November 2007
there is plenty more to say about this useful particle of lollardry but to kick things off
i. sarah seemed to saying the word BUMPKIN derived from a comical mispronunciation of the word LOCAL — which is awesome ambitious as mispronunciations go! (she was talking abt YOKEL obv but didn’t quite say so)
ii. like all other excellent words, bumpkin derives from the DUTCH = “boomken” meaning a YOG LOG
pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør in FT /The Brown Wedge • 2 Comments
22 November 2007
so this is about semi-unintended portals, and this is one — because at one point will and lyra run for safety to a BELVEDERE and this explodes a bunch of ideas in my head PP maybe didn’t mean bcz
i. belvedere just means a place that is good to gaze from
ii. belvedere is a suburb of shrewsbury where i grew up, where my school (aged 8-12) was, and the art college my sister went to, and my dad’s current GP, and the place i had my first grown-up job — i don’t know why, as it is NOT a good place to gaze from
iii. this escher picture is called BELVEDERE (click for full size)
iv. the only lectures i went to in my third year maths at oxford were by ROGER PENROSE = the guy (with HIS dad) who developed the optical illusions escher turned into these (to me) utterly evocative lithographs
v. my great friend dr vick is related to escher which is awesome!
vi. all of which amplifies PP’s precise intention only glancingly, to be sure, except that it’s about travel between worlds, and the power (and mortal peril) of imagination, and our own ability to connect
vii. and plus also THREE WORLDS dude, which is an even better escher picture (also click)
pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør in FT /The Brown Wedge • 10 Comments
11 November 2007
17 October 2007
So farewell then Alison Lapper. Your reign on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square, annoying my Dad is to end. But you have been a tremendous presence there, reminding us of the power of statuary and the indomitable spirit of motherhood. But what, we wonder, has she given birth too? I had (wrongly it seems) believed that the Fourth Plinth project had faltered. After the initial rush, the square had seemed to settle for Alison. She seemed to fit too, with the newly pedestrianised venue (pedestrian in all senses of the word – there are some great events but they always seem to lack that magical ooomph*).
Anyway, the new piece of work for the fourth plinth has been announced, and I’m going to get all Daily Mail on your arse. Not because I don’t like it, I won’t know that until I see it in situ. But because from this picture there is an obvious joke to be made, and dammit if I’m not going to make it first. Thomas Schutte’s “Model for a Hotel 2007″ kinda resembles the kind of perspexey constructions that the Doozers on Fraggle Rock used to make. It is an admirably clear piece or draftsmanship in action, which could look astonishing in daylight as well as if lit well, but I do kind of see little hard hatted green men grumbling under their moustaches at its construction. I also fear that a free spirited red haired Fraggle may just come in and eat it at some stage. But well done the Fourth Plinth for reminding us to “Dance Our Cares Away…”
*This is almost certainly due to them being free events.
Pete Baran in FT /The Brown Wedge • 1 Comment
11 August 2007
The above is the title of a rather lovely new show at the British Museum (open until October 21st), exhibiting I believe a hundred works from the last fifty years or so in various crafts categories. There are lots of spectacularlt beautiful pieces, particularly in ceramics, lacquerware and kimonos. It’s only a fiver, and very much worth visiting.
Trouble is, I came away dissatisfied with the accompanying wall text and labels. more »
Martin Skidmore in FT • No Comments
26 July 2007
the weekly world news will be no more come august
my favourite story: two-headed woman pregnant! one head wants to have the baby — says the other, “absolutely not!”
pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør in FT /The Brown Wedge • 7 Comments
5 July 2007
ok this one (and it’s NOT THAT OLD) reads:
• read ziz — [what? which bit? ALL OF HIM!?]
• = suss’n of BNs — [actually translated by pure chance -- see below]
• zizek/banksy — [yes? and?]
• g04 — [are these like separate articles i'm reminding myself to write or is there some logical route implied?]
• stockholm — [monsters? syndrome? possible holiday?]
csi: interzone — [see THIS i recall! it was a stand-alone rfn idea anent the war in lebanon and the privileging of internet forensic in ref photographs over reported accounts from witnesses: the "EVIDENCE CANNOT LIE", as grissom sez, suggests the VICTIMS ALWAYS DO]
• age of heroes — [this is most likely shorthand for my favourite adorno aphorism: "horses are the survivors of the age of heroes", epigraph to "in search of wagner" -- i'm certain i had no plan to write a stand-alone piece on THIS, so that makes the list stages in an argument... but WHAT?]
• paris vs alger — [horatio alger? alger hiss?]
to be fair (to who? YOU? ahahaha) this is separated on the page so issume not part of this er “idea”
translation (FSVO): on another bit of paper, i find the following: “sussuration of betes noires — BANKSY, a GEEZER, a little bit whoo, a bit wahey” — AHA er
pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør in The Brown Wedge • 10 Comments
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