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The Trouble With Batman.
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— 11 Jun 2004 Pete Baran Comment

The Trouble With Batman. If he is the yang to the impossible to write well Superman, then it should be easy to write him. Indeed it is, because Batman – psychologically stunted insufferable know-it-all in tights is rarely the lead character in […]

QuarkXPress 6 vs. InDesign CS: Taking Sides
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— 9 Jun 2004 Alan Comment

QuarkXPress 6 vs. InDesign CS: Taking Sides
In the electronic-based graphic design biz everyone has their take on this conundrum that’s been rumbling on unresolved for years now. (InDesign v 1 came out in 1999). This is David Blatner’s la[…]

(co-worker returns from holiday in ecuador, and has to be caught up news of momart fire)
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— 9 Jun 2004 mark sinker Comment

(co-worker returns from holiday in ecuador, and has to be caught up news of momart fire)
co-worker 1: the tone of the press was pretty sneery: i guess it’s just TATE BRICKS all over againco-worker 2: the bricks would have been fine! they were […]

house makeover progs
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— 8 Jun 2004 mark sinker Comment

house makeover progs seem caught between the conformist-aspirational (= how much can i calculatedly add on before selling it), and a my-dear-such-plebs fey aestheticism which is a lot past its sell-by (= when they put oscar in jug)
i haven’t b[…]

tell us the korrekt jargon plz!!??
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— 6 Jun 2004 mark sinker Comment

tell us the korrekt jargon plz!!??
While helping my friends T&G unpack yesterday after hurriedly moving house to lovely walthamstow, we discovered a JAR OF CLOVES in a BAG OF CLOTHES!!! We tried to work out what kind of literary device/joke thi[…]

HA!
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— 4 Jun 2004 mark sinker Comment

HA! (see parenthesis middle of 4th sentence for clear evidence of agnes martin’s genius)[…]

Pre-stained black T-shirt, sir?
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— 3 Jun 2004 Tom Comment

Pre-stained black T-shirt, sir? This week’s Marketing news is that clothing brand Diesel are teaming up with 2000AD to offer “a science-fiction range of casual clothing”. Imagining what this might actually involve baffles me, but a […]

Introductions
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— 3 Jun 2004 Mike Comment

Introductions
One of the nuisances with novels is the introduction which gives the plot away. The dictionary definition states an introduction to be “That part of a book or discourse which introduces or leads the way to the main subject.”[…]

i am excited about Agnes Martins new work–for the longest time nothing seemed to phase her, she still painted the same thing. She could live beside the grotesque and new fangled creations of Bruce Nauman (as she had been for almost forty years, until 2000 where she had to be moved into a nursing home), and have him over for tea but still put lines on canvases, she could move from Saskatchewan to New York to Taos and still put lines on canvases, she could be 90 and in the tate and sold for a million and have her book of writing out and still put lines on canvases. She could be a cult favourite instead of loved by everyone and still put lines on canvases. Sometimes the fields are a different colour, more bright or more dark, sometimes she uses yellow or taupe instead of lavender or mauve–and sometimes the lines are dark, sometimes they are almost Pace and sometimes they hum like power lines–but she has had a zen forbearance, like the man who spent 70 years painting bamboo. Then in her latest work, now at the Pace Wildenstein in New York–she has placed yellow tipped triangles and black trapezoids in the middle of her lines, and i’m ecstatic, its the most exciting, new and sexy thing i have heard in at least this year–and she did it in her mid 90s … gives me hope, it doe
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— 3 Jun 2004 Anthony Easton Comment

So, i am excited about Agnes Martins new work–for the longest time nothing seemed to phase her, she still painted the same thing. She could live beside the grotesque and new fangled creations of Bruce Nauman (as she had been for almost forty […]

well i say it’s ART so bite me
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— 2 Jun 2004 mark sinker 1 comment

well i say it’s ART so bite me
newscaster jon snow on c4 news just now: “to pursue the metaphor, is there not a danger that you’re crying wolf before the stable door is bolted?”[…]

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