On the train to Victoria in the twilight on Saturday, it was a pleasure as always to see the crumbling shell of Battersea Power Station. It’s beautiful, overgrown and full of debris. My friend Kirsti had been raving about it and how much she lo[…]

Gallery Exhibit Satire: The British museums current health exhibition contains various totems, fetishes and traditional remedies from South America, Adrica and Asia. From the past to the present, cures from gripe water to Mexican Day Of The Dead figu[…]

1: Computers still use punched cards.
A collorary to this that no matter how far in the future and how intelligent said computers get, they still seem to whirr and make strange noises. Often they will still have much tape involved. This has its repre[…]

The Grifters – Jim Thompson
Thompson understands tragedy. He understands that sometimes entertainment should hurt, should annoy. That truth, for a cynical world, lies in cruelty rather than the easy fix of happy ever after. Why is happy ever af[…]

The Guggenheim Museum of Contemporary Art, Bilbao, Spain
In 1997 a strange thing happened to the Basque city of Bilbao. Amid the industrial gloom of its docks, an apparition was reported. The man behind the apparition was Frank Gehry, a Canadian with[…]

Crumbling Loaf: I read this quite often on other people’s sidebars but it occurred to me I’ve never linked to it. I picked the Wedge for it because i) we’ve not had a post on here today yet; ii) I really like the way he writes about[…]

The Cool Museum ‘ not reading Japanese, I’m none the wiser really, but I like the pictures:[…]

I Love Comics: look! see! A tiny seedling board! Will it thrive and grow or be crushed under time’s callous heel? I am mostly posting the link because I want Vic Fluro to post there.[…]

Two new Mark Wallinger films, currently showing at the Anthony Reynolds Gallery on Gt Marlborough St, should be the cause of much celebration. If they had anything like the effect on me that ‘The One With The Slowed Down Airport Departure Loung[…]

The Brown Wedge helps with your comic education with Ivan Brunetti’s 22 Panels That Always Work, an instructive how to piece. Admittedly that one has a bit of a tongue it is cheek. This is possibly more useful, Wally Wood’s version of the[…]