The Fall vs Cilla Black podcast

If you missed Rose's show tonight, you can download the podcast here. The best comment about the contrast involved was something like 'It's like sitting in a comfy armchair with a barbed wire seat.'

I enjoyed it very much.

For Rose

Here are links to CoBrA artist Karel Appel's Musique barbare from 1963: 'Paysage electronique', 'Poeme barbare', and 'Le cavalier blanc'. Appel was also involved with the situationists.

Also check out the Continuo blog.

Werner Herzog's Rogue Film School

What a good idea!

I should've made a DVD this year. Damnit.

In other news

I think my favourite of the Ballard tributes is Michael Moorcock's. The Guardian has put together a nice page. A couple of the articles mention how he wanted to be a painter but settled for being a science fiction writer instead. That resonates with me because I wanted to be a science fiction writer but settled for being a painter instead.

Closer to home, and on a more cheery note, here are a couple of things that made me laugh recently: John Hurrell calls Andrew McLeod a Wellington artist, and Nicky Watson talks about modelling for Liz Maw.

That Hurrell piece made me think that a good test for people is whether they see the humour in Bocklin's work.

Oh yeah

If you haven't already, check out the radio show of NZ drone, noise, and lo-fi that Rose has been doing for an outfit called Radio 23. Details are on her blog.

Elective E

Part of my course this semester is Fine Arts Elective E, also known as 'rhythmic feedback noise from electrodes', about using sampling and synthesising technologies. For the course, we've split into groups and are each doing a project involving audio and/or video. My group – Neoteric Sound Research Unit No. 0001 – is doing an audio project, culminating in both a performance and a record.

Another member of the group's keeping a blog as a kind of online workbook. On it, you can check out the recording of Saturday's practice and look at pictures of Matt's violog, among other treats.

Border collies can recognise photos

Or so says this. I might have to experiment on mine.

Oh yeah

Check out some glorious photos of the end of the world.

Very funny

Someone just left a comment on an old post:

Just thougth you might like to see this One Sentence story that I just
approved about your friend:
http://www.onesentence.org/stories/2651/

What countries have medicare cards?

The beginning of Doctor Who

These are a couple of pages of concepts for a new show the BBC was developing in 1963. They're online at the BBC Archive.

Nice

Bill Ayers has written about the US election campaign.

Stupid and boring, and the US election

So the Establishment has been handing out prizes to its pets again. The Stupidest Exhibition Award (otherwise known as the Walters) went to Peter Robinson for his polystyrene nonsense. What was notable about this award this time around was how the selecting panel outdid themselves in sheer idiocy, rendering the contest even more of a joke than usual.

The Most Boring Painter Award (otherwise known as the Laureate) went to Shane Cotton for his consistent mediocrity. I suppose it takes a certain knack to produce paintings that are so utterly devoid of interest. Of course, the idea of having a painter laureate is itself fairly stupid.

But enough of this inconsequential bollocks. The first results of the US election are coming in. I’ve been watching a lot of Fox News recently (it’s fascinating in a grotesque way), but for this arvo I recommend Oliver Burkeman's blog on the Guardian site.

Weather redux

I've been posted a nice link about the validity of self-serving email writer Ken Ring's weather predictions. My favourite comment is:

Mr Ring's weather predictions fail. When and if he is forced to explain his failures he mischievously reinterprets forecasts, suppresses negative forecasts and simply invents forecasts that were never made, all in such a way as to make it appear that his apparent failure was actually a success.

Enjoy!

The fucking Puddle!

For more Puddle and George D brilliance, go here and here.

Michael Baxandall is dead

Michael Baxandall is dead. There are several obituaries around, but the best one is here.

I highly recommend both Painting and experience in 15th century Italy and Patterns of intention. They deserve close and careful reading (and re-reading). I'd like to read some of his later books as well.

Can't Play Won't Play

To complete today's multimedia goodness, you can check out Can't Play Won't Play on myspace.

Satanic dada collective

You can see a couple of satanic dada collaborative works here.

House photos

Oh yeah, Rose has put up some photos of our house (and some more). We like it quite a lot.

Valve porn

Steve's put some more valve porn on his blog. I have to admit that Motorhead sounded pretty fucking good.

Some electronic communications

A text: 'u deserve to die for your angus review'

A link in an email: a wishlist for art 2008