March 01, 2005
artist
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January 26, 2005
boxes
Doodles on Boxes!
[via Slogrl.]
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January 13, 2005
camera mail art
via Christie >> disposable camera mail art.
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October 05, 2004
arty stuff
It's not arty but a way I've been passing the time -after reading this, then that, and this. After all that I found things like this and this and this and... (NSFW) this.
But mostly it was quite dull. All those digital cameras in the world and so many of their owners totally clueless as to what makes for a good picture. Sigh.
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August 30, 2004
Nosh
oh naughty Dr Gillian McKeith. I've seen a couple of her 'You are what you eat' programs on Channel 4 and while I agree with a much of her common-sense recommendations (which amounts to simply saying 'stop eating crap - eat whole grains and fresh fruit and veg. instead'. Well, duh.) when I went digging around the dedicated micro site over at Channel 4 in search of a recipe for an aduki bean casserole mentioned on one show (I heart aduki beans), instead of any proper practical advice, recipes or anything actually useful, all there is to be found a short list of ridiculously exotic and I suppose very expensive grains. Which must have chosen especially for that particular breed of wealthier middle-class person who just can't spend enough money on the bare necessities of life. But it's exactly this which gives the game away, at heart this isn't really a program about good nutritional advice at all - it's more of a freak show in disguise. A neat little piece of cultural slumming/class tourism -where middle class people get to gawp at some lower class fatties and have all their worse prejudices about them confirmed. Come to think of it 'How Clean is your House' and 'Wife swap' serve a similiar function.
All of a sudden I'm left with a nasty taste in my mouth.
Posted by groc at 08:07 PM | Comments (7)
August 11, 2004
art
"We really are too depraved and idiotic as a society now for art".
Matthew Collings
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June 21, 2004
The
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June 02, 2004
quack
quack (and a bit of a squeak).
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May 29, 2004
Ghost world/Art World
I seem to remember in the comic book and the film 'Ghost World' one of the characters -Seymour (Steve Buscemi) collected old 'Sambo'/blackface/minstral advertising for 'the Coon Chicken Inn' pointing out it's place in American history as in the film the Coon mutates from the offensive blackface to a inoffensive 'Cook's Chicken Inn'. Well blow me -I've just found an Artist who deals in much the same subject matter and has been subjected to as much knee-jerk criticism for it as is the main character Enid (Thora Birch) in the film. Is this all coincidental or what? Did Daniel Clowes know about Michael Ray Charles beforehand?
I'm going to have to watch this film again soon, and I ought to buy the book at some point.
Posted by groc at 08:19 PM | Comments (4)
May 26, 2004
How terribly unfortunate
and yet somehow I can't bring myself to care very much. Surely the real art was in all the tabloid headlines, the long stream of (mock) outraged articles and the hype and the fantastical amounts of money that Mr Saatchi threw around. After all that the actual art objects themselves don't seem to matter that much.
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May 12, 2004
Andy
photos by Billy Name. (via the cartoonist.) If I was a wealthy groc I would so be buying a lot of those pictures.
“I know that they are going to be looked at and loved”
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April 19, 2004
Page 3 stunnas!
Wolfgang Tilsman on nudity in photographs, obscenity and censorship.
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April 08, 2004
Laundromat
You've seen my photos of my local Launderette before now. Here's someone in America land taking pics of his. Why are 'drettes always so retro?
Posted by groc at 06:51 PM | Comments (0)
March 26, 2004
Fabrica
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February 29, 2004
Damon
Damon by Wolfie Tillmans.
Posted by groc at 03:15 PM | Comments (2)
click hold and drag
I found this movie a bit ...disturbing. (I was going to make some sort of a joke about it being 'pointless' but it didn't quite work. So I gave up on the idea.)
Related to this -you know my photo table of my favourite blogsters over at the right side there, I often wonder as I click on a nose or an eyeball or head if at that exact same moment that person feels it, in a voodoo doll sort of a way.
Posted by groc at 06:45 AM | Comments (1)
February 26, 2004
Waters
via Scrubbles a John Waters exhibition in Seattle.
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February 17, 2004
more Banksy
I found more Banksy stuff: Turf war 1. 2.
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January 31, 2004
Guston
Oh goodie, a documentry on Philip Guston is on BBC four tonight.
An artist that turned his back on abstract expressionism (yawn) to do more cartoonesque work (yay). Excellent.
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January 16, 2004
spam art
another much more famous brit blogger than me succumbs to the urge to create spam inspired art.
This is a new record. Yesterday I received 28 spams from the very same ever eager french-based porn site that's so insanely desperately keen for me to see their 'free' Paris Hilton video and other crap. Just what the hell is wrong with these people? If I got that many phone calls or pieces of snail mail it would be classed as criminal harrassment. I could have a restraining order put on them. If I had the money I'd be tempted to track them down and sue the hind quarters off them. I then received yet another 21 today.
Of course the big question remains: after so long and after so many mails -why hasn't the BT spam filter learnt how to block them yet?
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January 02, 2004
Pee Wee
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