Archive for May, 2009
More sex please, you’re artists
From Jonathan Jones On Art Blog in The Guardian. There isn’t enough sex in the arts today. Look back at the 20th century and the whole point of modernism was to liberate the carnal. DH Lawrence, priest of love, competed to shock the last survivors of the Victorian age with James Joyce, who rambled uninhibited [...]
Bamboozling Ourselves By Errol Morris
This is an opinion piece from the NY Times about the forger Han van Meegeren, the piece can be found here. I find it interesting, because it questions the nature of painting, which is really about branding rather then art, in my opinion. Heres a quote – To be sure, the Van Meegeren story raises [...]
Follow Me Down
Pink Floyd – Is There Anybody Out There?
How what is largely an orchestral group doing orchestral music became one of the worlds most popular rock bands is a mystery to me. The Wall was perhaps their greatest achievement but sadly Roger lost direction at this stage and the movie and soundtrack were unbearable. The Final Cut was the pits and its no [...]
Carlos Castaneda – Erasing Personal History
Don Juan was sitting on the floor, by the door of his house, with his back against the wall. He turned over a wooden milk crate and asked me to sit down and make myself at home. I offered him some cigarettes. I had brought a carton of them. He said he did not smoke [...]
A Living Art Reborn by Brian Eno
I find the whole idea of how musicians and artists can make money when everything they do can be copied and distributed for free fascinating, heres Brian Enos take on it – The record business is in the doldrums because sales are plummeting. Digital technology has made music easier to make and copy, with the [...]
Carlos Gardel
I dont know why I like Carlos Gardels music so much, I guess it is just so alien in todays world and sounds so far away and unreal. For those that arent familiar with him he was a Buenos Airian, born around 1890 and was perhaps the most prominent figure in the history of tango. [...]
Brian Eno
When you were first making ambient music, did you expect anybody to buy it? Yes! As with everything I do, I expected it to be tremendously successful. [Laughs.] What led you to believe anybody else wanted to listen to that kind of music, as it was so mechanical and not fashionable? I’ll tell you what [...]
Inside a Wave
I dont know why they use such droney voices and music on the BBC, or most TV for that matter, its partly why I never watch, but the shots here of the vortexes inside the wave are something I had never seen before.
