Things I am into
Family History – Gillian Wearing
I love this work and this book. I love GW. More on Family History here.
Read MoreSpolia – Lorna Macintyre at Cample Line
What a beautiful day it was to be motoring through parts of the country I normally only glimpse from a hurtling train, with L and N, past distant lamb and dry stane dyke, towards Cample Line. Lorna’s excellent show, Spolia, manages to seamlessly meld geology, ancient mysterious objects and sculpting (both natural and intentional) with Irn…
Read MoreRoger Hiorns at the Ikon
Thanks to a University of Cumbria Institute of the Arts related trip South, I got to see the Hiorns show at the Ikon (Birmingham). He seems like an old chum, having seen his work at Transmission and installed it at the Collins Gallery (University of Strathclyde, and now long gone) back in the day (that’s…
Read MoreWill Internets Eat Brain?
Probably. Very pleased to have caught Gillian Wylde’s performance at the CCA last week – all part of the GFF. Poised, stylish and hilarious. Included surprise ending with live head massage. From the CCA site: Listen up! The best art & philosophy is on YouTube for sure. Video artist and writer Gillian Wylde will present…
Read MoreSans Soleil
Revisiting Marker’s 1983 Sans Soleil this weekend was like visiting an old friend who has aged beautifully and is more inspirational than ever. Sigh. Watch it here. Screenshots – Sans Soleil…
Read MoreIt Follows
The trailer for this 2014 tense horror makes it appear bland and ordinary, but things are going on in David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows. Carpenter and Romero influenced (there’s a lot of it about) but also cinematography straight from Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #92 & #167. After effects similar to those experienced post Exorcist III/Ringu.…
Read MorePuce Moment 1949
I think this is what La La Land was trying to get at. Anger does old Hollywood glamour to perfection in a yoof-friendly six minutes. No tap dancing. Instead, multiple dogs. 1949? – it seems impossible. Puce Moment On Puce Moment
Read MoreDavid Bowie – Crystal Japan – Promo – 1980
Last David post of the day. Must be something in the air this morning. Stare at this: Crystal Japan (1980)
Read MoreDavid and Peter Frampton Search for a Beer in 1987
Oh David. Nice skipwork. For me though, Frampton never really comes alive. Thanks to Bickerton. David smoking in Madrid here. And while on David’s perambulations, here are some of his official walks… D.J. Boys Keep Swinging Ashes to Ashes
Read MorePhillip Jeffries
In other words, barely there David in Fire Walk with Me. Look, this film is just not as disastrous as t’lad in thon Uni Film Club of 1994/that internet that they have nowadays would have you believe. Nicked off of Bruce Nauman bien sur. Can you see where my Sunday morning ‘research’ is heading, one foot…
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