Entries Tagged 'DIVERSIONS' ↓

First watch the John Clarke, Bryan Dawe segment on the ABC 7.30 Report last night – and then compare with what Tony Abbott has to say for himself on The Punch… The accompanying pic shows just how engaged he was… And remote? never too far from the ubiquitous milk crate. Or see this grotesquerie on The Age. The thread continues here and here.

Tracked this to Reddit posted by “scarlotti-the-blue” and everyone wants to know whether the humble Matt Bateman is the author? Seems to have been becoming viral since at least January 4… Son Axel says Avatar was “the best movie ever” – Seems I’ve got some work to do…

Want to go deeper? Read Daniel Mendelsohn’s review in the NYRB…

Up a bit on the right… No! the left… From ArtDaily.

is a tumbler blog (or so I’m told). Imaginary photo-narratives built on images from Dwell.

Remember the evidenciary significance of the reflection in the eye in Twin Peaks? Well I’m not sharing the backstory here, and neither is The Sailor, whose sees all… (but please remember to turn off your flash if you wish to try this experiment at home).

…in this case from the dreaded process of “restoration”: this 1925 Bugatti Brescia Type 22, which sold recently at Bonhams, had sat on the bottom of Lake Maggiore in Switzerland for 73 years.  As the story goes:

The car was built in 1925 and registered originally to an owner in Nancy, France, then later sold to and registered by a Parisian owner. Eventually, Bonhams speculates, it wound up in the hands of a Swiss architect of Polish descent who reportedly never paid the import duties on the car. The local authorities in Ascona, where the car was stored in 1936, demanded either that the overdue monies be paid or the car destroyed — and so it was dumped in the lake, where it was eventually discovered by a diver in 1967. In 2009 that the vintage Bugatti — or what was left of it — was recovered by members of the local diving club.

The American underbidder had intended to restore it… Luckily the winner wanted to keep it as it is and paid €260,500 for the privilege.

when he defines perfection via the soul in design. Well, yes, it’s about supercars, so choose whether or not you want to read on …

The Iconophile (your ExMo) presents his first sculpture for 2010, Octopussy, a readymade altered in steel, rubber, and plastic, (dimensions variable). It’s a work which exhibits the five cardinal virtues of The Exmodern. As demonstrated here, exmodernism is characterised by site-specificity, ephemerality, (proto)invisibility, performativity (it’s phenomenological), and/or it has a digital presence. This example is currently located deep in the Spotted Gum (Eucalyptus maculata) forest at Narra Bukulla, on Marr Grounds’ property, near Tanja, New South Wales. “A masterpiece! A triumph of form over function“…

P.S. For an account of Lawrence E. Cahoone’s use of the term exmodernism in his The Ten Modernisms, see the comments below…

Modernity has begotten a new form of madness – or is it simply the season? Yes, dear readers, Iconophilia offers this dialogical poem on the subject on this Christmas day, 2009. It is dialogical in the sense that it is to be performed by all of you, in random order, in the traffic, to be spoken out loud, windows down, whenever your eye lights on a piece of this consumermodernist contempormodernist wordage brandage. In the spirit of the Cabaret Voltaire Australis, go on, be a sport…

1. ASPIRE RONDO STYLE, SPORT

Swift discovery polo club generation!

Eclipse charade-savvy grandeur (grande, grandis),

swing odyssey, rio titanium!

Sonata astra acclaim, avalon applause echo,

patriot commodore liberty conquest.

Lambada [or: lambadada] avantgarde avenger.

2. PREGIO [translated from the Spanish, roughly, "Dear baby Jesus, pray grant me succour in this hour of need"]

Soarer bora, vienta epica magentis avensis, dualis verso premacy.

Aurion navara solara, aristo yaris, lantra murano pulsar…

Prius terios lanos, rubicon tiguan triton -

solara metiz impreza actyon, pajero altise levin, tiida getz nubira.

3. BOXSTER [translated from the Californian, roughly, "there's a whole new generation who think like this"]

Roomster, forester, sirion pulsar.

Tiburon elantra futura musso, festiva seca paseo…

Dualis.

Fuso.

Applause.

Business is slow. There are no tourists in Herat.

Street photographers still use the darkroom-in-a-camera negative-to-positive technology.

The negative is exposed on paper, developed inside the camera, then rephotographed and redeveloped to get the positive.

Everybody seems happy with the deal. Except the opposition across the street?