Giacometti

 

Today's Art

If I want to study for a PhD I must pay extraordinary amounts of money, I am unsure as to how I would ever find these sums. Instead I shall write the essay alone, to be named Today's Art. I think every now and then it is important to stock take on what one has. Art is such a wonderful and valuable place, I wish to be as a friend in any other circumstance and have my relationship with it.

Corporate hostility

Corporation. I saw a ship in a magazine. The ship was painted. It had wonderful, large sails, many of them, at least 16 over 4 masts. It was painted in tones of grey and white and overlaying its image was the words Luc Tuymans. With everything I saw I knew that there was an inference of corporation and how far away we are from its now romantic routes but trade has always been the same. People may say it is opaque now but not more so than then surely. Free markets have never been weighted to equality. There is something nice in this. People have always been oppressed and transparency has now become a buzz word in itself, P.R. alludes to its existence but there is no free word. We are either shackled or knowledgeable for our being. . It is hard to ignore politics. As Hunter S. Thompson wrote: politics is the art of controlling your own environment. The original big society thinker? Or the eternal wisdom of someone who was free from societal inferences and pressures? And the ship with its large sails is as much a symbol of beauty as it is an allusion to decaying standards. What I write I feel often to be naive, uninformed, but I am stubborn to the suggestion that there is anything more useful and true than looking.

Haruki Murakami - The wind up bird chronicle

Three chapters in. Red vinyl hat, curled lipped woman, abject misery, cats (again), floating words. I am keeping a list of all the things I remember from this book, I wish I had done so with Kafka on the Shore

Waiscoat

All the people I can name in the next two minutes or until I am interrupted

hugh laurie, michael tomasky, sara peters, zara phillips, princess anne, caroline duffy, the queen, grayson perry, michelangelo, fred peters, malcolm x, stephen fry, gareth pugh, yohji yamamoto, yoko ono, john lennon, paul mccartney, linda mcartney, thor, ronald mcdonald, natalie portman, stephen spielberg, vivienne westwood, malcom mclaren, viv peters, john cleese, bruce nauman, fred perry, jeff dennis, dave beech, bernice donzleman, dan smith,