May 2012
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May 29th
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May 29th
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 17th
“You mean, how can you create something that’s genuinely different? You look for...”
– Adam Curtis
May 17th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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May 10th
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“There are always brief periods of time during which one person’s authentic voice...”
– Experimental Jetset http://www.printmag.com/Article/Autoreply-Modernism
May 9th
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May 6th
“It is more of an attitude than anything else, a position rather than a method.”
– Dunne & Raby
May 5th
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“Well, this is almost exactly the function of a genuine critic of the arts. It is...”
– H.L. Mencken Thinking about the role of criticism (again) and how artists can escape it. Though I’m not entirely convinced that they should try to anyway.
May 3rd
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May 1st
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April 2012
12 posts
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Apr 30th
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“If you go into a bar tonight, and you listen to the conversations, you will hear...”
– Hans Ulrich Obrist In Conversation with Adam Curtis, Part I These two in one room gives me a total mind-boner.
Apr 24th
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Apr 22nd
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“If you can’t make aesthetic judgements about these creations, then you’re still...”
– Generation Generator – Bruce Sterling (via)
Apr 20th
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“This bank is awesome. However I wish they weren’t quite so efficient as I...”
– A 5 star review of ASB Auckland Central on Google Maps
Apr 19th
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“I think it’s a case of just digging a little deeper, y’know? One of...”
– Ned Hepburn interviews Thomas Golubic, music supervisor for Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead.
Apr 18th
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“I appreciate how sites like Youtube assign the same context to all video...”
– Jaakko Pallasvuo - Rhizome Artist Profile
Apr 17th
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Apr 16th
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Olympics 2012: branding 'police' to protect... →
Couldn’t help but hear the Jaws music while I read this.
Apr 15th
Apr 14th
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“Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence wriggles and hides itself.”
– Ivan Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Apr 4th
March 2012
24 posts
Mar 29th
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Mar 27th
“In 2012 I see high-res photos intentionally distorted with vintage effects to...”
– A Hipster by A Different Name: A Revolt Against Nostalgia Culture by Bill Dixon
Mar 27th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 26th
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Mar 21st
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Paul McCarthy - Painter →
In Painter, McCarthy, decked out in a blonde wig, a bulbous drinker’s nose, and giant latex hands, staggers around a small, wood-paneled studio with an immense paint brush, yammering things like, “I can’t do it, I can’t do it,” and, “DeKooning, DeKooning, DeKooning.” He punctures the sides of gigantesque tubes of paint (one is labeled...
Mar 20th
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Mar 19th
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Mar 19th
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Mar 19th
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Mar 15th
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Mar 15th
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Gaytime - In Their Prime →
Another NZ rock’n’roll delight. Phwoar.
Mar 5th
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A Good Day for Rock'n'Roll in New Zealand
Two seriously good things came out today. Perfect Hair Forever put out Waves of F.E.A.R. The Raw Nerves put out their new anti-skinhead love song Nazi.
Mar 4th
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Mar 4th
“How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man...”
– Frank (Henry Fonda), Once Upon A Time In The West
Mar 3rd
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