Tatlin's Tower rip-off

A worry about graffiti

"If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid. "

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

The same for Graffiti? Were the Active Wing wrong?

Fourier

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ss0l9

Beware the encrouchment. Phite the Philistines

Illustrators do not rock
rock musicians rock
until the last can of red stripe

Fight gritty realism
Fight Gangster / bling culture
until the last canopy green

http://www.moca.org/wack/

http://www.museumofbadart.org/

M

All art aspires to the condition of mathematics

The State of 'Music'

M to S 2010.09.11 00:05 Fuck music
S to M 2010.09.11 07:04 Went to electric picnic last weekend.sooooo boring and square.all the music made of feel like an extra in an ad for student banking
M to S 2010.09.11 07:18 It's All empty and even then, not empty enough to be interesting. I'd prefer to listen to traffic
S to M 2010.09.11 07:21 Rock and roll is the new accountancy
M to S 2010.09.11 07:23 It is compulsory for middle class parents now to send their offspring to le 'mosh pit' while they take corporate clients or other dads to Reading or Glastonbury or
M to S 2010.09.11 07:25 'Where is the disruption and subversion in the new world?' Paul Morley
S to M 2010.09.11 07:30 Remember a few years back there was a spate of nordic types setting fire to parish halls and ridin beours on altars.thats the stuff!
M to S 2010.09.11 07:32 Yea. Maybe accountancy is the new rock and roll? People typing wrong numbers into spreadsheets and that kind of shit
S to M 2010.09.11 07:34 John waters said that he was grateful for being raised a catholic as it made having sex 'dirty' forever which was the best way to enjoy it.same for the old rock and roll.if your parents are not horrified and worried in your participition them it is probably no good
S to M 2010.09.11 07:41 all this bland music may lead to folk revival.turn off the radio.black out the windows,unsubscribe to music blog
M to S 2010.09.11 07:45 Lol. Or we all delete a certain spreadsheet entry simultaneously, say the contents of cell C5.
S to M 2010.09.11 07:49 Imagine this. . .mark knopfler on lead guitar,phil collins on drums,paul mccartney on bass bono on vocals.wild
S to M 2010.09.11 07:54 Scores of mondeos with pristine interiors parked out front

Paul Morley

Paul Morley spoke some sense tonight 11:00pm The Review Show BBC 2

Additions:

"It is now compulsory for middle class parents to send their offspring to le 'mosh pit' while they attend Glastonbury or Reading. Festivals are the opium of the masses. Most music currently is pointless. MOC. "It's easy to sound good given what's already been done." PM . Not good enough though." Mocksim Also: IMMA AOR LINK

"Where's the disruption and subversion in the new world?", "It's easy to sound good given what's already been done." Cage sets the tone. Paul Morley

As young fellows pass us, playing guitars and vaguely singing, while we only mean to drink and chat. "I'm sick of music. You can't escape it" Dr. Jon Gilhooly

http://www.sadlerswells.com/show/Shoes

A writer writes

http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/666334

Realism

Get ready for the fringe get ready!

Science

RD: "Science is the poetry of the mundane" Ta JG TICK

Is Emotional Intelligence not just another term for Smarmy? TICK

Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) TICK

Contra-invention Documentation

Notes:

1. Much reflection due to nature of typical surface and windows
2. We see CEOs themselves sometimes!
3. Characters often captured in this (as in recent Mike Stoakes work)
4. I've got into two
5. Takes a day for images to appear
6. Typically 640 x 480 .jpgs but occasionally different, HQ, no dates, like personal camera
7. The hat needs to be worn
8. Shadowing record
9. Records of them generally, stills
10. With HB in
11. With them in if noticed at event
12. Some found
13. One torn
14. video
15. CEO No.
16. Different fines
17. Payment periods
18. Lots of info
19. The weather and sky
20. Nearby shops
21. Peak times
22. People given opportunity
23. Skilled staff - rarely confrontational
24. Walking, physical nature
25. Waiting for photos to appear on site evocative of the days when one waited apprehensively to see what developed snapshots actually looked like
26. Tags

• Front
• Back
• Side
• Sign
• Ticket
• Close-Up
• Wide
• CEO
• Date
• Reg
• PCN
• Reflection
• Me in

http://www.mediacentre.org/images/enews/mocksim(2).jpg

The way they work:

Teams go around together

Team leader moves between them on scooter

Each month they get a shared performance related bonus based on amounts brought in by the team

I have decided not to use the flyers in the way I have been advised to by some of the wilder elements in my circle. This would be unkind to some people. And I like people.

Nontrepreneurial idea: Invigilation Support Service

I'm thinking that The Doomsbury Set should set up an Invigilation Support Service to provide company, sustenance and support for those invigilating art exhibitions. I envisage a small van loaded up with coffee, wine, bread, olives and a big lump of cheese travelling from gallery to gallery. Shoulder or foot massage might be offered. In addition we would come prepared to gossip about the other invigilators, numbers of visitors, quality of curation etc. As is our usual practice the Negative Business Model (NBM) would apply: instead of ‘customers’ paying for this service we, members of the impoverished Set, would donate an amount to them for the priviledge.

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand—a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods—or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand—a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods—or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand—a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods—or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand—a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods—or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.