Giles Coren's sister is a fox

With a couple of days off and the little lady away I'm living a
debauched life of quiz shows and documentaries on BBCiplayer. The
shittiest one is easily 'Eggheads' hosted by a patronising and
incompetent Dermot Maughnahanahaghaun. Thankfully, BBCiplayer doesn't
just remind me how pleased I am not to pay the license tax (the
thought that none of my hard earned money gets into the souless and
braindead office of BBC Three fills me with quiet relief), it also
brings me 'Only Connect'. Hosted by the beautiful Victoria Coren it's
quiet enjoyable and a larf to see right boffins kick themselves over
failing to link disparate concepts across multiple dimensions. Anyway,
she was funny and a fox so I wiki'd her and she seems cool. Poker and
expensive brains. Used to write reviews of porn too! Fuckin' cool.

Sir Liam Donaldson...

Probably looks like a Dementor, from the Harry Potter books.
What a lot of fans he's going to make when everyone thinks about the
smoking and now the drinks thing. The French would have got the
guillotine out by now.

Warren Buffet - Having Failed At Investing, Moves To Master Analogy.

"...bloodied and confused, much as if they were small birds that had
strayed into a badminton game,"

Wrote investment mogul turned big time loser of money. But whether
for his own amusement, or to confuse possible detractors in a Yoda-
esque mind control manner is unclear. What is clear is that Buffett
was well into his racket based analogy.

"The tennis crowd would call my mistakes 'unforced errors'.".

Genius! See, by making you imagine Warren playing tennis with Irish
banks we completely ignore the fact that an 'unforced error' is really
a 'cock up costing billions'.

Fuckin' genius. Tommorrow I shall be focusing on analogy based around
The Ramones.

Yea, But Just Imagine...

Rolf Harris crossed with Roots Manuva. I'd see that.

Urban Art Put To The Test. Says Bonhams. Masters Of The Urban Medium.

Errr Ye, No.

24th of February, Bonhams London will be having a sale of popular urban artists, fronted by the genius sell-out, Banksy. Dunno how much the catalogue is tho - Bonhams are quite coy.

Considering the idea of 'Sell-out' and high art auction houses sporting urban art is a big field. And fucking interesting. Go to your local art college and ask for a dissertation on Banksy if you want some crappy research.

Mark Rothko VS Andy Warhol

Today I shall be pondering who won out of Rothko and Warhol:

You've got the Russian immigrant of academic stock, who went to Yale yet never finished vs the second generation Slovakian who studied commercial art at Carnegie Institute of Technology.

Rothko weighing in earlier than Warhol and making noises such as...

"A picture lives by companionship, expanding and quickening in the eyes of the sensitive observer. It dies by the same token. It is therefore a risky and unfeeling act to send it out into the world. How often it must be permanently impaired by the eyes of the vulgar and the cruelty of the impotent who would extend the affliction universally!"

...and then describing the pop-artists as "charlatans and young opportunists".

But we have to hand it to Warhol, despite worldwide recognition, he's still underrated. "Art is what you can get away with" is one of his quotes. The Velvet Underground, "Fifteen Minutes Of Fame". He is the man.

Anyway, Ding-Ding

My Girlfriend Thinks Our Flat Should Be Communist...

From each according to his abilities bollocks,my abilities got me a
PS3 and ain't paying her half of the rent.

Meta-Physical Friday™

For when it's got all the attributes of a Friday; no work the next day, sex drugs and rock n roll that night - but it's not actually a Friday! Great huh?

Have yourself a meta-physical Friday - TODAY!™

:: Alex Millar Photo-Copies ::

Pretty straight-forward really. Washington Green signed artist, Alex Millar, has directly reproduced an image of L.S.Lowry standing in Salford to create the popular print 'You Take The High Road'.
Except maybe for an industrial chimney in the middle of the river.

As someone who believes in credit where it's due, this photograph is used on the cover of the book 'Lowry's City', by Judith Sandling and Mike Leber.

This kind of thing is fodder for youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com. As they say, "Maybe It Was The Night Before, Maybe You're Just Not The Creative Type..."

Alex's print is sold out from the publisher, retailing at £1,495 over it's 99 editions.

YSL Auction - I Could Just Afford The Catalogue

Come the 23rd of Feb some people are going to get the chance to bid on
what's been described as "the worlds finest private art collection".
According to the independant there are five catalogue weighing 10kg in
total (although they did get the number of lots wrong so who knows how
much they weigh (or cares)).

As for Monsieur Berge, he's looking at turning one of the finest
collections into a lot of euro's. Unlucky time to be buying in
sterling.

::Mobile Pron Postin::

Ever noticed the film posted as playing in the beginning of 'Back To
The Future'?

'Orgy - American Style'

Anyway, Internet should get here by Thursday - and until then here are
some blurry burlesque shots. This time it's Ms Evie Lavelle got it
stickin in the camera. <i>That's the way to do it, money for
nuthin...<i\>

Idea For A Photograph

"Coconut Girl in a Pineapple World"

Imagine the scene, it's a crowded shopping street in the middle of a well-to-do city. Slightly to the left of centre frame stands a girl dressed in high street clothes, looking straight into the lense looking forlorn yet obstinate. People around her are wrinkling their noses in a questioning fashion, bordering on disgust.

Obvious eh, but here's the kicker - the image has no scent! So there's no way to know whether she really does smell like coconut, or if it's just a persona adopted to keep a distance from the viewer. For all we know she may smell like cranberry.

Critical review shows people assume this image is dealing with todays youth culture with overtones of race issues. This isn't true.
The image is dealing with the rise in agressive nationalism in times of economic depression, with the girl representing our economic stability, the general public representing themselves and the feature that there is no smell as the rest of the facts that would pinpoint growing jingoism.


Update: Yes, you can use this image if you pay me. This isn't the Orient and my idea's aint free.

Blogging Light - No Internet

No internet at the minute,so get off my case.

Here's a chick pic from New Year party posted as filler.

The event was organised by burlesque photographer Neil Kendall, featuring internationaly wonderful performers.

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