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Back to textuality
Jan. 8th, 2007 03:42 pmWell, the traditional first-day-of-work post. Still pretty quiet here - unsurprising as Soton does the weird thing of having two weeks back, then two weeks "intersemester break". If they're anything like Edinburgh students, they'll probably skip those two weeks back and stay at home or go snow boarding for a month:-)
( work, cats )
Instead, a poll! And a really nasty one, to wake you all up ! (Someone asked for me to do more polls in my New year resolution poll. be very afraid you get what you ask for..)
I like to keep my FL down to 150 - a nice round readable number. At the moment it is 157 after culling everyone I never read or who never posts any more (well - not really on the latter). SO what do I do now??
( poll and Friends etiquette )
Yesterday's liveblog photos came from the Douglas Gordon retrospective exhibitions , which are on around Edinburgh at the National Gallery at the foot of the Mound, and at Inverleith Place and two other venues in the Botanic Gardens . It was just my kind of stuff : weird, clever, sur and sub-textual, post modern playing arounds with mainly texts and videos. Unsuprisingly (though unknown to me) Gordon had won the Turner prize a few years back. Some parts of the shows did nothing for me - like the very famous video installation Psycho 24 Hours, where the film Psycho is slowed down so much that , frame by frame, it creeps to its end in 24 hours. Others were brilliant : the reverse word play on eyes, mouths, forgiveness, knowledge, projected on to white walls. As we stood against them taking photos, we looked like classic 70s album covers ( especially Andy with his fuzzy hair.) We made ourselves part of the art, effortlessly, automatically . I didn't feel that way about the videos ; they were self contained and perhaps self indulgent works. You can see video mash ups everyday on You Tube now anyway. I wonder if conceptual art has fully taken in that some of their tricks are now everyday cliches.
Anyway it finishes next Sunday so if you're in the area I thoroughly recommend it.
I guess I'd better open my mail now :(((
( work, cats )
Instead, a poll! And a really nasty one, to wake you all up ! (Someone asked for me to do more polls in my New year resolution poll. be very afraid you get what you ask for..)
I like to keep my FL down to 150 - a nice round readable number. At the moment it is 157 after culling everyone I never read or who never posts any more (well - not really on the latter). SO what do I do now??
( poll and Friends etiquette )
Yesterday's liveblog photos came from the Douglas Gordon retrospective exhibitions , which are on around Edinburgh at the National Gallery at the foot of the Mound, and at Inverleith Place and two other venues in the Botanic Gardens . It was just my kind of stuff : weird, clever, sur and sub-textual, post modern playing arounds with mainly texts and videos. Unsuprisingly (though unknown to me) Gordon had won the Turner prize a few years back. Some parts of the shows did nothing for me - like the very famous video installation Psycho 24 Hours, where the film Psycho is slowed down so much that , frame by frame, it creeps to its end in 24 hours. Others were brilliant : the reverse word play on eyes, mouths, forgiveness, knowledge, projected on to white walls. As we stood against them taking photos, we looked like classic 70s album covers ( especially Andy with his fuzzy hair.) We made ourselves part of the art, effortlessly, automatically . I didn't feel that way about the videos ; they were self contained and perhaps self indulgent works. You can see video mash ups everyday on You Tube now anyway. I wonder if conceptual art has fully taken in that some of their tricks are now everyday cliches.
Anyway it finishes next Sunday so if you're in the area I thoroughly recommend it.
I guess I'd better open my mail now :(((
