Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Fun fare for the comma woman...
I thought you might enjoy Germaine Greer's guest appearance on Oz ABC's great book show - First Tuesday Book Club * (from 2008) she holds
her own and takes the pizzle...* sadly only runs on Arts Channel in NZ, but
lotsa excerpts on the website linked above -
Some could say that anything commissioned that has a brief is a different form of art...advertising springs to mind, a black art?
advertising (& PR) is more of a blague art, by braggarts... the new blaggarts perhaps?
blague noun a joke or piece of nonsense.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: French, literally ‘claptrap, nonsense.’braggart noun a person who boasts about achievements or possessions
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Cue Lawn Green (Paw)
A deliberate pun, or do you mean Lorne?
Reminds me that our lawn has remained
green this summer, rather than dying off
as it usually does in February/March.I think it's a comically bon(an)za play on words:
cute, green lawn turn sere
yellow affects his paw ring
telling overture
yrs haiku waititi
& dr ropata -
Blows against the Umpire...
Lot a worlds in that signing thing.
Let us consider the hand outline blow painted on the cave wall next to the nifty bison sketch......immortality? Ego? Animus?
it's a god's life......actually signed his utilitarian ceramic bowl with P____ facit.
I remember an R. Mutt - Fountain / Head?
it's a dog's life... -
More placards...
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Paula and Gerry
(aka Gawd 'n' Bennett)
social-engineering
for your future...
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The dream is over
work will set you free...
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Don't dream it, dig it!
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MINE KAMP
The Brownlee Shirts
are coming!
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Life is sweet in the
Sugarbag years... -
So art is about status?
...and status quo
are Masons artists, craftsmen, artisans,
or just men in aprons?Mikey A aside, let's not forget the much
overlooked Sistine Chapel floor -
Germane thoughts...
all this talk of Germaine Greer (and wombats!) makes me miss that fabulous old '70s Oz paper Nation Review
I still have yellowing Leunig cartoons torn from that august organ... I had peripheral, but enjoyable, involvement in two publications that tried to emulate its outlook - Ferret published from Resistance Bookshop and The Week an alternative national news weekly that ran 17 issues and faltered due to lack of lawsuits (free publicity!) and money... -
Across the Universe, Urizen flies...
It was the best of times when Bill Blake strode the earth again in the '60s as Jacob Kurtzberg
and pictured the young Urizen here with his Demiurge (Galactus) urging him on... -
I'd call it being civilised (in the best possible way- learning from our past, determined to be more compassionate & humane.)
We do not have a civilised media -in general- in ANZCase in point: the Chch Star's Pegasus Post Community News reporting on an arson at a community workshop making toys for kids (feb 14, 2010)
Volunteer Heiner Dunker, 67, said one of the organisations given toys was Pillars, which supports youths who have parents in jail.
"We're probably producing toys for the sort of bugger who lit the fire." he said.This said with no proof offered just an obvious personal preconception that helps no-one, the reporter, Cullen Smith, saw fit to leave this non fact in the story, as did all editorial processes above - and this is how it starts... absolutely no respect given to kids already dealing with the social stigma of having a parent in jail - prejudged and dismissed by the "upstanding" of society - that'll help!
Respect is a two-way street... -
Notes from the Udder-ground...
Interesting also that Natural Dairy holdings was previously a supply company for the mining industry. Timing eh?
Gee just what we need, the Chinese version of KBR or Halliburton getting their foot in the door...
Cayman Islands registered too, so ya just know they'll be keen to pay as much tax as possible back to New Zealand, oh yes...
win/win all round ... :- (