tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98049682024-02-28T13:25:55.538-08:00HORIZONTALS AND VERTICALS Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07100680002159677222noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804968.post-1128199483091554662005-10-01T12:30:00.000-07:002005-10-07T21:56:18.293-07:00The Rings of Saturn "Three or four miles south of Lowestoft the coastline curves gently into the land. From the footpath that runs along the grassy dunes and low cliffs one can see, at any time of the day or night and at any time of the year, as i have often found, all manner of tent-like shelters made of poles and cordage, sailcloth and oilskin, along the pebble beach. They are strung out in a long line on the Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07100680002159677222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804968.post-1114268225465346412005-04-23T07:53:00.000-07:002005-05-10T11:41:08.910-07:00The Death RayEightball Comic by Dan ClowesIssue 23 - 2004 - The Death RayThe tale of Andy and his friend Louie two average school kids going through adolescence and how their lives change due to the special powers of the Ray gun. The story is illustrated in full colour and with typical Dan Clowes attention to detail. Through its forty two pages the characters lives are drawn out in all their complexity, Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07100680002159677222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804968.post-1107294573968858422005-02-01T13:49:00.000-08:002005-02-10T18:01:47.883-08:00Raw MaterialsTate Modern Building, Southwark Tube Station, LondonBruce Nauman - Raw MaterialsSound Installation at the Tate Modern GalleryThe Turbine Hall, a unique gallery space previously exhibiting large sculptures specifically made for this old refurbished factory interior. I walk up the steps of the nearby tube station and make my way through the back streets using the Tate signs posted along the way. Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07100680002159677222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804968.post-1107210909184560582005-01-31T14:21:00.000-08:002005-02-05T16:47:12.746-08:00Nosferatu
Nosferatu - A Symphony of Horrors
Directed By F.W.Marnau 1922
Costume and sets by Albin Grau
Photography: F.A.Wagner
Music: James Bernard
Adapted by Henrik Galeen
Count Orlok: Max Schreck
After the novel ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker
The film begins with a view down upon the city of Wisberg and it’s German gothic church tower as if seen from the heavens. The film then cuts to scenes introducingNeilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07100680002159677222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804968.post-1105055393621370102005-01-06T15:48:00.000-08:002005-01-15T12:09:31.170-08:00Morrissey Concert
Getting to the venue was a trial as I had forgotten where precisely Earls Court was. I thought it was opposite Earls Court tube station but having arrived at this spot found, by information given to me by a kind Londoner that I had come over to the wrong entrance and the polite and very articulate young lady gave me very precise directions to the site. My overpriced ticket was not going to go Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07100680002159677222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804968.post-1104675234713294512005-01-02T06:13:00.000-08:002005-01-11T08:29:37.273-08:00R. Crumb's KAFKA.
Illustrated Biography of Franz Kafka.
Illustrated by Robert Crumb
Written by David Zane Mairowitz
Published by ibooks , inc. November 2004
Full of the cross-hatchings of Robert Crumbs pen drawings illustrating the streets of Prague this book is perfect for those who are both familiar and unfamiliar with Kafka’s life and work. Crumbs illustrations and comic episodes draw the reader into the Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07100680002159677222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804968.post-1104162585176513612004-12-27T07:49:00.000-08:002005-01-08T08:39:44.903-08:00De Kooning - Late Works 3
'Untitled', (Seated woman on bench), 1966 - 1967,Charcoal on Canvas, 28 x 24 in.
'no title', Oil on canvas, 1986, 80 x 70 in.
- As an aging artist de Kooning would have found it very difficult to let drawing go from his daily habits, it being essential to his make up. Having been throughout his life an adherent of abstract expressionism and 'Automatic' drawing which is supposed to draw from Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07100680002159677222noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804968.post-1104162524926976912004-12-27T07:48:00.000-08:002005-01-08T08:40:12.406-08:00De Kooning - Late Works 2
'Untitled V11' 1985'Untitled' 1987
- If we were all to get hold of an encyclopaedia or dictionary and look up the various medical terms for dysfunction and mental illness in society we would probably quickly come to some drastic conclusion as to our own personal mental health and the health of people around us: the whole world is 'mad'!. Through history certain words such as mental, idiot,Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07100680002159677222noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9804968.post-1104160920992198662004-12-27T06:47:00.000-08:002005-01-08T08:40:28.156-08:00De Kooning - Late Works 1
De Kooning 1976
De Kooning 1985
-The following are excerpts relating to the Late works of Willem De Kooning. Those works contrasting so much in style from ealier paintings that they have sparked various debates as to the authenticity of the work. De Kooning suffering from Alzheimers desease during the last ten years of life.
- de Kooning was very much helped by his former wife coming Neilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07100680002159677222noreply@blogger.com0