Sunday, March 31, 2019

Here's why...


...there's more than a few problems in Scottish football. Firstly the guy that throws the punch doesn't get sent off there and then (or arrested) and the guy that took the punch is an infamous wind up merchant who goads the (stupidly dumb) opposition until they crack. He then plays the victim. Actually I take all that back, this is in fact a sophisticated populist drama, as written by William Shakespeare and illustrated by Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko back in the golden days of Marvel Comics. As you were; it's high art, we're all just watching it in the wrong venue and viewing through the wrong medium.

Saturday, March 30, 2019

Big Issue: Killer Bunnies


In the case of this post the title is even more irrelevant than usual. Big Issue? Killer Bunnies? I just liked the way the words meshed, the usual story. Interesting titles don't make for interesting blog reading and, I'm pretty clear on this, this isn't all that interesting reading. Basically it's an experiment in art and drivel that began many years ago and has run, sporadically and inconsistently since. It's a strange compulsion, a cathartic exercise in the recording of the important and the absurd, in no particular order. The Big Issue cover is there because a) I just bought one and b) the artist himself congratulated me on my purchase.


This of course brings me on to the depiction of "killer bunnies" in medieval artwork, it was a thing then, nobody is quite sure why. They appear as doodles and pre-cartoon cartoons in the margins of manuscripts. Perhaps it was simply for comedic effect. For some reason the art world has chosen not to repeat it despite the many circles and cycles of creativity that have wormed their way around our universe. Maybe it's the next big thing. Patreons look out.


Friday, March 29, 2019

Daft bikes in gardens



Odd urban artworks: Why do people put home made "arty" bike things up in their gardens? Asking for a friend.

Remains of the day


The broken concrete and stone skeleton of the old tidal swimming pool at Pittenweem, Fife. Obviously abandoned for some time but strangely it probably wouldn't take much to get it back in order. Sea water swimming is popular here and there (not with me) and it could be done safely (?) in this pool, for kids mostly. Anyway it won't happen. I did like to imagine how it might have been with seats, boards and steps, an ice cream booth and some primitive changing areas, back in the day this was all a big deal around the coastal towns. Maybe Brexit stay-cations will bring some of these places back, but only for the brave.

A few minutes after wandering past this pool I bumped into local lad Phil Jupitus and had a brief chat, mostly reminding him of our glorious victory in the "Rip it up" Pop Quiz late last year. Funnily enough he was busy making up arty prints from card and seaweed. Who knew that this was a thing? 



Wednesday, March 27, 2019

Words and numbers

Here's a list of some words and numbers I've been using recently:


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