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"Evidence"

2012-01-08T00:31:00.003Z

"Evidence", originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Taken in England December 2011 on a cold, Winter's day with compromised light. Too early for twi-light, a dull light reflected off leaves and other fauna, creating a cold-looking and misty effect. The naturally occuring "art" of nature often suprises us; here there is a suggestion of some woodland drama that unfolded recently. I can only capture the "evidence" but not the actual event that occured. The tree, keeled over by lightning or the wind, creates an evocative, surreal image that can suggest much more to the human mind than the reality of a fallen tree!

Simon

Reflections on Virtualness

2012-01-08T00:31:00.001Z

Reflections on Virtualness, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Subtle editing on Miss Boux's original portrait, that creates a painterly effect.

:-)
Simon

missboux.deviantart.com

"Ma Corps"

2012-01-08T00:30:00.001Z

"Ma Corps", originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Colour version of "Ma Bouche".

"Playing with the strong, natural architecture of Julie's form. Julie's pronounced bone-structure and muscle forms suggested the textures and light/shade that I used to create a quaisi-abstract effect."
www.flickr.com/photos/thecrescent/6655592815/in/photostream

"Ma Corps" also utilised colour which I used in an arbitrary way, at least initially,
then editing layers of textures to create a painterly effect with disparite hues that, nevertheless compare and contrast well together.

Simon

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During November 2011 (1. Burning a Poem)

2011-12-24T16:48:00.002Z

Burning a poem

in love with you

forsooth as

letters fragment a page

to breathe an eye

for an eye

a tooth for a tooth

Sans doute! Yo soy

letters in flight

the flame of tongues

the crackle of spit

the lunge of meaning

perceived by

a sheath of being

This flesh of doing

by shards of letter fall

a glassy perusal

the body in motion;

the enigma of a

sideways glance

one is reminded of an Eastern

dance

for the vines throughout your corps

Tongue by tongue

our lives are handed down

During November 2011 (2. Our Mother Tongue)

2011-12-24T16:46:00.002Z

Thought by thought

words are welded here

our mother tongue,

turn begin again

Rushing water chances its thumbs

petering gridlock

the motorway is still

folding onto running wind

a copse by chance

a glassy siren

pulsing yellow, brick red

notes

badgering arabesque trees

give way to painterly verde

a scrimmage of

prehensile brushes

make a prose of entwining sky,

an intelligent blur

for your photograph.

Women for moments elapsed

in cars chasing tails

as if

predicting the Cutty Sark,

walking through pitch green

passing food

through fingers by hand

Standing by the night of trees

porous nigh to the welt of sky

a young woman as amassed

as lean

in flickering light her body carved

her face

etched by anger

mute yet visceral.

During November 2011 (3. The Intrusive Poet)

2011-12-24T16:45:00.001Z

And this! And this!

is reason or something

dissimilar, erudite

or an empty vessel

worthy or meaningless

The truth, a truth

or not a truth at all

or something as strange as

Galilean, as everything

nothing

or something that may not

resemble anything

at all

The Dromedary has one hump and

the Bactrian two and this should

be as clear as it is true!

During November 2011 (4. A Dance for Horus)

2011-12-24T16:43:00.000Z

Spliced by several cataclysms

Persephone is diced

and a Falcon

became our sexual freedom,

a longing for truth

that otherwise

should not be written

for an Owl is greater

than an Eagle

and an Eagle Owl is neither.

Roll the dice

your hand is gratuitous,

the ecstasy of the female

form

chessing as the leaves of

a book a Jazz hand

flamboyant at the carvery

a Pigs head, a la morte

de la morte, rings the

pain of parting

And dessert is an open wound

Sisyphean, Dionysian

beyond the scope of words

we should paint or photograph

this Shakespearian moment

as feeding our culture,

as being its downfall.

Ballerinas dancing, balancing

the table on our laps

a twist of fate

as a die is thrown,

a finger points a la asymmetrical

vaginas pivoted West,

pirouettes through pork

and sherry trifles

Apples fall to the floor

and bread is soaked in wine

and whiskey.

The dancers' beauty by some

implicit chemistry alludes,

allegorically to a guest

masturbating then spurting

onto bread

fickle sliced

by scissored hands.

By luck, as near intrinsic

as truth

to the duck and mushrooms

vinaigrette, salsa and

oranges soaked in white rum,

for the steel of an

Achilles tendon

feathers Apollonian

A stage, a theatrical performance

via CCTV

slipped into shadows by

covert snappers

for Flickr and Youtube

Facebook or Twitter,

Art is consumed like a

Jackal at a lamb

and art's traces are sold for

greater monies

than to put this poor project

beyond the realms of imagination

borrowed, begged or stolen

bruised or finished by the

ups and downs

of inflation.

We must only see with adequate

eyes

and enquire with open minds

to witness the truth

we cannot escape

that we are the prisoners

of our own devices.

A Consequence of Post Modernity

2011-12-11T13:40:00.001Z

Misanthropy is the most essential and ubiquitous form of prejudice today. Rather than sexism, racism, discrimination due to illness/disability or class, human beings intolerence of humanness (the state of being human) and other human beings is more sinister and encompassing.

2011-12-10T16:33:00.001Z

The new "Internet art" (or poetry) may well lie beyond the Internet. I.e. a return to real-life! If this is so, which it probably is, then art/literary theory will have to go back up its arse and return to cancel its self out and begin again! Never mind!

Poetry/Art rebelled against postmodern, real-life by utilising the Internet, which was freeing, but now seems passe, dull, consumed by Capitalism, legislation, censorship, mediocrity and ironic, narcissistic navel-gazing. Perhaps, even worse than this, is the desperation for "fame", whatever that is? A kind of ironic, non-famous kudos, that fails to dull the line between those who really are famous and those who are not.

Therefore, the Internet (in its burgeoning early days we had hopes of a new 60's, intellectual, creative and democratic) has become a reflection of the societies that it criticised and became a much needed escape from. Put in more cogent terms, the Internet has become stale. A flag for Western, High Capitalism, Orwellian, Big-Brotheresque paranoia, stultifying legislation/censorship and a Media driven, sex-fuelled mythology that speaks to our genitals, before legislation "castrates" us of our normal, healthy needs!

I suppose that the Internet, now subsumed by societies, is beginning to take its place as another rather useless, but somehow essential modern-day, technological or mechanical device. Just like the TV sits in your living room and spouts a thousand channels of crap (and the odd, good program), or your car cocoons you like a neurotic cyborg and speeds you into gridlock, these inventions hang about as if we couldn't live without them. Somehow the notion of a spurious "advantage" of the above and other inventions persists in our postmodern, artificial lives. Sure, there were advantages of the car, but today you're quicker on a bike. Unless your going very far and can guarantee some clear roads, you may as well pedal or walk.

What are the new poetics? How will art respond to the stagnancy of the Internet? By returning to the real? Probably, at least for a while... After all our transition is from distinct societies to global economies and cultures. We can see this unfolding before our eyes as leaders from around the world struggle to cope with a global recession. Maybe reality is becoming sweeter than the virtual? It is by addressing real problems that artistic individuals can reflect on the major difficulties that we are currently experiencing. This is surely a more fertile ground for creativity than the stultifying Internet, that has always been compromised by excessive information and questionable quality?

Altering Definitions

2011-11-06T01:10:00.001Z

Altering Definitions, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Thank you to Julie Brocklehurst (XstockX) for allowing me to use her photo in this picture :-)

Simon

xstockx.deviantart.com

Untitled

2011-11-06T01:09:00.001Z

Untitled, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Thank you to Julie Brocklehurst (XstockX) for allowing me to use her photo in this picture :-)

Simon

xstockx.deviantart.com

Shifting Meanings

2011-10-31T13:28:00.001Z

Shifting Meanings, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Thank you to Julie Brocklehurst (XstockX) for allowing me to use her photo in this picture :-)

Simon

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The Moon, a Legal Tender Breaking in Pitch Water

2011-10-30T14:40:00.001Z

The Moon, a Legal Tender Breaking in Pitch Water, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Baroque musings (and contemporary aesthetics!).

Thank you to Johanna Chambers for allowing me to use her photo (self portrait) in this image. :-)

Simon

www.chamberstock.deviantart.com

2011-10-24T13:16:00.001+01:00

2011-10-23T16:22:00.001+01:00

Interesting demo/conflict in New York (Occupy Wall Street).

Get Money Out

2011-10-02T23:58:00.000+01:00

Get Money Out

23/09/2011 (Deep Yellows)

2011-10-01T15:20:00.001+01:00

Gestures, features, a face in a
watch
this is an illusion.

I should play my hand.

23/09/2011 (Blue Tones, Purple)

2011-10-01T15:19:00.001+01:00

Opus cunnilingus
a breath for a door
this is jurisdiction 1
Carved by plate tectonics
a name for a rock

and roll, CODA: persistent
ritardando to Beethoven's 9th
Monteverdi then a purple knob
pulsing;
the agora

testicles. Do you have your key?
Barbara Streisand. Monotony
monotony sophistication monotony
progress
stasis new technology

regression. The child is all conquering
enfant terrible chastising
this implicit monotony.
One day they will rule the World
is your back door locked?

The Mona Lisa hangs in the Louvre
ambiguity is her clarity
its global appeal. In jurisdiction
5 we must faint at a cadaver
compliant like children

I can't help you with that.
Hang your key behind the door.

23/09/2011 (Red to Green)

2011-10-01T15:16:00.000+01:00

Baroque becomes a consideration
incestuous like property
other than an answer
carved by propensity
money is unacceptable tender

during jurisdiction Zero
the pleasures of the flesh
baroque becomes an unambiguous tenure
I like Carp fishing four
memories explicitly

the Moon, a legal tender
breaking in pitch water
animal and justified, a
trout on the table, palpable
diction, reasons are

Classical by clear waters
a velocity, a room with a view.
Dionysion without borders
an answer to a baroque insistence
contrived by illusion

Make sure you lock your front door.

A Pulsar in Hyper-real Space

2011-09-24T14:54:00.001+01:00

A Pulsar in Hyper-real Space, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Via Flickr:
Abstract Digital Art inspired by astrophysics/astronomy.

Simon

I am the World

2011-09-16T19:56:00.001+01:00

I am the World, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr:
Thank you to the beautiful Johanna Chambers for allowing me to use her photo in this picture.

:-)
Simon

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Apercu nella entre rotate stimmung

Apercu canto nella betwixt stimmung ruse murmur

tacit consaperolezza circulate falcon soar

Apercu song ruse proposition nella circ volver act

shun pastiche epidermis conquistador

pour la distance

“Innita spoils her 20/20 …. and it's not bad news”. The Moulin Rugit FM Radio-interview.

2011-09-16T02:22:00.003+01:00

Year One, 95.
Paris, France.
Monday, September 12, 2011.

(note: unpolished English)
This is Maurice Rugit on Moulin Rugit FM. This morning we have a liveradio interview with Guitar-riff-lover Colombian rocker Innita presenting “Blueless” and a detailed plot of her upcoming second album called "20/20".

In a bold move, you released “Blueless” yesterday, a guitarless synthpop song as the first 20/20 single . We know you love rock hard with guitars, so what is behind this strong change of direction?
Well, It's not really a sound change, it's more a wider spectrum of tunes in my work. I really like doing concept albums. My debut album, “Rockanrose” was a concept album too, but this new one is larger, four times more. The narrative background is more detailed this time, with more changes of moods in the story itself as well as in its characters. So, “20/20” could be perceived as a kind of soundtrack, and it means the need for composing in a eclectic way. Although it's mainly an electric guitar-driven rock album, I include some piano songs and synthpop songs and acoustic songs.

“Blueless” have that 80s synth feeling, and its space-age themed lyrics let us know some of the thematic involved, or am i wrong? I could tell it's a sci-fi story.
Not really. 20/20 is about being clueless in this world. 20/20 deals with vanity, money, lost loves, lost friends, blurred hopes, the pursuit of success, and of course the naivety that brings having dreams. So, I want to include that naive-happy longing-love song type, and yes, very 80s as you said, in the predominantly dark tune of the story. 20/20 has that pink emotional peaks and deep-blue valleys, as the 3d cyan/magenta pair. That's why I called “Blueless” this first single. This song is a light upbeat peak lost into the wild deep valley of the human condition. It's optimistic.

Yesterday you also released the complete 20/20 tracklist, 40 songs-lenght compendium divided in 10 chapters. Huge! With the titles, I confess I 'm pretty intrigued about the story. Can you give an exclusive synopsis to our listeners ….. and to me as well?
Ok, Ok, but you must know I know you Radio show hosters use their listeners in a polite way of having guests giving exclusive previews for yourselves (Laughs). It's not that I'm not Ok with that. In fact, I'll give you an extended synopsis, if that term makes sense (Giggles).

I'm dying to hear it.
20/20 has 3 main characters: Polly Wood, San Diego-Born Rolls-Royce crasher actress, she has that Lindsay Lohan-esque vibe. Magenta Rojas, a money-troubled Tijuana-Born Writer, the older and best Polly's friends in her childhood, 4-5 years older than Polly, she had that Kafka-esque hard luck life. And Cyanne D'arc, a Parisienne Ballet dancer, Magenta's ex-girlfiriend, same age as Wood's, 20.

Same age as you.
Yes, but it is not a kind of autobiographical story.

Please, go on, I won't interrupt you anymore. I can't wait (wink).
(Sneers)All right. The story begins with Polly Wood surviving her aforementioned Rolls Royce crash, as a result of a deranged emotional collapse by being dumped by her girlfriend days ago. And days after the crash, Polly learnt her childhood closest friend, Magenta, died by starvation. It's like her old friend did it on purpose, mix of economical and emotional depression transformed in a slow suicide by stop eating, and Polly wanders about she having survived and being rich and sucesssful, in contrast with Magenta, dead poor. In Magenta's apartment, Police finds an unpublished Spanish-written manuscript of her, an autobiographical novel called “Hambre” (Hunger). The book is published and it's a huge sucess, best-seller. And so, a Hollywood adaptation of the book is on the run, casting Polly as play the role of Magenta.

Oops.
Yes. The film is a blockbuster. Magenta gains posthumus both cult and mainstream fandom. Polly found herself in a guilt trip since the film started and in a higher level -or lower depending of the viewpoint- now, feeling very uncomfortable being richer and more famous by using the Magenta's life, as if her own life was empty itself. And rubbing salt into wounds, Magenta's ex-girlfriend, Cyanne, ends up knowing Polly personally, and then dating her and falling in love with her. Cyanne sees in Polly as Magenta's live sequel (Innita darkly giggles).

Definetely a rock opera vibe so far. Please go on.
Thanks! ( Innita shows him a big smile). Academy Award for Best Actress is winned by Polly for her role as Magenta, but even with that, the Polly-Cyanne relationship is victimized by both paparazzi and yellow journalism. And TV industry sees profit on this, convincing Polly of doing a Larry David-esque self-mocking sitcom of her life, with dark humor situations about being sucessful at expenses of her friend's death as well as having her dead firend's ex-girlfriend as a romantic gain too. And then …. at this point I've happily spoiled too much but I don't want to spoil all of it by telling 20/20's conclusion. Of course, if I was a writer I hadn't tell you nothing but a few words of the plot. But this is only Rock 'N' Roll, and I like it that way ( winks).

“ Too Much Information”, citing Duran Duran, but in a good way. This was a super sized-gift.You left me too much to think. Althought I know you stay here on Paris for several months, I will long for having you again, soon, maybe next week, in a live sessions of “Blueless”.
Oh la la, Cést trés chic. Of Course I'll be here.

OK! Well, Innita, I have to confess we on Moulin Rugit FMmake the Innita live session poster already, Au revoir!
(Laughs) It's Ok , as long as you don't put [sitcom style] laugh track on this live interview!

*

"Blueless", first single of "20/20", can be listened here.

Helios 5 (Betelgeuse)

2011-08-14T23:02:00.001+01:00

Helios 5 (Betelgeuse), originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Simon

08/08/2011

2011-08-08T16:13:00.005+01:00
After watching the news on television today; the possibility of a double-dip recession in the US, much concern about the economies of major European players, rioting in London, UK, massive cuts to charities (UK) and continual uprisings in numerous countries across the World, I believe it is time to seriously consider cancelling out global debts in as fair a way as possible. If this prevents an economic depression then it would be very worthwhile, we only have to read modern history to realise this.
Cast your mind back approximately 15 years ago, when public pressure helped influence the G8 countries decision to cancel out debt, owed by developing or undeveloped countries to Western countries. This proves that the strategy of cancelling out debt is not "pie in the sky" but a plausible and sensible option. Of course, it all depends on those who are already powerful and wealthy and whether they wish to see a fairer world for the majority of people, rather than upholding a series of national and global systems that only benefits themselves.

Comments appreciated....

Chateau Versaille 2: How a Pilgrimage to Chateau Versaille Causes La Danse Automatique

2011-08-07T14:32:00.003+01:00

Chateau Versaille's juxtaposition of crowds of tourists from the world-over, beside 17th Century architecture, art, design and pictorial representations of French Royalty, really "struck a chord" with me. Indeed, Chateau Versaille is a work of art and the "Post modern phenomena" of global tourism creates its own aesthetic. Both together made me think of a theatrical performance on a global stage, a "danse automatique", unchoreographed and oblivious to a third juxtapostion of art; the "Postmodern photographer" reflecting on contemporary life and the state of the arts.

Pictorially, my main concerns with this photograph were to exploit the 3D elements of the photo, enhance the light (source and reflections) and to capture some rather strange, dance like movements of the tourists! Hopefully I've acheived this! :-)

Simon

Poem 03/08/2011

2011-08-03T17:23:00.004+01:00
Ultra ecriture
what's the deadline?
cochon ou chaconne du plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose
pensive
then Egypt("ology").
Cumming art

2011-07-30T16:27:00.001+01:00

2011-07-30T15:19:00.002+01:00
Problems have a habit of forming
circular arguments
a route well worn by Sisyphus

A number of circular arguments
form a holism
and the breath of life
forms a portal

Education cleanses us of the need
to ask why portals form
and breathe new life
into contradictions and
waves of falsity
that barely inhabit cultures
alien to a media generated

reportage upon reportage upon reportage;

solipsism for second guessers
a prism for the blind

The sea inhabits creatures
this portal is a refusal to see
the sea as the land and
birds adopt the sky and this
portal binds mankind
by a refusal to see the blackness
of Space

Women are oracles that warn
or suggest (im)possible futures
we should stagger them lightly
but for the plight of Armardas
to come and far gone.

I turn the page
for not understanding
may bind us to wisdom
for wisdom is truer than knowledge
but far rarer

Wisdom is neither construction
deconstruction nor destruction
it is the poverty of mind
in the face of the consequence
of mankind

And this is neither something nor
nothing but the fruit upon
earnings. And this well trodden
path is learning, a game far
truer than knowing

Nature is our condition
and our condition is natural
like Icarus, we wish to fly
before we can walk
amongst ourselves

I turn the page
for less this
we may have learnt nothing
and by wisdom
we would be foolish to be wise
when we are as star struck as children
as blinded by knowledge
as a mole to the Sun

The will to fly is not
flight but the attempt
to soar
to observe all meanings
entwined

Then it would be wise
to reinvent the wheel
as those before us
have travelled by
different guises

Simon Harris 2011

The Impossibility of Postmodernism

2011-07-15T22:05:00.001+01:00

The Impossibility of Postmodernism, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Via Flickr:
Original photo was taken at the Louvre, Paris. The statue in the background is of a Roman goddess. Thank you to XstockX for allowing me to use her photo in this picture, that I layered over the top of the original photo, adding digital effects.

Simon

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post-familia

2011-07-15T15:08:00.003+01:00
Distance breeds contempt breeds distance
Arrete!

Solstice

2011-06-12T17:04:00.002+01:00

Solstice, originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Thank you to XstockX (Julie Brocklehurst) for letting me use her beautiful photo in this picture. Here she is obscured by my digital effects! ;-)

xstockx.deviantart.com

Simon

MADE IN BRITAIN

2011-05-08T16:12:00.001+01:00

Essentially, an "indeterminate" or Dada poem created from spontaneous ideas, overheard conversations and "found objects" via the Internet, television, etc. I layered this over a photograph of the British countryside to create an impression of "ownership", however uncertain and ironic, during uncertain times.

The photograph was edited to add to the impression of irony and uncertainty.

Simon

Donnington Castle

2011-04-30T15:01:00.001+01:00

Donnington Castle, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
The ruined remains of a Castle in Donnington, Southern England.

Simon

Spring Flowers (A Call for Peace and Unity)

2011-04-02T16:03:00.003+01:00

Spring Flowers (A Call for Peace and Unity), originally uploaded by crescentsi.

Via Flickr: Essentially, a digital art abstract that was created in reaction to events that are unfolding across the world. The global disruption, economic down-turn and frenetic rate of change are worrying trends in the early 21st century. Hatred and selfishness seem to be endemic and the brutality is shameful. Even though there are positive changes, the rate of change is unprecedented and this leads to stress and, sometimes violent reactions. It seems that wars are an inevitable part of human nature; indeed it is better to fight than to be killed by your foe. However, it is worth remembering that working together achieves far more positive results that confronting each other in violent warfare. The "Cold War" of the 1980's taught us that a global holocaust is a sick and pointless possibility, where the human race could succumb to the dark side of its creative and ingenious nature. In this scenario all sides are losers. Simon

Floral

2011-03-20T00:57:00.001Z

Floral, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Thank you to XstockX for letting me use her photo in this image :-)

Simon

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11/03/2011 (The Red Sun Will Rise Once More.....)

2011-03-11T18:41:00.007Z
Eerily O'reilly something strange and then cartograph
ousted as music your Faustian topography Sunning
Whimsically Proust benign in suffrage cloisters
ravishing Devonian

Sisyphus Cartesian embryonic Catholic preacherman
Causality Utopian Bahia genesis surreptitious
isotropic amino acids scouting perverse logic mammary
viscose bubbling

abstraction carcinogenic mucus product sweeps //arabesque//
foot to star face as visage, coda poco meno mosso Copernicus et Picasso
etre atomic affect consultant choice Delacroix
Excalibur neotopian buziness ma fleur elle conc
sense rebuke reform recapture privileged (es)
sans doubt (rien/tout)

calling out bazuke re domes assess assess a point ceci
red sun a carcinogenic Freudian slip in a paradigm
great waves dream time prefixed spasmodic rhythm en pointe
chassis turn step right per favore and pyramidal arms right a digit

Murmur deuterium nuclear force parallelogram
matrices concision hemispheric rumbling Earth costly
affects cars in the air careering trees spoiled brat
conscious unconscious preconscious paraconscious
OOBE

broiling fortresses of little monsters a caveat
of unfathomable inhumanity a reasons so insane
hand to mouth reach turn and stare at the audience
//arabesque// colloquialism dada pointing towards
the (abrupt)

Southern Hemisphere We Winter here Nunnery
consumed by Jupiter metronome=80
Mosaic midwifery text message advertising
pornography crushed by water
drowning

in this great city a tumultuous sea
crashing through me reining in sunshine
the sky we thought nothing of
and my family straining my eyes my mind

quickly and unexpectedly facing
Death.

Simon Harris

Video from BBC

True Confessions.

2011-03-06T00:27:00.001Z

The Making Of Rockanrose, 1.
Innita's makeover.

Saturday, March 5, 2011.
(Excuse any flaws of my broken English, again.)

Back in , June 11 2010 I did make a kind of back-to-the-basics feeling about Innita when I picked her new album's title: “Rockanrose”: rock as thornes, love as roses, the synopsis of my Innita's attitude (by the way, the lack of the “d” in the title was purposedly avoiding male item if it could had been “Rock-andros-e”). It has been a long road since then. Weeks before that, my manager had hired a couple of female creative consultants. We have lots of meetings. They were like producers for a musician/band or like curators for a fine artist: it is, lot of healthy laughs but also lot of headaches. The best advice they gave me was focusing the face of Innita in one single model. For years the face of Innita had several models, from then-girlfriends to anonimous faces found on internet and printed magazines. Their advice was great, but making it real was another thing. I couldn't achieve to draw the right face ….for weeks! simply I had no satisfaction. I was stressed those weeks, even I was close to given up all Innita project, as pathetic as that I felt. Until one early november night, via Facebook friends' posts, I watched Taylor Momsen, singer of The Pretty Reckless, on “Makes Me Wanna Die” video-clip. I youtube-ed more videos and I watched her singing on Letterman's show and I was hooked-up with her onstage voice. Minutes later, I did read about the making of “Makes Me Wanna Die” video, and its original narration was Taylor Momsen, band's frontwoman, singer and song-writer, walking in a progressive striptease till get naked in a cementery and die, but Taylor is 17, so legally impossible to do it, she, a nudist-at-heart!

I didn´t know nothing about Taylor Momsen. I knew about her for that video-clip. I just remind one single photo of Gossip Girl's cast, but I never watched that series before. That night I knew she was an actress because Luis Fernando, a close vegan friend, told me that same night, along with sending me another video's link, “miss Nothing”, where she represents Mary Magdalene. A couple of weeks later, I decided Taylor being my “official” reference-model for drawing Innita. I even reduced Innita's breast again inspired in Momsen's body.

Being Innita a rockstar in the vegan-dream radial-world, some of actual Innita's-story-followers had naivedly related Innita with the superstar Lady Gaga of this world. But no. Sorry but comparing the boring Gaga's “Born this way” with Taylor Momsen wearing “I F*ck for Satan” T-shirt, both news of these days, Taylor wins Gaga by far.

Finally, I did want to release “Rockanrose” album today, Innita's birthday, but the chair for Innita's voice is still empty, so back in December I realized we ( me and Esteban Martinez, the composer) couldn´t make it, so I picked Taylor's birthday for releasing it in a symbolic heart-felt 'acknowledgment'. The quest for Innita's voice is still on the run.

continuará .....
to be continued .....

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model / modelo: Taylor Momsen

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS)

2011-03-03T23:16:00.001Z

NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE (NHS), originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Unnecessary complexity, chaos, financial woe and a gradual erosion are all symptoms of a sick NHS in the UK. However, most of us who reside in the UK already know this, so I opted for a more subtle conceptual approach that can be compared to a mechanism of infinite complexity, that cannot do the job that it was originally created to do.

I also attempted to address abitrariness and the intrinsic nature of the NHS to British culture/society, both conceptually and actually. I won't expand on these ideas any further in written form, because the perception of the viewer is intrinsic to the arts, particularly to abstract art.

The idea of inserting text into the already complex visual forms, was to attempt to render the text partially unreadable and to partially cohere text with the visual forms. Some words retain an identity seperate from the visual forms and "shout out" phrases, some that appear to be abitrary and others, such as "Whistleblow" "Car Crash" "Corporate" and "illegal" that have a direct relevence to the overriding concept of the work.

Simon

4 (back/fore)

2011-01-22T16:55:00.007Z
e ti myzze car poll a' con de ti rope fa cloak
sew ri et et/ et et de pope car
soo ja com be set tete quest ci
pour do car glo seek sin t ed. proof
car jam

Car k k k cha cha cha chakra
a la per favore de cultus yeux fait accompli
desense
sa sa (ba) seperate (ba) ici la'
the internet is shite

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If, like me an app. is work then
you are a powerful subjectivity ought
to be caught counting remedies
arbitrary and implicitly stupid

a trace of potency by proxy (policy)
shards of the Western empire (defines)
like an insane history reeling (humanness)
before your eyes (fearfully)

Counter-slippage, your body its
resonant subjectivity, animalistic beauty and
a crime of movement
resolves democracy

powerful and beautiful you confine
such personal activities to the Internet
and espouse its freedoms
as corporeal yet

slippage contracts by spaces improbable
money is driven and is parried by the actual
your finger is free by a lonely individuality
to touch your vagina

and by this intense
a sex for the sexless

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Red Red

2011-01-22T15:06:00.001Z

Red Red, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Thank you to Julie (Xstockx) for allowing me to use her beautiful photos in this picture :-)

http//xstockx.deviantart.com
Simon

A Moments Sleep

2011-01-22T00:40:00.001Z

A Moments Sleep, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Abstract Digital Art :-)

Simon

happy and healthy 2011

2011-01-02T12:07:00.003Z

als |
ik de |
macht zou hebben |

dan |
zou ik |
jou geluk geven |

ik |
heb die |
macht gelukkig niet |

daarom |
wens ik |
jou dat geluk |
if
i wielded
the one power

then
i would
give you happiness

luckily
i don't
have that power

so
i wish
you that happiness

Trace 2

2011-01-01T19:08:00.002Z

Trace 2, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Thank you to Julie (XstockX) for letting me use her photos in this picture.

http://xstockx.deviantart.com

:-)
Simon

Love Triangle.

2010-12-28T00:45:00.002Z

Triangular, 63. Guitar Love Triangle, 2.
Monday, December 27, 2010.
London, Uk.

“My world since Tuesday, August 31, 2010.
My beloved biologist sacrificed our company so that both could survive. Since then, we live in a bizarre love triangle. My loneliness is the symmetry's axis that leaves a bad taste. My love: Where am I in the world that you move? Where am I in the world in which you draw me? - Innita para No

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“Mi mundo desde el martes, 31 de agosto de 2010.
Mi amada bióloga sacrificó nuestra compañía para que ambas pudiéramos sobrevivir. Vivimos un extraño triángulo amoroso. Mi soledad es el eje de la simetría que deja mal sabor. Mi amor, ¿Dónde estoy yo en el mundo al que te desplazaste? ¿dónde estoy yo en el mundo en que me dibujas?” - Innita Para No

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continuará .....
to be continued .....
à suivre .....

Mathematical Skies

2010-12-24T17:25:00.002Z

Mathematical Skies, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Wishing all readers and contributers to "SayingSomething" a great Christmas and a Happy New Year!! :-)
Simon

Danse de la Vie Danse de la Mort Danse de Naissance Danse de Combat (Le Danse du Tout)

2010-12-11T23:18:00.001Z

Danse de la Vie Danse de la Mort Danse de Naissance Danse de Combat (Le Danse du Tout), originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Thank you to XstockX (Julie) for allowing me to use her fantastic photo in this picture.
The image of Julie is layered with photos of the sky, that I took November 2010. And much editing!

:-)
Simon

http://xstockx.deviantart.com

Title inspired by conversations with Solea
www.flickr.com/photos/solea/5209514594/

Sleep

2010-12-03T21:07:00.001Z

Sleep, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Simon

Winter Sunset

2010-11-29T15:15:00.001Z

Winter Sunset, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Cold Cold Cold!!! ;-)

Simon

Innita: Rockanrose

2010-11-28T00:40:00.002Z

Innita's Rockanrose cover.

Triangular, 19. Story repeats herself, 3.
Saturday, November 27, 2010.
London, UK.

Innita re-haciendo su sesión de fotos y, esta vez sí oficialmente, dando públicamente la portada de su álbum para el 2011, Rockanrose.

Innita re-doing her photo sessions and, this time officially, giving publicly the cover of her 2011 album, Rockanrose.

Innita refaire la photo-séance et, cette fois officiellement, publiquement faire la couverture de sa album pour 2011, Rockanrose.

continuará .....
to be continued .....
à suivre .....

Electric Counterpoint by Steve Reich (Mvt 1 performed live by Richard Du...

2010-11-27T16:12:00.000Z

Pat Metheny & Le Jazz Ballet of Montreal 1988 - Movement 1

2010-11-27T15:37:00.001Z

An ideal of Jazz dance and the musical genius of Pat Metheny.
Simon

Jazz Vortices

2010-11-26T15:52:00.001Z

Jazz Vortices, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Thank you to XstockX for alowg me to use her photo in this picture.

Simon

xstockx.deviantart.com

Fucky Fucky 2 (And other Stories)

2010-11-20T15:31:00.005Z
The key for the vagina the truth
is an outwardly Wednesday
Wednesday's child is outside the box
that porn decries

by art decides this equilibrium,
a stasis of procreation

Henceforth da numeral the clitoral
infamy of self

Help me, Notice me
I'm a fuck with a pseudonym
living insight, a flesh
a parody of paradoxes
a limpet clinging

a virtual rock, a legato
page, an art
we live within its flat, flat
canvas. Inhale the intrinsic nothingness
that's imprecise

Her breasts are mechanical,
beautiful clouds in pierced (monotony)
overkill to rumble the awful (regional)
erection, not vetted (stasis)
but non concrete (pebbles blokish perimeters

by chance or a Governmental splendour)
this miasma du choix (globalising inference)
or compliance (notice the political reference)

danse du vie
danse de mort
danse macarbre
danse de naissance
danse du combat
sing the song of doing

Listen! Ecoutez d'amour
her heartbeat faster
faster fasting, like a machine
when the music's over
our heartbeats meet across
the divide of the unfamiliar
and the famous

Fucky Fucky (And other Stories)

2010-11-20T15:22:00.004Z
Fucking the Winter sky line
bluebells coarse in fields
winter rummaging in you pants
like velvet amongst snow drifts

the man is a fable and
crosses the scene like garbage cans,
littered petunias comforted
by choice

shoes, pebbles blokish perimeters
fields the sky ascends broken meters
climbing parched

Incessant motion moved by truth
awful and insistent floating
intent anguish and skies (foraging)
in asymmetric oddity.

With a Governmental splendour
the rash of incest.
and, Whence by this is truth
it automatically assumes its opposite

or juxtaposed by chance, dance
romance, lust or its opposition
if it escalates I'd presume
that I'd be amazed if they'd
put glass in it.

Foetus.

Woman with Lines and Colour 2

2010-11-14T18:15:00.001Z

Woman with Lines and Colour 2, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
f***ing the Winter sky line
bluebells coarse in fields
Winter rummaging in your pants
like velvet amongst snow drifts

The man is a fable and
crosses the scene like garbage cans
littered petunias comforted
by choice

Shoes, pebbles blokeish perimeters
fields the sky ascends broken meters
climbing parched

Incessant motion moved by truth
awful and insistent floating
intent anguish and skies
in asymmetric odditty

With a governmental splendour
the rash of incest
And, whence by this truth
it automatically assumes its opposite

or juxtaposed by chance, dance,
romance, lust or its opposite
if it escalated I'd presume
that I'd be amazed if they'd
put glass in it.

Feotus"

The text is an excerpt from a recent poem by the artist.

Thank you to XstockX (Julie) for letting me use her photograph in this picture.
xstockx.deviantart.com

STYLO DC: No para Innita, interview, october 2010.

2010-11-07T19:41:00.005Z

Sunday, October 24, 2010.
No para Innita, interview Stylo D.C - Spanish version .

BROKEN ENGLISH TRANSLATION:

"NO PARA INNITA" has been, for more than 15 years, filling inspiration by the comic, drawing, music and the arts to his family, friends and more than 4,500 followers of their daily publications in the Flickr network where you can find different stages of his work and development of his series about Innita.

NO is his name NO and PARA INNITA his last names www.flickr.com/photos/noparainnita/3567254264/, NO is not a pseudonym or a nickname and NO also has been using makeup and various styles of masks that hide your face from more than a decade ago and keeping his private life for emphasizing the feminine in his work without his masculine face distract your audience .

NO has toured venues such as Bogotá's Rock al Parque III in 1997 by musical performance with his then-band 667, was co-founder of collective producing comics such as TNT, ACME and Tostadora de Cerebros, made more than 7 independent publications among which are : Virus #1-#6, Sólo Para Cinecrófilos, Luto Blanco Pesebre Negro, Ginotropia -illustrated tale where Innita debuts, "Eco Pop, hermafroCita and Jesu Cristina, and managed, curated and participated in numerous exhibitions.

No, tell us a little about your initiation into the world of the Illustration?

I confess that I never really considered an illustrator, the term itself seems ambiguous and often reluctant to it, except it is a convention I use to explain what I do.

My reluctance is due precisely to my beginnings. My love for drawing started with comics. From my childhood I have been fascinated by stories with images, as Carroll's Alice. At that time, drawing on sheets of notebook that became stapled and whose protagonists were superhero comics based on cartoons and toys that I saw I had, with names like "Super Zancudo", "Yaguar", "Pambelito" and a boxer puppy named “Boty”. And today, it continues in me, the basis of my work is narrative, and that is why we combine drawings -my individual work- and music -collective work-, as a fundamental part of my stories. And surely I will expand in the long term, to sculpture and theater. That's why I know I do not move much in the world of illustration as such, I have never dipped a long time in the editorial and advertising illustration, it has been just phases, not a constant. I try to apply my drawing to my stories and characters, rather than to illustrate in the aforementioned media.

What influences or favorite artists have you had?

In my childhood were Mauricio de Sousa, André Franquin and Francisco Ibáñez, family-comics authors. Then I met the work of "Les Humanoids Associés”, French collective of adults comics which were enlightened for the erotic ingredient of my work. Currently, my influence is amateur photography that can be found in blogs and similar. But my favorite artists "of all time" focus on the painting, such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau, William Turner, Sandro Botticelli, Gustav Klimt and Alphonse Mucha.

We have some memories of Jesus Cristina starting this decade, what happened to her?

Jesucristina was the result of my passionate liking for music and content of Marilyn Manson in the second half of the 90s. A couple of years, I reinvented her as a child who is crucified at the end of World War III:

www.flickr.com/photos/noparainnita/sets/72157606568371214/

In the history of Innita you has lasted over two years creating it narratively and visually. Tell us a little about her origin and the different stages that emerged during the course of history.

Innita was visual poetry about my ideal woman since 1998-the year in which the invented her- until 2005, although I make her absent during 2002-2003 because I felt Innita was something emotionally intimate I had to protect from the public. Two years later, at a time in 2005, I thought and realized that this gesture of been her hidden was actually quite corny and weak, and then I decided to do just the opposite: to make her my main character, starring and icon, something like Mickey Mouse was to Walt Disney. Ending 2005 I started then with a few sketches of comics without text, which Innita still had that ghostly look of weightless and airy woman; the idea was to make fantasy comedy, incorporating real characters in my life, friends, acuantiend, at the time, initial stage was the office where I worked, but it was the dye real time narrative still use. It was only starting in 2008 when I decided to give the character of virtual character: Innita is a singer born in Santa Marta, on Saturday March 5, 1988. . . . . I even did her astral chart and everything, hehe.

Yes, It is amazing all the work you do narrative with each of your characters and especially Innita who has also experienced several stages of musical composition ... www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=620541118#!/discography/?... Tell us a little about that process and who have collaborated in this production?

The collective project of Innita starting in 2005, and my idea from the beginning has been for me to making every lyric and glimpse the musical style, and to leave the realization of each song to various musicians. That year I started the project with Fabian Torres, “La Comodidad de Planear el Divorcio desde la Noche de Bodas” -The Comfort of planning a divorce from the wedding night-, the first track of the first Innita Ep. Alejandro Jaramillo later composed the piano ballad "No para Innita", and also "Telegance" under a tune of the vocals that I wrote in 2000, demo version with vocalist Viviana Mayor. Later, musical progress is casual, except the song "Innita," -1906 version- which comes in Pecha Kucha 3 with the voices of Valeria Castro and Esmeralda Bolhuis as a duo, consisting almost entirely by Nicolás Ulloa, who also composed " Vampirama "and" Mozart Was a Lesbian ", all of this in 2007. In 2009 Esteban Martinez undoubtedly become the main songwriter, who has been collaborated with 62 tracks, with only 2 of them sung by Nathalie Martinez and Camila Currea. The huge amount of demos is asymmetrically unbalanced by the lack of a stable vocalist to complete. To hear some of the demo versions: www.jango.com/music/innita

According to some drawings of the series on Flickr, it seems that Innita series has ended ... Right? What are you preparing for 2011?

No, Innita series has not ended, quite the contrary, is in a slow countdown to "Rockanrose", Innita fifth album, which is preparing for 2011. Innita's history – and of my every other characters- is told in real time, and now she is in a state of introspection, having canceled his tour and isolated from public view, following the outcome of "Nemesis" ( www.flickr.com/photos/noparainnita/sets/72157624631506142 ), where she and No, her fiancee, are separate in different radial worlds, Tuesday 31 August, -3 weeks before their wedding, obviously canceled. Notable changes of Innita´s life follow in the antechamber for Rockanrose, being the most recently the friendly departure of the 2 older members of her band live, officially announced on Sunday October 17: http:/ / www.flickr.com/photos/noparainnita/5091723521/in/set-7215... . The next chapter to "Hallowteen," which ends this October 31 is "Triangular", an event that takes place in the months of November and December 2010 and January 2011, whose plot involves a love triangle in the three radial worlds where unfolds the story of Innita and No: www.flickr.com/photos/noparainnita/4293384669/in/set-7215...

Sometimes we dream about people or situations that are suddenly as calls that materialize in real life ... is something like the radial world is about? Where does the concept of the Worlds radio?

The concept is somewhat similar to what you said, in that they are longing-or nightmares-that materialize, but not as individual dreams that seem to anticipate the coming of people or events in "this" world we perceive, but they materialize in a whole new world to be dreams woven collectively. The concept of Radial worlds is my personal update to what is commonly referred to as parallel worlds. Radial worlds are worlds where everything exists, divided precisely by the different possible forms of collective materializations. The feature of the radial worlds radio is that people and creatures that inhabit them feel that their respective world is their material reality. To explain better, I will describe in short the 3 worlds I use in my story about Innita. The first is the supra-reality, the dream world is where: 99% of the world population is vegan, eating meat or drinking dairy is illegal except in Amsterdam and Bern, the problem of drug use and traffic is non-existent except for a few outbreaks of alcoholism; air pollution is very low; and the last major international act of war was the bombing of Hiroshima; a world where humanity has learned its lesson about the impact of technology on both humans and other animals and plants; then, this is the dream world of vegan straight edge, and that's where the adventures of Innita happens as she being pink Rocker nudist. The second radial world is this, as we perceive it, where Barack Obama is U.S. president, and "TRON Legacy" will be released in December now; I call it Apparent Reality, and is the collective dream of omnivores and vegetarians who do not want changes so radical that upset them too much of their daily and individual lifestyle; this is where I'm a lesbian with male body and my Innita doesn't have pink the iris of her eyes nor freckles in the shape of stars. The third one is the Sub-reality in which World War III happened in 2006, and happens World War IV -which I call "RAW WAR"- under a destroyed ozone layer, constantly bleeding in scarlet rains, where humans mutated into vampires, minotaurs and zombies, and all are afraid of the sun: it's the nightmare come true for all beings on this planet, in that radial world is where I'm currently trapped as that glass-wearing biologist of my drawings. Another radial world outside these 3, which obviously I do not handle copyright (hehe) is where there would be Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman, also existing Themyscira, Gotham City and Metropolis, respectively.

You created the concept of Menorrealismo ... Please explain, what is it?

In March 2008, because of accidentally know the term "Situationism", and mixed with my liking for the works and as such the word "Surrealism" led me to wonder how I would define what I was doing the last 10 years with my work. Already in 1998 I had self-defined as "ginotropia", ie my fenicentric lifestyle, so I wanted to define my job into my lifestyle. It had nothing to do with political and social struggle as is the situationist, nor with the aesthetic and literary approach of surrealism - my material of use in my work was the questioning of reality itself. What I had been expressing and producing was the result of my deep dissatisfaction with reality. My way to "improve" my life in the reality was consciously escaping of it, to unrealities for slow down reality in my daily life. But it would not with substance or with nostalgia for social revolution nor creed. So I see in art the best substitute for drugs and utopian hopes for social or spiritual paradises. For me, the basic difference of the art versus altered states generated by drugs, or the illusion of social or religious revolt, is that art is self-conscious of its own fantasy. For me, art is the journey, not a messianic destiny. Art as a creative act of everyday unreality to lessen reality: This is the Menorrealismo. The first 2 Menorrealista letters give more details: www.flickr.com/photos/noparainnita/sets/72157622329782205

Most of your work can be reviewed in the network, there are texts on blogspot where we can find parts of the series www.innita.blogspot.com , most of your production have posted on flickr www.flickr.com/photos/noparainnita and facebook where Innita group also has www.facebook.com/innita.para.no . Tell us how you have been away from print and take advantage of the versatility of the virtual environment and how it was received and follow the series?

My Internet public behaves mostly pleasant, restless and curious, with more and more questions, since I'm doing that the events of my characters -in particular those about Innita- go more frequently. My main network is Flickr , I signed in 2005 but only since December 2006 is when I begin to manage it, the experience is rewarding as it inspires me to keep the discipline of new drawings and texts published almost daily. My notebook is open to the public. And soon the exercise of this notebook will give birth to a new site which will follow the daily life of Innita, written by herself, is her official site, in due course give to know the link and the same for caracteríticas you can visit. The Experience in Facebook about Innita's profile is more anecdotal than about presence, but still has the advantage of manifesting as a person in the same level as the others. "Defictionalization" is the term that implies becoming real a work that is cited in a fictional universe, which in the case of Innita are the 59 demos on the Jango's link I aforementioned.

Have you thought about making a printed publication on Innita, will there be a display in the real world ... it is, outside internet?

Yes, of course, the Internet is a fundamental means, is the axis, the stem from which emerge several branches. "Rockanrose" will be not only the Innita's fifth album, but also her second literary work -being "Rome" the first one-, which is an experimental short novel, as it is conceived as a mixture of novel, poetry, essays, theater script and journalistic chronicle; my idea is to publish it in printed book form, and adapt and mount it as stage work. I have little time writing it, so it will take some time to being out. And musically, the idea is to arrange a Innita's live band, for rock shows with theatrical tinge.

Ending, I want you to tell us a little about your lifestyle, we know that is a bit radical ... that you are part of a stream called Straight Edge and also itemize each food that you consume and you're vegan but at certain times only eat fruits. Tell us a little about this vision and way of life.

Continuing a bit with a previous question, the Straight Edge, which is the voluntary and total abstinence of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs, is part of Menorrealismo in the sense that producing of Menorrealist works are made in sobriety. There is still a great myth that crative states derive almost necessarily from induced-drug-altered states. "did you smoke green?" Is the eternal joke, not only against strange behavior but against eccentric artworks. I think that artists addicted to these stimulants do not produce their works because of the drugs, but despite of it. On the other hand, veganism is for me the most sincere and practical case against helping other beings. I can not say what defines an anarchist, or communist, for example, it's very ambiguous because the way they carry their ideas into daily practice; however veganism is simply a rejection of all animal product consumption. Veganism is not an academic ideology, is an everyday act. Many people criticize veganism because although it saves animals, yet it consumes plants. Let me illustrate with an example my reply: "If in a fire, 6 beings trapped there are about to suffer and die, and I can rescue a 4 instead of 2, it is always better althought I can not save the 6." If we had no digestive system, so there would be no need to eat plants. As for my experiment with the fruit, it was because me practicing fruitarianism, it is, naturalist raw food vegan diet based in fruits and vegetables without being processed by cooking, to maintain its nutritional value to 100% as other animals eat them . I held for 6 months a fruitarian diet, but in my case, my difficulty in maintaining it was because I personally feel that to experience full and constante benefits is preferable to obtain organically grown food that you care, to have a rural lifestyle rather than urban , and to live almost entirely out of touch with the city.

NO, has been great to talk to you, again thanks for sharing with us. A big hug from STYLODC and congratulations for your work !!!!.

Thank you very much to you Paola, and all of you in STYLODC for the invitation.

Untitled

2010-10-30T23:24:00.001+01:00

, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Thank you to XstockX for allowing me to use her photo in this image.

Simon

http://xstockx.deviantart.com

Living Solutions

2010-10-12T13:34:00.010+01:00
I am now officially living in an advert. Unfortunately, for those of you who can't keep up with the development of technology, I don't have time to explain. Time is a monetary factor and lateness or perceived lateness becomes a "preparation to irony", resulting in system exclusion (or having no fixed abode). If I don't live in the advert for 10 hours a day I am homeless. 2 strikes and you're out!
Fortunately, I live in rather a remarkable advert in the way that it makes no sense to the consumer. Traditionally, adverts had some clarity about what they were trying to sell, so people could recognise the product and buy it. This is the beginning of paying for advertising, not just renting a space to live but a kind of tax to fund Capitalism or "life solutions" as it is rapidly becoming known.
Not requiring a physical space to live in does cut costs and cuts down on prison inmates, but, although fair play, it does sometimes feel less absorbing than 4 walls! The advert I live in, although rather amateurish from a programming point of view, is laced with symbols of independence and freedom. Democracy is often evoked through an owl.
The paradox (not irony, which implies pragmatism) is that many people still live in flats and houses. Although this is becoming indistinguishable from "living solutions", the problems with administration and physical space should be addressed and full compliance reached, or we will face huge litigation, even on a perceived basis.
I have a huge face of a founder-market-leader on the fascia of the advert, constantly in view of the paying public. At least we know that the art of the past is being honoured, through the depiction of gods, goddesses and demi-gods through creative mechanisms.
I often remark, although with some hesitance now, that 10 years ago the whole notion of living within a virtual space would have seemed absurd. However, absurdity is the mother of all invention (rather than necessity, which is absurd) and virtual living spaces or rather, living solutions, have dramatically cut costs to advertising and commerce.
I feel fully functionable and have managed compliancy, despite 2 late payments for my education and 1 to a dating agency. This is also an achievement, considering that my parents are under the "living solutions eligibility compliance threshold", having squandered money on physical holidays abroad and a lack of potential earnings, due to my Mother leaving education before her Masters.
I say "fully functionable" because originally there were concerns that those who lived in virtual spaces would lose basic functioning such as life-skills, social skills, and motor abilities. Some still had notions such as mental illness and anxiety and depression! Of course, psychotic disorders were proved to be a symptom of a public-funded economy. However, none of the above were cost-effective, so, naturally were ruled out.

Poem 23/09/2010 (This Portal)

2010-10-02T23:01:00.005+01:00
This portal from one town to
another, from one culture to
another shouldn't be a faceless
car on a neglected road

a worm-hole in a plastic world
a black hole, a stargate, a
manoeuvre shouldn't kiss our cities
like a timeless trance

A Facebook page, a cure for Cancer
we shouldn't be neglected like this;
a shortage of housing, a reflection in a
television screen

We should say bom dia, bon voyage
a handshake here a pat on the back, a
caress, a hug and eyes that
met across heated floors

should wend their way back to television
screens, for this, 25 minutes to Solihull
by a route that seems never invented
is the blink of an eye in a Sat Nav

screen that decries the woodland that
I pass in flurries, the poverty and drugs
and illness that is measured digitally
symbiotically, economically.

This portal is faster still, a land
my home that I do not recognise
buildings empty, half built
like a friend, misanthropically

You'd rather forget

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company 'Faultline'

2010-09-12T16:54:00.004+01:00

The brilliance of the choreographer, Shobana Jeyasingh should not go unnoticed. My review will be short as I have dental problems and I get sick and tired of trying to explain the importance of certain art works to an audience who don't really give a toss! However, there are those that appreciate high levels of creativity and attempts to comprehend art works in greater detail, and I write for these people as well as for my own pleasure.

So, briefly, I believe it is important to acknowledge Jeyasingh's insight into multiculturalism. Multiculturalism and globalisation (by this I mean the meshing of global cultures as well as economic, intellectual ((sic)), political and other "cultural" phenomena) are today's avant-garde.

Jeyasingh and her dancers reveal the choreographer's comprehension of the current state of intellectual and cultural disparity, that is gradually cohesing and altering our comprehension of ourselves and the way that we interact with each other. Jeyasingh manages to convey this highly complex and uncertain contemporary experience, through a marvelous fluidity of movement and breath taking subtlety. Jeyasingh's choreography merges (principally) Indian, classical dance forms with Western dance forms. However, when watching her dance performances you realise that her comprehension of dance (as a metaphor for cultural disparity and exchange) is highly erudite, mixing Jazz, Contemporary, Ballet and street styles with Indian dance. The Indian dance is most important in the sense that it acts contrapuntally to Western styles, largely through hand and facial gestures, iconic, bodily gesture and rhythmic disparity to Western musicality.

Jeyasingh's choreography acts as an antidote to Modernity and Western, Postmodern, societal stasis and historical reflection. It points towards the end of Post modernity and the beginning of the next cultural period that we will experience.

Finally, it is important to note that Jeyasingh's work is accessible and includes popular dance styles and mixes them with styles that are traditionally deemed to be of more merit, artistically. She creates beyond the restrictions of many choreographers and other contemporaneous artists, creating dance that is not confined to established views. In other words, Jeyasingh creates art that does not merely toy with ideas of multiculturalism, globalisation and the consequent societal upheaval that this will bring. Jeyasingh creates art that genuinely and completely expresses this condition.
Simon Harris

2010-08-23T14:16:00.001+01:00

The Selfridge's Mosaic

2010-08-09T22:13:00.001+01:00

The Selfridge's Mosaic, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Mosaic created by overlaying abstract designs with a photograph of the Selfridges building in the Bull Ring, Birmingham UK.

Simon

Post Industry

2010-08-08T22:38:00.001+01:00

Post Industry, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
The photograph of Julie is layered on top of a photograph I took of the Bullring shopping Centre, Birmingham, UK. Other textures were used as well.
Hopefully, this picture evokes ideas regarding capitalism, the "shrine" of the market place (agora), the changing face of the workplace and the potency of advertising. To me, contemporary advertising expresses a repressed need to invent gods and goddesses and to worship "quasi-deities" in a materialistic and capitalist landscape.

Thank you to XstockX (Julie) for alowing me to use her excellent photo in this picture.

Simon

Untitled

2010-08-04T20:47:00.002+01:00

, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Thank you to Xstockx (Julie) for allowing me to use her photograph in this image.

Simon

://xstockx.deviantart.com

No para Innita, the Sayingsomething Interview.

2010-08-01T06:19:00.010+01:00

No para Innita, the Sayingsomething Interview.
by Sebastian Villarreal.

1 - From what, and / or how did the word "innita"?

The word “Innita” emerged in 1998 to seek a name, with paper and pencil on a desk, to my wife / partner / girlfriend, my virtual / real love, my infinite "half" feminine who she is with me this or absent: a type of perception a-la “My Heart Will Go On” -but in lesbian and spatial version. "Innita" was a word invented in an era that began to pay more attention to Russian models in magazines, precisely because a female friend from there. The word "Innita" born inspired in part by "Nikita", a film that ironically I have not watched.

2 - On the Flickr’s set called "No Para Innita” I found many photographs entitled “Casualties of Rawwar”, where you are in a bath with the mask, are taken from various angles and positions. Could you explain that it is, or what purpose they have?

In 2008, in the midst of World War IV, my face was disfigured by a group of zombies attack, leaving open scars that never coagulate. The pads mask protects what remains of my face. While it was an attack on that radial world, it´s a symbol of what the world dominated by omnivorous human species makes invisibly in the life of a vegan person.

3 - What things did not you draw, not because it is difficult if not because you do not like, me for example I find it hard to draw cars is not “my strength” and I do not draw attention.

I agree. Apathy is the barrier to almost everything, and therefore the same happens in the drawing. I do not believe in talent, I think constancy as a way to refine the development of the drawing. In my case, I have apathy of drawing almost everything but The Woman. I do not usually get out of what in art called "comfort zone" and do not feel bad. So I am too lazy to draw almost everything else, from architectural or natural settings to objects and similar. And so everything that is not the woman is not inspiringly “my strength”." However, when it is inevitable, everything else has to be drawn.

4 - Can you mention some Colombian artists you admire and / or appeal to you?

I confess that I look more photos than illustrations. Sure there are many Colombian artists that I'm missing, but I like the illustration of Ródez and painting and drawings of Rossina Bossio Bossa. I know them personally; Ródez has been like a "tutor" and Rossinna as a discovery. Maybe that makes me feel close to the work of both of them.

5 - Can you tell me something that bothers you when someone discuss your artwork?

When are comments boringly in morbid tone, I delete it. If they are vexations of anonymity, I delete it and block the sender. Fortunately there are not many. In general, my work on flickr gallery is more observed than commented. I very rarely comment on other galleries or answer one at a mine, which may also discourage my public to comment. Several times they prefer to tell via mail or a chat, than leave it as public comment.

6 - What events of your childhood make you think did influence your art training?

Comics.

7 - Favorite color, or one with whom you identify.

I dress in black, technically this is not a color, and it goes with my name. I also like the rainbow, ie, I don´t have a favorite: it changes from time to time. But if I had to give a list of other colors that I liked, in no order: the emerald green, scarlet red, aqua blue, and white.

8 - How do you get such perfect planning of the supra-reality, the subreality and apparent reality ?

Again, the credit is for the comics I read in my childhood. In the past decade, I knew Geoff Johnns, ’ work, writer of comics that "repaired" with a successful story, the return of Hal Jordan as a Green Lantern. Achievements like these are my inspiration to do everything in the radial worlds' sync of my work. It must be said that the “Apparent Reality”", it is, this dreamed by Omnivores’ world in which we are, is almost zero work that needs to be invented there, it is the world as we see it. In this case, synchronization is more a job as a journalist.

9 - Mention a TV cartoon you like.

I see none now, nor repeat chapters of already watched. I think my little consumption of animation is the same thing I see photographs instead of illustrations, as explained above. What I do every day is drawing, then in my "breaks" so I guess I must be turned to other things. For example, about three months I´m seeing again TV series: Lost, Dexter and Breaking Bad have been my favorite.

10 - Can you advise something good to serve as inspiration for artwork?

Unless you accept draw exactly what you are asked, as it’s the case, for example, of an advertising agency or similar-atmospheres that I avoid, we must draw from within. The venting and gratitude are my best source of inspiration.

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1- A partir de qué, y/o cómo surgió la palabra “Innita”?

La palabra “Innita” surge en 1998 al buscar un nombre, con papel y lápiz en un escritorio, a mi esposa/compañera/novia, mi amor virtual/real, mi infinita “media naranja” femenina que me acompaña esté ella presente o ausente: un tipo de percepción del tono “My Heart Will Go On” - pero en versión lésbica y espacial. “Innita” fue una palabra inventada en una época que empecé a prestar más atención a modelos rusas en revistas, precisamente por una amiga de allá. La palabra “Innita” nace inspirada en parte en “Nikita”, la película que irónicamente no he visto.

2- En el álbum “no para innita” de Flickr me topé con muchas fotografías tituladas “Casualties of Rawwar ” en las que estás en un baño con la máscara puesta, están tomadas desde varios ángulos y posiciones. ¿Podrías explicarme de que se tratan, o que fin tienen?

En el 2008, en plena Cuarta Guerra Mundial, mi rostro fue desfigurado por un ataque colectivo de zombies, dejándome cicatrices abiertas que nunca coagulan. La máscara de toallas femeninas protege lo que queda de mi rostro. A la vez que fue un ataque en ese mundo radial, es un símbolo de lo que el dominante mundo omnívoro de la especie humana hace invisiblemente en la vida de una persona vegan.

3- ¿Qué no dibujas?, no porque sea difícil si no porque eso no te gusta, a mí por ejemplo me cuesta dibujar autos, no es mi fuerte y no me llaman la atención.

Concuerdo. La apatía es la barrera para casi todo, y por lo tanto sucede igual en el dibujo. No creo en el talento, creo en la constancia como forma de pulir el desarrollo del dibujo. En mi caso, tengo apatía de dibujar por casi todo lo que no es La Mujer. No suelo salirme de lo que en arte llaman “zona de confort” y no me siento mal. Por eso me da pereza dibujar casi todo lo demás: desde escenarios arquitectónicos o naturales hasta objetos y similar. Y por eso todo lo que no es la mujer no es inspiradoramente “mi fuerte”. Sin embargo, cuando es irremediable, pues todo lo otro se dibuja.

4- ¿Podrías mencionar algunos artistas Colombianos que admires y/o te llamen la atención?

Confieso que miro más fotos que ilustraciones y seguro hay muchos artistas colombianos que me estoy perdiendo, pero me gusta la ilustración de Ródez y la pintura y dibujo de Rossina Bossio Bossa. Los conozco personalmente, a Ródez que ha sido como un “tutor” y a Rossinna como un descubrimiento. Tal vez eso me haga sentir cercano el trabajo de ambos.

5- ¿Me dirías alguna cosa que te moleste cuando comentan tus ilustraciones?

Cuando son comentarios de tono aburridamente morboso, los borro. Si son enfados de anónimo, los borro y bloqueo al remitente. Afortunadamente no son muchos. En general, mi galería de trabajos en flickr es más observada que comentada. Yo mismo casi no comento en otras galerías ni respondo uno a uno en la mía, lo que puede desanimarlos también a comentar. Varias veces prefieren comentarme por correo o en un chat, que dejarlo como comentario público.

6- ¿Qué hechos de tu infancia crees que influyeron en tu formación artística?

Los cómics.

7- Color favorito, o uno con el que te identifiques.

Me visto con el color negro, que técnicamente dicho, no es un color, y pues va con mi nombre. Además me gustan los del arco iris, es decir, no tengo un favorito: cambia con el tiempo. Pero si tuviera que dar una lista de otros colores que me han gustado, en ningún orden: el verde esmeralda, rojo escarlata, azul aguamarina, y el blanco.

8- ¿Cómo logras la planificación tan perfecta de la supra-realidad, la subrealidad y la realidad aparente ?

De nuevo, el mérito es por los comics que leía en mi infancia. En la década pasada, conoci el trabajo de Geoff Johnns, guionista de comics que “reparó” con un acertado relato el regreso de Hal Jordan a ser Green Lantern. Logros como esos son mi inspiración en hacer que todo se sincronice en los mundos radiales de mi obra. Cabe decir que la “Realidad Aparente” , es decir este mundo de sueño omnívoro en que nos desarrollamos, es casi igual a cero el trabajo que se necesita inventar ahí, pues es el mundo tal como lo vemos. En este caso, la sincronización es más un trabajo como de periodismo.

9- Menciona algún programa de televisión en dibujos animados que te guste.

No veo ninguno ahora, ni tampoco repito capítulos de los anteriores. Creo que mi poco consumo de animación se debe a lo mismo que veo fotografías en vez de ilustraciones, como dije antes. Lo que hago diariamente es dibujar, entonces en mis “descansos” por eso supongo me debo volcar a otras cosas. Por ejemplo, hace unos 3 meses estoy viendo de nuevo series de TV: Lost, Dexter y Breaking Bad han sido mis favoritas.

10- ¿Podrías aconsejarnos algo bueno que sirva de inspiración para hacer ilustraciones?

A menos que aceptes dibujar exactamente lo que te piden, como es el caso, por ejemplo, en una agencia de publicidad o similar, -atmósferas que evito-, hay que dibujar desde adentro. El desahogo y el agradecimiento son mi mejor fuente de inspiración.

Cocteau Twins - Evangeline

2010-07-18T01:06:00.000+01:00

Poem July 2010

2010-07-17T17:42:00.001+01:00
Tutti au fait accompli?
C'est ca, rien fait
a la busca faux
a jaune futures reform arabesque
canto des couleur

No promotion export fallacious
serial stasis
ethereal exogeny

Cantus de la mode
empire de castillo dans la ciel
a natural disposition
and dispossessed

Capoeira ferile, entwining cartography
a sudden sunshine
a la mode de rigueur
et lens per favore

Oceans sparkle
under the dunes du choix
Tondu, a backwards step
4 clear thoughts
are ribboned in pink
Arabia, philosophia

Kunst; the language of dance
and reflection via distance
perimeteric screens 2
dice a fuelled, insistent portraiture

The fluidity of love
cannot be bought, only its
skull the shores are blunt
and u r my understudy

du complicite
With money our sculptor
aesthetics are bones
air travel en masse

we should fuck each other senseless
precognize a renaissance
struggle under little despots
to interfere our journeys

Simon Harris

This poem endeavors to capture the global, multicultural flux that many of us experience today. This is a worldwide phenomenon. Conceptually, I have reflected these concerns and, most notably I have mixed Indo-European languages to reflect these concerns, stylistically. For example; "a jaune futures reform arabesque/ canto des couleur". In the English, yellow futures reform arabesque/ song of colours. The words "jaune" and "des couleur" are French, while canto is Spanish. Grammatically, there may be "mistakes" simply because this is a novel approach to mixing languages (often mid-sentence) in poetry. However, I believe "mistakes" should be tolerated and seen as contributing to a global culture, rather than evidence of grammatical errors. I have also included some "text speech" or "Internet speech" to contribute to the intellectual, cultural, linguistic and actual uncertainty, that is today.

Briefly, I wanted to state that this "poem" is as much a form of Text Art, than a poem (artistic work of literature). All art forms are crossing over today and I don't see why poetry should be limited to the page and to public readings.
SH

Avant-Gardism at the Beginning of the 21st Century

2010-06-07T15:55:00.002+01:00
Avant-gardism does not sit well in a captalist landscape, where art (the arts?) are measured (athough, as yet not invariably so) by their potential to make money or literally, at the point of sale.

Originality is not dead, after Modernism, only an idiot would believe that new ideas are completly dependent upon the whim of government or the resultant, mediocracy of capitalism. However, the nature of originality or avant-gardism has changed.

Far from the romantic introspection of Modernity, where the West defined "newness" in relation to Western ideas/thought, we now have to define avant-gardism in terms of an increasingly global arena. We in the West cannot deem art to be of intellectual and cultural value when we are exposed to a global culture, and we have yet to understand cultures that are new to us. Indeed, who is to say that, for example, Amazonian tribes or Brazilian people shouldn't see art through their intellectual/cultural values and prescribe values that art from all over the world should confom to, to be considered worthy of possessing intrinsic value?

Evidently, today's Avant-Garde is the meshing of Global cultures via new and informative ways. This leads towards a state of Global art, where ideally, art (or the arts) can be deemed to be of value because arts practitioners, historians and audiences from around the globe can find value in art works.

As cultures shift toward globalism, the effect upon intellectual thought, politics and economies may be startling. For sure, life will never be the same again!

Simon
2010

Article originally posted on the "New Renaissance group" on Flickr.

Automaton - Experimental Research

2010-05-08T12:42:00.006+01:00

This is a photograph, not yet widely circulated, of experimental research into creating a cyborg. Unfortunately I cannot reveal my sources, for reasons that should be obvious.

Here, the process is incomplete. The human skin has not yet covered the metallic, robotic parts. There is evidence to suggest that human organs are used and remain largely intact, however a metallic-like substance has been "grown" using similar methods to growing crystals.

One source states that the metallic substance contains human gene codes and, therefore can be "grown" organically. This is probably done using nanotechnological methods, in a similar fashion to"organic computing".

I apologise for the quality of the photograph, but the photograph was taken very quickly at a location that I cannot reveal.

The ethical issues surrounding this discovery are monumental. However I can assure all viewers that we witnessed no signs of life, whether physical or pertaining to consciousness.

More infomation can be found by contacting me by email (on Blogger profile).

Thank you

Faux Advertising

2010-05-08T10:53:00.003+01:00
And when the whole freaky weld of faces stares
back at the life you lead like do re mi fa
do re mi fa the whole punch of the heifer
punts piston and of the strange scary
scape of the performance of a shopping centre

i i i can't re sa fa ti do ri mi expand
myself only by atmospheres ti do re mi fa so do da
music concrete arabesque by Selfridges
and ghosts in the car park shuffle
as if reminding us of Babylon

metal whistles its own devices
and the clerk to the court repossesses
buildings that could have been used
to house us, nevertheless, fiscally astute
carve our spiritual ambitions towards the untouchables

lest we be reminded that money flows
from hand to hand, this less
now, from trace to trace
to ask spirits to rise from trees
would be far too convenient

Untitled

2010-05-03T13:10:00.001+01:00

Digital art portrait, featuring a photograph by Miss Boux
Simon Harris aka Crescent

2010-04-17T21:20:00.002+01:00
Don't tell me I'm not haunted
I'm a ghost I'm a ghost
in a weld in a mesh
a kernel or animal

My old man, air is full of caffeine and this inertia
as for global art; to shake post modernity
and find its only originality, its "sweetness and light"
would be testament to disconnecting your broadband

Do I know you?
If so then
who the fuck are you?
Bella! Bella Nella?
Bella Nella D'ella betwixt
the curtain and the stage
fright, night, flight of
tragedy and comedy (between, of her)

And don't you
I couldn't tell you knows
alright with out doubt
par journee pas jamais
any raison at all (ne)
(I) other than knowing of your
selfless brigand of Surrealism
Potented (pointe)
pissed by numerical codes
shitting up the hole in art
clunky of it
and you don't!

Welkomme select a product to view
like a goat cackling erst its own(ership) coat
flo

fuck off E

Foro Romano

2010-03-20T15:04:00.005Z

Walking through ancient Rome at Foro Romano, near to the Colosseum, the remains and artifacts of a once powerful empire, I came to realise two things....

Firstly, history should not be considered academic first and foremost. History is the recording of lived activity, it is the living of events that was and still is, of most importance. History is not some abstract, mental hypothesis, it is the accurate recording of actual events, as much as is possible. Hypothesis has its place, but this is secondary to the recording and communication of actuality. Writing as the raison d'etre of history, forces hyper reality, emphasising the power of the written word and those who record history.

Students of history (all of us) should realise the limitations of reportage, the responsibilities that come with supposition and the realisation that we are active participants in history. They should be encouraged to view archaeological sites and involve themselves archaeological research. They should be involved in local history projects - "living history". Seeing history as an academic or literary exercise makes it harder to communicate the actual events of history and their importance. This is particularly important today, when we are very concerned with the short-term and coerced into making snap decisions rather than considering the long term as well as the short term effects of our actions.

Secondly, Roman remains and their preservation have great relevance to today. As we know, Rome was a great power, much influenced by Greek civilisation. Roman society was intellectual, aesthetic, inventive and sophisticated. They also had a barbaric ad blood-thirsty side that helped them to extend their empire so successfully.

Today, our Greek-influenced, Western empire, lead by the United States, should learn from the history of Rome. No empire is too powerful or sophisticated to fall. We must make sure that corruption, like we have seen over recent years, does not cause the West to fall, as was the fate of Rome.

Leaving the awe inspiring ruins behind, gilded by Orange Trees, Cypresses, I watched the sunset behind the Colloseum and walked to a nearby cafe. "Bon sera, cafe americano per favore," I said in a French accent! "Coffee American coming right up Sir!" The waiter replied. "Grazie!" I said, hoping to tease some Italiano from him, "Preggo!" He replied almost like an after thought.

What te F**k

2010-03-16T17:25:00.003Z
A step too far by advertising and new technology

link

text for a new (yet unimagined) picture

2010-02-27T18:11:00.003Z
You can't (I) and then construe the robots like science thou secular morality
wears thin by technology and governed by politicians oh! false tyger, by this we conceive a place for humanity next to commerce

Turn your computer on
for religious compliance esoterica 72105 11-21.6 component 9 c'est rocks!
Our mothers were art moths cappuccino, myther glutinous vendors or windows carapace (you) delineate the forth stage of practice I am a shade of hue

Hang on I don't know you dominant do you live here? Well not in your flat! Really? 2 doors away... For 7 years! To think I've never seen you! Animal I thought you were a fucking painting something like what you get at Cyclops. I have one of those memorable faces. People think I am in adverts. Fucking! Yes, fucking! :-) Well friends cost money I can't afford it. Did you say that? Yes, it was me! Time is so expensive now. Yes, I know friends are much cheaper on the Internet.

Drinking causes damage that you can't see Autumnal driving causes damage that you can see but can't afford to preach as there is no evidence of cost-effectiveness. Mesmer do you remember before the partners and minors act? We weren't paid to oppose parentless minors... Do you remember? I can't seem to remember any more but music helps to fill in the gaps where ideas once roamed.

inquisitor

2010-01-31T22:25:00.004Z

do not ~~die~~ yet

Astro_TJ. does a TFOS

2010-01-24T23:21:00.002Z

"Hello Twitterverse!," "We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station. We hope our friends from Alderaan will receive the gift to TFOS*) like a humanoid soon!"

^*)Tweet From Outer Space

~~

Poem Full of Dance Energy

2010-01-16T18:35:00.005Z
The fist circs the bee sucks
Mr.Elephant's formaldehyde is clover'd
it bust rust da goo goo Ganges (phonetics)

Way out ladyboy glockenspiel "pro"
objetif looks (Thia)
Giraffe stages, the 3 Stooges (premonition/promote)

Three themes hear, employ to
vacate emotion, practical tense (the denied is our next procession)
enrapture les animaux season d'etre

One moon one tide one creature in formaldehyde (arte moderne)
wiggles her soul through bra statistics
Clever she may

no herself from professionalism, the
art of how you say it, the wasp (feminine condition)
craves the butterfly's tongue

wrapped like a moth's cocoon, the idee fix
of minutiae, petite morte and petites objets (impractical present)
Open hand the style decries the species (legislative chivalry)

for bees dance and and ants milk greenfly
by the stream where faeries entertain
near galaxies and taxis (pre-op transvestite)

Subjetif follows her nose
like a crepe suzette lost 4 buns in the oven
intuition may now be purely physical (ontological foret)

like lust until we return spiritual
my cabby is a hippopotamus (ungovernable fable, apathetic humanity.....)
and you are a horse.

Dear Reader, you are Pegasus. (western misanthropy
cultural portal
The
arts
find that reason

is
simply a useful
measuring
tool

a
mercury
filled
thermometer)

Simon Harris (Crescent)

2010-01-03T13:27:00.003Z
you don't fucking say that (danca) you don't say what you want when you want do i make myself clear? (reverence) barter past capitalist museum piece 018 018 018 crater moon dust saturn they were looting and the whole place was going down a pastiche of capitalism proved it wasn't worth the paper it was printed on and pooh art

Fake Advert

2010-01-03T12:47:00.002Z

Thank you to Miss Boux for allowing me to use her photograph in this picture
Simon

Buy It Here

2010-01-03T12:42:00.000Z

Simon

Chess

2009-12-26T18:00:00.001Z

Conceptual Art dealing with Multiculturalism and Politics.
Looks better large - if you click on the image :-)
Simon

some visuals - link

2009-12-26T06:35:00.002Z
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shemurph/

"I might venture to say that my new album, though it won't be thrash metal, will be a female companion of 'Reign in Blood' ".

2009-12-25T23:11:00.002Z

Review of "Coitoris” press conference. (Part 1 & 2).
Sundance Press Office.

All men are extinct. The moon makes combustion into a small sun. Her translation is reversed with the earth and makes the planet orbiting the fiery moon, which makes their female inhabitants live 24 hours of daylight. No, it’s not another one of those doomsday movies. Quite the contrary: it is a musical, a celebration but with tunes that are closer to Ozzfest than Broadway. Coitoris is the third film of the Mexican-Irish director Guadalupe Smithye, for the second time that incorporates the Colombian rocker Innita to deal with the soundtrack. And for good reason, the argument is adapted from an unpublished draft of short story written by Innita.

We are in this winter Sunday, December 20th, at Sundance Resort, where Guadalupe and Innita provide the first official press conference on Coitoris, whose premiere is scheduled for Sunday July 11, 2010. The event begins with a batch of questions and answers, some frames of film’s stages and costumes, and ends with a short presentation of Halo Limia, live keyboardist for Innita’s band, playing some advanced score with her Reactune. After an elegant little ceremonial greeting, Innita starts the press conference: "I can afford to be spoilers (spoiler) of my novel ROMA and read the last paragraph of the final chapter, Love."

After the freckled nude read paragraph, the questions begin:

Q: What new developments can you tell us about the story?
Innita: Coitoris happens 19 years after the extinction of the male, and the male gender in general, on the planet. The first generation of Coitoris women, it is, women born of lovely intercourse of two clitorises, have already spent their childhood and adolescence is being finalized. Extinct, men begin to be historical, archaeological stuff, like dinosaurs. Many things have taken new direction. Technology, now in the hands of women for nearly two decades, has advanced and environmentally progressive way that when developed in the company of men, and the space age unfolds and grows more interesting than sports. It is in this context where the story starts, when the moon makes combustion into a small sun. Telling you more would spoil surprises. "

Q: The rumor is that Coitoris is a musical that is not a musical ...
Guadalupe: But it is a musical. Even when it contains extended scenes of dialogue and monologues and thunderous action scenes, driving narrative that premium are the melodies that actresses and actors sing, which are the 10 songs on the eponymous album innit. If you mix "12 Angry Men," "Chicago" and " Sunshine " here you got a cinematographic idea of Coitoris.

Q: Dominique Pavlanova and Sunny Asgrez are recognized and award-winning actresses in the European stages, and so far only been made just plays. Is it not a risk being selected as stars and being directed cinematically?
Guadalupe: I've seen many of thier plays. They come from different schools. I am happy to join them in Coitoris. It is a challenge for them that adds extra flavor to the movie. Due to their theatrical underground, theatrical school gives me the exotic ingredients I need for film-themed space. Having started recording in November, my experience with them so far has not been at any time headaches or friction, on the contrary, it's like brand new unbreakable toy. It's something new for both parties.

P: The complexion of the bodies of Dominique Pavlanova and Sunny Asgrez respectively resemble the fiancee of Innita and also Innita herself. Is this story with biographical tributes from Innita?
Innita: hahahhaha.
Guadalupe: Interesting observation, but no, not really. I think more than you mean the bust size, you can ask bluntly. We were also told that if the bust of the stars refers to the busts of Innita and mine, to include our egos there, hehe, and they like to say that either.
Innita: Exactly that happened to us, even they are talking that Guadalupe and I are lovers. However, it has to do with the dangerous fashion breast reduction.
Guadaloupe: Aha, the fashion among women continues to grow today, and the debate on the issue encouraged the Hollywood press to speculate on Xetl Xihuatl, the protagonist of my previous film, with the false rumor that had reduced breasts for the movie. I wanted the Coitoris’ actors were distant breast size. It is now known of several cases of almost irreparable injury cases by clandestine reductions breasts, legal medical unsupervised, which become massive and early among girls 15 to 17 years aged and therefore I could not deny that I do want to share my views on the subject. In the booklet there is a small dialog that came with some black humor on this.

Q: There is a rumor that Innita appears in the film . . . . .
Gudalupe: Rumor discarded, I myself suggested to her, I began by suggesting a secondary role to decrease to a hitchcock style apparition, but in any case she didn’t want.
Innita: aha, it was. I do not feel, at least by now, the multi-artist who composes, sings, writes novels and apart from that she even acts. To act on some of my videos is enough for now.

Q: According to the official tracklist, we see that in your upcoming musical work the number of songs are reduced by almost half, if we take into account your 2 previous albums. Is this due to your busy schedule of constant touring, commitment to film or there is something to comment?
Innita: I wanted the new album, recording phase yet, be an outburst and intentionally I discarded the idea of swinging curves of ridges and valleys. " Good things, when short, are twice as good " "less is more", etc.. The album, like it is my short story in which Guadalupe based to expand to movie format, is a celebration. So my album Coitoris ignores the slow rhythms and melancholy of songs like " Vampirama ", " TV Sunsets ". I might venture to say that my new album, though it will be not thrash metal, will be a female companion of Slayer’s "Reign in Blood".

Q: According to a financial newsletter of Concordia Films, the film production has risen and risen to the point that they have integrated new investors.
Guadalupe: Right. Since I announced my new project publicly, Concordia Films has no objection to associate with other producers to give Coitoris technological quality and logistics necessary for its materialization.

Q: Will there be integration of the Innta´s tour “Coitoris Eronautica” with elements of the film, as directly as at the time Pink Floyd did it?
Innita: It's funny you ask that, for a couple of weeks ago I was watching the circular elements in the scenery of Pulse, and discussed some of there with my set designer and my producer on some of my visions for the tour. But regarding your question, I think it will have to wait to see the film and view the tour to get your own impressions.

Global Economics, Culture(s) and the Shaping of Scientific Theory by Pragmatism, the Arts and Cultural Change

2009-12-24T18:12:00.003Z
Fuck a duck
duck a fuck a
duck fuck

cluck beyond
slut tuck noir flutter
ducks clutter
Beethoven's 6th

clinker retinal
chuck your fucks
ducking clucking
purchase

bartering ducky clucky
fuck to ducks
mucky fucky
splinter toil

lucky duck's
got der fucks cheap and tatty
with a clucky moorhen
splice

cerulean fuck
blatant fuck
plucky duck
all drakes and signets

Process as Art

2009-12-05T18:42:00.001Z

Process as Art, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Stuck in a process, aside
and then art.....

Three areas of text in this picture, that read;

"Individuality
conform con form CON form
blunt rib cage 7
9 AS
Push Tap

Unfriend ly
technocratic fresh
computer shard light house
beam consumerism
conservative proletariat

We conspire to politics
Iris-like repetition"

Text by the artist.
Simon

New Perceptions of Identity

2009-12-05T16:53:00.001Z

New Perceptions of Identity, originally uploaded by crescentsi.
Thank you again to Miss Boux
missboux.deviantart.com

This picture reflects the changes to our perceptions of our individual identities, as Western societies become ever more technological and commercial. We struggle for uniqueness and a comprehension of "self" as gender perceptions, multiculturalism and globalism, constant economic and societal change, mass technological immersion and political instability continuously occur.

"Social Networking" websites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace (and to a degree Flickr and related arts websites) seem to be emblemetic of the aforementioned Post Modern phenomena. In addition, it is important to acknowledge the breakdown of the Nuclear Family.

Of course, social networking and other technological, communicative developments are a poor substitute for real relationships and friendships. However, it would be foolish to state that they are completely without their uses. The isolation that the Internet can cause to many people is ignored as we continue to "tell the world" via Facebook, how we have dumped our latest partner or just bought a new "Sat Nav".

Although this can seem very shallow, and to a degree it is! However, we are looking for varying degrees of fame, as Andy Warhol predicted. As we can no longer find the kinds of relationships within "real" society, we try to find impersonal and fleeting connections and acknowledgement via new technologies. Ultimately, all Internet users (apart from those who only look!) are chasing fame. Most will be disappointed.

Our excitement at the novelty of technological innovation and its opportunities are continually countered by the isolation and the fickle nature of the Internet, and other technologies. Many of us complain about the impersonal nature of society, that has been strengthened by new technology and worsened by the Recession. Are we willing to pay this price for a technocratic, capitalist society? And, importantly, do we really have much choice?

Simon

Perception of Movement

2009-11-25T18:24:00.002Z

Thank you to Johanna Chambers for allowing me to use her excellent dance photograph in this picture.
Simon

Global Media and Untitled

2009-11-13T21:49:00.000Z

Global Media (top) is a visual representation of "information overload", that we experience through various media. In Global Media the textual elements of the work become muddled and opaque, which can be seen as a representation of truth being buried under a mass of information. Untitled takes influence from Asian and, in particular Indian art forms. The Asian influence is unapologetically digitised and merged with Western art styles. It can be thought of as an example of a multicultural hybrid, or as an example of "Global Art". Untitled includes an original photograph by Miss Boux .

Simon

TROJAN HORSE

2009-11-08T14:48:00.002Z

Text Art.
Simon Harris

Demonstrate

2009-11-07T01:21:00.002Z
Balloted Dionysus black card
calls to both sides of the Renaissance
with aspects due to due regard
printemps accruing its duality

by birth admass sincerity, nicotine
slippage, detritus and allergen
a flower, premortis, dispossessed
you would fear the fear of fear

and those who see you fearful,
fear their fear of your fear, that you
then hide through fear of fearing
fears hidden, fearfully next to

television screams our botox youth
to patter the blade of survival
disincriminated and bold like amino acids
wanton for the features
of fluidity

screens
in carcinogen emotion a fix of twittering
solipsistic, jingoistic feverish punch
twilit gymnasia, fleshing ropes
and dumb bells, cornered by happenstance

engraved by reason's repetition

a hyper real fiction

New movements in art moments

2009-10-26T21:11:00.005Z
Where did you come from?
Knock off /it off
Fuck knows/knows fuck
autonomous machinery/no autonomy
For god's sake this isn't a poem

How does art sit with capitalist times
are hard for those who dare not dream
for those who dare must
dream (a sentence here)
virtual world/artificial freedom

streaming media here a purport 2
(and you know it) else
where magnifies exits we'll
dream a rope to pull the horse
Columbus and Raleigh

The Trojan night the Trojan night
drowning in stars
step one two three like a child
she walks to begin again her bare feet like grain
on the ground

We daren't wake her synopsis forms reverie
for fear of truth is far harder than
living far harder than love
Our love is money and fear is its quell
our sanity is clunky

New movements in art moments
time is rebellion to the friction
of finance is lost by our trance
that freedom calls knowledge hence
and there after we might live with

each other and lie with the animals

Girl 2/You Thought You'd Forgotten

2009-10-24T12:58:00.000+01:00

Girl 2 (top picture) collaboration with Miss Boux. You Thought You'd Forgotten reveals the yellow colouration of memories.
Simon

Automaton

2009-10-09T23:28:00.000+01:00

Many thanks to Miss Boux for allowing me to use her photograph in this picture.
Simon

An Art of Doing; Considering a 21st Century Renaissance

2009-10-03T19:32:00.003+01:00
We can no longer have art, in the sense that we have known art and anti-art and therefore if we have known art and what it is not, then why should art in any sense continue?
In the sense that we understand art, there will be no art. Art and artistic activity will, of course, continue, however it may be difficult to understand that the new art form(s) are art at all.
In a similar way, we will all be famous. However, once we have all achieved fame then we are no longer famous, at least not in the way that being famous once meant. Fame will be the norm and therefore it will not be fame, but a continuation of human relationships and recognition after the reign of the extended family and via modern technology.
Art now, if we wish to have an avant-garde, is an art of doing. Otherwise we rehash the art of the 20th century using 20th century techniques or faux, digital techniques - art by proxy. Digital art has proved it has a niche of its own, but ultimately it is no more than an extension of traditional art rather than an avant-garde.
The art of doing is simply that. Doing. Art is doing anything that one does and its capture (through painting, dance, film, photography, etc.) is no longer art. This is its medium of reportage - an art by proxy. Art actuel is the doing, regardless of media that communicates it.
This idea must sound incredibly odd! After all, art is communication so how can communication no longer be art? The answer is simple, communication is no longer artistic, at least not in a sense of avant-gardism. If we wish to continue creating art and artistic works/performances in the manner that we have, then we can call the media of art, art and the doing of art its practice, in order that ideas are communicated.
If we wish to embrace the actuality of now, then we have to shelve our ideas of art and concede defeat regarding the "specialness" of communication and media. Technology has made craftsmanship virtually redundant. Skilful paintings are not today's art, but yesterdays art, regardless of the contemporaneousness of their subject-matter.
That I do, is similar to "I think therefore I am", as Descartes wrote. However, now that we all think (meaning thinking that is discriminated as worthwhile) and we can all communicate our thoughts (our evidence that we exist) then thinking is no longer special enough to be regarded as "truth".
Truth, now is no longer universal, it is arbitrary. The personal is public, so to create something that is true to ourselves (regardless of dogmatic truth) we must do as we do and recognise that this is truth by occurrence and truth by personal expression. If we are to use media to communicate this truth then we risk losing the truth of our doing, as our actions are lost in the capture and communication.
Communication is not a simple means any more. Communication is distorted by technology, altered philosophically, deconstructed intellectually and distanced emotionally. Communication is something that we can all do, today (n.b.; author notes illiteracy as a problem in both Western and Eastern countries, but to a lesser extent than previously) so its specialness is lost. "Reality by proxy" or the ability to deconstruct media and the events that it communicates and the (more recent) ability to play creatively with the actuality of reported occurrences, leaves us highly suspicious of truth.
For art to be art, we have to find the philosophical drive that encourages intellectual curiosity. The new artist may find him or herself considered a scientist (objective art) or some other curator of truth.
Finally, I would like to state that I don't necessarily condone an "art of doing" rather than an art of communicating through questionable media, but I do think it is necessary if we are to have a new art that expresses the flux, uncertainty and cultural melting-pot that is today. The unreality of the application of modern technologies and its ability to allow us to constantly alter the rudiments of Western thought, truth, perception and "reality", is something that we have to consider. Do we wish to live in a detached, artificial world, or do we wish to experience reality as fully as we can?
The art of doing is the beginning of the independent (personal) enquiry into the nature of the above, our comprehension of these occurences and, ultimately we will find solutions to help us cope with these occurrences.

In 2 or 3 parts this isn't very well written, however I have picked up some flu-bug! Will revise later. Just finished performing musical which was both nerve-racking, to start, and great fun :-)
Thanks
Simon　

Helios 3

2009-09-12T17:46:00.001+01:00

Digital art interpretation of the Sun
Simon

Democratia?

2009-08-28T15:06:00.005+01:00
Our collective esoteria?
by destruction revealed
by juxtaposition sold.

Eh bien, tout fait, tout suite
jamais por favor?

Woman is our envelope
our catalyst
our construction (quel couleur a t'il?)

Our weakness and by her power
her weakness

Por favor? (quel idiom?)

Is there a rehearsal this Sunday?
You can't give jobs to a woman
so a man mustn't have one
ou legislative chivalry (hymne national)

Western children are a niche
assemble.
The largest mass of money and power

Por favor?

by that, that we create
by this we must deny
by those we nurture
we must stasis (Sun dance, bees knees, danse mortir, danse du vie, danse d'amour, dance of light, danse du nuit)
and still, decay.

Angleterre Angleterre Angleterre?
The Angles' terrain is a lusty animal (a la nouvelle Victoriana)
anima animate voyage (Vive souche!)
by terra firma,
incognito, terra incognito
terra agua

Pluto voyage quel raison d'etre?
Je suis eh bien tout fait
bien fait tout suite allez vite!
Compris Compris
Compris?

We are this way by money (1984)
Uh ooh eeh aah (animal instinctive)
We are this way by "knowing".

Our biggest fear for the status quo,
We are all a bunch of spoilt and greedy
kids. (crime, obesity, neurosis)

molto allegrando

2009-08-26T08:36:00.000+01:00
generosity reminds me often
of the present tense
and then I breathe
what I just lost

2009-08-22T14:59:00.002+01:00
Culture is culture by displacement
and class is its review
not its practice

Art is the lowest human endeavour
and the highest, rebellious
yet conformist

As an artist, counter-cultural
You are intrinsic to culture
essentially removed

anti-establishment
the creator of establishment,
implicit explicit

as defined by the established
we find prestige by tangents
and move by moving targets

The lowest is reported into
the highest and that that confounds
and frightens

is merely us
reported, perhaps
via beauty

Space Exploration "panthesis"

2009-07-30T13:43:00.002+01:00

I created this abstract image to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Moon Landing.
Inspired by Stanley Kubrick's "2001 - A Space Odyssey", I am trying to help stimulate a resurgence in Space travel and Space exploration.
It seems that exploration is essential for mankind and, considering that we have explored most of our planet, I feel that manned space flight to places beyond the moon is necessary.
Einstein's "constant" in his fundamental equation "E=MC[squared]" is being questioned as physicists probe more exotic types of matter. This gives us hope that technologies can be invented that may surpass the limitations that Einstein's theories prescribed.
"Panthesis" is a neologism, literally meaning a thesis for everything, or omniscience. Even though omniscience is impossible, the challenge of greater knowledge and exploration awaits us. "Panthesis" can be seen as relating to "panacea" meaning "a universal medicine". Indeed, Space exploration may be a (partial) cure for post modern stagnancy, and a purpose to reassess Capitalism and the difficulties of the "artificial" world that we are currently creating.

Here is a link to a number of "stills" from the Stargate sequence of "2001- A Space Odyssey". Here we see man journey at great speed through Kubrick's version of intergalactic travel. Kubrick touches on the psychological implications of such travel as well as the physical. The effects were ground breaking at the time of the films release.www.palantir.net/2001/gallery/jupiter.html

Simon