lay zee ness is
the twi lit turn, could
murder
Mordred fahrenheit
Excalibur; Heck! That's ex
pensive Vietnam
purros back
stroke to front
scissors, sidewind suture massage
to break a leg fractus is a lack of oestrogen
a bridge to a brick
a broken cloud
to a town a sliver
ring lining. Jaguar
Some time off would be nice
in lieu paid?
of course, but yesterday
could have likened your
to history
misanthropy anna
Conda abstains
from anything lazy
like Beethoven
or reporting history, feministic
yesterday I could have been
in nice or naples
my niece has nipples
a heist implies pimples, solipsistic
dribbles past the escort
Tina conned roast mutton
brazil nut
button, Pippistrelle, three minutes
brake pad aloof
an instant leafy
folds Flickr dither
dongle trickle
pickle insight
outsight Austwich
light switch
stabbing mugging, two minutes forty nine
living loving fucking
trucking;
So lazy you couldn't do your coat up;
this lazyness
is catching like footinmouth dis
easy chairs premier place
Philip Glass sucker punch
you went to a disco
lazy lazy lazy
your pigeon hole
(lazy expression)
is full of work, 3 minutes late
There is no measurement in deed.
The more I write the more
I realise I have no beginning
middle nor end
Immortality? A strange road
that doesn't lead to roam.
Finesse sounds final
like tranquility, fiscality
not all roads lead to Rome
but words travel
to the same start, end
and middle
sleep, 8 hours, nightly
irreverent, ballsy, contentious
deep and luxurious sleep, deadline
where time
melts like the whores in
the Bayeux Tapestry
and with ease slips
down curious windows
widows, back-lit spiders
a drama greater than PhotoShop (TM)
words get muddled
a sleepless sleep (marketing)
a bad place to somnambulate
our island off the East Coast
of America
slumbers in dawns
that speach
the repetitious, the repetitious
page after page after page
I'm lazy slumbering
dancing, talking, smoking
drinking, eating,
fucking, reading, learning
grieving
not working
(money?
I never mentioned it!)
12 Jun 2008
7 Jun 2008
British MP talks of New Renaissance in The Arts
Recent article from The Guardian, concerning arts funding in UK. Astonishingly, the MP in question seems to have a profound understanding of the arts and even talks about a "New Renaissance"! Well these are strange times and anything can happen! He even talks about a multi-million pound investment in UK arts! This is difficult to believe in the current economic climate, however we can only wait and see!
Oddly, there have been snippets of good news over recent weeks, common sense that in the UK we haven't witnessed since the beginning of Tony Blair's reign. However, these are only a few instances of positive news amongst reports of impending recession, public service funding cuts, redundancies and increasing home repossessions! One must remain forever hopeful!
It is also important to recognise that the Renaissance in the 1500's, largely concerning the rediscovery of Greek texts, affected many more areas of intellectual life than the imaginative arts. For example science and the humanities. In fact, its legacy has probably affected all areas of Western life, ever since. Indeed, an artistic Renaissance would be very unlikely to remain independent of other areas of thought.
My new group on Flickr, reflecting the views expressed in the article.
New Renaissance
Simon
Oddly, there have been snippets of good news over recent weeks, common sense that in the UK we haven't witnessed since the beginning of Tony Blair's reign. However, these are only a few instances of positive news amongst reports of impending recession, public service funding cuts, redundancies and increasing home repossessions! One must remain forever hopeful!
It is also important to recognise that the Renaissance in the 1500's, largely concerning the rediscovery of Greek texts, affected many more areas of intellectual life than the imaginative arts. For example science and the humanities. In fact, its legacy has probably affected all areas of Western life, ever since. Indeed, an artistic Renaissance would be very unlikely to remain independent of other areas of thought.
My new group on Flickr, reflecting the views expressed in the article.
New Renaissance
Simon
6 Jun 2008
Fast, Ambience
Short animation, taken from one of my digital art pictures. No sound.
-Unfortunately uploading an AVI file to Google means that I've lost some of the animation. But it still looks quite good!
Thank you
Simon
4 Jun 2008
Virtual Model
Of course! The beautiful Miss Boux!! Comment on how "virtual reality" has altered the model/artist relationship. Thank you to Miss Boux for use of her photograph.
Simon
1 Jun 2008
dreaming with my own guitar solos.
5.31.2008:
t-minus: 5 months to halloween : my first printed volume.
"de no para innita .volumen 1"
selfportrait, 2006.
31 May 2008
Thank you
Saying Something is looking fantastic at the moment. Just looking at May there is a wonderful array of different art forms and styles. I feel there's something of a unity going on - everyone has different ideas and styles, but there's a kind of oneness where styles and forms are linking.
Thank you everyone for posting :-)
Simon
Thank you everyone for posting :-)
Simon
Vespers (61)
repeat
pale river
until darkness falls
around soft loam
the night
sounds
familiar
and unknown
receding into pause
when mind alone
refracts untidy
interruptions
past
our speech
a new ontology
small frogs offer
syllables intact
meaning
pale river
until darkness falls
around soft loam
the night
sounds
familiar
and unknown
receding into pause
when mind alone
refracts untidy
interruptions
past
our speech
a new ontology
small frogs offer
syllables intact
meaning
30 May 2008
what about us
Nighttime Reflection
How it happened:
I was inside a hotel room, behind the window. I shot the balcony at a weird angle, catching the curtain from inside in the reflection. It was also raining pretty badly that evening, so that may also help explain this image. That alongside some dirt on the window that can account for the misty look.
Coz we now create da media
Coz we now create da media
we shove emoticize sense
or we employ agents to redirect
intent shun the spurs
I shouldn't read this
I wouldn't if I were you
I probably shouldn't write it
my electronic publisher
rasped by decadent clitoral by-
standers, roaming as art moderne, I should
(realising now as if I should 'ave got it
twice as frank as you)
incensed by the incredible amount of media
not bovvvered whether it good
bad or indifferent i un
sense distance coz
we should have patented the whole
game, call it a new renaissance, we
should be more broad minded and
not so passive or broody
neurosis, psychosis, Alzheimers
OCD, paranoia - I wouldn't worry about this lot
I'd worry about Chicken flu and
sittin' the Sun too long
But I'm far too bloody-minded
for this game of soldiers
Cancer, isolation, illnesses caused by emotions
they bother me more than a
bit of worry by a thing that ain't
gonna happen, duck yes mobile phone
testosterone, see ca va? this is it
the whole fuckin shootin match
on yer interactive telly - you won't
think the same again my friend
these are the texts the re writing
of knowledge thought and its
consekwensez in action. hey!
yoo don't have to believe me
but if i shout a bit
your more likely to turn your head
and listen before some other fucker
gits the limelight, with a dodgy degree
and some time in the spot light
from reading this text here
*poem may need to be read backwards, however this is not necessary, but you may reperceive the meaning/intention if you do. If you prefer, you can read a couple of verses backwards and one forwards. But this isn't the thought-police and you can read it how you like!
we shove emoticize sense
or we employ agents to redirect
intent shun the spurs
I shouldn't read this
I wouldn't if I were you
I probably shouldn't write it
my electronic publisher
rasped by decadent clitoral by-
standers, roaming as art moderne, I should
(realising now as if I should 'ave got it
twice as frank as you)
incensed by the incredible amount of media
not bovvvered whether it good
bad or indifferent i un
sense distance coz
we should have patented the whole
game, call it a new renaissance, we
should be more broad minded and
not so passive or broody
neurosis, psychosis, Alzheimers
OCD, paranoia - I wouldn't worry about this lot
I'd worry about Chicken flu and
sittin' the Sun too long
But I'm far too bloody-minded
for this game of soldiers
Cancer, isolation, illnesses caused by emotions
they bother me more than a
bit of worry by a thing that ain't
gonna happen, duck yes mobile phone
testosterone, see ca va? this is it
the whole fuckin shootin match
on yer interactive telly - you won't
think the same again my friend
these are the texts the re writing
of knowledge thought and its
consekwensez in action. hey!
yoo don't have to believe me
but if i shout a bit
your more likely to turn your head
and listen before some other fucker
gits the limelight, with a dodgy degree
and some time in the spot light
from reading this text here
*poem may need to be read backwards, however this is not necessary, but you may reperceive the meaning/intention if you do. If you prefer, you can read a couple of verses backwards and one forwards. But this isn't the thought-police and you can read it how you like!
25 May 2008
The End of Postmodernism
Hi
I found this wonderful article "The End of Postmodernism" by Dr. W.Large.
This is one of very few articles relating to Postmodernity that have had any positive effect upon me. Most seem to rehash the same (rather anxious) ideas, often concluding that Postmodernity is a kind of pointlessness of everything!! How ridiculous! Admittedly the changes we are going through are profound and occurring very quickly, but they are changes that will lead to societies that will identify with something more cohesive and certain. I love the way Dr. Large points out that "binary opposition" (of thought and categorisation of things/phenomena) is actually becoming redundant and leads to a position where Postmodern articles attack this mode of comprehension, when, to the general public, it is obviously inapt! By doing this, articles on Postmodernity actually continue the (static) position of Postmodernism and, ultimately argue against a Modernism that (like Ecriture) is no longer relevant, except to those that consider it!
Dr. Large also ridicules the idea that Postmodernity is about anything cultural. He describes it as being synonymous with capitalism. There is little doubt that Western societies are becoming more and more capitalist! He also describes it as a continuation of Modernity, rather than a distinct cultural movement. I strongly agree with this. His notes on the arts and capitalism, bring hope to arts practitioners for the future and an explanation of the current over-commercialism of the arts.
Simon
I found this wonderful article "The End of Postmodernism" by Dr. W.Large.
This is one of very few articles relating to Postmodernity that have had any positive effect upon me. Most seem to rehash the same (rather anxious) ideas, often concluding that Postmodernity is a kind of pointlessness of everything!! How ridiculous! Admittedly the changes we are going through are profound and occurring very quickly, but they are changes that will lead to societies that will identify with something more cohesive and certain. I love the way Dr. Large points out that "binary opposition" (of thought and categorisation of things/phenomena) is actually becoming redundant and leads to a position where Postmodern articles attack this mode of comprehension, when, to the general public, it is obviously inapt! By doing this, articles on Postmodernity actually continue the (static) position of Postmodernism and, ultimately argue against a Modernism that (like Ecriture) is no longer relevant, except to those that consider it!
Dr. Large also ridicules the idea that Postmodernity is about anything cultural. He describes it as being synonymous with capitalism. There is little doubt that Western societies are becoming more and more capitalist! He also describes it as a continuation of Modernity, rather than a distinct cultural movement. I strongly agree with this. His notes on the arts and capitalism, bring hope to arts practitioners for the future and an explanation of the current over-commercialism of the arts.
Simon
24 May 2008
Reappearance
Digital art inspired by Undiagnosed Lady by Angela Genusa. Thank you to Miss Boux for allowing me to use her photograph in this picture.
Simon
23 May 2008
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