Happy Xmas, we’re off on hols (once we’ve dug the car out — thanks to Ted Wu from Able for the image)…
Stuart Glendinning Hall
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Category Archives: Art
The briefest history of slogans
Funny how slogans, the epitome of modernism, have survived so well into the 21st century. Americans are fantastic at slogans, and talk like sloganeers. “Success is a choice”, “your beauty gives me strength” etc.
Does Gore deserve the Nobel Prize?
Enjoyed the Channel 4 News debate last night between Professor Hume, Jon Snow and Tony Juniper. I could see what Professor Hulme was saying, that the issue was more complex than Gore had portrayed it. Couldn’t help but feel that everyone seemed to have a portion of the truth, but no one had the monopoly [...]
“I said the gophers, not the golfers!”
Certainly enjoyed the Farrell Brothers ‘The Heartbreak Kid’. Trivia alert: loved the film’s reference to the gopher being a bit fake from ‘Caddyshack’. A nice joke against all those guys who totally miss the point in life — it doesn’t matter that the gopher looks fake! It’s great its fake! It’s funny you worry it [...]
Europe’s first Machinima Festival at DMU
De Montfort University’s Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT) has received over 150 entries for Europe’s first Machinima Festival, which it will host from 12th - 14th October this year..
The shoeless revolution
“Much of the discontent was caused by a perceived disrespect for Burman culture and traditions, for example, what the British termed the Shoe Question: the colonisers’ refusal to remove their shoes upon entering Buddhist temples or other holy places.” I suggest Burmese protesters remove their shoes/hang shoes up/ as a symbol of non-violent protest.
Chumscrubber
Watched the Donnie-Darko like film Chumscrubber last night, lots of great teen angst, and some nice acting from Glenn Close as the suicide-son’s mum (though popularly better known as the ‘bunny boiler’ in ‘Fatal Attraction’):
“Each character is alone in his world and strains to present an “everything is alright” front through intimidation, passive-aggressive behaviour, or, [...]
Create the world
One thing learning history and social science taught me was that you have to create your own world, or you’ll end up living in someone else’s.
Flash not flush
Saatchi’s get Labour’s account. So here’s the advert, slightly reworked.