Thursday 30 April 2009

How to perform colonization?
Colonization of Mars to be exact.
Not that it's а terribly important 
nor an urgent question...
of course not.
not yet.
not enough .
For one to drop all usual thoughts 
about bread and butter 
and stuff.
But surely somebody will have to do it
sooner or later..
 -single-handedly ?
-hope not.

Tuesday 28 April 2009

Saturday 25 April 2009

Brighton Rococo (Pierroting)


Vertinsky bathed his verses in images of palm trees, tropical birds, foreign ports, plush lobbies, ceiling fans, and "daybreak on the pink-tinted sea" — precisely those things which the war-time audience craved for.

mooning about at the end of the pier
in a double cream shell suit, with fingers of sweet rock, 

The beginning of the end for Rococo came in the early 1760s as figures like Voltaire and Jacques-François Blondel began to voice their criticism of the superficiality and degeneracy of the art. Blondel decried the "ridiculous jumble of shells, dragons, reeds, palm-trees and plants" in contemporary interiors

Pierrot is a stock character of mime and Commedia dell'Arte, a French variant of the Italian Pedrolino. His character is that of the sad clown, pining for love ofColumbine, who inevitably breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin. He is usually depicted wearing a loose, white tunic. The noticeable feature of Pierrot's behaviour is his naïveté, he is seen as a fool, always the butt of pranks, yet nonetheless trusting. Pierrot is also portrayed as moonstruck, distant and oblivious to reality.

One may be said to be Pierroting if one is behaving like Pierrot.

Spelled "Pjerrot", the character is a fixture at Bakken, the world's oldest amusement park in Denmark. According to Bakken publicity, the character is more than 4,000 years old, and originated in Turkey (known as Asia Minor). It is also claimed that in ancient times, the broad red mouth of the character was created by physically cutting the mouth to make it larger.

The 20th century Russian cabaret singer Alexander Vertinsky was famous for his portrayal of Pierrot, for which he wore a black costume and powdered his face.

 


Tuesday 21 April 2009


come along to Rosy's tea tmr (Wed the 22th) to make a new issue of Finger Forest Zine. 18.00!

Monday 20 April 2009

please answer this question in comments

If time travel would be possible and you have only one journey back in the past - WHERE WOULD YOU GO?

Friday 17 April 2009

For Violet

all those 
over again

the old & new stocks
tar & feather

a carnation
the shape of a bird,

a casselman who sinned exhausted.

Tuesday 14 April 2009

blow
blow

my memory
blow my atmosphere

one of a
magic

formula.

Monday 13 April 2009

Nottingham Contemporary - Imagined Interior

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgbAhji7vt4&feature=channel

Sunday 12 April 2009

Ivan Vladimirovich Michurin

'We cannot wait for favors from Nature. To take them from it -- that is our task' 

Michurin (1855–1935), was one of the founding fathers of scientific agricultural selection. He worked on hybridization of plants of similar and different origins. 
Michurin’s method of crossing of geographically distant plants would be widely used by other selectionists. The Council of People's Commissars recognized Michurin's "fruit garden" as an institution of state importance. In 1928, the Soviets established a selectionist genetic station on the basis of Michurin's garden, which would be re-organized into the Michurin Central Genetic Laboratory in 1934.



Friday 10 April 2009

long

and
long.
time. time. time.ti-i.i.i.mme.e.
no see.

long, long ago.
i remember
fresh baguette and *.
occasionally and suddenly.


dangerous

attack
gill
and
eyes.

Thursday 9 April 2009

My Latest Painting - Pugs in Space!


when in town
i notice sometimes
grand shadows in the windows
of the upper floors...

Gods keep watching me?



Sunday 5 April 2009

i had a mobile phone
sound again 
and comic ghost.

this beautiful guest
illusion of voices

and the yearling light
wandering

through different rooms;

gathering stateliness
as if to say

i can do it
but only at your expense

Saturday 4 April 2009

Martian Gardener's catalogue



Betula Alienus* is known for it’s shimmering beauty

* (lat) Alien Silver Birch

Wednesday 1 April 2009