August 2010
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“Of course, if the world would have ended before Sandinista! was released then...”
– Kevin Barnes, on ‘selling out’. being hilarious. totes worth the read.
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“I don’t like to have undigested facts thrown at my head in that way.”
– Roger Fry, on Bastien Lepage
Fry believed that the aesthetic properties of an image were more important than its literal or historic context and should be the primary concern when analysing art. he tried to view art outside of its constructs and assess it purely in terms of design, but found this...
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“I might be wrong about Cézanne … but I really don’t think I am.”
– Roger Fry being hilarious.
possibly one of my favourite critics. mostly because his approach to art was intuitive, but he readily amended his ideas in favour of research. he was essentially an artistic conservative—and at the start of the twentieth century—but also an enthusiastic...
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the pure art historian…may help us to feel more deeply, to see more clearly and, passing over all barriers of language and historical distance, to participate with a peculiar intimacy in one of the most important and moving of human occupations.
yeah. I’m a mad art shaman.
[from Quentin Bell, M.A. Roger Fry: an inaugural lecture (1964). Leeds University Press.]
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sunday morning church: getting my false priest on
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“did you know that robert smith is the same age as me???
just wondering. x”
– an email I received from my mother in response to a post I made regarding the size of my hair at my friend’s wedding (which is flat in the photograph because it was taken post-event).
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false. priest. I am volcanically excited. seriously. I haven’t been this excited since the release of skeletal lamping.
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according to one reviewer, false priest is ‘a frayed, brilliant funk blast walking the fine line between genius and a collapse into utter insanity’. but the same review called skeletal lamping ‘a disappointment’. so I don’t know what...
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“our attention spans have gone from being able to, you know, understand a...”
– John Doyle, on Q&A ‘The Health of the Nation’ (22 March 2010)
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“In 1973, as in 1895, Oscar Wilde could have been imprisoned for adventures...”
– [Martin Fido. Oscar Wilde (1973). London.]
sometimes facts like this make me angry. sometimes they make me happy. because one day I will look back at my own lifetime and see that we’ve changed things for the better.
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so. I am being indulgent instead of writing my article. but I deserve some kind of mad reward because I just went down to Yum Thai with wet hair and in my sorel spacegirl boots. and I am generally so restrictively insistent on grooming.
thump. thump. (that’s my boots.)
to get fresh spring rolls.
because I promised to make some for our epic work morning tea. but I have to finish...
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“That whole idea of the Neo-Expressionist movement—the return of...”
– Danila Vassilief, from a Jon Cattapan monograph. great stuff in there about art/punk in Melbourne in the 1970s. ‘a yelling kind of art’.
[in: Chris McAuliffe. Jon Cattapan: possible histories (2008). Melbourne.]
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so I’m reading Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford and I’m struggling to know how I feel. it’s a bit like Mad Men in that I don’t want to put it down, but when I do it takes me a long time to pick it up again.
“But you are impossible, my dear. Nasty ladies, stupid men—you really must try and like people more or you’ll never get on in this...
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“I don’t care about high school students. I find them irritating and...”
– True Blood creator Alan Ball, from Rolling Stone (17 August 2010)
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so I’ve been looking at my little orange dog and I wonder whether he has a name and what are his thoughts and whether he’s ever wished for a life and what he’d do with it if he had one.
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and because I always found that caring about other people … it’s not a kind of medicine … but does kind of make it worth living with everything else.
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want: late-night art store. possibly with drive through.
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“If a library colleague goes overboard with his or her love of vampire novels, it...”
– (via a librarians guide to etiquette)
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so I omitted Eric’s ‘boyfriend material’ #tag. that’s me being discerning.
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July 2010
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“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that...”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald (via candide) (via pourquoi-pas) (via suicideblonde) (via librarysciences)
Not that I generally advocate taking F. Scott’s word on girls, but this seems pretty correct. And nicer than all the Coco crap.
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the more I think about this the more it makes me... 