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Eclipse
Posted Aug 25, 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlHRSpFGtQk
"That's one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind", and back down to Earth again, as was Neil always.
Thanks Mrs Smith for forcing me awake to watch.
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Dixton Harvesters (England centric)
Posted Aug 15, 2012
http://www.magnoliabox.com/art/207064/Dixton_Harvesters_c1725
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More 'radical' internationalist cultural imperialism?
Posted Aug 15, 2012
It's a question and issue worth pondering..
http://www.opendemocracy.net/5050/valeria-costa-kostritsky/is-feminism-in-russia-mortal-sin
What do an essentially western inspired punk band in Moscow to do with the peasants living on the endless steppes and many cultures of the Russian Federation?
Last paragraph of that link is quite telling I think. One thing I learned from my many travels is that you have to listen to the *locals*..
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Olympic Ticket
Posted Aug 6, 2012
So it's coming closer, evening of August 10th at the Olympic stadium...have to keep a lid on my excitement levels. Plan to get the Park a bit early for atmosphere and photos of stuff - especially the wild flower meadow plants from around the world.
I've got all the tablets I need to cover everything I reckon. That is a worry. I stopped chemo a week early, (you take one week off in three to allow the body to recover from the poison). Dr. Ali at Guys said it'll be fine.
I bought an artist book last weekend called 'The Stadium'. Nice line drawings and looking at it culturally. Apparently the London stadium is the only one ever to be scaled down once used for the Olympics and Para Olympics.
'The London Olympic stadiumhas been designed to be dismantled. Not just adapted,altered or re-purposed, but reduced in scale and diminished in purpose. As such, it is unique in the history of Olympic buildings...' Tim Abrahams.
I like that. Like a beacon that burns brightly for a special thing and then dims to a more gentle burn. Lives in the memory though.
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Pursuit of Perfection: The Politics of Sport
Posted Aug 5, 2012
Went to this excellent show today.
http://www.southlondongallery.org/page/144/Pursuit-of-Perfection-The-Politics-of-Sport/725
Highlight for me was the main gallery at the SLG which was filled by Sicillian artist, Alexandra Mir with all manner of cups given out in sporting competitions. I think she collected them over sometime, paying £5 a throw to the owners/winners. They were as tacky as the one's I got as a kid in my women's football career, along with all kinds of medals...shiny gold and silver but scratched and plasticky tat. She had made all kinds of sculptures with them. The feeling in the gallery space reminded me of a church and the reflections off of the curved surfaces all reflecting each other were quite extraordinary, en masse as it were.
Other highlights at the SLG and down the road at the recently sold off by Southwark council town hall, ( a wonderful Art Deco building), were the videos on a loop of footballers rolling over and over apparently fouled, and in agony. It was pretty hilarious.
I loved the room that had a film taken by the artist of the Los Angeles games from the TV. It was shown in slightly slow motion, in lurid colour and he/she had focussed on the many shots shown of close-ups of women's crotches in the synchronised swimming, as they had their legs spread apart and their heads underwater; also of male sprinters' 'lunch boxes' from the camera facing them at the finish line.
Great stuff.
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