"Art is not a mirror with which to reflect reality, but a hammer with which to shape it."

ephemeral
Originally uploaded by perlmonger.

I spent this morning on a focus group deconstructing the ontogenic paradigm of the redevelopment and extension of Colston Hall.

Bizarrely enough, I (and my fellow enfocussed beings) thought the plans were pretty much a Good Thing, with caveats that they not make the place only attractive to white, middle class, constipated arts drones and likewise don't make the interior an entirely sterile plate glass and chrome wedding cake of a platform game.

I returned home, clutching a £50 note, a bunch of spring onions and a bottle of concentrated apple and blackcurrant juice to find a dying, now dead, dragonfly on our patio.

Indeed do many things come to pass.

flickr politics

Looks like the wingnuts are closing in on flickr; it's not just AnomalousNYC who's been hit by "may offend" trashing, cobalt123 has been hit as well.

I wonder how many others.

"Interestingness" is IMO a bad idea (or, at any rate, it is with the current algorithm that's used to calculate it), but whether it is or no, that any three random people can have any photo they disagree with pulled from public tag searches is wrong wrong WRONG.

9/11

It hadn't occured to me, but September 11th 1973 was the date of the US-orchestrated overthrow of Salvador Allende's democratically elected government in Chile.

My reminder came via a wonderful remembrance of that particularly ignoble moment (in a long history of ignobility) of US foreign policy at Creek Running North.

Read it.

And maybe put a wager on how long before the same happens in Venezuela.




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