Do you mind?

‘Do you mind?’ is an exhibition and publication of new artworks based on research projects at the Centre for Brain Research (CBR) at the University of Auckland. Original artworks have been created through the partnership of newly established artists with emerging brain researchers from the CBR.

The ‘Do you mind?’ exhibition will be open from 29th July – 7th August, Tuesday – Sunday, 10am – 4pm, and is held in a pop-up style gallery: Suite 106, at the award winning Ironbank complex on Auckland’s K Road.

On Saturday 31st July there will be free coffee from 11am – 3pm courtesy of Supreme Coffee.

For more information see http://doyoumind.tumblr.com/

THE GREY MAN

Over six years ago a person said a newspaper had described a certain Valentines Day 6 Nations Rugby test between Ireland and France as a grey game, played on a grey day at a grey stadium in a grey part of Paris. That is a lot of the use of the word grey in the same sentence.

I just had a damn good rummage around the internet to look for this article as and the only reference to the word grey and this 14^th February 2004 game was the following:

“Before a crowd of almost 80,000 packed into the Stade De France on a cold grey afternoon…”, from the Irish Independent.

Did this sentence with the word grey repeated four times never actually exist? Why is this bothering me so much, well over six years later?

I am perplexed.

It is a grey day here today

The article I refer to above does make a humorous pun with impotency and Valentines Day however. 

Irish Independent article

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Looking for somewhere for a decent coffee the next time you are in Auckland? Possibly a bite to eat? Look no further than The Food Room in Ponsonby, The Chiller in Parnell or The Fridge in Kingsland.

All three offer excellent coffee, excellent food, and something somewhat missing in Auckland, excellent service.

I might have had the best pie ever from one of these places. I have had a lot of pies in my time.

All three places are actually the same place, just with different names and in different location. Clever eh.

The Food Room

The Chiller

Not my cup of tea.

I see Mark Leonard Watts latest offering at the High Tide Gallery in Auckland’s High Street has crossed the not so fuzzy boundaries of hobby and art. Turning it up (or is that down) a notch from his previous foray of self portrait photographs of himself in different Asian (mainly female) clothing, he has now taken to superimposing his face over the top of (again) female Asian plastic figurines.

Not my cup of tea.

High Tide Gallery

AGAIN WORDS CAN NOT DESCRIBE HOW EXCITED I AM....

....On learning that the Veils are in the studio recording a new album

Read all about it on fellow blog spot blog spot

http://veilsep.blogspot.com/

WORDS CAN NOT DESCRIBE HOW EXCITED I AM...

...on learning that Karl Urban may be playing Judge Dredd in the forthcoming motion picture.

How cool would it be to say I went to school with Judge Dredd?

30 MONTH PERSPECTIVE

The above image is a collection of the things my two and a half year old daughter is currently into at the moment. Quite colourful, I am sure you would agree.

What would a montage of a dozen or so images of the things you are currently into look like? Not as colourful I would imagine. Does life get less colourful as we get older?

Art-hoax

So who out there has seen Exit through the Gift Shop? Currently screening nationwide as part of the New Zealand International Film Festival.

There is a lot of debate on the blogosphere on either this film is a hoax or not, i.e. if the film just an elaborate manoeuvre on Banksy's part, or did Guetta (the documentary maker turned subject of the movie) really evolve into Mr. Brainwash overnight?

I think the analysis into this is almost irrelevant; one should concentrate more on if the hoax is on the film going public or the art going public or both?

Did Mr Brainwashes inaugural exhibition really sell out it’s factory produced prints for millions of dollars (total sales / not individual)? Who brought these items? What were they thinking, that they were getting the next Banksy? Or that they were in fact getting the actual Banksy?

I found the film highly entertaining, I am purposely not mentioning anymore of the details behind it in this blog, as I think it would detract from your viewing pleasure.

P_Lab says go see the movie. Laugh out loud (when did you last do that) and then google MBW and make your own assumptions. I’ve made mine.

http://www.banksyfilm.com/

http://www.nzff.co.nz/

http://www.mrbrainwash.com/