Interpol - Barricade

This is a great new song and video by an excellent band.

Coming soon...

I see from the spate of stencil tagging on the streets of Auckland the Banksy film recently screened at the NZ International Film Festival and blogged about here is out soon to general release


09/09/10 I am led to believe


P_Lab says if you missed this at the festival, go see it when it comes out

http://www.flicks.co.nz/movie/exit-through-the-gift-shop/

Il Barroco Loco

Opening tomorrow night at the Engine Room in Mt Cook is Il Barroco Loco / the Local Baroque. Curated by Richard Reddaway the show explores the idea that there is contemporary baroque art being made here in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is, I suspect, a slightly contentious claim as we have no history of the baroque. Richard is, however, very interested in getting your feedback on the matter.

Micro Sites

Micro Sites is a public art trail comprising of a series of 12 subtle projects by 13 artists that are a meant as an unexpected unearthing for people who inhabit Auckland’s Learning Quarter.

The Learning Quarter includes the area from Albert Park to both The University of Auckland and AUT University campuses.

The Micro Sites project was envisaged as an opportunity for artists to create small-scale interventions that interfere with common perceptions of a neighbourhood.

Micro Sites is a public art initiative of Auckland City Council developed in conjunction with The University of Auckland and AUT University.

More details can be found here.

INTRODUCING: TOBY MORRIS

I recently came across a blog by a kiwi illustrator residing in Amsterdam, Toby Morris. You might recognise his work from various gig posters you may or may have not seen around Wellington.

Myself and another contributor to this blog used to also reside in Amsterdam. The other contributor used to say leave no turn unstoned. He said that a lot.

In 2009 Toby attempted to draw an illustration a day about life in Amsterdam. His 2009 archive of the blog reflect this. Quite a humours account, by all accounts.

http://xtotl.blogspot.com/2009/01/diary-blog.html

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