Archive for April, 2008

Why Advertising Creatives don’t wear Stars and Stripes lapel pins.

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I don’t know about you, but it sometimes takes the smallest thing to set me off these days! This morning I was actually quite happy with my lot in life: dicking around with a query letter for my latest screenplay that is about to be ignored by a grand total of 184 production companies, I’m […]

Why the museum store is the coolest place in the building: Part Two

Friday, April 18th, 2008

To recap briefly on last week’s Part One: the museum store - that place you go into to buy all the bright shiny things, after you’ve spent the afternoon looking at artwork in the galleries that you can’t possibly afford - is a complex petri dish of values. Artists at different stages of their careers, […]

Why the museum store is the coolest place in the building: Part One

Friday, April 11th, 2008

Just the other day I received an invitation from the artist Gary Baseman: me and his other 888 Facebook best mates would have the chance to purchase the latest in his commercially and critically successful series of vinyl dolls, based on his paintings. For 185 clams I could buy a 6 1/2 inches tall HotChaChaCha […]

How Battleship Potemkin Fracked Battlestar Galactica’s Ass…

Friday, April 4th, 2008

Some things were meant for the Internet, and some things simply weren’t. Just because you can access all points in time and space simultaneously at all times forever and ever, it doesn’t mean that everything that appears on it is, per se, cool. Like a tribble turd in a photon tube, like Glen Matlock […]