This is the painting that I did for the current show at Transition. This is what the website says about the show:
The synthesis of music and art has a long history from pop to post modern, with particular songs becoming integral to the making of individual pieces of work. As Peter Doig recently remarked when asked if he listened to music whilst painting, 'don't all artists?'
Lyrics can develop a particular artistic poignancy and with this in mind Transition have asked over sixty artists to make a new work inspired by a favourite lyric for the show Awopbopaloobop.
My lyric is from Robert Johnson's Rambling on my Mind: "I got mean things, I got mean things all on my mind."
Monday, December 01, 2008
Things I like today...
The Wrestler: Mickey Rourke has the hair to end all hair (think David van Day meets Nicola big-tits-whatever-her-name-is) and is stunning as an aging wrestler in this new wave-ish Darren Aronofsky film.Places to eat: Tre Viet near me and Soho Japan (for the lunch specials) in town.
Netherland by Joseph O'Neill: mostly for the cricket and Trinidad in New York.
Friday, November 21, 2008
It's *Rod* not *Rob*, Campaign
Campaign gets the name of Kangaroo's new CEO (and my new boss) ex-Channel 4er Rod Henwood wrong. Nice quote about Ashley though.
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Charlie Brooker is like a god to me...
I just read CB's piece about The Tatler's Little Black Book supplement. Genius.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
JG Ballard in French with my pic of the man on the cover
A really cute French publishing company, called Tristram (after Shandy), asked me a while ago if they could use a picture I'd taken of JG Ballard. They sounded really nice and I liked the stuff that they did (as well as the translation of JG they were doing Lester Bangs) so I let them use the pic for free. I then forgot about it. But the other day three copies of the book arrived in the post and it looks very fine too. Not surprisingly they reversed the image so JG point out rather than at the spine.
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