speaking of being taken, more images of a kind of media ghetto, with viral flashes of green, including a location that wouldn’t take us
– excerpts from conversation between Beck & Caetano from here & here
Simon Taylor
illocative media
the redundancy of the world wide web
unambiguous proof of a significant number in detention and a recent tendency to obstruct access to details surrounding the capture
unamerican on copyright grounds – art is theft
– this & placarded statements ff. are from here – Darrel Brannock, Pocket Monkey Meets Scissor-tailed Octohawk, [Artist + Broker]
R.I.P. Margaret
dear Margaret, a screaming smoking bronze statuesque figure, one part Giacometti, one part Wicked Witch of the West, patinated green, greets tourists with gotta ciggy? parts with fuck you! scares children, weaves into fabric of city, better expresses city-ness of Auckland & its fabric than its absent civic spaces, lack
corporate-sponsored, state-endorsed, ritual humiliation for all involved – courtesy “Red Bull” you know, copyright, $15 000 fine $20 000 fine $25 000 fine $30 000 fine $33 000 fine fine $34 000 000 payable here
We trolled along to the Red Bull trolley derby, Q. & I, thinking, Red Bull, Red Bull, Red Bull. Rather than: Wow, a trolley derby sounds like heaps of fun, thrills & spills! Leaving the car, crossing the Grafton Bridge with its suicide-prophylactic sides, joining the thronging of Aucklanders, trailing