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
艾 未 未 – detained activist, provocateur, artist, celebrity, m[yth]eme, repository for ‘Western’ false conscience/bad faith, lavatory for neurotic denial, lavabo for “dirty hands,” “probably the most-documented Chinese public figure alive,” the missing son
– according to Ji Ruan – who reserves some rights over this photograph, if not the graffito – all over Hong Kong:
Who’s afraid of Ai Weiwei
/ 谁在害怕艾未未
Calin Dan writes [Spectre, 16/04/11]: “why on earth do we need a celebrity to have problems in order to begin looking in