John Cooper Clark is performing in Swansea at the Gower Heritage Centre in June.
ARTS N'CRAFTS
Out of bed into the Shed
To paint the wooden roses red
To ride a rocking quadruped
With a big idea in your head
Form and function in a line
The rudiments of good design
From the oaken leg to the fine wine
To table tops of melamine
There's nothing that you couldn't make
No effect you couldn't fake
A pebble sprayed with metal flake
Would make a precious paperweight
Teddy bears to stuff with stuff
Like nylon mink from a lady's muff
Cotton balls and a powder puff
Pom poms and pocket fluff
Stainless steel and a rock hard aura
The marble glance of a lost explorer
A heavy heart for the love of Nora
Chains of flowers on a draped amphora
Time time time to slay
Each crowded hour of every day
Where indolence is kept at bay
In an arty-crafy kinda way
Menage A Trois!
Menage a trois can be a combination of basic human liberation from prescribed monogamy - and a feminist nightmare.
In the continuation of rules of 3, here are my un, deux, trois favourite examples of the trio fandango the French do so well.
1. The Swing by Fragonard, 1767
A husband pushes his wife, who is the mistress of the hidden onlooker underneath her, high into the air. She relishes the attention as her slipper flies upwards towards a cupid, in what has been described as 'an orgasmic burst.' A menage a trois in which only the female knows the amount of participants.
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2. 'She Came to stay' by Simone de Beauvoir
>Francoise
>Xavier
>Pierre
One of the most infuriatingly existential novels based on de Beauvoir's real life experiences with her partner Sartre. Jealousy, bohemia, restraint, it's incredible.
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3. Jules et Jim. My favourite Truffaut movie.
RealityStrikes
David Gedge sums up perfectly the feeling of 'what the hell am I doing with this person' and 'i can't live without you.'
Wrenching honesty in both. the man is tapped into genius simplicity.
Wrenching honesty in both. the man is tapped into genius simplicity.
Lab O to ME
Last month Jamie and I went to Berlin for the sole purpose of visiting the Ramones Museum.
Boy was it worth it!
The Ramones have been my favourite band ever since I was a 13 year old pot washer and the creepy guy who owned the restaurant I worked in gave me a Rocket to Russia CD.
In an act of youthful devotion, inspired by the trip, I decided to get a Ramones tattoo. In an act of romantic devotion I let Jamie design it.
Boy was it worth it!
The Ramones have been my favourite band ever since I was a 13 year old pot washer and the creepy guy who owned the restaurant I worked in gave me a Rocket to Russia CD.
In an act of youthful devotion, inspired by the trip, I decided to get a Ramones tattoo. In an act of romantic devotion I let Jamie design it.
Mystery Queens
ACE RECORDS RULE!
check 'girls with guitars' - a perfect playlist of 1960s girl garage rock.
psyche.
check 'girls with guitars' - a perfect playlist of 1960s girl garage rock.
psyche.
TRANS(ekshewal)ATLANTIC(male)ART
Here is a sleep mask that I made for my friend Ian.
It started out as mail art then masqueraded as a belated birthday gift.
Technically(teknikjenny) I did not make the sleep mask - Virgin Atlantic airlines did.
I photocopied my hands (in work) then stitched them onto the 'blindfold' (at home), which I had previously painted white.
Then I gave it a lick of varnish - for the good times.
Ian plays in a band called Dead To Me.
You can check them out here:
http://deadtomesf.com/
Good times with GUGGING
Here is a short article that I wrote for THE GOOD TIMES (16.01.12). A Newspaper filled with only positive stories, self-published by my good friends at the creative agency THE CHURCH OF LONDON.
//Gugging//
Humans have an inherent desire to express themselves. We are makers of many non-functioning yet beautiful things. Whether or not those objects are thought of as ‘art’ is purely subjective. An artist is just someone who has something to say and the desire to communicate.
Europe is leading the way with this approach to communication, via studios and //ateliers// that provide people with psychiatric and developmental disabilities the material and freedom to create daily. One such space is the Gugging ‘House of Artists’ in Austria, which opened in 1981 as the Centre for Art and Psychotherapy. This studio is literally open to all. Though many of the people who use the space do have psychiatric experience, anybody is welcome to use the facilities, and it’s an environment where passion for creation rules over desire for profit.
Humans have an inherent desire to express themselves. We are makers of many non-functioning yet beautiful things. Whether or not those objects are thought of as ‘art’ is purely subjective. An artist is just someone who has something to say and the desire to communicate.
Europe is leading the way with this approach to communication, via studios and //ateliers// that provide people with psychiatric and developmental disabilities the material and freedom to create daily. One such space is the Gugging ‘House of Artists’ in Austria, which opened in 1981 as the Centre for Art and Psychotherapy. This studio is literally open to all. Though many of the people who use the space do have psychiatric experience, anybody is welcome to use the facilities, and it’s an environment where passion for creation rules over desire for profit.
Gugging is not a space with therapeutic direction and there are no official classes. It is a quiet haven with room to think and the free materials to experiment. For those who have suffered (or are suffering) with a psychiatric disability, the chance to express feelings in a non-literal way can be incredibly liberating.
In a recent interview with the Museum of Everything, the Gugging House of Artists art director and curator Dr. Johann Feilacher described how creativity is essential to a person's wellbeing.
"If you make something - the intention to make art - or not - is of no importance."
"Creativity is essential - the mental ability which begins in childhood and which everybody has... Today at Gugging, artists do not get any kind of arts education. We simply create a happy environment for them, where they feel well, where we help with their psychological problems and arrange things so that they can make 'art'." //Lotty Sanna//
My good pal Andonis Trattos went all over Europe filiming studios like Gugging.
You can check them out on Vimeo here:
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