Figuratively Speaking
The SA Art Gallery has set up a bust that anyone can have a go at drawing, and the more confident can pin their effort to the wall. A live study is better of course (unless you’re Dan Boleyn in The Apes of God), but this is a nice way of encouraging folks to draw using their senses. Drawing from imagination comes later.
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Whilst we have scolded the arrogance of Europeans in imagining translation (from their own romance languages into the more prosaic English) to be easy, even without Google Translate (see Bitings on a Complimentary Basis), we do not for one moment flatter ourselves that the Anglosphere is any smarter. The sign recently photographed in the bathroom of a superior court proves that Dumb is King, and reigns onward, ever onward. It is not a translation error of course, merely a statement so trite and so simple-minded that it might have been written with The Varnished Culture‘s cat in mind. By the way,…
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Glenelg v South Adelaide, Glenelg Oval, 9 July 2016 Tigers vs Panthers at the Bay, fighting for the Carey-Darley Cup, with South getting the first three goals in under seven minutes. But then in the latter part of the quarter, goals to Nicholson and Scott put the home team in front. The visitors dominated the second quarter and only a late goal to Earl kept us in the hunt – but it looked like a comfortable win to South (certain finalists this season) was shaping up. Again, the Panthers completely dominated the first half of the (3rd) term. Although they did not exploit their…
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Songs in Our Heart # 21 Fire and Rain (James Taylor) (Written by James Taylor; released February 1970) [The great anthem of loss…”I always thought I would see you again…”]
Continue Reading →The Truth About Truth
Not as it seems (photo by CGP Grey)
8 July, 1947: The Army Air Field at Roswell, New Mexico, issued a press statement about salvaging the remnants of a “flying disc” from a nearby ranch and taking it to the air field, where it was quickly spirited to an undisclosed location. It wasn’t till about 30 years later (probably after the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)) that dozens of people started asserting they’d seen aliens, flying saucers, men in black, and so on. It was good business for a long time. But it wouldn’t even pass muster with Stephen Glass. Truth remains an elusive,…
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