Category Archive: LIFE
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,…
Continue Reading →Catfight
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…
Continue Reading →Their Best Shot
Hamilton by John Trumbull, painted 2 years after the Duel
Alexander Hamilton Elie Wiesel Michael Cimino This 4th of July, we recall Alexander Hamilton, the multi-talented and widely reviled (vide Burr) political figure of the early days of the American Republic, who did as much as anyone to build the various struts of the enormous edifice now creaking and groaning under the weight of history, with Mrs Clinton or Mr Trump poised to kick away the last brace. What this founding father and first Secretary of the U.S. Treasury would have made of the modern opera now being staged in his name, one can only wonder. Al died in a…
Continue Reading →Buried Alive in the Blues
Glenelg v Sturt at Glenelg Oval (June 19, 2016) Good news first – there were heaps of examples of grit and endeavour against the top team. We had 3 more scoring shots and a lot of contested possession. A statistician would be pleased, but in the final analysis, the only stat is we got beat. Turnovers and missed shots for goal (7.17, if you please!) killed us, and Sturt aren’t the quivering mass of jelly they used to be. So, we show evidence of want and will, which is half the battle…let’s now work on verve and skill, which when…
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