The first reminded me of the horror of some of the worst parts of modern office life (The curse of Open Plan) - the subject that this majors on in noise and it really did make me think of what we do to battery chickens -
The other was the reading of Van Gogh's Ear - The True Story, Rebecca Front who read has got a lovely voice and it works so well in this context.
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| Vincent Van Gogh -He pretty much had this for his 'logo' |
I know many people decry the 'legend' around the story of the tortured artist personified by Vincent and point out how he was far from starving and was for some time bankrolled by his brother Theo - but listening to this what comes over is that there's something incredibly sad about the man and his life (which he ended himself at the age of only 37) .
Reading
So sometime to spare yesterday and I actually read/re-read bits of two books that were on my mind.
First giving me a chance to reflect on what Noah Scalin documents in his 365 Creativity Journal - how it makes your memory work so well and the second .
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| Some of us love manifestos |
The other book which I'm musing on is about creating a book - and it's called Self Publish Be Happy - it's a sort of manifesto. I had not realised until I looked properly at the book what a seminal figure in the self publishing' roll of honour'Ed Ruscha (a favourite of mine) is his 'disputed' book on Gasoline Stations Twentysix Gasoline Stations by Ruscha.
This book was at first rejected by the US library of Congress as not being a 'book' but is now considered effectively the bullet from the stating pistol for the phenomenon of the self publishing books by artists.
Red 90
The 'god of red things' was smiling on me for sure - on the way home from the Bond Street Pop Up and what should I see, abandoned? - Dunno if it was 'nicked' but sitting on nearby bus shelter seat this little melange..
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| It looks like it means something but I'm not sure what that 'something' is. |
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