intense week

whoa | intense week of outcomes, milestones, deadlines, committees, planning, unplanning, creating havoc & so on

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i left Sydney & Melbourne & the corporate intensity of both to spend a couple of years planting gardens | being with the man i love, adore, challenge & love even more | & renovating this historic pile bricks we call 'home' | now with my man in Melbourne & me on the green isle @ the bottom of the planet | i am now considering re-entering the 'fray' of higher level management & people leadeership ...

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i have had the needed rest from it all for 4 years & am energized to jump in again & excite a new group of people | the years away have also enabled me to reflect on what i am great at, less great at & what i should avoid ... lol | this i believe is called wisdom | am also feeling fairly damn self confident these days in terms of what i want, need & want | is that arrogant? or is wisdom arrogant? | whatever!

bill henson II

reading all of the hyperbolic & semantic tardiness that passes for much, but not all, journalism in Australia's Saturday morning newspapers | it is with some intellectual & yes, elitist pleasure, because we are all elitists of some sort, that The Australian | yes ... shocked aren't you! | has published a short, factual, rational, reality-check article on the Bill Henson fracas | that has Australia's third rate politicians in another mini-moral panic

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23749126-16947,00.html

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and this person 'Hetty etc' ... perhaps she could rationally explain to the Australian populace where the child abuse element is in all of this? | í see art, therefore i abuse'? | i wonder statistically, how many of the 65,000 individuals who saw the Henson exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2005 [not sure of the year], including myself | after the exhibition went home and abused children

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you see, that is why even governments in the Westminster parliamentary setup are answerable to the legal system | and ain't that a good thing

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i am looking forward to the day 'Hetty intellectual free-zone' will have mud on her face | & sadly & morally no child would have been saved from the horrors of abuse in Australia over the whole stunt | now explain the morality of that?

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by the way the photograph is mine & i have copyright over it

bill henson

what the fuk is going on in Australia? | turn your back for 5 minutes & suddenly one of internationally recognised, leading, boundary pushing artists is having his exhibition closed down & possibly charged with child pornography & the gallery being charged as well? | & Rudd & other pussy politicians including that underwhelming charisma free zone Iemma who wouldn't know mind changing art if it fuked them up the arse are going 'terrible' 'disgusting' etc


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i don't whether to be embarrassed as an Australian [but that's a bit nationalistic for me] or go wank in public in front of parliament house in canberra | would probably be arrested for being an 'ugly' installation


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what is it about this week that makes me believe in some instances, that this country is sometimes very fuked! | europeans, the chinese & the south americans in their higher plane approach to contemporary art ... this wouldn't even 'blip' on the media landscape outside of the inner sanctum of art whoredom | & now Brendon 'the irrelevant' has decided that contemporary art is unaustralian? what next? lol


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give me berlin NOW!

facts + art = cash

i read this article on news.com.au today | a site that often pushes me to a level of foul mouthed verbal fury, mostly based on irrelevant mock journalism & the deadshits who blog on the articles | well ... guilty! | i'm officially a deadshit ... a tasmanian deadshit too! cause I have blogged the article | i hope i piss them off!

i had to respond to this with the comments below & have also written a letter to the editor of the mercury, with the comment below | a low quality fish wrapper that tries to pass as informed intellectual discourse on the green isle | puhh!

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http://www.news.com.au/mercury/story/0,22884,23734109-5007221,00.html

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ok folks, get a grip. been to Bilbao? I have. Been to the Guggenheim in Bilbao? I have. The impact of Frank Gehry's Art Gallery on the economy of a run down industrial centre has been incredible.

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Facts + art = cash, & Bilbao doesn't have the visual splendor of Hobart. Art is money folks, wake up! Art is economics, it brings cash, it spends cash, it generates cash. Art is business. Whether through the art blockbusters or through the collections or architecture, people will come.

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There are plenty of people who will travel to anyplace in the world to see a world class gallery, look at the ABS figures, give yourself a reality check. More Australians consume cultural product like art & libraries than attend sport.

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Apartment building does not generate ongoing cash for the economy or government. Art is a license to print cash. Parking at the Guggenheim, you don't! You either get off ya arse & walk to it or use the disability friendly light rail. Oh & Rodney Cappa of Margate, your tourist market argument don't wash with the millions & millions who visit the EU when the exchange rate sucks for the tourists, they still go. Those who bitch about `big money', well throughout history, `big money' built palaces, pyramids, gardens, galleries, stately homes and heritage buildings, which I notice with some glee that millions & millions of so called `plebs' pay good $$ to visit. Linda Brennan, do ya blockbusters research before making `gambling' comments. Get ya facts right, better still, get the facts!

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Lastly, Dave Roberts, you need to do ya sums on a fish & vegetable markets, more patronage? Don't think so mate.

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If you want average, you get average and surely there is enough average in Tasmania already.

my latin fuk up

based on a recent enquiry from my mate ashlee in melbourne http://dankmonster.blogspot.com/ as to the meaning of ''et arcadia ergo sum'' | the pretentious & inaccessible title of this blog | well pretentious & inaccessible for everyone else but me | i hopped onto wikipedia to confirm & re-acquaint myself of the ''arcadian'' implications of this latin expression ...which was my desire to choose it in the first place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Et_in_Arcadia_ego

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schlock! horror! ... i have misquoted the expression! | in fact i have left out 1 word for the latin to make sense | so this is global virtual web2 humiliation on a planetary scale ... for those who care | probably only myself on a cool sunny tuesday in mid autumn on this island at the bottom of the planet | the expression should say "et in arcadia ergo sum" & was originally based, title-wise, on Nicolas Poussin's particularly tedious painting in the Musee Louvre of a similar title

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the pathetic issue for me is that this is also the title of a 6 metre textile & sculptural installation i created in 2006 for a touring exhibition that has only just finished touring in february 2008! | oh the shame, the humiliation, the credibility issues, the integrity, the critics! http://flickr.com/photos/gwcc64/sets/72157601424272907/

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as my man douglas would say "whatever!"

osorkon II

during my university days in a decade that is often seen as the nadir of bad taste | i went without food for a week to purchase a statue of osorkon II [874–850 BC - 22nd dynasty]| a pharaoh of not overwhelming good looks but enough gravitas to join my eclectic collection of useless objects | in the 90's it was embarrassing to have such a statue on display so he got relegated to a box in a wardrobe | in 2007 i saved this statue from shameful oblivion n placed osorkon II into our garden paradise | i originally purchased the statue [head only] because i was once photographed outside of the cairo museum leaning against the sphinx style base of the statue

cigar porn

have just joined a cigar porn mens site online | just looking at a bloke with a stogie in his mouth bones me up no end | where is the source of this | what is the psycho sexual undergrowth for this fetish | have been lapping up the attention online which is fundamentally why i believe many of us put this kinda shit up on the internet | we all just want attention really n sometimes we just want attention from people who can only judge only us on our visual presentation to the world to confirm or establish that we are attractive to others | as miranda says in sex in the city . . . "sexy is what i want them to see after i wow them with my personality" . . . yeah right?

wendy

i kidnapped my friend wendy with my 4WD | commonly referred to, very commonly referred to as the balmoral mobile, off to mole creek | yes, there is such a place in tasmania | full of town bikes wearing far too much stretch fabric | what was to be a short & pithy breakfast in the freezing sunlight, cold overlooking an aesthetic stream turned into a 3 hr dialectic of human behaviour in relationships, workplaces, toxic workplaces, toxic people n how fantastically intuitive & intelligent we both are! | wendy & i are so good for each other because always after catching up with each others egos | we feel like we are the best humanity can throw at idiots | it usually takes about 2 days to crash land to earth n discover i am just as idiotic as everyone else | but heh . . . hanging onto the asteriod for 2 days is so damn buzzie

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by the way my youngest sister had a chicken called wendy . . .

tiaras

today autumn kelly married peter phillips | QEII's oldest grandson n grandchild | prime reason for my observation was to see which historical tiara the bride would wear | festoon tiara of princess anne's given to her in the early 1970's for launching a ship | ok ... i'll launch a ship for those rocks | now accepting offers . . .

tattoo

lying in bed with douglas last weekend a new idea for another text based tatt leaped out at me | combination of the traditional 'love death hate' mixed with contemporary male sub cultural sexual lingo | am experimenting with layout as a 'text wrap' around my right bicep | just enough to appear below the edge of a tshirt sleeve | inviting attention interest but not revealing everything immediately | a work in progress

slice my forrid

i expect this virtual asteroid to become an easy n intellectually voyeuristic outlet for the occasional mental epiphanies that slice my forrid in the shower once or twice a year | reminds me strongly of writing a story, a short novel or even those dreaded dirges of tertiary existence . . . the university essay . . . fuk | do i have vision for this . . . ummm . . . not yet . . . but like the question, how long is a piece of string . . . does there need to be answer? | will the asteriod crash into the shower screen n kill me . . .