In a break with longstanding tradition, the Adelaide City Council has decided to do something innovative and interesting to the visual environment in the city centre by commissioning a (seemingly permanent) high tech light installation for the middle of the CBD.
Mercifully the council abandoned an earlier plan to create a Times Square-style advertising nightmare on […]
Archive for the 'culture' Category
Adelaide to suck slightly less
23Jan08abnormal is the new normal
19Sep07This is an excellent piece by Barry Jones in The Australian in which he highlights the extraordinarily dangerous attitude currently being promoted as the “new normal” by politicians and their lackeys in the western world, in which objectivity, rationality and informed debate are completely subsumed by “faith”, expedience and knee-jerk reactivity:
We live in an era […]
Bazooka Circus is what the whole world would be doing on a Saturday night if the Nazis had won the war.
- Hunter S Thompson
spin of the week
19Jul07The Australian runs a ridiculous front page story which describes a poll showing an electoral disaster for the Government as “HOWARD CHECKS RUDD’S MARCH!!!!1!!!11!!” (NB: there may have been fewer ‘!!1!’s).
Independent (and very excellent) political analysis site criticises blatant pro-Government bias in The Australian.
The Australian contacts the author and advises that the newspaper is going […]
Simon points to this article over at The Age, which walks the fine line between unreadable madness and compelling stream-of-consciousness genius and is probably a fairly hilarious discourse on… well, something:
Well, that wake up call is here. That’s what this is about. Everybody has their time, and your time is Now. This is your moment. […]
German officials have allegedly refused to grant the makers of a new film starring T. Cruise, Crazy Cult Member, access to historic military locations for the purposes of filming. The film is about a plot to assassinate Hitler, and the German military is concerned about the portrayal of important historical figures by a […]
coulrophobia junior
22Jun07In case there was any doubt left that marketing is the applied practice of pure evil, McDonalds have confirmed it with this terrifying baby-clown-monster advertisment:
At last, you can combine your fear of clowns, your distaste for fast food, and your revulsion at sex dolls and paedophiles in one family restaurant.
Update: it seems that McDonald’s good […]
Further to previous posts (one, two), here’s some great “Jesus with the little dinosaurs” art (thanks to KO):
Meanwhile Legal Eagle points to this article on the actual details of the legal battle in the Ham v Anti-Ham lawsuit.
more gore lore
30May07Further to this post, Simon points to this fairly lengthy but fascinating excerpt from big Al’s new book.
Faith in the power of reason—the belief that free citizens can govern themselves wisely and fairly by resorting to logical debate on the basis of the best evidence available, instead of raw power—remains the central premise of American […]
hypnotic photography website
28May07Flickrvision is a strangely addictive website. It consists of photographs from the photo-sharing website flickr superimposed over a map of the world as they are uploaded. In other words, as you watch, you see an endless series of photos, with the place in the world each one is from highlighted. The effect is a very […]
ain’t talkin’
24May07Today is International Talk Like Bob Dylan Day. Rejoice, and listen to dubious impersonations here.
Or reflect that, nasal tones or not, no-one can really talk like Dylan:
If I wasn’t Bob Dylan, I’d probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
(via BoingBoing).
al gore: rationalist politician?
23May07Whether you’re left or right in a conventional sense, it’s worth paying attention to what Al Gore has been saying lately about the state of American - and by extension, Australian - politics. His new book, The Assault On Reason, is no doubt partisan in many ways, but it also focuses on some extremely […]
This is an odd little piece of civil disobedience - the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen was draped in ‘Muslim dress’ and a headscarf.
Apparently a previous incident in which a Burqa was put on the statue was linked to disquiet about Turkey joining the European Union, and presumably by extension the fear of the influence […]
city’s just a jungle
14May07Here are some fantastic photos of Yokohama, Japan at night.
For a glorious, and no doubt brief, moment today, the International Herald Tribune displayed this uncannily accurate headline on one of it’s lead stories:
The article is/was on-line here. Don’t you hate it when the media puts a spin on everything instead of just reporting the facts?
