The New Politics

The Bloggist and his friend, Alfred Jarry, talk about the new politics based on falsehood, xenophobia, nationalism, and isolationism and the politicians who use falsehood and advocate xenophobia, nationalism, and isolationism. They agree with Martin Luther King that, "True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring". Mr. Jarry suggests, “Take my advice, whenever you meet any politician that talks about nationalism, globalisation and isolationism and fraudulently claims to be showing compassion and benevolence, or ought to be showing compassion and benevolence and isn’t, keep your eyes on them and their henchmen and look for the exit”. Despite his atheism and anti-clericalism, Mr. Jarry mutters lines from the third Psalm, “Deliver me, my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked”.

Marcel Duchamp on holiday at Pont Aven

The young Marcel Duchamp, while staying at the Hotel Gloanec in Pont Aven, on the Plage De La Belle Etoile at Concarneau runs to meet Alfred Jarry, Paul Gauguin and Armand Séguin whom he sees eating seafood, local jams, pastries and cooked meats at the Brasserie des Bretons dans l’amour after the attack by local fishermen on Gauguin and Séguin.

A 'Pataphysical structure

“L'architecture, La Reyne des Arts”, in the words of Andre Marcueil, “expriment surtout le sublime, elle peuvent aussi exprimer le Beau”. We welcome this addition to Architecture, the first useful structure to be designed since Hidalgo Moya and Philip Powell designed the Skylon for the 1951 Festival of Britain.

Yassmina Jaoude's Flexible Tower: http://pr2014.aaschool.ac.uk/INTER-13/Yassmina.jaoude  

For true flexibility we hope that Yassmina Jaoude will deploy rubber hawsers as support cables.

Grey Lake

Cahier du Cinema reviewed “Blue Lake” and excitedly commented, “The exercise was a bit too much for me and left me with a feeling of tedium ...”.

The Bloggist and his friend, Alfred Jarry, follow up the laconic success of "Blue Lake" with a sequel, "Grey Lake".

Blue Lake

The Bloggist and his friend, Alfred Jarry, consider Michael Snow’s film “La Région Centrale” and Andy Warhol’s film “Empire”. They respond with a 13 second film entitled “Blue Lake”.

A stroll on a summer's day by the beach

The Bloggist and his friend, Alfred Jarry, admire an early work by Christo. The Bloggist quotes Susan Sontag, "Aristotle's arguments in defence of art do not really challenge Plato's view that all art is an elaborate trompe l'oeil, and therefore a lie". 

Culm of the Crested Dog's Tail

Thank you Mr Hubbard:
Grasses: a Guide to their Structure, Identification, Uses and Distribution in the British Isles
                      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Edward_Hubbard