Greendale Declaration

The Bloggist commends the artist for his forthright declaration of affection.

Heligoland Obelisk

“Desolate and sparsely occupied, in the dunes of Heligoland a glowing obelisk-like triangular fetish, anachronistic yet beautiful, turns the harsh terrain into an ethereal alien world punctuated by geometry”, review by Buil de Onplezierig, academic and sciolist, in the modernist cultural magazine Contemporary Regional Art Periodical, a publication best known by its acronym.

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”.