Comments on: EOTWQ

By: RockingMitch

RockingMitch — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:14:46 +0000

Ali – There’s a gallery at Newlynn that’s worth a visit next time you’re down that way.

By: alimunday

alimunday — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:37:16 +0000

Mitch – it all seemed very dull, I couldn’t help feeling I could do better meself! It seems a shame when it’s so beautiful down there, you’d think artists would be more inspired.

By: RockingMitch

RockingMitch — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 22:59:46 +0000

I know what you mean about the Tate St. Ives. I went last week and found it a bit of a let down too. I was glad I had my membership card as I would really feel a bit cheated if I had paid.

By: alimunday

alimunday — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:20:45 +0000

1. Sancho. All previous attempts at quixoticness have ended in painful failure.

2. Most impressed by Monet exhibition in Cardiff which I went to while still at school – never liked Impressionist painting till I saw those. Least impressed – Tate Gallery St Ives – nothing specific, just 99% of what was there.

3. Salmon tarka dall from our local Indian restaurant / takeaway. Never disappoints.

4. Deja vu – like now, with a rainstorm – have just returned from hols and it seems to do this every time I get home.

5. Still remember Nilsson ‘Without You’ from the ’60s, the first music ‘video’ I ever saw. Particularly liked Jose Gonzalez and the bouncing balls. Can’t remember any dislikes.

By: goneforeign

goneforeign — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:24:35 +0000

Like some others here my lack of religious affiliations don’t jibe with my appreciation for much religious art but my initial response to the question was the ceiling of King’s college chapel in Cambridge, it’s the most amazing fan vaulting imaginable, the most delicate tracery created in stone over 500 years ago; no modern tools, no modern scaffolds just medieval craftsmen working with their hands carving stone 80 ft up in the air. Then of course there’s the windows! I could spend all day in there, in fact on several occasions I have. Besides King’s College there’s dozens more, every Gothic church or cathedral in UK is well worth a visit.
Another, on a different level, would be the installation at the Saatchi gallery in London by Richard Wilson, it was created entirely with several thousand gallons of black recycled engine oil, it’s titled 20:50 and I stared at it for over an hour. Highly recommended mind blowing!
A third would be a display I saw in LA in the ’60′s, it was entitled ‘Experiments in Art and Technology’. There was a display there that has stayed in my mind for 40 odd years, it involved ‘pseudo-stereoscopic images’: in a darkened room there were various images floating in space, there were no screens involved. One image was of a TV set with a live program being broadcast, there was color and sound but if you reached for it there was nothing there! It was a pseudo stereoscopic image floating in space; another was of a bunsen burner, you could see the image, hear the gas, feel the heat; but there was nothing there! It was part of a research project by some NASA engineers and I know that very large parabolic mirrors were involved but I’ve never understood the optical process.
Food: I used to regularly invite friends for a roast leg of lamb, roast potatoes, sprouts, apple pie for desert and Turkish coffee to follow; actually there was a liberal supply of ganga to follow. Haven’t done one of those for years, we need to to organise a western region social to justify a return to the good old days.
I was asked to produce a video for TV by a jazz group called Glider in the early 70′s, I’d never seen one before that, often wondered if it was a first.
One that I like a lot, though it’s not really a ‘music video’ is one I just posted at Steen’s Billie Holiday post, it’s from a 1957 TV program, it’s here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCDbl_Wg1g0

By: makinavaja

makinavaja — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:55:56 +0000

My answers:

1. Definitely Don Quixote and what’s more I’ll never learn. I have bouts of Sanchoism, though, as Mrs Maki is another Quixote and we both take time off in order to keep each other in check.
2. For me the most impressive and disappointing were on the same day. A Dali exhibition – I went to see all the “big ones” and they left me cold. There were a couple of rooms with his sketches and a few of his dabblings with “pointillism”. No one else seemed interested but I was fascinated and spent a good hour or two virtually on my own lapping it all up.
3. A delicious arroz caldoso prepared by Mrs M last Sunday.
4. All the time. Getting in and out of the car, for some reason!
5.I wish they had never started making the bloody things. Honourable exception the bit of fun DsD posted upthread which I didn’t know and enjoyed a lot!

By: makinavaja

makinavaja — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:14:42 +0000

Agreed!

By: Shoegazer

Shoegazer — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:09:46 +0000

Don’t think it matters, Maki. Wasn’t really serious & how would you index the beast?

By: makinavaja

makinavaja — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:59:12 +0000

Perhaps EOTWQ needs a Marconium? Good idea! This place was going for over two years before I joined. I'm always worried I may just be recycling stuff. But who is going to offer to do it!!!

By: Zalamanda

Zalamanda — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:58:11 +0000

Gah! Spotted at least two typos in that. Here are the missing letters: t, n.

And I ought to have noted that the moderately interesting paintings and the Richard Serras were all inside the Bilbao Guggenheim. But that might have been obvious.

Another excellent music video is the one produced for The Imagined Village’s take on “Space Girl”:

Thanks to Steenbeck for reminding me with her animated video comment.

(Attempt to embed with the Youtube supplied code; hope it works.)