Li Wei, son of a farmer turned performance artist…and amazing gymnast…
“He delivered food and worked as a housekeeper, an experience he says was key to his artistic vision.”
Certainly a phallic theme going on here and unfortunately, his piece, It Would Not Die Away Such doesn’t seem to have been photographed. He covered himself in earth and lay in a bed, with only his erect penis visible.
“…..We cut back to Madge, who now appears to be wearing some sort of cross between a full-body support body stocking (ask your mum) and a comedy fat suit. Seriously, what’s going ON here? Is it a beige corset with beige pants and a beige top? Is that REALLY what she intended? Via Anna Packard from the Guardian. Here’s the video...
Nice gallery of imagined architectural creations for the New York skyline via Gawker – this one has to be my favorite, a series of apartments in a city bridge over the East River, great views if you can stand the extra smog and noise…
Collages by Tony Fitzpatrick, quite good…..
London’s Metropolitan police has launched a new counter-terrorism campaign complete with anti-photography propaganda.
It’s very interesting, considering the following;
Within 200 yards of George Orwell’s flat 27B overlooking Canonbury Square in Islington, North London, there are thirty-two CCTV (closed circuit television) cameras.
Orwell’s view of the tree-filled gardens outside the flat is under 24-hour surveillance from two cameras perched on traffic lights.
The flat’s rear windows are constantly viewed from two more security cameras outside a conference centre in Canonbury Place.
Britain now has over 4.2 million cameras – that’s one for every fourteen people. A typical citizen is caught on camera an average of 300 times per day.
It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. “Reality control,” they called it: in Newspeak, “doublethink.” – George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty Four)
Via BoingBoing & Technovelgy
