Saturday
Bosphorus boat trip Panoramic !
Today we took a two hour boat trip on Istanbul's Bosphorus to Buyukada Island. Although long and the people at times harrowing, Istanbul really is really europe's most bussling metropolis. At a friend's Turkish wedding one man put it "they come like Hollywood " . I have been reading The Kite Runner for the last few days and it makes a lot of sense of this place.
Xx l
Tuesday
Free Double Pass to Underground Cinema For Lurid's Fav Fan!! ..XX
Hi Beautiful Peeps,
The awesome crew at Underground Cinema have given The Lurid Republic a double pass for their show this Sunday! The last event was epic, with live actors, an inspiring venue and like minded peeps who are closed Kinky Dress Up'ers this is one you DO NOT want to miss!
All you need to do is comment on this post with your favourite Japanese anything!
Food, Anime, Fashion, you name it! Add photo's for extra points!
Love Lots Little Republicans, xx L
check the link below for deets on the gig!
http://www.undergroundcinema.com.au/next-event
The awesome crew at Underground Cinema have given The Lurid Republic a double pass for their show this Sunday! The last event was epic, with live actors, an inspiring venue and like minded peeps who are closed Kinky Dress Up'ers this is one you DO NOT want to miss!
All you need to do is comment on this post with your favourite Japanese anything!
Food, Anime, Fashion, you name it! Add photo's for extra points!
Love Lots Little Republicans, xx L
check the link below for deets on the gig!
http://www.undergroundcinema.com.au/next-event
Monday
Tuesday
A Century of Self Part two
Hi kids,
Sorry its been so long, ive been working overtime to save for Lurid's Overseas adventures in June and ive left you all alone like a lost puppy.
Will you ever forgive me? To tempt me back into your heart accept this gift...
(lots) more posts to come this week! xxxxx
xx L
Monday
Carbon not so Neutral
Anthony Lister
Futura Image as Streetart Bourke Lane, CIty, Image taken by Futura's son..
Acclaim's latest cover, Host of the event Carbon Festival.
And the man himself...
On Sunday I skipped merrily along to Carbon at Fed Square, hosted by Acclaim Mag it sure was an all round blast. Having been
to Agideas I have to say Carbon sure is a Fledgeling, but for its first year it was great. ITs also a good alternative to spending $300 and up on a conference ticket (which is where AGideas starts) with tickets starting more around the $120 a day price.
Lenny or "Futura" the famed 70's NYC street artist was the Keynote, and he brought a lot to the table, both verbally and conceptually, definitely not physically. being one of the oldest there he gave sound advice about hammering on through and "just getting of your ass and working hard".
I like the fact that Anthony Lister just straight did what he wanted (fortunate enough for those of us who can sell our art for 10k a piece) but he had valid points about being true to yourself and how collaboration can help you if you let it.
My third and Final favourite was Noah Callahan Bever from Complex magazine. Noah is definitely an intelligent business driven creative and self confessed numbers addict but he threw so much light on running a website that it made this blog seem like a veritable speck. His ideas tied well with the others in Forum D and the motivation they gave to never just start something but to always begin with your best work was a real milestone for me.
All in all i would definitely go next year, i could give them a few tips but hey, who am I to be dishing.
yours truly, the speck xx L
Futura Image as Streetart Bourke Lane, CIty, Image taken by Futura's son..
Acclaim's latest cover, Host of the event Carbon Festival.
And the man himself...
On Sunday I skipped merrily along to Carbon at Fed Square, hosted by Acclaim Mag it sure was an all round blast. Having been
to Agideas I have to say Carbon sure is a Fledgeling, but for its first year it was great. ITs also a good alternative to spending $300 and up on a conference ticket (which is where AGideas starts) with tickets starting more around the $120 a day price.
Lenny or "Futura" the famed 70's NYC street artist was the Keynote, and he brought a lot to the table, both verbally and conceptually, definitely not physically. being one of the oldest there he gave sound advice about hammering on through and "just getting of your ass and working hard".
I like the fact that Anthony Lister just straight did what he wanted (fortunate enough for those of us who can sell our art for 10k a piece) but he had valid points about being true to yourself and how collaboration can help you if you let it.
My third and Final favourite was Noah Callahan Bever from Complex magazine. Noah is definitely an intelligent business driven creative and self confessed numbers addict but he threw so much light on running a website that it made this blog seem like a veritable speck. His ideas tied well with the others in Forum D and the motivation they gave to never just start something but to always begin with your best work was a real milestone for me.
All in all i would definitely go next year, i could give them a few tips but hey, who am I to be dishing.
yours truly, the speck xx L
Sunday
A century of Self, Part 1
A fascinating documentary about advertising and mass media. Linking Mass produced goods with unconscious desire. If you havent already seen this then you need to sit down, and give 4 hours of your life to it. You will not regret it. Lurid xx
see : google docs : search "a century of self "
see : google docs : search "a century of self "
Friday
Thursday
Forgetting To Sleep -- Nick Hall
c3 contemporary art space
The Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers St. Abbotsford VIC 3067 Australia
“ Eco Paralysis: The sense that our problems are insurmountable. Most of us know that changing our light bulbs isn’t adequate to address the scale of what is taking place and this manifests itself as apathy, complacency and disengagement”
(Adbusters Magazine, 2010)
The works in this exhibition attempt to explore the concept of apathy and inaction being manifestations of guilt and anxiety experienced in response to knowledge of environmental issues.
Wednesday
Tuesday
Sunday
Monday
Drab Art in the City
Drewery Lane, City
Drab Is a long time mate of mine from the good old nz days and spotting him while sneaking through a side alley to avoid the late arvo mid-town madness was a pleasant surprise to say the least. The bulk of his work is illustrative and focusses on scale and the photographic image . You'll see it predominantly in paste up form but his most recent addition to the 6 shooter calibre is fine art gallery showings. To see more of this fine young lad's Work , miander over to www.drab-art.com
Xx lurid
Drab Is a long time mate of mine from the good old nz days and spotting him while sneaking through a side alley to avoid the late arvo mid-town madness was a pleasant surprise to say the least. The bulk of his work is illustrative and focusses on scale and the photographic image . You'll see it predominantly in paste up form but his most recent addition to the 6 shooter calibre is fine art gallery showings. To see more of this fine young lad's Work , miander over to www.drab-art.com
Xx lurid
Medical Research Budget Cut Protest-- City Library
300Million in cuts over 3 years, how will a massive research budget cut effect Australia's progress? Can you really put a stop on curing cancer? and how would you feel if your life depended on the research being done now?
France's new ban on wearing full-face niqab veils in public
The Insert below is from News.com.au,
It highlights the start of what will surely be a harrowing battle of exacerbated proportions. Should we really discriminate against any religion? And is freedom of expression not at the root of this very debate? I agree that religion should not play part in education or the workplace but to bring law to the public and openly stop a sect of religion in a European nation from expressing their beliefs cannot be the way forward. I do not agree with a woman veiling herself but i do disagree with the government taking away a persons right to believe and express belief.
"PARIS police have arrested two veiled women and several other people protesting in front of Notre Dame cathedral against France's new ban on wearing full-face niqab veils in public.
An Agence France-Presse journalist at the scene said the arrests came after police moved in to break up the protest which had not been authorised.
"Today was not about arresting people because of wearing the veil. It was for not having respected the requirement to declare a demonstration," said police spokesman Alexis Marsan.
Two women in niqabs, a woman wearing an Islamic headscarf that does not cover the face and a demonstration organiser were arrested, Marsan said.
In another protest, Rachid Nekkaz from the Don't Touch My Constitution activist group and "a female friend wearing the niqab" were arrested by police in front of President Nicolas Sarkozy's Elysee Palace, he said."
The Daily Telegraph, 9 Dec 2010
"We wanted to be fined for wearing the niqab, but the police didn't want to issue a fine," Nekkaz said by telephone.
On Saturday police arrested 59 people, including 19 veiled women, who turned up for a banned protest in Paris against the new law, the first of its kind to be enforced in Europe.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/paris-police-arrest-veiled-women-after-ban/story-e6frfku0-1226037445886#ixzz1JDGediBU
Sunday
Elderly woman single-handedly shuts down Armenian internet
" A 75-year-old Georgian woman shut down the Internet in neighboring Armenia for more than 12 hours last month when she sliced through a fiber optic cable while looking for scrap metal, according to Georgian officials.
Nearly all of Armenia was without Internet access on March 28 and customers of one of the largest Georgian Internet service providers, Caucasus Online, also lost access for nearly five hours, according to Bloomberg.
The woman was arrested by Georgian authorities and charged with property damage, the news agency reported Wednesday. She was “temporarily released due to her old age” on the day of the incident, Bloomberg quoted Georgian Interior Ministry spokesman Zurab Gvenetadze as saying.
She has confessed to damaging a cable belonging to Georgian Railway Telecom while looking for copper near the Georgian village of Ksani, according to Azerbaijan’s News.az.
How the woman managed to find an Internet cable that provides 90 percent of Armenia’s Internet access was a mystery, a Georgian Railway Telecom spokesman told Bloomberg."
text thanks to http://blogs.ktk985.com/category/today-on-storm-chris/
Saturday
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