yohji fashions

I reflected briefly on Mr Yamamoto before here.

terry gilliam DRAWS!

good friday

Always a sad day. But we're all here.

jtp

In spite of wise words from the friend who introduced me to his music, I am not quite sure what to make of Joshua T. Pearson. I keep on listening. This drawing is rare, for me, in that I drew it from Joshua in motion. While I am happy to steal from the deeply impressive Austin Kleon (to me this looks surprisingly like his drawings of musicians), I am not sure that this is quite what he had in mind.

You can hear the whole JTP album here.

Jools Holland online is a lovely find.



and this

trondheim draws

LensMotion | Video Documentary Production in Toronto [ Lewis Trondheim Toronto Tour ] from LensMotion on Vimeo.

there was this bloke who wrote about everything

'man will remain funny for ever'

Peter Berger takes the opposite view, arguing that while ―tragedy can never go beyond immanence, comedy is transcendent. In Christian eschatology, redemption appears after the terrors of the world as a form of comic relief and,
though heaven will be free from tragedy, man will remain funny for ever. Comedy therefore transcends
tragedy‘s sense of human courage with its own sense of wild, irrational hope. Similarly, Wood argues that Christian faith is comic because it is about eschatological laughter and joy and hope, grounded in the God who ―himself is the comedian who wants his audience to laugh- to rejoice in and thus to be transformed by the Good News. The Gospel itself is a comedy that proclaims the ultimate happy ending, namely, the guaranteed triumph of the kingdom of God. In the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus we find the final and absolute reversal of human expectations and desert, through which the Gospel presents so comic a deliverance that the Christian simply cannot respond with ―humorless doubt.

Serious play, indeed.

This is helpful. From Jessica N. DeCou's paper here. (HT to Ben.)

The drawing was my attempt to play with a photo of Amedeo Modigliani that I like.

technicolour jr

le chat, le chat

THE RABBI'S CAT - LE CHAT DU RABBIN - TEASER from Banjo Studio on Vimeo.

photografitti

JR on what he's going to do with his TED Prize money. His enthusiasm and engagement and the resultant art are all very moving to me.