Monthly Archives: December 2008

visual rhetorics and its traps

Fresh water under what old bridge? I’ve somehow stumbled across a video by the British band “the Prodigy” that gives me the creeps. The song is called “Baby’s got a Temper” and it displays cows crammed into some space where the band themselves sing on a stage and some nude young ladies are “forced” by [...]

Death, and the Dead?

Everybody is individual in life or death. This is what I can see in the art of Rudimetary Peni singer Nick Blinko: http://www.deathrock.com/rudimentarypeni/main.html. I don’t fully understand why it’s such a “big deal” if someone has not studied arts, but is an artist. I know quiet a few people who have studied arts, but who [...]

Farangis Yegane: florae Obscurae

Farangis Yegane: florae Obscurae, visit page a florae Obscurae, by Farangis Yegane, 1996 The subject of ‘florae Obscurae’ is flowers – though, not in their relation to the culture of ornament or decoration, not as metaphorical entities like for example as vehicles of some unattributable malevolent purposes of fate, like in Baudelaire’s poetical thought-image of [...]