Thursday, January 20, 2011

ABC Weather Flash: Virginia Haussegger, Mark Carmody (New York Museum Of Fine Art …Haberdashery Fest 2011)


Mark Carmody
Mr Mark Carmody presents ABC flowers, 7:27 weeknights, ABC 1.

Allegedly Virginia Haussegger refuses close-ups of Mark’s flowers out of vanity.




 
Mullard Baird says wonder woman Virginia suffers with a psychopathic phobia of other flowers in nearby vicinity.


He went on to say that if she persists in refusing treatment, she’ll end up looking very unsightly medium term.
http://lemonsartworld.blogspot.com/2011/01/golden-gate-bridge-andrew-barr-rides.html 

Baird confirmed she’s earmarked as a clear case of Dorian Gray’s picture long term.

Management refused to reveal a Haussegger use by date but did report head-hunting for a tongue-in-cheek unit with a 61% reduction in not-so-subtle lip-corner sarcasm spasms.
They suggest this figure is called for as a new "humility" benchmark, post QLD floods.

Virginia Haussegger
Logie Baird complained bitterly that recruitment had barked up the wrong flame tree.
In unprecedented outspokenness he raged:
They swept through the event leaving acrid aromas of chlorine-fluoride expurgate and hospital grade plastic tubing”

Mark Toadies to Sentiment

“Standard practice before dumps of Whitehouse haberdashery

…“They arrive at galleries boasting Christian Dior/Louis Vuitton proprietary breathing apparatus.”
…ABC 1 local news.

[the authors gratefully acknowledge inspiration from Virginia's swanky upper torso mini-gyrations as per ABC Canberra 7 O’clock news]

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Gaia Physics

The biosphere can be seen as intelligent re it’s capacity to correct imbalances, as the many homeostatic systems of a human body do.
James Lovelock documented this using the name Gaia.

More particularly that atmospheric and hydrological feedback systems are beginning to behave toward extreme human activities and populations, as an immune system does toward malignant tumour cells.
http://timezombie.blogspot.com/2010/09/wind-in-willows_24.html
http://lemonsartworld.blogspot.com/2011/01/subversion.html

What’s interesting is the pageantry in human interpretation of intelligence, ascribing to it quantum leaps beyond simple cause-effect reactionary systems.
…That the mind is apart from the body

And yet when asked which cell/cells in their body does this ‘mind’ reside, one draws a blank.

They conclude they are indeed a system. In particular a homeostatic system which regulates for health of the body.

Gaia Futures
But suggest the next step is to ponder biosphere intelligence (in all key ways parallel as a homeostatic feedback system), and the scoffing is in the realm of billions.

Supporting data continues to arrive as homo-sapiens* proceed toward infestation of all geographical locations.

*Origin Latin ‘wise man’

Saturday, January 1, 2011

I loved the promise of ‘flower-power’, a counter culture mantra of the 1960’s
I wasn’t so sure about the ‘free’ love and illicit drug aspect of this uprising. Interestingly, many of the ‘hippies’ of that day are now very wealthy clones of the establishment who wouldn’t share a dime with anyone.
Technologically, the 60’s projected the tantalising mirage of no war, illness or poverty as innovation pumped out marvel after marvel of communications infrastructure, medical science, and agricultural control.

French Champagne
The artist Andy Warhol came in on one such marvel (aluminium), taking the ubiquitous red and white can of coca cola to new platforms and viewpoints.
‘The man who made Campbell soup cans and Coca-Cola bottles cool is now himself the inspiration for a far more elite series of packaging. Students from London’s Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design’s Design Laboratory have re-designed Dom PĂ©rignon’s classic bottle in tribute to Andy Warhol, who claimed the luxury bubbles brand was his beverage of choice.’ 
...Harper’s Bazaar December 2010

As such, we were warned of the empty banality of the ever-burgeoning monoculture, still growing today.
The awesome power of a mechanical eagle landing on the moon (Apollo 11), somewhat trivial against the backdrop of universal magnitudes and forces, gave many new humility. And for many more, new arrogance.