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Broomstick
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Images
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I can't draw. Not at all, not a bit, and I demand of the viewer so many concessions and compromises to even guess at what I'm attempting that most people shield their eyes. Fair enough. I get it.
So when I saw this in the thrift shop I just had to take a picture...
Somewhere out there an artist just made me feel pretty good.
You know, the more I look at it, the more I think I probably know some women over 40, and who wouldn't like an anonymous subscription to a magazine targeted directly at their demographic...?
in the Trailer for the Next Hogwarts Movie
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm in the trailer for the next Hogwarts movie. A giant wave, dimly flickering blue within, outlining the shapes of the magical sea creatures within, is moving in and around Hogwarts, Judi Dench is watching with a severe look upon her face, there are going to be problems for sure...
...Walking along the ramparts the waves are beginning to crest the tops, a trickle of water slowly making it's way over the mortar to trickle down the wall, looking at the waves off in the distance I don't think this is going to last long...
...with the boy Potter, going down the stairs beneath the waves into the castle, witches, dark flitting shadows, are darting in the arrowslits, marking pickaxes upon the wall, I find one and rub it out with my sleeve, I'm sure they're up to no good, boy Potter exclaims "They're looking for Treasure", and I look at him, he's a bit young for this, shouldn't he have aged a bit, and just like Keanu Reeves he grows up in front of me, lean and weathering, like a new action hero, he means business...
Post-Truth as an Art Movement
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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There were the Cubists, the Surrealists, the Dadaists, the Modernists, the scornfully Modern, the absurdly Post-Modern, which - by definition - made no sense whatsoever, and a hundred others I've purposely omitted. Time forbidding and my limited brain obliging. But now perhaps, reflecting on not just the current political clime, but the world in general, we have the "Post-Truth" art movement.
Think - Art, so far in its ideals, has striven to express truth - whether through the accurate depiction of it's subjects, or on a more allegorical or metaphorical level. And it has often reflected the cultural and political clime from which it came.
But now, in the "Post-Truth" era of politics, how should art reflect that? Some questions. accuracy of form, line, shape, these are no longer important. Truth is no longer important. Metaphor - the expression of deeper, underlying truths, is unimportant. And - unlike other movements - Dadaism, which used recognizable representations, or Modernism, which might abstractly reveal elements of truth, the Post-Truth movement should concern itself with the utter rejection of all recognizable shape or form, of any pleasing harmony of colors, and to write this down is easy, but to illustrate it might be another thing entirely...
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