Pom. One of my few interests.
For those of you who do not know who Pom is, I would recommmend you read older posts of mine but if that is too taxing, then purely look in the windows of a Toni & Guy. You'll see her there.
It has been months since I first noticed her in an advert in Time Out for having your hair cut by a student at Toni & Guy, then again ever since, as her face and hair have been on posters all over the country in the windows of said salon.
But the true importance of her role, as a model, for T&G is that she has now lent her name to a hair style, the one, believe it or not, that she models in the poster. The Pom, it is called, and here is a description:
The cut is a fusion of 20's flapper girls, the Eton crop, Closh hats create a combination of retro silhouettes, inspired by the iconic model Twiggy and actresses Mia Farrow and Julie Andrews. The Pom represents short hair as a graphic, yet elegantly feminine alternative.
The colour was inspired by a rich palette of reds including shades of strawberry, ruby, rose and fizzy-sorbet to inject an element of humour and cheekiness.
The result- a real statement colour!
I have in my possession artifact, a relic, of times past - a poster to slotted into a security barrier at the Wood Green Woolworths. I hope that I might get one of the Toni & Guy posters as they take them down. This is a hint to anyone who might be able to get me one, to get me one.
R B Grange
27/12/2008
14/12/2008
"the final five will reveal the secret of the opera house"
I hope so.
Has anyone else seen A4 size pieces of plastic attached to lamp post, baring the legend 'OPERA HOUSE'. I have, I've seen those.
Does anyone know what it means? I've seen lots in Wood Green and some in Central. No images exist on Flickr, and Google is nonethewiser (new word)
Any help on this matter will be appreciated,
R B Grange
Has anyone else seen A4 size pieces of plastic attached to lamp post, baring the legend 'OPERA HOUSE'. I have, I've seen those.
Does anyone know what it means? I've seen lots in Wood Green and some in Central. No images exist on Flickr, and Google is nonethewiser (new word)
Any help on this matter will be appreciated,
R B Grange
02/12/2008
On why my work is doing this
I was reading a popular listing magazine this morning and noticed that the V&A are having a Babylonian exhibition on at their house. I shall definitely be going to see that, and if I don’t, you can kick me.
The thing that drew my attention to the advert was an image of the Tower of Babel. This got me thinking – is my work more about Babel than it is about Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International?
Well let’s take the two myths. Babel was made by human endeavour to… what? Rival god? To make a name for the builders themselves? Whatever the reasoning behind its being built, the Christian Old Testament god did not like it; so, as to halt the production of the tower he gave every individual his own language, so that there would be confusion. In some other accounts (outside of the King James), the god sends a might wind to destroy the tower, but in KJV it is merely through incoherence that production stops. Obviously the moral of the story is that objects and time and labour should only be spent catering to the vanity of the one true god as apposed to anything or anyone else. The tower remained only partially built.
MTTTI is a better story. The tower designed by Tatlin was to be huge structure, dwarfing the Eiffle Tower, and standing for the power and might of the Soviet Union. Of course, it was not built, due to the lack of steel and the more pragmatic problems that faced the CCCP, those of housing shortages and what not. But the tower, in its absence, gives us a melancholy glimpse to what could have been. The antagonist in this story is not a strong and vengeful character, but a context, a situation that causes the project to the miscarried, instead of being given a life only to have it taken.
When considering Tatlin’s endeavour we are not left with ruins or the loathing of an anthropomorphic destructive force, we are left the a blueprint still, a model upon which we can build.
R B Grange
The thing that drew my attention to the advert was an image of the Tower of Babel. This got me thinking – is my work more about Babel than it is about Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International?
Well let’s take the two myths. Babel was made by human endeavour to… what? Rival god? To make a name for the builders themselves? Whatever the reasoning behind its being built, the Christian Old Testament god did not like it; so, as to halt the production of the tower he gave every individual his own language, so that there would be confusion. In some other accounts (outside of the King James), the god sends a might wind to destroy the tower, but in KJV it is merely through incoherence that production stops. Obviously the moral of the story is that objects and time and labour should only be spent catering to the vanity of the one true god as apposed to anything or anyone else. The tower remained only partially built.
MTTTI is a better story. The tower designed by Tatlin was to be huge structure, dwarfing the Eiffle Tower, and standing for the power and might of the Soviet Union. Of course, it was not built, due to the lack of steel and the more pragmatic problems that faced the CCCP, those of housing shortages and what not. But the tower, in its absence, gives us a melancholy glimpse to what could have been. The antagonist in this story is not a strong and vengeful character, but a context, a situation that causes the project to the miscarried, instead of being given a life only to have it taken.
When considering Tatlin’s endeavour we are not left with ruins or the loathing of an anthropomorphic destructive force, we are left the a blueprint still, a model upon which we can build.
R B Grange
01/12/2008
News
For any of you who like him, or care, you'll be pleased to hear that Mark Leckey won this year's Turner Prize.
Here is an image of him drinking a drink.
R B Grange
Here is an image of him drinking a drink.
R B Grange
F L lick R er
Yeah. I've started taking images off flickr and drawing them. So far I have done this two of Albert Speer's proposed buildings in Berlin, but Im getting images of failed things. I surpose it's just an examination of dramatic irony, or would be, if I included people in my work.
I've got three pictures of Emley Moor Mast after it fell in 1969, and one of Dewsbury MP Shahid Malik walking through the rumble of a house in Lebanon.
When I typed "We Failed" into the Flickr search, one of the first (of 15,738) images was this, by artist Damien James
http://www.flickr.com/photos/damienjames/2267693533/
It's something overtly figurative that I actually like.
R B Grange
I've got three pictures of Emley Moor Mast after it fell in 1969, and one of Dewsbury MP Shahid Malik walking through the rumble of a house in Lebanon.
When I typed "We Failed" into the Flickr search, one of the first (of 15,738) images was this, by artist Damien James
http://www.flickr.com/photos/damienjames/2267693533/
It's something overtly figurative that I actually like.
R B Grange
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