Posts by william blake
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Mc Vicar may have been dealt with and this may already have been said, however I think the media attend to his views because they are predictably far right. What else would you expect from a pig but a grunt.
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"We have become accustomed to using the word 'taogna' "
... is that pasta with a meaty sauce? is that what you had for tea?
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"Granted, moko is more permanent, but then so is cosmetic surgery."
just to be picky; ta moko is permanent.
Cosmetic surgery if done well is invisible, the status of this is in the ideal of eternal youth or some far off notion of perfection. (eeee...)
Ta moko is on your face and its status comes from whakapapa,knowledge, mana, and in recent times the courage to be overtly Maori.
Discussion of the definition of moko as art seems to be another redundancy.
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"Oh, how we as a Nation suffer from our Art."
stevee you just have to be an arts administrator with that attitude dude.
"I laffed over this one...for reasons I can't explain just yet."
... that is quite funny in its self, but it could just be a symptom of something much bigger and nastier.
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The technique that Weta employs in its work is grounded in the film industry, and that medium revolves around the camera. Weta production is photographically real because that is what they do well. To see this effect to its full just look at the ‘Riff Raff’ sculpture in Hamilton. It looks just like ‘Riff Raff’ quite a scary likeness, a bit like a waxwork dummy in bronze.
Artists employ all kind of tricks to get around this deadening effect, which are of course top secret, but if you carefully analyse a good, lively sculpture piece by piece, it can be seen that it displays Picasso’s definition of art which is ‘a lie that points to the truth.’ By quoting Picasso I don’t mean to suggest a wildly abstract piece for the Rugby World Cup but I don’t think that a work that is at the other end of that continuum, mannered and lifeless, is suitable either.
Oh and when the All Blacks choke in the semis, watch out for the Wellington wit with the hacksaw; keep your eyes on the ball.
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"What is the Weta statue for again? It's designated purpose? Some could say that anything commissioned that has a brief is a different form of art...advertising springs to mind, a black art?"
Any sculpture commissioned for an event promotes that event, but the issue for me is the post match monumentalising of the rugby world cup. It may well look like a very bad hangover.
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I just think i am lucky not to be called richard taylor.
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so you endorse the proposal phillipmatthews with no break in his name.
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The big A here isn't Art but America.
The Weta design prop-osal for the Rugby world cup is done in the overfinished, slick-as style of West Coast of America, which is also strongly influenced by their film industry.
This seems like an unfortunate choice of style for the raw and brutal sport of Rugby but perhaps captures some of the professionalism displayed in the contemporary game.
This may be a case where Art is not leading the culture but instead it is the culture of sport leading the Art.
I think this proposal, and that is all it is at present holds up a useful mirror to contemporary NZ culture, no longer rough as expression but slick professionalism. I may not like it but the three dimensional realisation of this idea seems to have some sort of warped integrity.