By tigtog on November 16, 2011
This week’s whimsy is brought to you by Belgian cyclocross competitors accompanied by a Flemish country & western singer. Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Posted in Levity | Tagged cycling, Music, whimsy |
By Kim on May 5, 2010
Well, it’s May and we haven’t condemned, so it must be long past time to condemn again. Here’s a 45th open condemnation thread. What’s been worthy of condemnation this month so far? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Levity, Music | Tagged Buena Vista Social Club, Chan Chan, Compay Segundo, Condemn it!, Cuba, Music, Son, youtube |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 30, 2009
Well, we haven’t condemned for ages, so it must be long past time again to condemn. Here’s a 41st open condemnation thread. What’s been worthy of condemnation in 2009? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and other phenomena need [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Levity, Miscellaneous, Music | Tagged bird on a wire, Condemn it!, condemnation, Music, Sarah Blasko, Video, youtube |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 13, 2009
Well, we haven’t condemned for ages, so it must be long past time again to condemn. Here’s a 40th open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and other phenomena need condemnation? (Or [...]
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Levity, Music | Tagged Bauhaus, Bela Lugosi's Dead, condemn, Condemn it!, Music, soundtrack, The Hunger, Video, youtube |
By Kim on July 13, 2009
As observed here: Only 10 songs on the hottest 100 list were made by a band who had any women in it, ever (if we include Massive Attack, who, technically, only ever had female guest vocalists); the highest of these [...]
Posted in Culture, Masculinity, Media, Music, Sociology, Women | Tagged abc, cultural studies, female artists, gender, hottest 100, JJJ, Music, popular music, public broadcasting, radio, rock, Sociology, Women |
By Mark Bahnisch on June 30, 2009
In a post reproducing and expanding on his op/ed in the Australian Financial Review today, Andrew Leigh writes: For not-so-surprising reasons, I’ve been thinking lately about lifecycles. My AFR op-ed today (partially written with a newborn babe in the crook [...]
Posted in Art, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, History, Music, Sociology | Tagged age, Andrew Leigh, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, creativity, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, David Galenson, Degas, Economics, economists, Edward Said, generations, innovation, literature, Munch, Music, On Late Style, Picasso, Sociology, Wassily Kandinsky |
By Kim on June 16, 2009
Well we haven’t condemned since, well, forevah, so it must be long past time again to condemn. Here’s a 37th open condemnation thread. What’s getting up your goat? Which evil political, cultural, social, musical, religious, and other phenomena need condemnation? [...]
Posted in Blogging, Film, TV, Video etc, Levity, Life, Miscellaneous, Music | Tagged Blogging, Condemn it!, condemnation, jazz, Michael Garrick, Music, Video, youtube |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 26, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/creative-brisbane-2.JPG" Folks might remember I talked a while back about the ‘Creative Brisbane’ event we’re presenting tonight as part of the Brisbane CitySmart Innovation Festival. The response to both this conversation and to the BrisCulture concept has been really [...]
Posted in Blogging, Brisbane, Culture, Notices, Sociology | Tagged arts, Blogging, Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, BrisCulture, Bruce Muirhead, Centre for Policy Development, CitySmart Innovation Festival, connectivity, Creative Brisbane, creative futures, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, curation, Danielle Bentley, Eidos Institute, festivals, Ideas Festival, Innovation Australia, Jaz Choi, Linda Carroli, Marcus Westbury, Mark Bahnisch, Music, Policy, public art, public policy, Queensland, sociality, Urbanism, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 28, 2009
A lot of my academic and consultancy work at the moment is focused on online urbanism, distributed knowledge and urban creativity. I’m loath to use the term ‘action research’ loosely, but this form of public sociology is really impossible to [...]
Posted in Activism, Art, Blogging, Books, Writers & Writing, Brisbane, Culture, Media, Music, Notices, Policy, Sociology, The Web, Urbanism | Tagged arts, Blogging, Brisbane, Brisbane City Council, BrisCulture, Centre for Policy Development, CitySmart Innovation Festival, connectivity, Creative Brisbane, creative futures, creativity, cultural policy, cultural sociology, cultural studies, Culture, curation, Eidos Institute, festivals, Ideas Festival, Innovation Australia, Mark Bahnisch, Music, Policy, public art, public policy, Queensland, sociality, The Valley, Urbanism, web |
By Mark Bahnisch on April 23, 2009
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/2843867562_305155f1f5_o.jpg" Sadly, J. G. Ballard has died. An enormous literature has appeared online paying tribute to his life and work. Noteable, I thought, was an article in Salon by Simon Reynolds, who treats Ballard as a fabulist of ideas, [...]
Posted in Apocalypse, Books, Writers & Writing, Culture, International, Music, Photography, Sociology, Technology, The Web | Tagged Apocalypse, Autopsy of the new millennium, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Culture, dystopia, J. G. Ballard, literature, Music, post-punk, science fiction, Simon Reynolds, speculative fiction |
By Mark Bahnisch on March 29, 2009
It’s been absolutely ages since I saw any live music. I’d planned to remedy that tonight by going to see Way Out West – a jazz act influenced by African and Vietnamese music at Jazzworx at Bowen Hills – but [...]
Posted in Brisbane, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Life, Music | Tagged Bowen Hills, fusion, gig review, gigs, jazz, Jazzworx, Music, Video, Way Out West |
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