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Sydney, New South Wales, AUSTRALIA


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Comment by ag
on Mature Posts - what?

April 2nd 2007 06:19


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my post on stiff records is also labeled 'mature' - the title has a swear word but the content is purely historical. the thing is, it doesn't make sense to read if the title is erased completely - can't it just be lclassified as 'mature' but keep it's title?

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Comment by ag
on Have you heard of muscles?

March 29th 2007 06:04


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is muscles coming to sydney? i want some of this muscles. muscles are great.

so is the adjective 'famously'

so are you yoyoyoyeah!

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Comment by ag
on Rationality of suicide

December 14th 2006 22:10


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Interesting thoughts Adrian. I’m waiting for a film called The Bridge to be released here. It's a documentary about the phenomena of suicides from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, which apparently has phones with a 24 hour counselling service, because so many people jump from it to their death.

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Comment by ag
on G'day Graffiti

December 6th 2006 01:29


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Great post Kerrianne, I also wrote about writing on walls recently...

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Comment by ag
on Understanding Kitsch

December 6th 2006 01:24


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Hi Kerrianne,

I'm a big kitsch fan and think it's fascinating how ideas of taste function to distinguish identities.

When we dismiss something as 'kitsch' or 'trashy' or 'bad taste', we elevate ourselves above it. But there is a difference between someone who has the seashell koala on the mantelpiece because they think it's really cute, and someone who has it with a sense of irony, because it is, as you say "so bad it's good".

The difference is contextual, which is why when Jeff Koons' blow-up kitsch items are in the MoMa, they are suddenly appreciated for their aesthetic value and wit, and worth stupid amounts of money.

People who revel in kitsch and recontextualise it to make it cool, are still playing the identity game. A writer named Gillo Dorfles has called it "super-snob kitsch" or "hyper kitsch” when we enjoy the contempt which the kitsch item arouses.

But to make a profession of bad taste is a contradiction in terms: you don't really have bad taste if you recognise it as bad taste, you are simply distinguishing yourself as having good taste, but being ironic and non-elitist...

Well, I could go on, maybe it's worth an entry on my own blog..

Thanks for the post and the great photos!

Ag

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Comment by ag
on Some notes on art

December 6th 2006 01:06


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Great post Adrian. The sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything, said bad art is a great deal worst than no art at all, and all art is quite useless.

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Comment by ag
on Schadenfreude: The World’s worst sin?

November 19th 2006 03:01


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Hi Juan, great post. I had never heard of the word, perhaps it’s closest translation in English would be sadism? What is most interesting is that the authorities wanted it banned, as if there is the relationship between the act and the word is more than arbitrary. Would banning a word, such as the word rape, help eliminate the crime?

I enjoyed reading your ideas about compassion – the antonym of schadenfreude. Aristotle said about compassion something like this: while many of us might consider ourselves compassionate, once heightened feelings like fear, anger or desperation come into play, it is much harder to express that solicitude, and it often disappears. To be truly compassionate is to retain compassion no matter how heated we get, and to eventually learn to balance all our emotions so that they don't dictate.

Like you say, maybe we are all more susceptible to gaining pleasure from suffering than we like to think. But if you ask me it doesn’t count as schadenfreude with cane toads. They’re hideous creatures and everyone knows they’re really fun to drive over.


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Comment by ag
on Success of Kenny

September 18th 2006 12:36


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I love this film. I blogged it a few weeks ago and have been telling all my friends they must see it. I sent a girl a know who was visiting from the US and she didn't like it at all though - she said she found the ausie self-depreciating humour tiresome and 'so not funny'. It does say something about us, I think, that so many of our cultural products are satiric. Anyway, Kenny is a gem. Looking foward to more from the Jacobsons.

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Comment by ag
on Should fucking in public be legalised?

September 6th 2006 03:32


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Thanks Adrian for your interesting observations. I think the taboo surrounding public fucking and sex in general would indeed be broken away if it were less censored. It isn't inherently offensive to see sex; it's just that we are taught that there is something naughty about it. We live in a very strange world where sex is always in out faces with the media and celebrities etc. but when it comes to talking about it amongst ourselves we still hush and blush.

Fucking is lumped together with acts of rebellion (“sex and drugs and rock and roll") but there should be nothing rebellious about it. Where do we all think we came from?!

Our culture is very good at sexiness but has a long way to go before we can call ourselves sexually liberated or mature. The only reason we are all so obsessed with it (look at the amount of comments here!) is that it is swept under the rug, and I think it needs to come out of the rug and onto the streets.

PS. Also on the topic of freedom of speech, isn’t it funny how the Anonymous comments are always the most creepy / annoying? ("I think it should be compulsory! And I should get to film it!" / "this is not philosophy it's a smut topic to get ratings ... don't dignify it by calling it philosophy"). Maybe that's another topic for you - the philosophy of anonymity...

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Comment by ag
on Yes, But Is It ART?

August 31st 2006 08:08


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During the Sculpture By The Sea exhibition last year someone went around the streets of Bondi and put up unsolicited plaques next to thrown-out furniture and other rubbish saying "Sculpture By The Sea Off Site Exhibit" with details of the 'artist' and the 'work'. I thought it was a clever comment on postmodernity and the state of contemporary art, and they had me fooled.

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