When a star of the magnitude of Arnold Schwarzenegger is releasing their autobiography and given his action hero history, it seems fitting that he would make a trailer for the book.
The Govenator’s book. ‘Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Story’ will be released on October 1st and I’m quite looking forward to reading it. Oh Fun Fact for you, Arnie follows me on Twitter
As a San Francisco Giants fan, this week has been awesome. The team have left the opposition in the dust and are now ten games ahead of the Dodgers. Things seem to be just coming right for the Giants at the right time, Buster Posey, Angel Pagan and now Pablo Sandoval are all hitting well and Pablo hot two home runs last night as well as two three run shots in consecutive games. Defense is good and even Aubrey Huff came to the plate last night and doubled.
Life is good and now the Magic Number isn’t just falling, it’s rapidly dropping. What is the magic Number? It’s any combination of Giants Wins and Dodgers losses that mean the Giants will win the National League West. As of 16.04 GMT The Magic Number is 3.
It’s hard to believe that it’s two years since the Giants won the World Series, before that they hadn’t won one in San Francisco. Just because they won two years ago doesn’t mean there isn’t as much hype or eagerness this time round. The team know what 2010 was like, they want it again. So do I! Roll on the Postseason!
Picture of the Giants celebrating from CNN
If you haven’t popped along to The Copper House Gallery to see The Cold Edge yet, I would recommend that you do.
Dave Walsh is a polar photographer, writer and activist and took these beautiful shots while he was in the Arctic and the Antarctic. The exhibition is running until September 29th and are breathtakingly beautiful. They possess beautiful colours and are quite alien really to what we would see every day.
I was lucky enough to chat to Dave on Culture Cafe last week, you can listen to our chat on the podcast, it starts 12mins 15secs in.
The exhibition has been described as ‘ethereal photographs of the unforgiving wilderness, wild animals and blue icebergs question our romantic relationship with remote, harsh and pristine environments. The images resonate with a quiet tension; all may not be right in the Garden of Eden.’
Check it out, there’s even a photograph of the Doomsday vault !
Not sure where to start your Culture Night in Dublin City Centre, you could do a lot worse than heading along to Oonagh Young Gallery, 1 James Joyce Street, Dublin 1. The gallery is open til 9pm for Culture Night Previews, then Colophon will run during gallery hours until October 28th 2012.
Colophon by Irish artist Gavin Murphy is part of a two–venue solo exhibition of new work On Seeing Only Totally New Things. Running concurrently at The Royal Hibernian Academy is the film Something New Under the Sun.
Here are the details:
Colophon contains a distilled series of ‘integral objects’: a text sculpture, a suite of photographs, and other wall–mounted works. A large–scale text piece is based on a section of dialogue from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema, and delivers a monologue on the importance of the new in art. Wavering between confidence, doubt, and despair, it speaks of the burden on the artist in constantly bringing new images and objects into being – suggesting the necessity of responsibility inherent in the creative act.
The work features a specially commissioned typeface¬ – Personal (stencil) – based on Proposal for a Universal Typeface, created by Herbert Bayer between 1925–1930, while director of printing and advertising at the Bauhaus. Designed along reductive–utopian lines, and consisting of only one combined upper and lower case, the geometric, sans–serif Universal existed only as a design and was never actually cast into real type. The new typeface retains Bayer’s reductivist–geometric design principles, yet recasts these into a specific and singular use.
A suite of photographs enlist the words of Pascal, Milan Kundera, and Lewis Mumford to set up a new conversation between texts, while accompnaying coloured discs refer once more to the decisions of the artists’ hand. A notebook is presented as a path away from previous forms, relying on the gallery’s lights to quietly convey new possibilities.
Something New Under the Sun is a film concerning ideas around progress, value, novelty, and our experience and perception of time and the contemporary, via an attempted portrait of the demolished IMCO building, and the work of its chief designer, Oliver P. Bernard. The IMCO building was, during its brief existence, a major landmark on Dublin’s south coast, yet is all but forgotten today. Similarly, the industrial processes that the company carried out, once part of the fabric of everyday life, are entirely undocumented.
EXHIBITION TALK 18th October, 5.30 pm, RHA
To coincide with Gavin Murphy’s exhibition On Seeing Only Totally New Things DoCoMoMo Ireland and RHA present a lecture/talk with a panel featuring Catherine Croft of the C20th Society. DoCoMoMo is the international committee for the documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the modern movement. Booking is advised. Please visit www.rhagallery.ie for further details. Supported by the Irish Architecture Foundation.
Who is Gavin Murphy?
Gavin Murphy is a Dublin-based artist and curator with a long engagement with artist-led projects and collaborative initiatives. He is co–director/curator of the artist–run space, Pallas Projects/Studios, was co-coordinator of House Projects – a series of seven exhibitions in New York, London and Ireland, and was editor of the accompanying 200–page publication. Recent exhibitions include After the Future, eva International, Limerick; and The Golden Bough, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Curated projects include John Smith at Pallas Projects; Martin Healy at Lismore Castle Arts; and the exhibition & publication Automatic (Auto Italia, London & Pallas Projects, Dublin) curated & written with Chris Fite-Wassilak. He is the recipient of various Arts Council awards, and residencies at Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne, and Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin.