There's more to life than books you know

But not much more.

As Kansas City appreciates.

Part of the revitalization project for the downtown precinct, the facade for the new library's car park is clad in iconic book bindings as voted on by local residents, celebrating literature in it's physical form, this lovely literary homage was designed by Dimensional Innovations.

We create worlds from words

Last week I was lucky enough (thanks Jess!) to catch Roland Schimmelpfennig's deconstructed play The Golden Dragon at the MTC Lawler Studio theatre (as translated by David Tushingham).  Reading every word of the play – short pause – numerous plot lines were developed in a series of vignettes as actors jumped frantically from scene to scene in Andrew Bailey's brilliant abstract set.

 

It must be said that this set truly enhanced the production - a closed shipping container that is unpacked in the opening scene, the stage shifts from apartment, to restaurant, to kitchen and back.  Through deft lighting cues and clever design, this singular structure adapted as the actors brought each character and thus story to life in the space. 

 
The only disappointment was having to watch the actors pack it all up at the end...

Alison Croggon’s review.
An interview with Andrew Bailey.

Concepts create idols

 

Concepts create idols -

only wonder understands anything

- Gregory of Nyssa

 

Girls Girls Girls

Just a kiss away

Mick's pick from The Mirror's archives.

1968

The Rolling Stones "larking about" for the launch of Beggars Banquet.  "This was in a funny hotel in Kensington where they used to do medieval lunches for foreigners. Decca Records had been so horrible to us, so ghastly - not paying us, just awful. So we got them to pay for this promotional bash and intended to just do them over, basically. The idea was that we had these pies sent in at the end and we'd throw them at the record executives and the head of Decca, a ghastly fellow. My ally was Lord Harlech, who owned Harlech TV. He was a guest sitting with us. So we had this banquet - a Beggar's Banquet, get it? - and threw the pies at them and left. It made a great picture." Jagger.

1967 

Mick and Keith in the pub, toasting release from jail. 

1964

On TV's Juke Box Jury.

So gangsta

 

Since 1989 Max Streicher has worked extensively with inflatable technology in kinetic sculptures. 

 
Using industrial fans and simple valve mechanisms to animate these sewn forms with lifelike gestures, his use of materials like Tyvek and nylon spinnaker contribute to the character development.

A Canadian native his works have traveled all over the world and are in various collections including the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, the ESSL collection of Contemporary Art Vienna, Austria and a permanent installation at York University in his current home town, Toronto, Canada.

Ah Fun

Now that I've found you,



I'll never let you go again.