it's not brain surgery (or maybe it is ...)

two packets of brain surgery in fact
i stumbled across this today, and i love the drawings
here's a few faves, i'm tempted to reblog the whole thing, very ace

some of the works remind me of david shrigley, whose stuff i love

others

remind me of the drawings of George Grosz,

This one 

reminded me of Matisse, not his dancers (thematic) but his musicians (stylistic)

What a Krakouer!

Listening to the Marngrook footy show on the radio [by proxy - I was told about it later],

there was an interview with Jimmy Krakouer (or perhaps it was Phil)


He was asked about the origins of his name,  Krakouer   - an unusual name apparently.

And he said it was because, way back when, one of his progenitors (a great great great (or more) grandfather, was from here:

Kraków 

maybe one of those heroic Poles that roamed Australia a few centuries ago ... naming mountains as they went

 

except neither Kosciuszko or Strzelecki were from Kraków ...




also there's not that much family resemblence!
 

Recent biography of the Krakouer brothers,
'Brotherboys: The Story of Jim and Phil Krakouer' by Sean Gorman
 (review in The Monthly by Paul Daffey)

me & social media

i am uneasy with social media
i truly hate defacebook (why is it so ugly?)
i can't concentrate long enough for tweets

horrorscopes

possibly the most accurate horoscope i've ever read
edited by yossarian perhaps

city lights

today's blog began with this picture

a cool alignment of city lights, i thought

which, inevitably reminded me of  

Mondrian's Broadway boogie woogie...[1942-43]

which appropriately lives at MoMA

here's some real life boogie woogie, or 2011 equivalents by Navid Baraty, first found here  

intersection by Navid Baraty

whenever i think of the Mondrian painting, i remember it as capturing New York at night, but it doesn't - funny how the mind plays tricks

Manhattan Midtown, from New York at Night - a book of aerial photos, by Evan Josephreview in the Telegraph

This is New York (obviously)

Miroslav Sasek's take on New York from Brooklyn

I used to think Sasek was the last word on New York

that was before I met Paul Auster... and his New York Trilogy

City of Glass has passages of walking New York,

 New York was an inexhaustible space, a labyrinth of endless steps, and no matter how far he walked, no matter how well he came to know its neighbourhoods and streets, it always left him with the feeling of being lost. Lost, not only in the city, but within himself as well. Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind...reducing himself to a seeing eye...


On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things, to be nowhere. New York was the nowhere he had built around himself.



 It's been re-interpreted as a graphic novel

A live action version of the "walking" chapter, Chapter 8 of Paul Auster’s City of Glass as as slide show and PDF:

another graphic NY image by Navid Baraty

Karen O'Leary's cut out maps - NY as positive and negative 

available for sale on etsy

Says O'Leary, "Imagine all the sounds and smells and feelings of being in a large city; then try to transfer that to paper without using words, only by using a knife or a pen."