“Never Be Alone Again, Chrissie Hynde’s duet with Russell Crowe & 30 Odd Foot of Grunts”….

Saw this on the T.V. last night, thought I had gone mental…very strange…

I can quite safely say that ‘Never Be Alone Again’ is an apt title, the image of Russ warbling away is still etched on my retinas. In all fairness it was quite a solid performance, however I just wasn’t expecting it damn it, there should have been some form of warning.

Other oddities on T.V. last night was some American ’sportz’ reporter screaming ‘T.V. theatre’ (???) after some geezer smacked a home run. Odd.

Then BBC1 had a great ‘yooth prog’ on news24 in which loads of right-on teenagers asked people why they don’t just get out of their cars and walk….probably coz some future Tony Blair is outside the car door with a camera crew.

Back to the issue on Omnipresent Layered Inherent History I posted a little while back. I have started reading a book titled ‘Out of Control’ by Kevin Kelly of Wired fame. I have only just started but noticed a clear similarity with his musings on ’swarm intelligence’ and Omnipresent Layered Inherent History. Most similar was the concept ‘invisible hand of combinatory systems’ essentially control without overall authority.

A swarm can be defined as:

“a decentralized model, based on the cooperation of autonomous units with a relatively simple and probabilistic behavior that are distributed in the environment and are provided only with local information”

A little simlar to my half arsed attempt at describing Omnipresent Layered Inherent History (“how elements, be they style, emotion, concept or form can be transported in ’spirit’ from one entity to another, mostly due to proximity”).

I feel that models such as art, style, architecture show many similarities with swarms; many practictioners, no overall controll or authority (apart from Saatchi et al).

So if the swarm model holds true, there can be no control of the arts, architecture etc as any undue pressure, will simply be swallowed up by the swarm and either reacted against or incorporated into the whole and evolved. Art can not be destroyed it can only be transofrmed from one form to another. Little similar to Quantum theory (or is that back-action principle of post-quantum theory??; “anything that affects something else must, in turn, be affected by that something else”.) .

Anyway thats my two pennies worth.

Homer is quite the hero in our household. So much so that we decided he needed a change of clothes every so often to break from the monotony of blue trousers and a white top. So with the excellent tailoring skills of my girlfriend, Homer got a new wardrobe.

I will post some of the other costumes in due course. First off Zen Homer

The others to look forward to are Mexican Homer, Sk8r Homer and Winter Homer.

Kinda frightening what one can do with a couple of copies of the Weekend (Grauniad), some scissors and a digital camera. Ladies and Gentlemen I present Mr and Mrs Walken (sort of)

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‘Omnipresent Layered Inherent History’, a cracking phrase if ever I saw one. I frequently used this behemoth in various college art essays. Got me bugger all in extra marks, but it made me feel pretty damn special.

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John Simpson of the BBC writes in his book ‘A Mad World, My Masters’…..”this is why, like the movies, tabloid journalism bears no relationship to life as we know it; it is too extreme, too lacking in colmplexity. There are too few categories of existence. The people the tabloids write about are either 2-dimensionally glamorous or successful, or they are victims, or they are ‘evil’…..”