Newtown, Newtown, Newtown
I wish to announce an exhibition, What's Newtown to you?, that i am currently working towards, for showing, initially in May at Pine St gallery in Chippendale
keep an eye on http://newt0wn.blogspot.com/ the exhibition blog
What picture can tell the story of Newtown? What's it stand for?
Who embodies the place? (feel free to nominate yourself - commissions are welcome)
Local artist John O'Driscoll is currently painting images of Newtown
(including landscapes, portraits, & abstractions) for exhibition at a local gallery in May 2005.
Diverse centre of small business, the last bastion of freedom, yuppietown, freakville,
or what? What's Newtown to you? Contribute your ideas, stories, point out favourite views.
Suggest subjects, angles and themes. Engage a commission.
All donations are welcome - in cash or kind. Many things are required, from paint and canvas to opening night nibblies, with a whole lot of publicising in between. If you wish to sponsor the exhibition, or for further information,
please call John O'Driscoll on 0432 513 230 or email biggerbumme@yahoo.co.in
Artwork by John O'Driscoll is viewable at: http://www.firelight.com.au/paddington (landscapes)
http://www.geocities.com/john0driscoll/index.html (2 exhibitions)
Melbourne Cup Romp
Great how some can get Flemington watered for their horse like it's their personal track
Darth Brew: Drink my piss - An oldie but goodie
Darth Brew: Drink my piss
everyone does on the Death Star
this must be nearly 2 years old, but it still seems appropriate, and introduces a few characters, Daan Rumvader, protocol droid B-L1-aR, and our own R2-johnny self-propelled suicide bomb
JWH suicide bomber
Oh shit this things gonna detonate prematurely. I coulda redeemed myself
some more pieces from the archive
I'm going to post some cartoons etc from the "other"
blogpaper since the image gallery there is out of order for some reason
New Washington Monument
- for the man who has everything -
A 21st Century Statue of Liberty
like the man says, you gotta give Aussies an A for effort
can't rule out a terrorist attack
I say, I can't rule out a terrorist attack, old man
The rest of the archival stuff I'll put down at the bottom by changing the date
Introducing Krusty, the PM
It was found that the populace had been so infantilised that politiians needed to develop an image that appealed to children.
The first attempts, however, were more disturbing than reassuring
Ministry of truth
Our mission is to maintain the news standard set by comical Ali ("the infidels are burning in their tanks") and the objectivity of the US presidency
This image is to remind those administering the truth of the high standards of dress and personal hygiene they are expected to uphold as employees of UNOCAL oil.
Russian Roulette
It's my world or the Underworld.
Slaves to a machine thats treats life as an economy of death. Where is joy when the brains hit the fan?
Australian Values lesson 1
How to combine the arrogance of power with a siege mentality? Just get in a few US born-again christians (
Christians
In
Action) for a seminar
Or you could do worse than emulate our federal minister for education, whos got a chip on his shoulder about those
POOR PEOPLE who showed him up at uni when it was a meritocracy. His kids won't have these
unfair burdens to contend with, if daddy gets his way.
Or as he himself puts it; "One day, if you work real-ly hard, like me, you could end up be-com-ing the fed-er-al mem-ber for Brad-field, a ver-y res-pon-sib-le pos-i-tion. And if you work ver-y hard, without com-plain-ing, you might one day get that phone call from the prime mi-ni-ster, in-vit-ing one in-to the mi-ni-stry."
Baxter Floriade
It's amazing what a few flower beds can do for the atmosphere of a concentration camp
where the hell is my cartoon?
where the hell is my cartoon?
after uploading it (the image) and hitting done several times it still won't appear. Is there some secret incantation I'm missing?
Ahhh...
it does work sometimes, in Firefox
here is the logo for the imperial sanitary squad, produced for work for the dole (true). After all, our leaders stink, and you know who'll have to clean up the mess
Saturn eating his children
this is the first in an irregular sequence of cartoons the ministry of truth will make available as public need for propaganda and the news cycle dictate
Saturn eating his children, dedicated to the australian immigration department, ASIO and the atorney-general
Minister at the Pain Mine
We have control of the means of production of pain. With economies of scale, and the tailoring of solutions made possible by IT, great advances can br made
We decide who COMES in this country
We decide who
COMES in this country
and you'll have to piss in this cup before you get paid
The media insist upon totalitarian administration of your body to ensure moral, socially acceptable behaviour. It's all for your own good
grand ol state department sendoff
Introducing the first "husband/wife" team in the Presidency/State department since Kissinger and Nixon.
Note our suicide bomber PM making brown-eye jokes ... again
Instruments of moustache detection
Instruments of moustache detection - now this is a really old one, it predates the Iraq war. The myopia is still all too real.
An interesting thing is the way Saddam turned the whole Iraqi army into body doubles, certainly the officer corps, through their desire to not stand out, which led them all to wear his moustache.
When I look at pics of Saudis it's amazing how many princelings wear the recently dead King Fahd's weird wedgie beard. Now there's a death that's hardly been reported, given the pivotal importance of this event. Still, when big oil and energy own government, the media and military, nothing surprises when events go unreported
