RafaelFajardo

Category: words

  • becoming-wave: translatingtheprintempserable: The manifs des casseroles (pot and pan demonstrations) have taken Montreal by storm! These are spontaneous neighbourhood protests in which people clang their pots and pans at 8pm to signify their defiance of Law 78. They do so on street corners, on their balconies, in parks, and tonight (May 23), many of these protests…

  • But these paintings are abominations unto the lord of Art. They dismantle themselves. Each of these paintings – from the parrot in a cage to the blossoms and butterflies – takes on the difficulties of representational painting and visibly fails to come close, not merely to mastery, but to basic competence. Damien Hirst: Two Weeks…

  • “At 18, you may long to be Damien Hirst when he was 30. But in his 40s, Hirst apparently wishes he was the artist that, who knows, he might have been, had he spent his youth drawing day after day after day.”

    “At 18, you may long to be Damien Hirst when he was 30. But in his 40s, Hirst apparently wishes he was the artist that, who knows, he might have been, had he spent his youth drawing day after day after day.”

  • Tower of Sleep: Denouncing law 78 (CA-OM-SC section locale 1983) [STM bus drivers’ union]

    Tower of Sleep: Denouncing law 78 (CA-OM-SC section locale 1983) [STM bus drivers’ union] translatingtheprintempserable: Original text: http://www.caomsc.qc.ca/ This morning your executive decided, unanimously, to strongly denounce Law 78, adopted by the government last week. This law is unprecedented in that it is now necessary to have the police’s authorization for any…

  • towerofsleep: Some Albertans showed up for solidarity.

  • towerofsleep: Hard to get a sense of the scale from this. Apparently it was 300-500k people. The best part about all the gridlock and stranded cars downtown was that many of their occupants were smiling and honking and cheering in support.

  • What some of these participants do, and what they “exhibit” in dOCUMENTA (13), may or may not be art. However, their acts, gestures, thoughts, and knowledges produce and are produced by circumstances that are readable by art, aspects that art can cope with and absorb. dOCUMENTA (13) – dOCUMENTA (13) I like this. Don’t do…

  • ilovecharts: The chart I made after listening to this inspirational speech from the very talented and wise Neil Gaiman. Very useful advice for a soon-to-be freelancer.  –batsandbones 

  • What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly…

  • curiositycounts: Slab City is catching a lot of attention these days from the obscure, norms-challenging Vice Magazine documentary “A Day In Slab City” and over to the more mainstream Time Magazine piece, “Living Off The Grid”. This look at the outpost known as “the last free place in America” is both raw and eye-opening to…