Posts by Craig Ranapia
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Muse: Thirteen Ways of Looking at A…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Next step, IKEA flatpac kitchen?
Are you completely insane? A murder-suicide where you eat is never a good idea, and plays havoc with your re-sale value.
maybe we should organise a pool of spare thingamajigs to be donated to anyone who wanted one/some/the whole phuquing barrel-load?
Islander: I think we have the collective willpower (and desire to spend a couple of weeks in Venice) to secure a commission for a site-specific performance art instillation. Or wearable art. Per diem, baby!
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I couldn't do the full press Wallace Stevens - where you feel very smart if you end up just being totally bewildered. That's what a life spent in insurance will do. :)
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to ,
And don't vote for that nasty Sid Holland. He's a wanker. :)
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to David Cormack,
Good question - if there wasn't so much "will nobody think about THE CHILDREN" concern trolling already in the political aether, I'd probably be uneasy. As is, not much.
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Russell Brown,
Quite. In a wholly contrived, edited situation, they still couldn’t give the impression of him nailing it.
If you're going to fake it, be brazen about it. How many time was Labour caught out running ads with "real people" played by actors and just said "whatever, moving on..."
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Sacha,
Even Labour has those slightly fuzzy degraded fonts. Perhaps it’s conventional design wisdom in a recession?
Nah, it’s further proof of the old saw that the sure sign of an immature artist is a fear of the obvious. Gee, clear readable fonts… that’s not going to win any creatives hipster douche points. (The grave yard of crap advertising is full of campaigns that strained so hard to be “edgy” they had a rupture.)
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Jackie Clark,
Of course, not, my love. But things were better. They really were. This government reminds me of Muldoon’s era. It really does. But that’s just me, I am sure.
When “just me” is so lovely, I don’t mind a bit. But in various ways, for three quarters of an I felt like I was in an episode of Fringe watching television transmissions from some alternate universe I didn’t recognise.
Someone asked me on Twitter how I rated National and Labour on “sincerity”. Tempted to say something glib about how when you can fake sincerity you’ve got it made, but I just felt disturbed on another level. Because I think both parties are perfectly sincere in their belief voters cannot, must never, and just don't deserve to be treated like rational adults.
As Simon Pound has said elsewhere, if running a country was about production values then the choice would be clear. But it isn't. Is it?
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to Jackie Clark,
And everything was flowers and puppies with a Labour Government? Not quite true, but never mind...
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Hard News: We interrupt this broadcast ..., in reply to John Morrison,
He speaks ponderously and accurately I know, but I would trust him long before his opponent.
Goff's problem isn't a so-called "charisma deficit" - God knows Helen Clark wasn't exactly Bill Clinton. But she was remarkably consistent when it came to opening her mouth without inserting Imelda Marcos' whole shoe collection. I don't think being kind of dull is necessarily the crippling disability the media-political complex would have us believe.
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whether it’s an overthought attempt to appear un-slick
That probably the most generous interpretation possible, and really appearing un-slick requires the kind of Jedi master artifice that’s near impossible to pull off.
I confess, now, I can’t wait to see how crazy Act’s campaign address is. I shall be rather put out if it isn’t.
Screw it, that’s taking masochism as good citizenship too far. Think I’ll go see Errol Morris’ Tabloid again tonight – more insightful, entertaining and unnervingly pertinent than ever. It’s also a good time to track down a copy of Morris’ Believing Is Seeing (Observations on the Mysteries of Photography) which, as the kids say, is what it says on the box and much else beside. A wonderful mental self-defense course.
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