“Hulk. Smash! …Smash Hulk’s USP. What Hulk smash most? Hulk smash all hope of interesting time in cinema.”
Peter Bradshaw neatly sums up the desperation of the would-be film-goer as blockbuster season settles in for the summer.
Take your pick:
The Incredible Hulk (see above)
Iron Man, “a mixture of Robocop and Darth Vader… a franchise that is already beginning to rust”
Indiana Jones “One tries hard not to be distracted from any available pleasure by the plot—thickly woven gibberish”
Sex & The City “There are four of them—banded together, like hormonal hobbits, and all obsessed with a ring“, or
The Happening “Basically an awful clunker of whose essential clunkerishness you become aware slowly but...
One of the standing figures that form part of Event Horizon by Antony Gormley
“If you get a sense of extension, or constriction, or vulnerability, or tentativeness, or generosity, or meanness, or fear, or love, or all those things, so much the better, for I think all those things are in the work.”
A reflection in the poster for Blind Light, a current exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery. (ITA stands for In the Area.)
“For me sculpture uses physical means to talk about the spirit, weight to talk about weightlessness, light to refer to darkness - a visual means to refer to things that cannot be seen.”
Quotations by the artist cited in an essay by Sandy Nairne.)...
I was at the Camden Green Fair in Regent’s Park at the weekend. It was a pretty impressive collection of eco-types with stalls for everything from re-usable nappies to ethical investment. It reminded me of Electric Picnic but without the good music.
The strangest sight of the day was finding the Nicaragua Support Group (old lefties never die…) set up next to the Conservative Party stall (’Vote Blue, Get Green’ - I kid you not).
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I see that this year’s IoF National Convention website is up with the full programme now online. One interesting addition this year is the inclusion of a three-day Senior Management Development Programme run by the Henley Management Centre.
Traditionally, there hasn’t been that many Irish fundraisiers heading over to the National Convention. Us paddies seem to prefer the IFC in Holland in October, where you’ll typically find 15 or 20 Irish fundraisiers propping up the bar and holding court. Sorry, I mean diligently attending workshops and getting early nights.
IFC is an outstanding event, but it ain’t cheap. Once you include flights you’re looking at well over €2,000 to attend.
So if your looking to broaden or deepen your knowledge, need a refresher course...