Sunday, January 30, 2011

poem to Hosni Mubarak



I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said: "two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert ... near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away


Percy Shelley, 1818

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Roman Catholic Pedophile Priest























artwork by George Condo
from the booklet of Kanye West's album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

Friday, January 21, 2011

Lukasjenko

Sipping tea from a porcelain cup in front of a battery of microphones and scores of journalists. Fresh from major election fraud. The arrogance of dictatorship.

...but beware Gaspadin Lukasjenko, perhaps not a bad idea to pre-book your ticket to Saudi Arabia to join your friend Ben Ali...

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Tree Hotel

After the famous Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden now has another exotic hotel attraction: the Tree Hotel in Harads. Different tree cabins designed by different Swedish architects. Located in the middle of a forest. Very cool!

Treehotel
Edeforsväg 2 A
960 24 Harads
Sverige

Telefon: +46 (0)928-104 03
E-post: info@treehotel.se
Bokning: booking@treehotel.se



Wednesday, January 5, 2011

St Lucia at Storkyrkan in Stockholm

Wikileaks & Guy Fawkes

































































I saw this stencil/grafitti on a wall in The Netherlands. The Guy Fawkes mask as used in V for Vendetta. It appears that this is increasingly becoming a symbol for Wikileaks - our contemporary struggle against State and Might.

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot

Three Suns


As I drove to the work one morning a few weeks ago, I observed some quite strange but beautiful atmospheric effects in the sky. The sun appeared almost vertical, and multiplied (!), and there seemed to be some kind of huge frosted rainbow. It was very odd but very beautiful. I told some people at the office, but nobody had seen it, and they looked at me with the usual "here he goes again" look in their eyes.

But the next morning I was vindicated! The thing was on the Swedish News. The phenomenon is called Tre Solar (Three Suns) in Swedish, and Halo in English. It is caused by a combination of a particular solstice, ice crystals in the atmosphere, and very low atmospheric temperatures. Apparently it is a quite rare phenomenon.

Louis Cypher's breakfast

Hublot ad

F1 kingpin Bernie Ecclestone got mugged and beaten and watchmaker Hublot turned his face into advertising. The tagline is "Hublot condemns all forms of violence and racism" ...uh... so what exactly do they mean? Bernie was mugged and beaten because he's white? Did they take his watch, by the way?

A kingfisher doing some high-precision wintertime hunting


Ice skating turning sour


Imagine these two Swedes going for a nice skating trip on the frozen Skagerrak sea outside Gothenburg, and seeing an icebreaker pass by while they're out on the ice. The ice breaks into pieces and suddenly they find themselves like two penguins floating away on a iceshelf. Most unpleasant for a Tuesday afternoon. Thankfully they carried mobile phones, and were able to call in a helicopter recue.