tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-194928132024-03-19T05:09:57.519+00:00The Poor MouthThe title of this blog comes from a Gaelic expression -"putting on the poor mouth"-which means to exaggerate the direness of one's situation in order to gain time or favour from creditors.jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comBlogger6072125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-49094205751122831382013-03-22T11:44:00.002+00:002013-03-22T11:44:46.098+00:00A young dancer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-41741294977317640302013-03-22T09:02:00.000+00:002013-03-22T09:02:27.267+00:00Tasteless painting fetches nearly £1m<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/the-chinese-girl-sells-for-nearly-1-million-8542661.html">original</a> painting of the Chinese Girl, thought to be the most
reproduced print in the world, was sold for nearly £1 million yesterday. The work by Russian-born artist Vladimir Tretchikoff raised £982,050
- nearly double its expected price - as part of a sale of South African
art at Bonhams auction house.<br />
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Millions of reproductions of the
picture, also known as the Green Lady because of the unusual blue-green
skin tone of the subject, have been sold since it was painted in the
1950s.<br />
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A Bonhams spokesman said: "It's very exciting. Suddenly the market has decided they like what they can see with Tretchikoff."<br />
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The Bonhams spokesman added: "It's almost triple the £380,000 we sold his painting Lenka for last year. It
shows he's beginning to close in on the other major figures on the
South African art landscape, Irma Stern - whose picture Arab Priest we
previously sold for £3 million - and Pierneef."<br />
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The identity of the Chinese Girl buyer was not known, but the painting will remain within Europe, the spokesman said.<br />
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jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-60070535392946388492013-03-21T14:55:00.001+00:002013-03-21T14:55:58.055+00:00Ahmadinejad and the discharged shotgun...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/04/deep-state/309260/">Atlantic</a> has a short item, an extract from a forthcoming book, the consequences of which I shudder to think <br />
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One morning in September 2006, during the United Nations General
Assembly, President George W. Bush’s daily intelligence brief contained a
particularly chilling item. It was three sentences long, and it scared
the hell out of the dozen or so White House officials cleared to read
it. According to one official, it began, “A U.S. Secret Service agent,
in an apparent accident, discharged his shotgun as Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was loading his motorcade at the InterContinental
Hotel yesterday.”<br />
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At the time, the Bush administration was weighing how to deal with the
Iranian nuclear-weapons program. And here a Secret Service agent had
just given Iran a potentially devastating public-relations coup.
Ahmadinejad was certain to reveal the accident in some grand form before
the whole of the United Nations. He might allege that the United States
had tried to assassinate him, and thus upend the entire conference.
“When I read that, I remember closing my eyes,” recalls the official.<br />
The agent was adjusting the side-mounted shotgun on one of the
motorcade’s armored follow-up Suburbans when it discharged. “Everyone
just stopped. The Iranians looked at us and we looked at the Iranians.
The agent began to apologize. Ahmadinejad just turned his head and got
into his car.” And that was it.<br />
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The Iranians told no one. Their silence led several White House aides
to begin to see Ahmadinejad in a new light. Here was evidence that maybe
Iran was acting strategically, and therefore cautiously.<br />
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jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-9233234066568821222013-03-21T10:41:00.000+00:002013-03-22T09:19:18.732+00:00Napalm Death Cancel a concert at the Victoria and Albert<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Napalm Death, who formed in Birmingham in 1981 and count songs such
as “Scum”, “Greed Killing” and “Mentally Murdered” among their musical
repertoire, were due to play a ground-breaking concert in collaboration
with the V&A’s resident ceramicist, Keith Harrison.<br />
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Harrison had planned to construct a speaker system that was filled with
liquid clay, which would have cracked and fragmented as the sound
reverberated inside it, creating a unique live installation.<br />
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Death were chosen to play the special set as it was hoped their deep
bass sound would have created the perfect frequency to shatter the tiles
and create the artwork.<br />
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The one-off gig was due to take place this Friday in a disused gallery currently undergoing renovation.<br />
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after a safety inspection raised concerns over the potentially damaging
effect such loud music could have on the both building and artwork, the
organisers reluctantly cancelled the concert.<br />
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Concern about the
preservation and safety of the Victorian structure has been heightened
in recent years with the advent of the ‘FuturePlan’, a multi-million
pound modernisation scheme designed to bring the museum into the 21st
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jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-47883960827542441592013-03-05T13:35:00.003+00:002013-03-05T13:35:56.674+00:00First sighting of Beelzebob this year<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-81646326097070666342013-03-05T13:35:00.000+00:002013-03-05T13:35:18.427+00:00Celandine<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-53052437090235375112013-03-03T18:37:00.001+00:002013-03-03T18:37:39.543+00:00Three favourite Robyn songs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-91804457463795265672013-03-02T18:49:00.002+00:002013-03-02T18:49:39.524+00:00Quiet Days in Clichy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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From the soundtrack of the film of the same name. Gloriously crude!</div>
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jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-38496387782521144902013-02-28T21:12:00.000+00:002013-02-28T21:12:32.959+00:00Dermot Morgan 15 years on<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Is it really 15 years since Dermot Morgan died. Here's a couleof non Father Ted clips. I wish I saw his standup routine</div>
jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-31356640959856394682013-02-28T16:36:00.002+00:002013-02-28T16:36:45.236+00:00And y choice for the Contact page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My favourite photograph of a supremely talented artist</div>
jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-12605861670066537082013-02-28T16:07:00.003+00:002013-02-28T16:07:36.244+00:00New Website<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is the cover photo for a new website I've setup for my <a href="http://jacoblurch.wix.com/shaun-patrick-downey">photographs</a>. Its only a Wix site.When I have oney I will create something better again. If you've seen my portfolio log or my Facebook photogrphy page then there's not a lot of new. content but I have created separate pages for Tim and for Li.</div>
jams o donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19492813.post-71377817199222183592013-02-26T21:18:00.000+00:002013-02-26T21:26:51.101+00:00Nominations for 2013 Diagram Prize!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Diagram Prize surely ranks with the Razzies and the IgNobels as one of the most coveted awards availale in this world today A few days ago the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/22/oddest-book-title-diagram-prize">nominations</a> for the 2013 prize were announcedandquite a fine line up there is as ever!<br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/unclassified/9781742666600/how-tea-cosies-changed-the-world" title="">How Tea Cosies Changed the World</a> – the 160-page follow-up to <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/unclassified/9781741966312/really-wild-tea-cosies" title="">Really Wild Tea Cosies</a> – is up against <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/unclassified/9781612190402/how-to-sharpen-pencils-a-practical-and-theoretical-treatise-on-the-artisanal-craft-of-pencil-sharpening" title="">How to Sharpen Pencils</a> and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/healthmindandbody/9780224095532/gods-doodle-the-life-and-times-of-the-penis" title="">God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis</a> to win the little sought-after accolade of the oddest book title of the year.<br />
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Loani
Prior's tea cosy extravaganza, containing "24 vibrant new designs that
transform the conventional tea cosy into a knitted piece of art", is one
of six books shortlisted for the Diagram prize, alongside David Rees's
"manifesto and a fully illustrated walk-through of the many, many, many
ways to sharpen a pencil" and Tom Hickman's look at man's relationship
with his penis.<br />
A niche guide to pigeon housing, Lofts of North America: Pigeon Lofts, fairy hunter Reginald Bakeley's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/unclassified/9781573245326/goblin-proffing-ones-chicken-coop-and-other-practical-advice-in-our-campaign-against-the-fairy-kingdom" title="">Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop</a> and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/data/book/history/9780745652221/was-hitler-ill-a-final-diagnosis" title="">Was Hitler Ill?</a>,
an examination from a historian and a professor of medicine of whether
Adolf Hitler was fully responsible for his crimes, complete the lineup
for this year's Diagram prize<br />
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The
Bookseller's Philip Stone said he was "particularly fond" this year of
How to Sharpen Pencils, "not only because of its oddity, but because I
find something beautiful in the fact a publisher has been brave enough
to publish a book concerning a centuries-old implement in hardback in
the digital age. Upon my next trip to my local independent bookshop, I
hope to see it alongside all the pornographic literature that appears to
be keeping the entire book industry in rude health."<br />
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According to Stone, the prize "draws welcome attention to an undervalued art".<br />
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"Publishers
and booksellers know only too well that a title can make all the
difference to the sales of a book," he continued. "A Short History of
Tractors in Ukrainian has sold almost 1m copies to date, while books
such as Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Guernsey Literary and Potato
Peel Pie Society and The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the
Window and Disappeared perhaps all owe some of their success to their
unusual monikers."<br />
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The winner will be chosen by a public vote at <a href="http://www.thebookseller.com/" title="">thebookseller.com</a> and <a href="http://www.welovethisbook.com/" title="">welovethisbook.com</a>
and announced on 22 March. The Bookseller's diarist and the prize's
custodian Horace Bent said: "It remains a great honour of mine to
represent a prize that draws attention to authors not called Hilary
Mantel that may need a little help in gaining column inches and
subsequently entering public consciousness and bookshop bestseller
bays."<br />
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The shortlist</h2>
<b>Goblinproofing One's Chicken Coop</b> by Reginald Bakeley (Conari, £9.99)<br />
<b>God's Doodle: The Life and Times of the Penis</b> by Tom Hickman (Square Peg, £12.99)<br />
<b>How Tea Cosies Changed the World</b> by Loani Prior (Murdoch, £12.99)<br />
<b>How to Sharpen Pencils</b> by David Rees (Melville House, £12.99)<br />
<b>Lofts of North America: Pigeon Lofts</b> by Jerry Gagne (Foy's Pet Supplies, £51.50)<br />
<b>Was Hitler Ill?</b> by Hans-Joachim Neumann and Henrik Eberle (Polity Press, £20)<br />
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I cant wait to see who wins! </div>
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