Pertinent Art
WRITTEN ON Thursday, March 26th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art
The Onion’s evocation of “Franz Kafka Airport” is, I feel, a vital contribution to understanding what non-ideal transformational government might be like The security guard asked me for about 90 minutes ‘Are you who you say you are? Are you who you say you are?’ and then he wrote “liar” on the back of my […]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Pertinent Art, What do we want?
The Met Police’s anti-terrorism posters can be remixed to be quite pleasant: Hurrah! (from boing boing).
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WRITTEN ON Monday, December 15th, 2008 BY Ruth Kennedy AND STORED IN Design: user-oriented, Pertinent Art, What do we want?
Listening to what the customer wants /needs is always the best way forward. The Observer reports that Firebox.com is offering to give Christmas presents a personal touch – by wrapping them badly for £3.95 an item. Commenting on this Crap Wrap service, a firebox.com spokesman said: ‘It takes a high degree of skill to deliberately […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, December 9th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Identity, Pertinent Art, What do we want?
Here’s a user experience of the Benighted System: The host of realated YouTube links show you just how active and effective No2ID and the intellectual pygmies have been. Go Pertinent Art!
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, November 27th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, Political engagement
Oh look. I’m in this new movie called Us Now – there’s a clip here. It’s all about government and Web 2.0 and participation and stuff. Ivo at thinkpublic is so informal that I didnt realise what a major project he was undertaking – that’s why I look so relaxed.
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, November 27th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, What do we want?
I see Liberty, the various Rowntree trusts and OpenDemocracy are doing a Modern Liberty convention on Feb 29th CORRECTION – 28th – see below. Thx]. Looks great (shame I’ll be abroad). But it is a does have some materials, including the Pet Shop Boys Integral video which I’ve been looking for for ages. Curious that […]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, November 21st, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art
Classic pertinent art about Whitehall – the paranoia about departmental budgets, the rivalry with Japan. This must be the only Ministry which hasn’t been renamed in the last 40 years. From the wonderful official Monty Python YouTube channel.
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WRITTEN ON Monday, November 10th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art, Political engagement
Apart from the obvious, humour was a big winner in the US elections. We all heard about Tina Fey and the prank DJ caller. But I loved this Onion piece Voting Machines Elect One Of Their Own As President …and also the Homer Simpson tries to e-vote scene (this one may get taken down as […]
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WRITTEN ON Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Foundation of Trust, Pertinent Art, What do we want?
Printed on a mug or T-shirt it would make an ideal “Secret Santa” present for the IPS Christmas party, I reckon. Various image sizes and details available here. PS: ORG continues to grow in strength, with numbers of subscribers just passing the 1000-mark. NB it’s recruiting its next Executive Director.
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WRITTEN ON Saturday, October 25th, 2008 BY William Heath AND STORED IN Pertinent Art
The Indy has a marvellous story about Westminster Council trying to dispel the spirit of Banksy with those rational groupthink-brainspeak values which are the currency of local government. What makes it so delightful is the surprising way in which the value of “art” has put the money on Banksy’s side of the debate. So they’re […]
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