So today,
as the fillip's fillip, I offer up three of sources of pleasing randomness in action.
Khadivi's writing has appeared in publications such
as Fillip, Flash Art, Kaleidoscope, Ibraaz, Esse, and The Brooklyn Rail, among many other venues.
Not exact matches
Heading into next season and,
as the New Zealand production
fillip cleared markets, he expected WMP prices would remain well supported and would drift higher.
Should the attacker commit his future to the White Hart Lane giants, it will come
as a major
fillip for Spurs, who will see Kane
as a key man next term
as they look to establish themselves among Europe's elite and retain their spot in the EPL's top four.
A win here would be a great
fillip for the Royals
as they look to cement their play - off place.
The rise of ISIS may give a
fillip to the jihadi forces in Kashmir and cross border terrorism
as there have been previous linkages between the group and Pakistani terrorists.
Songsong's art is notable primarily
as an example of how the world's largest communist state has embraced avant - gardist art
as an international marketing tool — a sociological
fillip that cultural historians will have a heyday unraveling.
Burns and Lundh's writing has appeared in periodicals such
as Art - Agenda, Art Papers,
Fillip, Journal for Curatorial Studies, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Reviews in Cultural Theory,
as well
as exhibition catalogues and books.
10, No. 5, September / October 2011 «Prologue» (co-author: Josh Thorpe), Gordon Lebredt: Nonworks 1975 - 2008, (Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art: Toronto / Plug In Editions: Winnipeg), 2011 «And Other Essays,» C Magazine C105, Spring 2010 «Tris Vonna - Michell,» Art Papers 34:01, January / February 2010 «Yam Lau's Hutong House
As I Imagine It,» (Yuanfen Media Art Space: Beijing), 2009 «The Reproduction of Space,» Space, WIDEN (Workshop for Inter-Discipline Novelty and Exchange), University of Toronto, April 2009 «Towards Infinity But Not Infinite,» Dynamic Encounters Panel, Universities of Art Association of Canada Conference, 2008 «Living the Image: Looking at Yam Lau's ScapeLand II,» The
Fillip Review 8, 2008 «The Possibility of Art: Adorno and the Politics of Aesthetics,» Re-Thinking the Frankfurt School Graduate Conference, York University, 2007
Journal article, «Exhaustive Images: surveillance, sovereignty and subjectivity in Google Street View,» commissioned
as part of the series «Photography in the Age of Biopolitics: Apparatus, Capture, Trace,»
Fillip, 15 (Fall 2011)
His writing has appeared in publications such
as C Magazine, Canadian Art, Journal of Curatorial Studies,
Fillip, Little Joe, No More Potlucks and Cinema Scope,
as well
as in many books and anthologies on artists such
as Daniel Barrow, Candice Breitz, FASTWÜRMS, Luis Jacob and Andy Warhol.
Her selected recent publications include, among others: Economies of Common Infinitude, Vancouver,
Fillip Publishing (2012); Six Problematics on Artists and Their Work, Warsaw, Bęc Zmiana (2011); Eccentric Space, Utrecht, Expodium, (2011); Architectural Space
as Agent, Vancouver,
Fillip (2011); Testify: The Consequences of Architecture, Rotterdam, NAi Publishers (2011), and other.
This is fascinating, Simon,
as are all the
fillips.
Might
as well ask what makes good design: it's a proper question with an answer too vexed for a
fillip — or me.
And because it would hardly be a
fillip without a lead to a relevant online game, I point you to Sneeze, a game aimed at making people aware of how swine flu is transmitted by letting you sneeze in crowds and infect
as many folks
as you can.
It occurred to me that
as a public service I might dedicate this
fillip to the sneeze, that potent source of contagion.
Must be the Zeitgeist, because at roughly the same time Alex Iskold of Read / WriteWeb reported how podcasting is on the decline, losing steam to video, among other things — and I'd teed up a sound file
as today's
fillip.
In today's
Fillip temperament is key — a whole lot of keys,
as it happens, because it's about a site that does wonders with the already marvelous Well - Tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach.
We've looked a poetry before on Slaw — «Law Firms Sponsoring Poetry ``, «The Lawyer
as Poet ``, «Creative uses for law reports ``, and another Friday
Fillip about doggerel — so I thought that this might be of interest to the poetasters among us.
(Rather
as The Friday
Fillip sits, cuckoo egg, in Slaw's rich nest.)
And somehow I think this kind of behavior can LOOK like intelligence, but it isnt... so if you go back to the start of the Friday
Fillip... you can add the DARK BLUE - SUITED BUNCH
as outliers....
The
fillip's a little earnest today, inasmuch
as it actually involves the word insasmuch and, more to the point, deals with a research tool.
Connie's Friday
Fillip of a while back included a link to this amazing paper, Magic Ink, which reconceptualizes computer programming
as information design and graphical design.
But don't despise the useless, because some useless things are quite worthwhile, such
as art, for example — which leads me to this week's
fillip.
We could start some 3,300 years ago with what have been heralded
as the oldest surviving pair of trousers — but such a long detailed history would be too large a load of pants for a mere
fillip.
As if that singular prospect weren't enough to turn this into a
fillip upside the head all by itself, let me add to avoirdupois the fact that these babies are currently plentiful, so plentiful in and around Japanese waters at least that they're clogging and breaking fishermen's nets.
They are too many to list, so I can only point you to a very few, but feel free to add your suggestions
as coments to this
fillip.
Well, when it comes to comfort food in the form of edible slimy pastes —
as it seems to have in this
fillip — nothing can match ambuyat, apparently.
There is also a vast ocean of lightweight inutilities to be, well, made use of — if you're a composer of Friday
fillips,
as I am.
After more than 300 frivolous Friday
Fillips, I feel I can hijack one
fillip to do a bit of administrative business, namely to announce that
as of this coming Sunday, Slaw will have a new design.
This week I debated with myself
as to whether the
fillip should be about piece of meaningless fluff (actually a whole dust bunny of pieces of meaningless fluff) that might be NSFW, or about a weighty question raised by a philosopher in the NYTimes (that probably was in its way NSFW i.e. not satisfactory for weekends).
With the arrival of Spring giving a
fillip to the housing market, many of us will be thinking about a move and wanting our house to look
as good
as possible.