I enjoy injecting sound into the stream
of fillips from time to time, because sound has no intrinsic meaning — unlike the words we wield every day — and despite or because of that it can be beautiful and intriguing.
Once you're tired of this game, you can turn to others of xefer's projects, among which you'll find the Maze Generator, Twitter Charts, and Conway's Game of Life (which I talked about here hundreds
of fillips ago).
I'd like to think that Simon Fodden would approve
of the fillips that will bookend this final blog post.
Champions League qualification may be wrapped up, but the Blues are in need
of a fillip after losing to Chelsea.
Near the top
of this fillip I said that the fuss about vocal fry contained a number of threads, only one of which was about women's voices; to hear a broader discussion of fry and why some folks are irked about it, listen to the recording of a broadcast on National Public Radio.
And the aim
of this fillip is to give you a quick sense of what that lot includes.
No, not Domesday of Book fame: that was 923 years ago, and has rather too much to do with law to be the subject
of a fillip.
Followers
of the fillip will know I often like to get away from words on this weekly indulgence, and this is one of those times.
Not exact matches
In the meantime, a non-trivial
fillip like a basket
of services that includes Apple Pay and Apple Music is the mark
of a company with an eye to the future.
The depreciation
of the euro and strong world growth has provided a
fillip to domestic producers with exports increasing strongly over the past year.
In spite
of the short - phrase
fillip, the Conservative victory will probably give, the longer - time period image is
of a industry that is neither cheap nor expensive and a worldwide liquidity backdrop that hazards getting to be much less accommodating.
Amid OPEC supply compliance, WTI markets are focusing on dwindling inflow
of Crude from Canada to Cushing due to limited accommodation on the Keystone pipeline.The disruption is providing a
fillip to WTI prices while the stronger dollar has Brent prices falling and narrowing the WTI - Brent spread.
To celebrate this late, bone - warming
fillip I pulled together silk - jacketed corn, a virgin packet
of sweet white miso, some coconut butter, a lime and couple
of packs
of tofu and called it dinner.
Last weekend's 3 - 0 success at home to Bournemouth was a welcome
fillip for Arsenal after they lost two
of the opening three fixtures for the first time since 2011/12, the season following skipper Cesc Fabregas's departure for Camp Nou.
Well over 6 feet tall, he dresses in the tweedy elegance
of European aristocracy, often with the added
fillip of shirts in dazzling pink or yellow.
Besides, the instant audit
of voters, with the card - reader recording accredited voters, against the ones that actually voted, would give electoral transparency a
fillip.
And that gives further
fillip to the fact that the hands
of the military establishment is tenaciously still holding on to Nigeria and won't want to be relegated to the background over who gets what anytime soon.
Is there loading a repeat
of last year, when it switched votes from crucial roads nationwide, that would have given the economy a
fillip, to useless constituency projects, for brazen personal egos?
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.
«I think Jeremy has been a
fillip to the Labour party in lots
of ways and let us get back to a more traditional left Labour position, one in which I am more comfortable than arguably I have been at any point,» he said.
At the very least, it would have avoided giving new Lib Dem leader Tim Farron, who's parliamentary legions (well, all eight
of them), opposed the bill outright, an immediate
fillip.
Whereas Goodbye to Language stood out from other Godard essay films for its singular reimagining
of the 3D image, The Image Book offers its own inspired
fillip to the director's formula: a soundtrack that ping - pongs around the stereo field in four dimensions.
Both cover and rating were wholly misleading publicity
fillips for the movie, which isn't glamorous or gory, or even pornographic: the shots
of Williams's Cindy being taken from behind by one boyfriend and receiving oral sex from another - Gosling's Dean, with whom she's newly in love - are inexplicit and more functional than erotic.
He is the hotel's ultra-refined concierge, an omnivorous aesthete who appreciates both sexes, a splash
of cologne, and
fillip of poetry for every occasion.
The adoption
of bite sized learning has received a
fillip with the advent
of mobile learning and increase in the number
of Gen Y workers.
We've had a lot
of rough luck this year and it's not run to plan, but this is just an amazing
fillip for everyone.
Given that all Pathfinders are automatics and most
of us have two feet, this might seem an unnecessary
fillip, but it does have its uses in off - road extremes.
The introduction
of the XE diesel will give a
fillip to JLR India sales.
The hectic study schedules, part time job and incompetency
of writing essays have become a great
fillip to the custom essay writing websites.
Now that has got a
fillip on the back
of news about Amazon having poached a smartphone expert who has rendered 2 decades
of service at Microsoft.
Use
of tablet devices in sports would get a major
fillip when Phoenix Suns uses the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet for its sessions both on and off the court.
So while battery life gits a
fillip, that will be at the cost
of a slight drop in performance.
We believe macroeconomic developments in the United States and elsewhere could prove a
fillip to value investing after several years
of underperformance.
According to Business Head
of Orient Spa Ltd, Sanjana Gupta «Undoubtedly, Orient Spa is making rapid strides in the wellness industry, but this tie - up will definitely provide a huge
fillip to our brand».
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.
Among the publications he's contributed to are Spike Art Quarterly, Pazmaker, Nero, Mousse, L'Uomo Vogue,
Fillip, The Federal, Cura, The Baltic Notebooks
of Anthony Blunt, Art Papers, catalogues, and books.
An open field has a little
fillip of brown, dashed off with the tip
of a brush, breaking its center near the bottom.
Taking its title from Wayne Koestenbaum's 2007 book Hotel Theory (a philosophic enquiry into the hotel state
of being), this is the fourth title in
Fillip's ongoing Folio Series presenting writing by critics, artists and curators that engages specific and recurring questions on international contemporary art.
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)
Her writing has appeared in venues including Artforum.com, Art in America, ARTnews, Canadian Art,
Fillip, Journal
of Curatorial Studies, Journal
of Visual Culture, n paradoxa, Photography & Culture, and Prefix Photo.
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.
She has also written for frieze, Art in America, ARTMargins Online, C Magazine, Border Crossings,
Fillip, Journal
of Curatorial Studies, CritCom, and other venues.
LIST PRICE: U.S. $ 20.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $ 25 ISBN: 9781927354032 PUBLISHER:
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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.
Middleton was the founding publisher
of the contemporary art journal
Fillip and has worked in an advisory capacity with Canada Council for the Arts, BC Arts Council, Emily Carr University
of Art & Design, The Sobey Art Foundation, and National Gallery
of Canada.
Her writings on history, Indigenous art, and vernacular architecture have been published by MIT Press, BlackDog Publishing, Revolver Press, New York University, The
Fillip Review, Canadian Art Magazine and the National Museum
of the American Indian, among others.
Her writings on history, art, and vernacular architecture have been published by MIT Press, BlackDog Publishing, Revolver Press, New York University, the
Fillip Review and the National Museum
of the American Indian, among others.
Fillip gratefully acknowledges the support
of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the City
of Vancouver, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council.
So today, as the
fillip's
fillip, I offer up three
of sources
of pleasing randomness in action.