Kester Brewin

Tag: Arts

  • Long Live The Queen

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    I’ll add my congratulations to Helen Mirren for her Oscar win last night. I thought the film was fantastic, primarily because it exhibited ‘the miracle of restraint’. It would have been too easy to go for money shots of Princes William and Harry grieving their mother’s death. As it was, you never even saw their…

  • Wireless Crucifix | Transmitting Now…

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    Great tip via the Moot site – this cheeky electronic crucifix, which transmits the Lord’s Prayer in ASCII at 916Mhz to all around. The blurb on the site (affilitated to the wonderfully imagined Interactive Televangelist Program – part of the Faith-Based Electonics Group) is pitched beautifully: Many people affix crucifixes and other religious iconography to…

  • Eno Interview | ‘Evangelical Atheism and Secular Spiritual Places’

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    Excellent interview with Brian Eno on Front Row today. Well worth a podcast or download. For one week only. In reply to a question about his music being ‘spiritual’ he admits to be being an ‘evangelical atheist’ but that he is ‘jealous of the spiritual experiences the religious have access to.’ His recent work seeks…

  • Art as Pork Belly | The Gift and the End of ‘The Original’

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    Jonny has been posting some great stuff on The Gift. And tonight on Front Row – BBC Radio 4’s flagship arts programme – there was a great piece about the inflated price of art. One expert made it clear that the people buying Pollocks for $140 million, and Warhols for tens of millions have one…