Kester Brewin

Tag: Trickster

  • Freedom of Speech? My Arse!

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    I know this blog is meant to be a place to throw some dirt around, but perhaps this is too much information: one of the books that is by the crapper in our house is a collection of Alistair Cooke’s Letters from America. Pithy, perfectly lengthed pieces on everything important from 1945 to 2004. And…

  • De-lettering the Public Space

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    A week or so ago I wrote a post about how Advertising Makes Us All Poor; more recently Jonathan posted about re-imagining our public/discourse spaces and reflecting on what they say about us. In response to this, Wilf sent me links to this fascinating project where a whole street in Vienna agreed to be ‘de-lettered’…

  • A Dirt Laureate?

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    “The poet”, Rollo May writes, “is a menace to conformity. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists are the possible destroyers of our nicely ordered systems. For the creative impulse is the speaking of the voice and the expressing of the forms of the preconscious and unconscious; and this is, by…

  • Rebellion, Godliness and the Emerging Church

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    Just heading off to Greenbelt, so probably won’t be posting for the next few days… Will have this resonating in my mind as I go though – probably the most complete description of what Vaux was trying to do, what the book aims to encourage, and what I hope the Emerging Church succeeds in doing:…

  • Trickster No. 8: Banksy

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    OK, I resisted in the initial list… But after his antics on the disgraceful Wall in Palestine, he just can’t be ignored. "I love Palestine" he says, "All the huge walls, mud and falafel stalls remind me of being at Glastonbury" Check out footage from Channel 4 News Stay Tricky. [Thanks for the tip off…

  • Trickster No. 7: ?

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    OK, so I lied about pre-posting all these Trickster posts… Didn’t quite get it done before flying out to Italy, so I’m standing coining Euros at some t’Internet machine at Pisa Airport waiting for my flight. It’s RyanAir. I could be a while. So who is my last Trickster going to be? I’ve been mulling…