Ephemicropolis 2010

100,000 Staples
Approx floor area 600x300cm

Stacks of staples were broken into varying sizes from full stacks about 12cm high down to single staples. These stacks were then stood up and arranged over a period of 40 hours.
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This is incredible - I am not in any way artistic, but can appreciate something special when I see it. Check his website out, it's quite something.

This is so fucking nail - hit - head.

Not only that, the song is actually good. And authentic.

It Couldn't Happen Here
August 29, 2010 8:16 PM   Subscribe

GBH was a seven-part British television drama written by Alan Bleasdale [previously1] [previously2] shown in the summer of 1991 on Channel 4. The protagonists were Michael Murray (played by Robert Lindsay), the Militant Labour leader of a city council in the North of England and Jim Nelson (played by Michael Palin), the headmaster of a school for disturbed children. The series was controversial partly because Murray appeared to be based on Derek Hatton, former Deputy Leader of Liverpool City Council - in an interview in the G.B.H. DVD Bleasdale recounts an accidental meeting with Hatton before the series, who indicates that he has caught wind of Bleasdale's intentions but does not mind as long as the actor playing him is "handsome".

Sez Wikipedia: GBH is set in the early 1990s, towards the end of the Thatcher years, when numerous attempts were made by local left-wing councils to get more autonomy (not least in Bleasdale's home city of Liverpool, see municipal socialism). The plot is the attempt by UK government secret services to discredit and bring down Murray's leadership. Ideologically this involves a left-wing theorist, Mervyn, who is manipulated by MI5 agent Lou. Meanwhile, another MI5 agent Peter has recruited a gang of thugs, posing as left-wing activists (and later policemen) as agents provocateurs. Each episode reveals more about the convoluted nature of the plot to discredit Murray.

It seems as though all of the original episodes have been uploaded to YouTube. Here are links to the first episode:

GBH Episode One part one
GBH Episode One part two
GBH Episode One part three
GBH Episode One part four
GBH Episode One part five
GBH Episode One part six
GBH Episode One part seven
GBH Episode One part eight
GBH Episode One part nine
GBH Episode One part ten

posted by KokuRyu (18 comments total) 27 users marked this as a favorite

outstanding political satire.

i thought this were brilliant

Just Fuck Off

Posted by Matthew in Rambling on 8 Jul 10 • 27 Comments »

Sometimes I really wish we had more poofs and asylum seekers and darkies and bankers and… well okay, maybe not bankers, but benefit cheats and single mums and immigrants in this country.  Because I’d rather a country filled with all those people than one filled with Daily Express readers.

In fact, I think the best way to solve the pressure on the country’s infrastructure which all these gay immigrants seem set to exert would be to organise a swap system.  For every asylum seeker we take in we should be able to ship a Daily Mail or a Daily Express reader off to somewhere like Kabul or Darfur or pretty much anywhere the fuck else but here.

Because the one thing we all know is that the primary reason for abandoning your family and the country of your birth only to wash up somewhere like this with absolutely nothing to your name but the clothes you are wearing is so that you can go to Kylie concerts and drink fucking cocktails.

In some senses you almost have to applaud the Daily Express for this headline.  You really couldn’t make this shit up.  But how the hell can you possibly satirise something so brilliantly insane?  Then again, why waste your time satirising the cunts – why not just tell them to fuck off.

Tags: daily express, daily mail