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The streets around Dalkey, County Dublin, are graced by desirable residences of the rich and famous. Though not quite so well-known, Dalkey is also home to one of the country’s last imaginary bookshops. The business has been active since 1964, though the shop itself must be closer to a hundred years old.
More often than not, you will find yourself seeking the help of the proprietor, Brian O’Nolan, who is always there, sitting in a frayed armchair surrounded by stacks of books, with his trusty cat, Myles, by his side. Though now advanced in years, and more than a little deaf, Mr. O’Nolan is known to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of everything on the shelves, as well as what has been archived upstairs.
This bookshop is a virtual Aladdin's Cave of literary gems for the keen-eyed local or casual visitor. Don’t miss it on your next cultural visit to Dalkey.
Imagined in Midjourney with additional work in Photoshop.
Not to be confused with:
The book "The Dalkey Archive", which was written by Irish author Flann O'Brien (also known as Brian O'Nolan). It is a satirical novel that features a mix of absurdist humor and metaphysical fiction. The narrative is full of references to Irish folklore, mythology, and literature, and uses a stream-of-consciousness style to convey the protagonist's thoughts and experiences.
Odd juxtapositions question a singular view of what we call "real". The text elements illustrate the automatic and compulsive reflex in the human mind to label and conceptualize raw experience with different forms of "language". The title is derived from the improvised typing in of random letters. They're also used as purely graphic elements, their incomprehensibility undermines the impulse to conceptualize.
My new work strives to produce what might be called 'visual koans', the Zen 'problem' that is given to the student to solve but which is virtually impossible from the outset, using the rational mind. This has some sympathy with the practices of Dada. David Byrne, of Talking Heads, said it so succinctly ... "Stop making sense".
Created April 28, 2023.
Music Link: "Miss Shapiro", Phil Manzanera and Brian Eno - From the Phil Manzanera album "Diamond Head". Again, Eno's 'non-sense' lyrics which show surprising rhythmic purpose and a 'non-rational' kaleidoscope of images in the very best British tradition of absurdist wordplay.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mA4m6y1Ifw
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...either that, or I've shrunk!
Smile On Saturday: "Portray The Name Of A Music Band" theme
Per Wikipedia: "They Might Be Giants" (often abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell. During TMBG's early years, Flansburgh and Linnell frequently performed as a duo, often accompanied by a drum machine. In the early 1990s, TMBG expanded to include a backing band... The group is known for their uniquely experimental and absurdist style of alternative music, typically using surreal, humorous lyrics and unconventional instruments in their songs.
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Excerpt from www.artsy.net/artwork/willy-verginer-il-gioco-infinito:
Willy Verginer crafts hyperrealistic chiseled wood sculptures that are equally poignant and absurdist. Verginer’s precisely rendered sculptures variously depict children with their heads poking through cardboard boxes with branches growing from their feet, red-eyed cows whose hooves are stuck in tires, and bespectacled businessmen kneeling on top of donkeys. Deadpan juxtapositions of contemporary industry and bucolic animal life is a common motif in his work, as is a graphic delineation in color. Verginer’s works comment on contemporary pollution and environmental degradation and implicate their human subjects as passive observers or even active contributors to this destruction. Verginer has ehxibited in Paris, Antwerp, Zurich, Milan, Montreal, and Krakow.
A slightly absurdist snap of a tap dance performance in Staines Upon Thames, Surrey.
My timing/framing could have been a bit better, this was faster than it looks here.
Black and white taken with a Nikon D7000 and a Nikkor AFS DX 18-200mm F/3.5-5.6G lens, and processed in GIMP and Photoscape.
If crayons exploded and learned how to tweet,
You’d get this absurdist with bright red feet.
This male Red-legged Honeycreeper was photographed in Costa Rica, showing off his electric blue body, velvet black mask, and those unmistakable crimson legs. He looks less like a bird and more like a rogue highlighter with an attitude. Just another reminder that nature has a sense of humor—and a very colorful palette.
st james cathedral, toronto, reflected in the hood of an art exhibit fake porsche
In the Toronto Sculpture Garden (a tiny park on King St, that shows one outdoor contemporary exhibit per month by local artists), the current exhibit titled "Upgrade" consists of a used economy sports car (a 1998 Pontiac Sunfire) "converted" with red vinyl skin & imitation leather upholstery into a 2007 Porsche, "an absurdist and economical means of obtaining a desirable and renowned object". The artist, it said, is attempting to address "longing" as a governing force in a consumption-oriented culture. The Sunfire sold, in 1998, for $3,990. A real Porsche sells for $169,500 !
Excerpt from artgalleryofhamilton.com:
Approaching the world around him with equal parts troubled fascination and absurdist humour, Adams has been repurposing the physical components of everyday life into remarkable, often-enormous structures since the late 1970s. Throughout his career, Adams has created a variety of hybrid sculptures and assemblages composed of anything and everything, from hobby kits and toys to auto parts and entire vehicles.
Albert Camus 1913-1960 features in this absurdist piece by Van Jimmer, painted in September 2021, in Anerley, South London.