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Interview with Nick Wood, 1978 – about The Theatre of Mistakes

Very pleased to have found this interview with Nick Wood from 1978 See also https://anthonyhowelljournal.com/2023/05/08/performances-in-the-seventies/ See also https://theatreofmistakes.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/towards-a-purposeful-accident-elements-of-performance-art-via-the-ting-the-theatre-of-mistakes-at-parse-gothenburg-2016/

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Mardaani 1, 2 and 3

Until now I have not been a fan of Bollywood movies, but I watched Mardaani 1, which came out in 2014, directed by Pradeep Sarkar, and written by Gopi Puthran. I found it full of suspense, informative, quite terrifying and … Continue reading →

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Lakenheath

x It’s all top-secret and ever so strictly prohibited. Making it a cert that this is where Our heat-seeking darts have their arsenals. This must be missile mission-control – Where we go on raids from, with our allies – It … Continue reading →

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Busts on Black

x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x * Drawn with 4B pencil on a Musou Black ground. The images alter as you walk past them, since they are dependent on the light … Continue reading →

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Nero Explains

Let me count the ways crime actually pays Big time. Once you’re handed the microphone, You can make manifest future realities: Hyperstition obtains by the telling of compelling stories, x Thus it is that prophecies become self-fulfilling. Engineered through media … Continue reading →

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Deep Art’s need for a Reservoir of Chaos

Further Thoughts on Deep Art I like to think of what I do as a departure from modernism. I do what I call Deep Art. I see its precedent in Leonardo da Vinci’s advice to gaze at a wall to … Continue reading →

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Pleasure and Destruction

A new slideshow on YOUTUBE. The hyper-real becomes more intense than reality. The click-bait goes both ways. War or porn. Which is which? Can they be drawn at the same time?

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Anger: A new slide-show on Youtube

Click on ANGER – my new video on Youtube. But maybe open a vigorous track before you press play on my link. See also The Meaning of Anger. Almost all my slide-shows can be found on Youtube @theanthonyhowell here There … Continue reading →

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Imaginary Illustrations

x x x x x x x What if one reversed illustration? If the picture came first, and it was up to the viewer to give it a story? A friend points out that this is nothing new. As this … Continue reading →

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The Vintage to the Dungeon

The Vintage to the Dungeon – a poem by Richard Lovelace I. Sing out, pent soules, sing cheerefully! Care shackles you in liberty: Mirth frees you in captivity. Would you double fetters adde? Else why so sadde? Chorus Besides your … Continue reading →

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