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Are… are you serious?

Jan 5

Posted by Spock... in Art, Society | 6 Comments

This story is filled with so much fucktwitary it actually hurts:

A charity exhibition at Sydney Children’s Hospital of works by some of Australia’s leading artists has collapsed after hospital officials saw one of the works – a photograph by the Archibald Prize winner Del Kathryn Barton – in which her six-year-old son is shown naked from the waist up.

The decision will cost the hospital an estimated $200,000.

We’re all getting a little bit sensitive, don’t you think? I mean, I have seen kids running around topless in shopping centres. I have seen kids naked at swimming pools (as desperate parents run after them in an attempt to get clothes on them). How is this at all a deal?

I mean, this is hardly porn.

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Implants Needed

Apr 8

Posted by Trevor McDonald in Crime, Immigration, Society | 6 Comments

Reader, fan and art collector (my brother Wayne) texts:

Oy gruesome it looks like age is catching up with me and I need the ashley and martins implants like greg matthews and I need to liquidate my very recently purchased art quick smart. I will take ANY REASONABLE OFFER for my collection of fine art that you won’t find in most cash converters.

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The nude bomb

Mar 3

Posted by Ross Sharp in Media, Society | 5 Comments

You are probably all familiar by now with the recent mass nude Spencer Tunick photo shoot at Sydney’s Opera House that appeared to go off without a hitch, and was enjoyed and applauded by all with no instances of gross perversions reported.

However, one Queenslander was so outraged by this event that he was moved to fire off a letter to today’s Sydney Morning Herald …

How many people were arrested for indecent exposure in a public place? From the lack of media reports, none. That the police allowed this disgraceful display calls into question their ability to enforce the law. Are they afraid to do that? That the citizens of this once great city appear not to have protested calls into question their level of support for immorality in their midst. This was not art, it was grubby voyeurism at its worst. – David Stevens, Sunnybank Hills (Qld)

To which I was moved to fire off a response …

Re yesterday’s letter from David Stevens of Sunnybank Hills, Queensland protesting the “disgraceful”, “grubby voyeurism” and “immorality” of the recent Spencer Tunick photo shoot, I would like it be known that I am not native to Queensland, I only work here. – Ross Sharp, (Qld)

You’ve no idea how many times over the past five years I’ve felt it necessary to point this out.

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