The Lighthouse Keeper’s cat

This Mural is by Perth street artist and illustrator Creepy

You have to look at his work for the So Many Broken Umbrellas at Gorker Gallery, Fitzroy, Melbourne.

Love it! Love it, Love it!

On my second day in Melbourne I decide to just stroll around rather than having a plan :-)… funnily enough this way I stumbled upon the well known Blender Gallery and Studios who organise street art tours guided by artists. For now I am content strolling to the city on my own, but if you do not have much time this might be a very good idea. They seem to be really nice www.melbournestreettours.com.

I would guess that these are all Miso’s (miso + ghostpatrol ABC documentary) work.

More in the Melbourne Streetart Flickr Set…

Background

WordPress – as most other “Blog” applications – handles media (images and video) content as “Attachments”. You write a Post and you attach an image using ‘Add Media’. The system does all the magic, scales the image in 3 sizes, allows multiple images per post. You even can add those multiple images as a gallery to a post…

Criticism

The approach in its current form is not working for me as Writer, Blogger, Publisher. Images are Posts not Attachments. I want to post an Image, not a Post. An Image is as differnet to a Post as a Page is to a Post (‘WordPress universe’ wording). Images have specific particular features, in both back (administration) and front-end (themes) aspects. The ‘advanced’ user needs more control in templates and template tags.

I am an Information Architect not a coder (developer), but this is how I see it: In a OOP metaphor an Image is a Post with specific ‘extensions’. If I would define a Post as a Class, an Image would be a Post Sub-Class. It would inherit all template tags while adding a few pieces of magic.

The Image ‘content type’

This is what I imagine would be possible without reinventing the (Wordpress-) wheel…

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The Union Lane Project is part of Melbourne’s Laneway Commissions project. Beginning in 2002, the Laneway Commissions temporarily transform Melbourne’s lanes into public art galleries.
My images are taken today almost 2 years after the event. The project is (partly) documented under http://beyondthecctv.blogspot.com/.

Many more inspirations from my first walk through Melbourne are in my Melbourne Flickr Set. Enjoy ^_^…

Übersprungbewegung (auch: Übersprunghandlung, Übersprungverhalten; engl.: displacement activity, gelegentlich auch: substitute activity oder behaviour out of context) (Übersprunghandlung on Wikipedia)

The noun is based on something Konrad Lorenz said in his work around human instincts.

However… this is not how it is used in everyday German. Something is called a ‘Übersprunghandlung’ when you have to do something and then you start doing 2+ other things – erratically – because you do not want to do what you actually have to do.

E.g. today I need to do my German taxes, so I went to have coffee with a friend, bought a new Journal and pencils, spent hours in the Library, updated Parallels to 4 (which crashed my virtual Windows XP, so I spend hours…  ) now it is dark and I am cooking (doomed to burn), listening to podcast (without really listening) and writing this stupid post… I think you get the picture…

Every language should have a one word to describe something like this ^_^…

P.S I you know an good idiom in English for this, let me know!

Now… seeing that I never made it to Mail Me Art 1 –I definitely will have a go this time. Submissions should be open till December. Darren keeps it a bit open ^_^…

How to submit your mail art

“Mail Me Art 2 will run for around 6-8 months. For more information about the project, please click here. If you’re after some inspiration, you can see examples of work from the first Mail Me Art project here.”*

P.S. The LCS email Newsletter is one of the few I actually bother loading the images, so if you are heading to the website, you might consider signing up.

*)…Text stolen from the MMA website

…because this part won’t be like a comic book. Real life does not fit into little boxes that were drawn for it.

Elijah to David in M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Unbreakable’