Posts Tagged ‘Street Art

31
Mar
09

Steven Seagal Street Art

steven-seagal-street-artI swear to God I didn’t do this. It just appeared on a bollard near my workplace, just three days after my initial Seagal Gallery of Shame. Is the Mojo Priest set to break back into public consciousness?

Maybe the Seagal revival/reappraisal starts here? Maybe we need to reconsider the Chungdrag Dorje’s cultural impact? The great French cineastes on the 1930′s rediscovered the great Melies long after he fell into obscurity. Maybe it’s time we did the same for Seagal, before he disappears into the Direct-to-Video mire? But where to begin?




What’s This All About Then?

Burnt Retina is the never-ending work in progress of an inconsumate consumer of films, that happens to be me, Peter Walsh.

By day I study them, and the intricate business structures which established cinema as an institution, all towards a doctoral thesis at the University of Sheffield.

The thesis does however not leave much scope for all the brilliant cinema that came from beyond Yorkshire, after 1911. Which is where this blog comes in. It’s far from academic, and thoroughly personal.

Twitter based scatter-gun thoughts/observations

  • Malmö can have Eurovision next year, surely about time it was their bloody turn....1 day ago
  • Otherwise glad to hear the mother nation is #representing on a grand scale. Pop: Sweden's only surviving national industry....1 day ago
  • Missing eurovision as I was at a pie party. There was a Meliès man-in-the-moon rhubarb and strawberry pie. Still trying to get over it. #pie...1 day ago
  • Telesales: Do you read Rugby World? (No) Oh wait, maybe golf? (No) Ah, maybe its because your partner's into women & home? (Big on grammar?)...3 days ago
  • Not to say the 2are mutually exclusive, but I doubt critics rolled out of Easy Rider or Betty Blue & went "Crikey! Cult film in the making!"...3 days ago
  • Critics fresh out of Cannes screenings crying 'a cult film in the making!' obv have rather a tenuous grasp of how a film reaches said status...3 days ago

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