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Some images from Banksy's new show which just opened at Bristol Museum, it's been kept secret from everyone except a few curators and buyers for months. It also includes his Pet Shop work from the New York exhibition as well as some other previous work.

A U-HAUL FULL OF TOWN HALL

I guess everybody has been wondering what I have been up to (apart from exposing and dissecting how the corporations are attempting to mind control us through their retention and detention of most of the population via social networking sites, as per my previous post).

The answer is, certainly not enlightening anyone via here, right?

I shut up shop for a while because I just felt it wasn’t fair to keep the blog open while I wasn’t intending to write for a few months. It was also an opportunity for me to be more focused on other things by not regularly feeling guilty about maintaining things over here.

Anyway, As usual, never a dull or often, a spare moment – nothing has changed there.

There have been a lot of things going on and certainly some interesting developments. I am working on several things at once, and have been for some time. A couple seem to be really moving along, and look like they will come to fruition over the next year or two. For multi-disciplinary types like myself (finally a term has been recently coined – “Slashie”, which for once I am happy to identify with), I think the best strategy is to be cooking a few things at the same time and throw them all on the table for a degustation by various bodies. People will usually nominate the taste of a couple that agrees with most of them and want the recipe, so to speak.

Okay, so the deal with my preoccupied state is that in late January, I called the local council to pitch an idea I had for an exhibition. In one of those super-fortuitous moments of being in exactly the right place at the right time, it so happened that a position became available pretty much at that exact moment and a couple of days later, they called and asked me if I was interested in a job. So of course I said HELL YES.

Since then I have been working on a Social History Research project about the Wollongong Town Hall, which has been, well – just about everything in it’s time from a burial ground to school of arts. We’ve found some gorgeous images, hundreds of ‘em - and I have designed a series of postcards which will be issued in 10 days, once it’s official I will release them into the wilds of the interweb. It is however drawing to a close over the next fortnight, which is going to be kind of a good thing as it seems to have become all-consuming to say the least, and I’ve almost had enough of it really.

So after having a lot of fun with it, at last I am looking forward to it being over. It’s been very enjoyable, but much harder work than you’d think for various reasons, and much harder than I anticipated.

My other projects wait patiently for my attentions, but if projects had feelings they would be starting to get pretty uppity with me around now. So soon I’ll be able to get back to them and write some more here about where it’s all at, interesting and enjoyable tidbits I’ve run across, offers and propositions, as well as the never stale topic of the stupidity of the general population who should know better, and associated things that annoy the fuck out of me.

In the meantime, I am now maniacally and obsessively tweeting on Twitter TM.