Friday, May 2, 2025

Brutalist / Botanist

 



This whole Brutalism thing has gotten a bit of out of hand now.... they are scraping the barrel bottom, I think. 

Mind, you, these photographs are cool in a J.G. Ballard, The Drowned World, London-gone-tropical kind of way..












































Via Hoxton Mini Press which fairly places it as a product (cute little logo though)


Talking about Brutalism...  what did people make of The Brutalist? I watched it on the airplane, which is ridiculous - seat-back screen versus the widescreen, Dolby-sound grandeur of imagery and music that it is all about. Despite these reductions, I was really into it until about two-thirds of the way through when a plot twist occurs that seemed ludicrous and after that the whole thing seemed to cop out, or crap out....