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jimmyspades · 5 months

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"...the interaction between an anonymous individual and his car, the transits of his body across the polished cellulose panels and vinyl seating, his face silhouetted against the instrument dials.

"Caring for him, I wanted to stroke his scarred thighs and abdomen, offering him the automobile injuries carried by my own body in place of those imaginary wounds he wished upon the actress." -J.G. Ballard, Crash

JAMES SPADER as James Ballard CRASH (1996), dir. David Cronenberg

#perfect casting. his big hypnotic unfocused startling eyes #his hunger #the scariest man I have ever seen #crash #crash 1996 #james spader #*#david cronenberg #jg ballard

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aworldofpattern · 27 days

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Zendaya at the Met Gala 2024, wearing custom Maison Margiela Artisanal by John Galliano, and hat by Stephen Jones.

The fruit, flowers, insects and birds on the gown fit the dress code of the night, 'The Garden of Time', inspired by J.G. Ballard's 1962 short story (explained here by the BBC).

The gown also references John Galliano’s Spring 1999 couture collection for Dior, in particular the gown below, decorated with grapes.

Maison Margiela said:

'A sage lamé bias-cut ‘siren dress’ overlaid with iridescent electric blue organza with ‘retrograding’ in undulating bands of hand-painted metallic crin, swathed in an aluminium material and iridescent organza drape and bow, with a corsage hand-embroidered in a bacchanal of hand-painted impasto in the grammar of the electric blues and emerald greens of scarab amulets, with formations of birds, flowers, vines, grapes and nuts, worn over a boudoir-coloured duchess satin corset. A silver metal-wire ‘reverse swatching’ hat and a black hand-painted voile crafted in the memory of plume and enveloped in matching coloured stockings by Stephen Jones for Maison Margiela, and Eau de Nil velour and faux lizard Tabi interlaced ankle-strap pumps by Christian Louboutin for Maison Margiela.

Created for Zendaya by John Galliano for Maison Margiela, the haute couture silhouette was inspired by the 1930s mythological works of the photographer Madame Yevonde and imbued with the memory of the orgiastic sceneries of the bacchanals of Ancient Greece. In a dance between painterly cutting and draping techniques – unique to each layer of the construction – and the superposition of fabric textures such as tin foil with transparent iridescent organza overlay, the composition conjures the staccato brushstrokes of Giovanni Boldini. The bias-cut ‘siren dress’ is a key expression in the creative practice of John Galliano, which first appeared at Maison Margiela in the Spring-Summer 2020 Artisanal Collection. Infused with a certain ‘snobisme’, the look is given the epithet of ‘86 and Lexington’, a nod to the subway station near The Met.

The dress was crafted with ‘retrograding’, a technique through which variations of thread-work, appliqué or encrustation degrade from the bottom to the top of a garment like the linear base drawing of a painting that hasn’t yet been finished. The ‘reverse swatching’ technique employed in the hat exchanges the fabrics traditionally used for certain parts of dressmaking with materials of a contrasting value.' X

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eelbergine · 25 days

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"Modern consumerism relies on the subject believing that they are in control, while their thoughts and actions are progressively delimited by a fossil infrastructure that molds the ostensible user in its own corrosive image, leading to an inversion of user and used."

#reads #William Taylor #jg ballard #petromodernity #death drive

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helpmysoultheeggladsarecoming · 7 months

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idk what i’m doing gang please just take this

#come get yall juice #gay #crash 1996 #david cronenberg #jg ballard #wtf was seagrave on in the book like why was he like That.

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t0uchfaith · 2 months

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“For Vaughan, events have no meaning and do not even seem to be phenomenologically present until they are captured and mediated by some means of mechanical reproduction. The image is at the hands of the text's characters thus the subject of both fetishisation and exorbitation: nothing is more real than the image, and without the image there is no longer any real.”

Andrzej Gasiorek on J.G. Ballard and Crash.

#crash #crash 1973 #jg ballard

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musicktoplayinthedark · 6 months

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Mike Halliwell’s montages illustrate J. G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition

#mike halliwell #jg ballard #collage #art

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james-joyces-right-eyeball · 5 months

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Favorite Books I Read in 2023

Not including rereads and in no particular order, here are the books I loved the most this year.

Titles & Authors, from top left to bottom:

Fluids by May Leitz

Nevada by Imogen Binnie

Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

Perfume: Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

Valencia by Michelle Tea

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles

Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov

Summer by Edith Wharton

"The Echo & the Nemesis", "Life is No Abyss", "The Interior Castle", "Bad Characters", and "In the Zoo" by Jean Stafford

Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo

Crash by J.G. Ballard

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Conde

Erasure by Percival Everett

Persuasion by Jane Austen

White Noise by Don DeLillo

Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson

Ghosts of my Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, & Lost Futures by Mark Fisher

Girl Flesh by May Leitz

Here's to a new year, full of great reading!

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jukeboxjunk · 27 days

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this year’s met gala is haunted, not only by civil unrest and genocidal warfare, but by its own theme. invitees can dance in designer gowns like dead flowers but they cannot escape what the rotting garden represented to ballard: the inevitable, bloody fall of the ruling class.

#you cannot keep the weeds away forever #and flowers are in limited supply #met gala #jg ballard

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lilithsaintcrow · 15 hours

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"Though Ballard thought in terms of film and television—and though we ourselves play the role of the selecting computer in his scenario—this description almost perfectly captures the behavior of the average user of Facebook, Instagram, etc."

#jg ballard #predictions #literature

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jimmyspades · 3 months

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i was in your wet dream driving in my car (crash 1996)

#crash #crash 1996 #david cronenberg #james spader #james ballard #jg ballard #deborah kara unger #elias koteas #holly hunter #rosanna arquette #*#video #this only took me a couple hours probably bc I’ve been wanting to make it for MONTHS #umm I think it’s fun. I love this song it’s so them!#let me know what you think :)

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aworldofpattern · 27 days

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Janelle Monae at the Met Gala 2024, wearing custom Vera Wang.

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blackswaneuroparedux · 11 months

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A kind of banalisation of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.

J. G. Ballard

#ballard #jg ballard #quote #author #literature #writer #celebrity culture #fame #commodification #celebrity #society

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ironedorchid · 27 days

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Honestly, I'm kinda disappointed that no one went to the Met Gala dressed as the advancing horde of poor people dressed in rags.

As was his custom before beginning his evening stroll, Count Axel looked out across the plain to the final rise, where the horizon was illuminated like a distant stage by the fading sun. As the Mozart chimed delicately around him, flowing from his wife’s graceful hands, he saw that the advance column of an enormous army was moving slowly over the horizon. At first glance, the long ranks seemed to be progressing in orderly lines, but on closer inspection, it was apparent that, like the obscured detail of a Goya landscape, the army was composed of a vast throng of people, men and women, interspersed with a few soldiers in ragged uniforms, pressing forward in a disorganized tide. Some laboured under heavy loads suspended from crude yokes around their necks, others struggled with cumbersome wooden carts, their hands wrenching at the wheel spokes, a few trudged on alone, but all moved on at the same pace, bowed backs illuminated in the fleeting sun. The advancing throng was almost too far away to be visible, but even as Axel watched, his expression aloof yet observant, it came perceptibly nearer, the vanguard of an immense rabble appearing from below the horizon. At last, as the daylight began to fade, the front edge of the throng reached the crest of the first swell below the horizon, and Axel turned from the terrace and walked down among the time flowers.

The Garden of Time, J. G. Ballad, 1962

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#met gala #jg ballard #the garden of time #fashion

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spaceintruderdetector · 30 days

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j.g. ballard interview 1983

High Times Magazine, 1980s : THC : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

#jg ballard #literature #modern literature #science fiction literature #science fiction

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dare-g · 1 year

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Crash! (1971)

#crash!#crash #j.g. ballard #jg ballard #gabrielle drake #harley cokeliss #talks

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thoughtportal · 27 days

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This was the theme of the fucking met gala this year:

In an unnamed place and time, a majestic villa overlooks a garden of delicate, glass-stemmed flowers. Home to Count Axel and the Countess, the otherwise elegant landscape is unsettled by a dark blot on the horizon. It is an army of furious workers, drawing nearer day by day. To slow its approach, Axel plucks the time flowers from his garden; each one dissolves in a burst of light which rewinds time itself, and so the threatening horde shifts back on the skyline. This solution, however, is only temporary. The garden of time is faltering, the flowers are almost all gone, and the masses will soon arrive to take their long-awaited revenge.

This is the premise of The Garden of Time, a 1962 short story by J.G. Ballard.

read the story here.

#fiction #met gala #met museum #met fashion #jg ballard #article #the oxford student #the metropolitan museum of art #science fiction #speculative fiction

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