small ritual

banksy tour guide

as predicted a couple of years ago

i kind of think banksy jumped the shark with the fake exhibits in museums, but the publication of 'wall and piece', however nice a book, finally did for him. the little black paperbacks, which were initially hard to get, still maintained the sense of secret, but 'wall and piece' was the coffee table book last christmas - the big hit compilation album that signals the end of a career. he needs to give up for a decade, or only stencil rats in places that almost no-one will find.

various small fires

i was highly amused to find this little book [1966] by ed ruscha in 'if everybody had an ocean':

even the same font near as dammit. his small fires were things like matchbooks set alight.

tune in chill out publishers

here's the website for the publishers:

christianeducation.org.uk

and the page to order 'tune in chill out' is here

tune in chill out

was just adding 'Tune In Chill Out' by Jenny Baker & Moya Ratnayake to the alternativeworship.org booklist. it's a really good book [and CD-ROM] about contemplative prayer practices that would be appreciated by many adults and not just the youthworkers at whom it's nominally aimed. funny how the marketing categories of christian publishing [and the church generally] operate - so much stuff derived from alt worship/emerging church ends up being tagged 'youthwork' when a 'new adult spirituality' category is so obviously needed.

'Tune In Chill Out' is currently hard to get hold of without going direct to the publishers - it's not on Amazon for instance. but it did sell out at greenbelt this year.