Images of Images of Images

“In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one’s legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.”

2. “Nothing is real until you put it in the VCR.” J.G. Ballard, Seconds magazine, 1996 

Each summer Europe lies on its back in the sun. That posture is, I hope, the hallmark of the future: Not merely that no-one has to work, but that work is the ultimate play and play the ultimate work.

From the Ballard Concordance, an alphabetical list of all the principal words used in his novels and non-fiction work, with their immediate contexts (10 words before and after) searchable by word. Here: ‘Airplane’ used 8 times.

“Delvaux’s The Echo, which depicted a naked Junoesque woman walking among immaculate ruins under a midnight sky, reminded him of his own recurrent fantasy. The infinite longing contained in the picture, the synthetic time created by the receding images of the woman, belonged to the landscape of his unseen night.”

From the Ballard Concordance, an alphabetical list of all the principal words used in his novels and non-fiction work, with their immediate contexts (10 words before and after) searchable by word. Here: ‘Skull’ used 97 times.

“A visit to Père Lachaise in Paris adds a year to one’s life…”

From the Ballard Concordance, an alphabetical list of all the principal words used in his novels and non-fiction work, with their immediate contexts (10 words before and after) searchable by word. Here: ‘Rio’ used 42 times.

From the Ballard Concordance, an alphabetical list of all the principal words used in his novels and non-fiction work, with their immediate contexts (10 words before and after) searchable by word. Here: ‘Fists’ used 114 times.

“The afternoon sun hung above the deserted Manhattan streets….”

“Unless you own a Ferrari, pressing the accelerator is not a moral decision.”

From the Ballard Concordance, an alphabetical list of all the principal words used in his novels and non-fiction work, with their immediate contexts (10 words before and after) searchable by word. Here: ‘Kubrick’ used 3 times.

From the Ballard Concordance, an alphabetical list of all the principal words used in his novels and non-fiction work, with their immediate contexts (10 words before and after) searchable by word. Here: ‘Nicholson’ used 2 times.

Rush.

Juke magazine, issue 4. “Shang Hiya” nightlife shoot. Rita by Shiraz Randeria.