What does J.G.Ballard look like?

Ian Rogers - Collage

"What actually happens on the level of our unconscious minds when, within minutes on the same TV screen, a prime minister is assassinated, an actress makes love, an injured child is carried from a car crash?" - J.G. Ballard

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Say, these are actually pretty good. They are, indeed, properly #Ballardian – in their overtly Vermillion Sandy quality, yes, but still more so in their resonance with Ballard’s own collages. https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2023/apr/22/retro-futurist-landscapes-inspired-by-rock-idols-and-writers-in-pictures

#OnThisDate, March 21, Grauzone [Zones] (Fredi M. #Murer, 1979) is the #FilmDuJour. #film #Switzerland #WestGermany #Ballardian ★★★★½

No one ever asked, but my social media name is a direct #BoTD JG Ballard reference. It would have been his birthday today, let's watch Charles Band's Crash! (1976) https://youtu.be/5cqn6zA1sMg #film #Ballardian #literature #books

"Above all, he looked down on them for their good taste. The building was a monument to good taste, to the well-designed kitchen, to sophisticated utensils and fabrics, to elegant and never ostentatious furnishings – in short, to that whole aesthetic sensibility which these well-educated professional people had inherited from all the schools of industrial design, all the award-winning schemes of interior decoration institutionalized by the last quarter of the twentieth century. Royal detested this orthodoxy of the intelligent. Visiting his neighbours’ apartments, he would find himself physically repelled by the contours of an award-winning coffee-pot, by the well-modulated colour schemes, by the good taste and intelligence that, Midas-like, had transformed everything in these apartments into an ideal marriage of function and design."

High Rise (1975)
J. G. Ballard

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