A woman is a woman - 1961

On the way to this morning's film, I enjoyed this shadow on the Merz Barn in the RA courtyard-



And also saw this regiment of rubbish bins lining up for early morning inspection-



Very excited to see a real Star Trek communicator in the Planet Hollywood window - beam me up Scottie ...




Onto the film - this was Jean Luc Godard's second film, "Une femme est une femme".
Main themes were:

Is it a comedy or a tragedy ?- or a farce ...
The truth should look different from a lie.
Do you need to be sad to be happy.
Is the word funny, funny or just funny ?
Was Jean Luc only kidding ?
Are men and women only really together in a relationship when they are not together ?
Good use of a bright red cardigan, tights and lampshade to signify the woman's power over these two men.
Men and women find it hard to communicate - here they are driven to using random book titles or moving red awnings to explain themselves to each other.
Cut the Baloney or you'll get a knuckle sandwich.



On the way home. I visited the new Gilbert & George postcard exhibition at the White Cube - as usual their art left me cold - the arrangement of the cards looked amateurish and even its link to the Theophising movement's use of the urethra shape did little for me. This shape - a continuous rectangle of cards, with a single card in its central space - mimics the sexual symbol used by the one time theosophist C. W. Leadbetter (1853 - 1934) - so what ?

On the train I notice they have now added another grade of seat to sit alongside the priority for disabled passengers' seats ...



Makes you wonder what other signs on seats they plan to produce:

Please vacate for Invis-able people.
Please vacate for T-able people
Please vacate for incred-able people.