CHINESE WORD ART...

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I know more or less nothing about Chinese art, writing or music.

I do however know that many western people hate the country, either on account of it’s rather vigorously workful approach to slavery, it’s commie roots and/or it’s oppression of Tibet....

What I also know, is that being the current workshop of the world (apparently specialising in the kind of crap that keeps a thousand £ shops in business) China will soon own all our asses in a very real sense...

But I won’t mind all that too much if they do their ’world dom’ with style...

The problem was that until today, I’d seen precious little to suggest that’ll be the case - but then came this consumer based hope...

Yes boss, I like to pick on the accidental, the curious and the mecurial in art, music and writing, and today, when I bought these rather peculiar, very small and thin rolls of wrapping paper from a £ shop in Southampton I found this rather wonderfully odd collection of words, and couldn’t help but be impressed by their vivid scope and imagination...

I mean who in the hell has seen words like syncronos, species and senior used on the product description of a few drinking straw sized sheets of wrapping paper...

And what does ’deep sufler the large businessman to like!’ mean???

Does anyone know what the hell I need to be doing with my glitzy gift wrap??

And is this art???

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	The Cupid Kinkyboots Fan Club	Sounds like they used Babel Fish for their translation services. Posted by The Cupid Kinkyboots Fan Club on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 00:32 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	I would expect nothing less from something that refers to itself as 'fish' Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 00:33 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Princess Stephen	you like to pick on the occidental??? Posted by Princess Stephen on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 00:34 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	I like to pick on anything I think I can beat.... (though I'm struggling with the snails) Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 00:39 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Treacle	The best picture I've thus far in Beijing reads: A SINGLE ACT OF CARELESSNESS LEADS TO THE ETRENAL LOSS OF BEAUTY Marvellous, Also last night I ate 1 duck, 1 seahorse and 3 scorpions... But if you saw the news here you would kill yourself, every report summate to this: China is right, China is great, bah. Posted by Treacle on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 04:13 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	That's an excellent line!! I'm looking forward to hearing more about your trip. I'd imagine the PGC AKA the Futureproof Music Corporation can learn a lot from our China's methods espcially in terms of proporganda... I think Dictatorship is probably the new Democracy. Especially in the music bizz.. It's snowing here - April 6th: Snow!!! BRILLIANT!!! Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 10:58 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	the tleilaxu music machine	that is hilarious, and yes it is art!!!! it is too genius to be disregarded, even if it is totally unintentional. i know somebody that collex such things, and there are amazing items in the collexion, none of which i remember to present to you now. Posted by the tleilaxu music machine on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 05:34 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	I love dodgy translations as well. I often look for them, though I can't boast a collection... You get some good ones in restaurants in Europe - where they try and translate their menus for the lazy English & American tourists... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 10:50 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Christopher Nosnibor	Wow, reads like someone in their design department's been doing William Burroughs-style cut-ups. Ace! Yeah, that's Art! Posted by Christopher Nosnibor on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 09:04 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	I very much like William Burroughs as an artist, but I can't read him very well at all... I see his cut ups as being much more visual and literary (if that makes any sense) Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 10:51 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Christopher Nosnibor	It does.... ah, so much to be said about the cut-ups, I could practically write a thesis on them! But yes, I take your point, they don;t make for the most readable of narrative. Posted by Christopher Nosnibor on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 21:33 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	: THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI :	But this kind of thing, shows how far ahead of his time Burroughs was... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 10:58 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	Christopher Nosnibor	You're not wrong there! Posted by Christopher Nosnibor on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 21:33 [Remove] [Reply to this]

	simon	It's Art allright and the Chinese are now worse at oppressing there people than the Americans are oppressing the native americans and all sorts of others. Yes they can be bad folks but on my travels there some years back they were also damn friendly and good hosts, as well as having an incredible country with some of the most stunning buildings and countryside on the planet! Bad Translations rocks the donkeys chestnuts of old king kade etc... Posted by simon on Sunday, April 06, 2008 at 19:37 [Remove] [Reply to this]

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As a boy, I always liked The Chinese on account of them all riding bikes and not driving cars... I planned to go out there and export myself a few heavy load carrying machines but I never got around to it... Posted by : THE FUTUREPROOF MUSIC BLOG BY PIOUS GIOVANNI : on Thursday, April 10, 2008 at 12:10 [Remove] [Reply to this]