An update on the Human Penis Found in Juice bottle story.
Today, American Arse, Rev. Louis P. Sheldon, chairman of the right-wing Traditional Values Coalition, urged relief agencies working in the aftermath of the September 11 tragedies to withhold assistance to surviving partners of gay people who died: Says 'Relief Shouldn't Go To Gays'. Gay rights organizations "are taking advantage of this national tragedy to promote their agenda" Well Louis, Homosexual partners of those who died in the September 11 terrorist attacks are now eligible to receive relief funds from organizations who, along with Congress, are beginning to redefine the definition of family in the United States. American Red Cross announced it would give benefits to homosexuals who lost partners in the September 11 attack."Red Cross is a neutral and impartial organization and we help people who need help. So, we don't help with regards to race, creed, color, religion and sexual orientation. We help people who need to be helped," Stacey Grissom, media relations associate for the Red Cross, said. Go Red Cross!
Someone ought to invent a flexible computer coating that would be very much like a Nerf ball, or perhaps a Koosh coated computer, some sort of indestructible flexible screen and outer lining. The machine could be heaved up and thrown around whenever aggravation strikes.
Sunera Thobani's speech to the Women's Resistance Conference in Ottawa Cheap Rhetoric and Nasty Backlash. I understand her point, I think she is pandering to sloganeering, confusing Government with Citizens. What I can't understand is why 500 people clapper for her?!
8:23 PM :
Thursday, October 04, 2001
I love you Alice B. Toklas.
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Experts have compiled a hit parade of Italian museums, listing the institutions in order of their ability to awaken Eros. This state of emotional arousal has been called the Rubens Syndrome, a term derived from the sensuous, superannuated nudes painted by the Flemish Old Master. Last June the Roman Institute of Psychology released the results of a national study involving 2,000 visitors that found 20 percent of them had embarked on an "erotic adventure" in a museum. Also according to the study, a Caravaggio painting or a Greek sculpture is more likely to lead to sex than works by Tiepolo or Veronese.
"What makes photography a strange invention-- with unforeseeable consequences-- is that its primary raw materials are light and time."John Berger, critic. Most expensive photographs ever to sell at auction? The collected works of F�lix Teynard's Egypte et Nubie: Sites et Monuments les plus int�ressants pour l'�tude de l'art at de l'histoire, $707,000. Teynard's photographic exploration of Egypt and Nubia in 1851-52 produced one of the earliest photographic records of the archaeological sites in this region. The sandy terrain and the weathered faces of the monuments that Teynard photographed are heightened by the surface texture of the photographic paper of the calotypeprocess--one of the earliest processes for producing photographs on paper. You don't make photographs, you take them.
The firm of Cantor Fitzgerald suffered the great loss of the majority of it's workers, they also held one of the largest Rodin collections, which is now feared lost in the WTC rubble. Mr. Cantor began selling hotdogs at Yankee Stadium eventually becoming the guiding force for one of the worlds largest brokerage firms. Cantor began his love affair with Rodin's work after seeing the artist's "Hand of God" at the Metropolitan. He bought another version of the work, and kept buying, eventually amassing a huge collection of the artist's work.
Collectors preserve culture AXA-ART insures it. They also provide fascinating articles, resources and archives. Aspects of Collecting Movie Posters. A surprising article titled 'What Art Dealers Really Want'. A peak at the suspended David Goldblatt show, they are using the space as a Disaster Relief Center.
Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer?
12:15 AM :
Wednesday, October 03, 2001
But back to the war, if they ever do find Osama bin Affleck, or whatever his name is, they should make him watch Glitter.' However, if you are in need of a little shine, thrift store treasure LP 'Sparkle' fits the bill. The soundtrack is from the self titled ill fated flop starring Irene Cara (of no Cocoa, don't bare your breasts for fame FAME). Sparkle is all Aretha Franklin and Curtis Mayfield, with Lady Soul at her motor city best.
The production of photographic images, using the visible, infrared, thermal infrared, and other wavebands, by means of satellite-based cameras or sensors is damn frightening, if not a bit awe inspiring. These World Trade Center images offer a before and after comparison from the IKONOS satellite. Remote sensing gathers information without actual physical contact with what is being observed, the resulting images are a perfect example of Science blending with Art. These satellite images operate as an ornate Orthophotograph, distortions due to the ground topography, such as elevation and tilt have been removed giving the appearance of every object being viewed directly from above, like a map.
The poet Keats writing to a friend about the wonders of Autumn; 'How beautiful the season is now--How fine the air--A temperate sharpness about it. Really, without joking, chaste weather--Dian skies--I never lik'd stubble-fields so much as now--Aye, better than the chilly green of the Spring. Somehow a stubble-plain looks warm--in the same way that some pictures look warm.' The beauty of Autumn escapes the great poet, owing more to his time than mine. The diminishing daylight hours and falling temperatures induce trees to turn and prepare for winter. A time when sidewalks are littered with thousands of leaves preceded by a spectacular blaze of colors. Against the blue sky, orange, red, yellow, thousands of mutations and variations of leaf pigments. Describing the change seems almost a clich�, but a clich� that surprises and delights. Funny, how this season everything is Homemade Apple Pie, Coney Dogs, Indian Corn and Flags. Very Norman Rockwell, yet bucolic, quiet, haunting. Beautiful young men in t-shirts sit idle in old pick up trucks, waiting. The city is a variant, always blue always gray, always providing deep contrast. I see this time differently than others, being raised inside of the city, rather than out. I tend to explore the mythology, knowing about Dionysus, the son of Zeus and Semele, seeming so fit, not for spring but for fall. Dionysus is the god of the vine, inventor of wine and spreading the art of the grape. He has a dual nature, on the one hand bringing joy and devine ecstasy, on the other brutal, unthinking, rage. Dionysus can drive a man mad, as no normal fetters can hold him or his followers. Perhaps it is Demeter who is the more suitable patriarch, the goddess of corn, grain, and the harvest. She is the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. It is Demeter that makes the crops with the first fruits of the harvest sacrificed to her. Her daughter Persephone was abducted by Hades to be his wife in the underworld. In her anger at her daughter's loss, Demeter laid a curse on the world that caused plants to wither and die, the land became desolate. Zeus became alarmed and sought Persephone's return. However, because she had eaten while in the underworld Hades had a claim on her. Therefore, it was decreed that Persephone would spend four months each year in the underworld. During these months Demeter grieves her daughters absence, and withdraws her gifts from the world, creating winter. Her return brought the spring. Science is much less exciting with the talk of chloroplasts and transformations, I much prefer the clich� and mythology, the intrinsic feelings and delight of seasonal change. Damn it, due to interruptions paragraphs like these never seem to end in the proper manner.
1:46 PM :
Monday, October 01, 2001
Phone users be warned. Each time you dial a number, you have performed a musical piece and may have infringed the international copyright of the composers. Sound artists Jon Drummond and "Dr Sonique" have done the unthinkable - rubber stamped the "melody" of every possible telephone number combination as their own.
Popular does not equal good, Case in point; Man Finds Human Penis In Bottle of Fruit Punch. Viva Vox Populi super sorts the hyperlinked, Daypop Top 40 is a list of links that are currently popular with webloggers from around the world.
Give em' the finger. Convenience/security issue or futuristic cash cow?
9:41 PM :
Sunday, September 30, 2001
Gertrude Stein Abstracts My Continuous Present. Her flat on the rue de Fleurus was gallery and salon, her friends; Picasso, Matisse, Pavel Tcheltchew, Francis Rose and so forth. She once gave a party for some painters, arranged the pictures on her wall so that each guest would be seated opposite his own work, thereby ensuring his happiness, or perhaps their complete discomfort, a brave move.On her first trip to the Louvre she mainly noticed the frames and loved staring out the windows.In Italian museums she would lie down on the red benches so she could both sleep and wake in front of the Tintorettos and Botticellis. She once said; 'Geniuses see another reality. Complications are always easy but another vision, that of all the world is very rare. That is why geniuses are very rare, not to complicate things in a new way that is easy, but to see things in a new way, that is difficult, everything prevents one, habits, schools, daily life, reason, necessity of daily life, indolence, everything prevents one, in fact there are very few geniuses on the world.' Most expensive painting by a 20th century artist ever sold at auction, excluding Picasso; George Suerat's 'Paysage, Ile de la Grane Jatte, sold at Sotheby's in New York on May 10th 1999 for a cool 32 million.
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