The lullaby of winter's gun powder skies and factory settings disappear with the new Schneider TM video, I too dream of sunny afternoons. Need more? twiddle the knobs on your brain by checking out more SchneiderTM with Frogtoise, animated video by the famed Japanese comic artist Katsuki Tanaka. A bit more fancy frolic with the Radio 1 Online Fat Boy Slim mixing game! Create your own original track with beats and samples provided by Fatboy Slim, then enter your mix to win a trip to Ibiza as a VIP guest of Radio1. Woo Hoo!
Sounds good, looks good, feels good too, Fischerspooner will perform at the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges Pompidou in Paris on March 29th 2003. The theme is yet to be announced. Strangely enough, their first show was at the Starbucks on Astor Place, Aug. 27, 1998. Time out for the rave alarm? Wow, and I thought body heat activated clothing like Generra's Hyper-Color was cool, a Japanese scientist has developed a coat which appears to make the wearer invisible.
Until I feared I would lose it I never loved to read.
One does not love breathing - Harper Lee in To Kill a Mockingbird
(I don't think she was referring to Camille Paglia's book on Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds')
3:09 PM :
Thursday, February 06, 2003
Hey, I'm not trying to get all 'Bourgie' and shit on y'all but I 'gots' to stretch a little, see John Perry Barlow, the man who popularized the term 'cyberspace', and his interview in Mother Jones. He talks about the 'Total Information Awareness Project', online activism, file sharing, and the prospect of a digital counterculture. Relax, freak yourself completely out by checking out the frisco disco squirrels. Yes, this is a Phil Spector free zone, does that dude freak you out too? All hail Missy Elliot for her song 'Gossip Folks', you got to love a lady who releases a 'clean' and 'unclean' version...is that Frankie Smith's 'Double Dutch Bus' in the background? Hell yes it is! Get Down to that Philly sound!
She�s smoked it, fucked it, and sung it. The legendary trannie punk Jayne County plays Joe's Pub (425 Lafayette St. i.e. The Public Theater) for two nights, Feb 12th and 13th with her show 'Jayne County Tells All'. She's brilliant, rock stars Courtney Love and Debbie Harry claim her as an influence. If you're going to miss it, I recommend her hilarious autobiography 'Man Enough To Be a Woman' where Miss Cocks tells the story of her rise from poor white trash to punk rock goddess.
Heads in their asses part one. Picasso painted his greatest masterpiece Guernica after the massive German air raid by the German Luftwaffe (Condor Brigade) on the tiny Basque town on April 26th 1937. Hundreds of people were slaughtered and the raid became a major incident in the Spanish Civil War. The painting is a prophetic vision of the second world war and today recognized internationally as a symbol of world peace. The work is where the classical meets the Neoclassical, the traditions of the epic and pastoral as they relate to modern art in the context of light winning over darkness. What a surprise it must have been to walk into the U.N where a reproduction of Guernica is in place, only to find it covered over with a baby blue banner and a U.N. logo.
More Art? The Met's Leonardo Da Vinci Master Draftsman site. Also check out this interesting editorial from Art News Online, that reconsiders our romantic notion of this genius.
5:29 PM :
Tuesday, February 04, 2003
Yep, that's me in this month's Art Forum Magazine. A big thank you to the artist Pae White for the nice mention and selecting me for her top ten HOT list. Woo Hoo!
Arty snobs or creative visionaries? Progressive monied idlers or radical bohemians? The Bloomsbury Group, Love them, or hate them, their ideas on sexual ethics, liberation, biography, economics, feminism and art keep confronting us in the modern world. Or as one author puts it; There's no need to be afraid of Woolves after all � they are, beckoning us all inside?
The greatest piece of Bloomsbury evidence, pro and con, is Virginia Woolf's diary. I think it is a masterpiece: arguably more significant even than her novels. But, shriek the detractors, what an awful woman she reveals herself to be! It's true that Woolf is not particularly concerned to cut a fine figure in its pages. She is too unsparing and honest for that. And while honesty is a provisional virtue (there's no point in confessing that you're a liar and a cheat if you have no intention of reforming), I can't help thinking it's preferable to today's politically correct hypocrisy.
Madness takes it's toll, please have exact change ready, or as John Dryden put it in 1861; Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide turbulent emotional lives have often fueled brilliant careers. Look at Mr. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who, after his first wife's death, withdrew into his own world of exotic animals, s�ances, insomnia, psychosomatic illness, and drunkenness. Proving that True life is still stranger than fiction, or ummm poetry for that matter. I must admit however that it is difficult to remain upbeat in this country. We suffered a tragedy on an international level and our President is determined to engage us in a war. Mmm fun.
Trying to find the perfect Valentines Day present? Try Uncommon Goods for all things uncommonly good, or unusual rather. If you're bitter over a break up, and want to wash that man right out of your hair, you can now flush him too.
Pinball cha cha a brain spill in 2 parts
1. Zapatos de Ratas My wrestler is Maravilloso with the fire of one hundred red hot suns I challenge you to beat it and build your own Mascaritas! You will face many challenges like handling family, friends, and an angry killer toilet while upholding the honor code of Mucha Lucha.
2. On the animated series The Simpson's, Crusty the Clown's monkey is named 'Mr. Teeny'
12:50 PM :
Monday, February 03, 2003
This Is A Magazine it has words and pictures in it. Issue 7 Volume 2 Fashion = Fiction The Rock-It Issue available now, instant online gratification, modular downloadable formats for pc/mac. Where the real and the fictive coexist through visual engagement, see pop slippage. Exposed fashion art design trans-global media graphics photo-op illustration and text, engage disengage expose extend and click.
You use the Dewey Decimal system and I love it. All around you are closet crafters. I am a sucker for the D.I.Y. and the allure of power tools. Nail gun, anyone? Better yet, the retropolis of renewel, wasn't tomorrow wonderful? Catch this Urban Drift and fix up your flexible transcultural platform for new ideas in architecture. Design meets urbanism for a collaborative hybrid urban praxis. I can scale it down and I will, jaw droppingly beautiful reactions wearing Paul Frank Butt Hugger Underwear in the Men's Lockeroom. Heck, if you can't get enough of the little monkey that could, check out Paul Frank Industries collaboration with one of my favorite artists, Mark Ryden.
Guns gin and jazz, the famous and infamous femme fatales behind the true story of Chicago. Or how to turn 'sob sister' stories into editorial award winners, a Broadway hit and 'box office gold'.
All things beautiful and obscure. Sharpeworld breaks all the Bauhaus party rules and fills the void where Thrasher, Teen-Set, Cricket, Boys Life, Allure, and Popular Mechanix left off. I can never get enough, freudian transference complete, one of us, one of us, one of us. Virtual grab bag of goodies and featurelettes. Check out her brilliant all inclusive Coyle and Sharpe website, masters of the street level 'put on'.
9:29 PM :
Sunday, February 02, 2003
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear. Old restaurants are filled with a watery darkness where gray haired ladies serve gelatin and fruit cocktails. Polyester pant suits, brown orthopedic shoes on a shag carpet rumba to refill your coffee cup. Everyone is 'hon' today.
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