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Category Archives: art
Brechtian Theater Techniqes
After hearing psychedelic music, I became a rock music fan and went to many concerts. In the early 1970s, the general trend was for pompous, self-involved rock theatrics. The beatnik notion of “poet-is-priest” became “rock star-is-priest,” and the rock concert … Continue reading
Posted in art, music, writing
Tagged Arkestra, Bertolt Brecht, Iggy and the Stooges, Iggy Pop, Mike Kelley, Sun Ra
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10 trashy ideas about the environment from the Guerrilla Girls’ Compleat 1985–2008
Posted in art, design, ecology, graphic design, politics, self publishing
Tagged Guerilla Girls
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Patriotisches Wandbild
Sebastian Hempel
Posted in art, craft, politics, technology
Tagged Deutschland, Germany, Patriotic Mural, Patriotisches Wandbild, Sebastian Hempel
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I’VE HAD IT AND A HALF
“What will say, finally, when you have seen the whole of all the parts as well as the parts of all the parts?”* FRANCES STARK PERFORMS I’VE HAD IT AND A HALF Due to the adult themes of some of … Continue reading
Posted in animation, art, pitted, rofl
Tagged All of this and nothing, Frances Stark, Hammer Museum, I'VE HAD IT, I'VE HAD IT AND A HALF
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Born in Flames
Help Occasional Papers publish Born in Flames: The publication “Born in Flames poses the question of whether oppression against women will be eliminated under any kind of social system. […] It is a fantasy presenting a group of women who, … Continue reading
Posted in art, pitted, publishing, self publishing, writing
Tagged Born in Flames, Kaisa Lassinaro, Lizzie Borden, Occasional Papers
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my crappy life, in crappy 3d animation
Via Fredrik Sterner
Posted in animals, animation, art, music, technology
Tagged 3D, 3D animation, computer graphics
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Pontus Alv
In Search of the Miraculous
681 677 days
In anticipation towards / preparation for the potentiality of total Planetary Shutdown (as has been predicted by the Mayans, NASA, Terence MacKenna, the Nostradamus, possibly some Australophithecus proto-shaman named ‘Zhembg’, and many other interesting people), I am devoting the next … Continue reading
Chuck Close
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait … Continue reading
Christopher Nemeth
I guess I’m pretty out of the loop—I just learned that Christopher Nemeth passed away a few months back. Truly sad. It somehow seems fitting that I learned of his death from the same friend who introduced me to him. … Continue reading
Posted in art, design, fashion
Tagged Christopher Nemeth, Japan, Judy Blame, R.I.P., Tokyo
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Basquiat
Rare Polaroids and Snapshots of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Viktor v. 5,000 Years of Chairs
Viktor, 2008, Jürg Lehni DC motors, tool head, sprung steel coils, cables, Scriptographer software Developed in collaboration with Bruno Thurnherr and Marcell ackerknecht, Defekt GmbH The video shows Viktor illustrating the lecture «5000 Years of Chairs» by Michael Marriott about … Continue reading
Posted in art, design, graphic design, history, illustration, technology, writing
Tagged Alex Rich, Hektor, Jürg Lehni, Michael Marriott, Scriptographer, Viktor
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The Realist Archive Project
http://ep.tc/realist
Posted in adjectives, art, comedy, literature, politics, writing
Tagged Paul Krassner, The Realist
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DubaiLand
From DubaiLand by Aleix Plademunt
Cabinet insert
Found this in an old issue of Cabinet magazine (Issue 18, Fictional States, Summer 2005). I now love Die Keure even more. [click image to enlarge]
Posted in art, design, fail, grammar, graphic design, literature, printing, so pitted, win, writing
Tagged Belgium, Cabinet magazine, Die Keure
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Oslo Editions: Contra Mundum I–VII
THE INITIAL invitation to curate a lecture series came in the spring of last year from Justin Beal, who asked us to put something together for the Mandrake, an artist-run bar in LA. The title Contra Mundum comes from Brideshead … Continue reading
Posted in art, graphic design, literature, music, the fall, writing
Tagged Alex Klein, Contra Mundum, Marc Owens, Oslo Editions
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The Locked Room
Imagine this scenario: you are locked in an empty white room. You share this cell with twelve other people, but you are not allowed to speak. You are under constant observation. [...] it is the first day of the 1969 autumn … Continue reading
The Lake
The Lake Edgar Allan Poe, 1927 In youth’s spring, it was my lot To haunt of the wide earth a spot The which I could not love the less; So lovely was the loneliness Of a wild lake, with black … Continue reading
Posted in animation, art, illustration, literature, music, so pitted
Tagged Adam Shecter, Antony and the Johnsons, Edgar Allan Poe
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