Shot at 2007-06-29
Una Turnbridge and Radcylffe Hall, ca 1926, Una doesnt look v. attractive, but Radcylffe is a butch god.


samantah volver is a hip, young, sf pornographer, who's pictures have a depth adn initmacy. not really about cocks and cunts but about bodies in space. i bought a print of hers, of a cat and a bright pink curtain.


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Holy Neville hosts a tea party.

the best thing about tim atherton's photos of yellowkife is how messy and unartsy they are.


Warhol eats a hamburger


the nebra disc made 3600 years ago, might be a calendear or an anthropomoprhic device for shamans. its awfully lovely, what ever it is.


Shot at 2007-06-29
Soviet Children, Fire Drill, ca 1947

Video of Nina Simone playing Sea Line Women, the band has some problems in the beginning, and how she interacts, with a severity against error is as interesting, as how iconic, and almsot liturgical she makes the end of the performance-well not liturgical, but w. a definite respect w, how work songs become ritual songs. this is one of my favourite simone songs, and this is a great performance of it.

fascainting first person account of being an art judge in tehran

what i didnt know about johnsons glass house, is that it has a brick house behind it, an exact reversal of the aesthetic and emotional effects of the first, both working on the space as a modernist pull/tug. its also interesting that as part of the national landuse fund buying the property, they had to buy four acres around it to make sure asshole mcmansions dont fuck w. johnsons vision.



Shot at 2007-06-29
Cocaine, Farmers Field, etc


Arctic Monkeys cover Diamonds are Forever, at this years Glastonbury

someone is actually planting a realtime version of the vegetation in where the wild things are.


Eve, Tambourine, might be the summer single

24mb of CIA mid century, high weirdness.


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Two Phantom Sheilds, done by tribes in Paupa New Guinea from the mid 60s to the early 80s, inspired by Comic books left by American Soilders. the earliest were done about the same time as Warhol and Lichensteins first superman, popeye, etc work.
these japanese family iconographs are masterpieces of design, gorgeous.

freebergs photos of chelsea galleries have a frisson of security theater kitsch, they arent boring enough to be truly interesting though. (though the top of the head and the mostly lack of art is interesting)

i put off talking about bernd belcher dying, because i find his infulence difficult to talk about, and i wonder if it will be his role as educator (he founded the dusseldorf school which gave us ruff, struth, gursky, hoefer, amongst others)...or how he managed to quietly and w/o ego work on the same project with the same person for decades. i think that maybe that is the most powerful, not the work but the process. that said, the photos are handsome, imposing, and severe. how they scale up and down, how you can have a wall of them or just two, and it works is kind of amazing...im going to have to think about this for a while, but he was one of my heros, for sure. here is another story. this tate article talk about the dusseldorf school and their involvement

this story is like Flannery O Connor and Dennis Cooper together:
A former employee at Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede dinner theater pleaded guilty Wednesday to reduced charges stemming from allegations that he molested four child performers during a Christmas show.

Armando Gonzalez, 33, was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday for his first of four aggravated sexual battery trials based on accusations of inappropriate sexual contact from four children who worked with Gonzalez at the 2004 Christmas at Dixie show in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.

Instead, Gonzalez, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of attempt to commit aggravated sexual battery upon all four victims in a plea deal with Sevier County, Tenn., prosecutors that netted him a nine-year prison sentence.

two car bombs in london maybe al qaida.

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Im Mostly posting it b/c the guys are hot, but the image, with the woman in orange, and the small details, make it an interesting accidental visual work. from the stranger blog.

des moines pastor buys porn with money for the disabled.

the vatican document on driving has almost 60 pages and 44 footnotes.

RODEO MONKEYS


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proof that car sales people ae sociopaths.

story on how bienalels suck and are boring, by saltz, talked to marcus about this, and i think the role of them are about historicising and contextualizing scenes, geography, etc...and i think w. polke and torres this year in venice kind of did that.



Shot at 2007-06-29
Bear Gylass is dirrrrrrrrrty