one of the more interesting things about this long discussion of the 20 years b/w days of heaven and the new world, is that many of the projects taken up and then abandoned, either as scripts wrote of films shot, are adaptations that required more narrative concision than the ones he chose (including Dirty Harry, McMurty's Desert Rose,  Percy's The Movie Goer, a biopic of Jerry Lee Lewis, and others.)

southern poverty law center is collecting racist ephemera for research

Chuck Eddy's work on the intersections of hip-hop and country, in the 1980s and 90s, are now mostly held in weird little listicles, like this brilliant one from spin, but should be a huge book. it is vital, historically minded, and  quite difficult work. I haven't quite engaged with the implicaitons, but there are class and gender overlap.

Barbra Kruger  fucks with Supreme Skateboarders, an interesting test case for the line b/w approporiation an copyright.

major early serra is rotting in a farmers field outside of king city ontario.


Wombat Video One.


wombat video two.

the cartography of video games, strikes me as one of those places where the implicaitons of interioirty and discrusive nature of textual movements, could be fully epxressed--an updating of the medevial rooms of memory, Lana Polansky's brilliant article, hints at that reading, ut goes to places unexpexted and much smarter:

A city is a mapped space, full of landmarks and signage. It’s a space where dynamic things can happen—people can alter or displace themselves or objects in unpredictable or unforeseen ways—but always on top of a basic underpinning of urban planning. I walk through areas of my city, which are like dark spots in my mind, to see where they connect, and there’s a thrill in discovering what’s new to me. But once the spots are coloured in, they become defined, and they lose their mystery. They aren’t mine to uncover anymore. Oh, that’s how this connects to that. My head becomes familiar with the layout, and constructs a mental map. The place becomes labelled, explainable and mundane. There’s exactitude to this.
I have the same attitude to game territories. Their maps are there a priori; they’re built into the code. The space is designed, or mapped, before I step in. It is not my job to go where no player has gone before: instead, I am filling in a new mental map of deeply conceived, designed, mapped, and programmed territory.

Owen Hatherlty on Thatcher as Enemy of The Built Enviroment.

The interesting thing about Bass as a designer is how afraid he is of colour--his famous work, with it's under rated taxonomy, and blunt butch miniliasm often flirts but rejects the implications of decoration as a design, this is why his titles for Around the World in 80 days is so impt--it's vulgar.

web remix  of Leaves of Grass and House of Leaves, it becomes almost infinite.

a bakers dozen install shots of the new El Antusi show in Brooklyn. The best work is the carved, small horizontal, wall based compositions.  though the epic spectacle of the "blankets" of bottle caps retain their gravitas and power.  (i like how their are dots, splotches, lines, and ragged edges in the smaller, horiziontal peices--and how the peices are gouged, carved, nailed, and tied together--much of the formal problems of sculpture, of how to make sculpture, were left to painters and assembelge artists after the mid60s, early 70s, and in these spaces they are seemingly wrenched back) (altho they are called horiziontal wall peices, they are often a collection of small vertical slats placed in an uneven line--and so they are horiziontal only in the sense that the bottle cap peices cascade and falling eschew the common binaries of sculpture) (there are also two v. small circiular table peices, that just curve into each other with such tenderness and intimacy)



90 minute live concert of Josh Turner at Sea World in Orlando. His patter is so charmingly uncharming.

Peter Bochave,  veteran of the 80s bath house raids, founder of Spa Excess, civil serant to toronto' sexual avant garde, died this week. The obit is fantastic.

Elaine Stritch dying in Michigan, instead of her apartment at the Caryle, just seems unfair.

Graphs  comparing the disparity of ages of male and female love interests in hollywood film.

new bowie video

Like  Gedney's photos of Kentucky, which just seemed anonymously reflecting the needs and d esires of s all communities, Tammy Mecure does the same thing for her county in Tenesse. It's incredibly difficult to do with any amout of artfulness, contempt or seeking an observers vision. Her works continue a long tradition of localized documentation in the South, and are brilliant.

On Hip Hop and Pussy Eating