& i am also going to be part of sheri's show at lat. woohoo!

etc

me
my laurier heights photo, in a v. cropped version, is the image of the day at CBC!

Ingmar Bergman, 1918-2007

so i got the prints made for the farm show, and the frames, b/w the two and the hardware, the total costs will most likely exceed 450...i have no idea how to price these things. because i never actually make money off of them, so do i go for the stars and say 100/ea or do i barely break even and say 40? & remedy is so big, 10 8x10s look like they will be swallowed up in the place, how do i use that to my advantage.

im fucked.

Machines

Machines
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put on the blog in attempt to push views up,

the imdb board for sept dawn, which suggests some interesting history.

And, to go a step further, is the practise of fist-fucking not the exemplary case of what Deleuze called the "expansion of a concept"? The fist is put to a new use; the notion of penetration is expanded into the combination of the hand with sexual penetration, into the exploration of the inside of a body. No wonder Foucault, Deleuze's Other, practised fisting: is fist-fucking not the sexual invention of the twentieth century, the first model of postsexual eroticism and pleasure? It is no longer genitalised but focused just on the penetration of the surface, with the role of the phallus being taken over by the hand, the autonomous partial object par excellence. (Slavoj Zizek, Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences, 2004, p 184).

nyrb book review/essay on the politics of aids in africa, a blistering take down of the infficency and bereoucracy taht resulted in millions of people dying







Untitled (PLLP), 2005, Pigment Prints, Tim LeMarcher.
the gorgeous, ass views of anon monumental sculpture, with the warm, and intimate, blacks and whites, manages to talk more about the neo-classical isntinct in art photography then it does about issues of public art, or public sculpture, they seem to be, a bit at least, the beginning of a discourse about mapplethorpe images like this:


Robert Mapplethorpe, Ajitto, 1981 (image taken from a show sponsored by the duestche bank called mapplethorpe and neoclassicism)


if you attempt to photograph 3701 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, people will come out and attempt to arrest you.

encylopedia of cyber deviance, using the Palace forums as a case studies.

the nyt busts bear gylls as a no so stealthy surrivalist

this saltz review of twombly is 6 years old, but its still got an amazing opening ppgh:

In six minutes five lusty images gave me my first glob of gooie in my virgin panties. I was doing all my thinking between my legs." So wrote Patti Smith on hearing the Rolling Stones. "Stones music," she concluded, "is screwing music." Along the same lines, the canvases Cy Twombly produced from 1958 to 1963 could be called screwing paintings.

Among the most abstractly yet explicitly erotic paintings of the 20th century, these visceral canvases-in-rut come on with a voluptuous rush. Profligate, chaotic, and voracious, full of peacocky opulence and Fellini-esque turpitude, they are two-dimensional equivalents to what Emerson dubbed Walt Whitman's "barbaric yelp." Twombly's yelp came in his early thirties, amid a blossoming companionship with Robert Rauschenberg, travels to Europe and North Africa, and his marriage, the birth of his son, and a move to Rome. His paintings from this period teem with tantalizing, stylized pudenda, scrotums, cocks, and cunts that rise in orgiastic pandemonium, erupt in ecstatic blasts, scatter like schools of fish, or float in aphrodisiacal seas. Streaks and stains, intimations of violence and bodily secretions spot surfaces; titles, scrawled in pencil, conjure myth and antiquity. One painting, Leda and the Swan, features a winged vagina dripping liquid into an abstract anus. So animalistic are these paintings that it's hard to remember they're not sheets after lovemaking.

Three numbers from Bugsy Malone. The last one, Talluah, featuring Jodie Foster, is esp. odd.

Tank Limo for hire. yes i said tank limo.

fake plastic skin like a simulacra for buffalo bill.

rashid johnsons deeply personal, conceptual work, talks about issues of race using a vicious, trans-historical, trans-cultural (using literary, sports,, art historical, social, fashion,polticial, and cultural metaphots) multi genre forms. not quite jokes, not quite indictments, but something much more subtle...work includes:
Signed Amiri Baraka "Civil Rights All-Stars" Throw-back Dashiki Jersey, 2007
Evolution of the Negro Political Costume, 2004, garments in custom frames
Portrait of my ex-wife as the tragic mulatto, 2004 lambda print 50 x 40 in.
United Boogie Down Baptist B-Boy Beathouse Crew, DVD, 2:45 min. loop, 2001
and others.



New Caro:
1) it looks like a cattle shoot, doesnt it?
2) if he is capable of colours like that red, why the fuck arent the studio savant guys?
3) that red, and some of the tension b/w horizonatal and vertical forms seems more juddy to me than anything else. (and his dealer agrees: “It is almost as if you crossed a Donald Judd with a Roman sarcophagus,” Ms. Mitchell-Innes said." though you dont really ever trust the dealer for artcrit)
4) i like how it manages to jettision most of the exteranous crap that gunks up some of his worst work
5) the new york time story this image comes from, makes the point that this is carros first show in chelsea, but i dont think that caros work functions well in small interior spaces in crowded cities, even his desktop works. (they also managed to get the second stringer to write the peice, apparently caro isnt interesting enough for roberta smith)
the story is here. (in that story, their is one that is bright bright yellow that works equally well)

spiderman and planned parenthood.

inuit comics in english and intuktiuk, has a bit of an canconc style government project, but interesting in the intersection b/w folk and offical culture.

the pakistan mosque bombings are becoming wilder and less likely to be controlled. the lastest killed 13.

astronauts be drunk

the toronto public library cut 1.2m from its budget.

the best thing about the story of some guy using weed killer to draw a 20 foot cock on the lawn of the governor of boise, is the 6 fotos of the art work are lovely abstractions of idaho landscapes.

the new watchmen movie has both patrick wilson and stepehn fry signed.

scans of a beautiful mexican rip off of batman, the women look more like rita hayworth, the panels are all fractury, and the dogs ptu the fear of god in one. excellent work

julia perione draws figures and landscapes on found photographs, using white pigment. i am not sure the work is any good, it seems fashionable, and the colour choices overly simplisitic, but the work has poetential.


Girls learn how to weld in vermont, make steel sculptures, but less phallocentric





Robot Sex Sculptures, by Cszar, French. The work has titles that are long, complicated strings of binary, it means i cant translate titles like:
01010010 01100101 01100001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 00100000 01000001 01110010 01101101 01101111 01110010. i am mildly disappointed that even in the future naked hot robot sex will still be breedery

Mary Ann Jeremick did some really brave work in Yellowknife, against sexual assault.
story here

Mary-Ann Jeremick'a was speaking on behalf of the Native Women's Association of the NWT to a group of chiefs and delegates at the assembly July 19 on issues facing aboriginal women. Jeremick'a's presentation was on the Native Women's Association second annual walk from Yellowknife to Behchoko to raise awareness about violence against women. During the presentation, she made reference to letters written by Monfwi MLA Jackson Lafferty and Behchoko Chief Leon Lafferty last May in support of Behchoko resident Jonas Bouvier who was found guilty of sexual assault.

quickie slash and dash about mountain meadows massacre, w. john voight. ray claims its a parry against romney's presidental chances. they link to pro mormon sites, wikipedia, sites written by the lds, and the liberal nrm organization censur, so i dont know which side its fighting on.

adam from fort lauderdale is a gay man who collects images of half naked men in sort of comporisming situatutions, i cannot figure out if the men depicted are straight or gay, and it doesnt seem t be gay for pay, and the discourse doesnt fit into easily the straight/frat gay porn aesthetic.

the americans are signing a 20b, 10 year arms deal with the saudis.

first week of sept, i am going down to calgary, to check out galleries, have a couple of meetings, see my grandmother, shoot her house before she leaves, meet barb and chip, see long lost friends (possibly), and some other shit, maybe 4 days, maybe less.

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. Why did the oil refineries around Carquinez Straits seem sinister to me in the summer of 1956? Why have the night lights in the bevatron burned in my mind for twenty years? What is going on in these pictures in my mind?”
Joan Didion

A remake of Charlie's Angels is on
the cards, featuring LA's most wasted,
photographed and talked-about young
celebrities, Lindsay, Paris and Britney?

That famous voiceover introduction would
surely start:
"Once upon a time there were three beautiful
girls who all went into showbusiness... but I
took them all away from that and now they
work for me. My name is Charlie."

from pop bitch

edd hurt talks about the cultural implications of big and rich. their first album i thot was really interesting in how it managed to make camp objects seem deeply earnest, and vice versa, and its radically fractured musical signifers, but they ave become more sentimental, less radical, more steady in what they like, the last album was a disaster. hurt disagrees with me, but the article is well worth reading.

the warhol pricefixing scandal goes to court, i find it ironic that the master of the inauthentic author/producer managed to find himself the biggest bulldogs in the buisness.



19th Century, Star Pattern, Northern Penn., 19th CEntury, most likely Amish.

us solider charged with murder for not revealing his hiv status.

fascaiting video of the silver shaun leane, who does jewlelery for alexander mcqueen, its one of those style.com things, so vaccous and not very careful of the tradition, which is a shame because leane's work fits into mcqueens aesthtic of radicializing anglocraft and aesthetics (and by radicailizing, i mean using techniques from the 12th century to make paduong style bodices or papua new guineasque face skewers, if both of those were saxon or pict)







Shot at 2007-07-24
Three images from Andres Larsen Dahl, from the late 1860s to the early 1870s. Wisconsin. Though they do mention people, the properties overwhelm them, I dont know if this is a question of technology or an aestethic choice, but they do remind me, quite obviously, of atget, which leads to questions of city vs country, fame vs obscurity, and the role of historical societies in perseveration of lost imagery (what would have happened to atget if he hadnt been discovered by breton and the surrealists?) (images via soth's blog, in an entry on circle pictures, he didnt mention content then, and i chose images that werent nessc in circles)


the college republicans talk about the war in iraq, the talking point about going into the war seem easy, but the not joining itself comes difficultly. a michael moore stunt, but amusing.

russia expells uk nationals from its embassay over Litvinenko's murder.

steisandS concert demands in lonon have reached louis xvi's levels

a large number of broadway gays, apparently are goign in for the ex gay thing...

though this errol morris article on visual imagery and versmilliutude is about still imagery, it seems an implicit response to criticism about documentary film makers...its talk about truth and false in nature of "art" doesnt say anything new,but what it does say is clear and wise.



Violet Blue as Hunter S Thompson

6 heart breakings pages of context on isabella blow. the qoutes from her husband and the absence of talk from dahl or mcqueen are the impt bits.


Rachel pointed out this video of phillipino prisoners performing thriller, and by prisoners i mean thousands of them, its interesting for a few reasons
1) the implications of getting that many people doing the same thing (ie the spectacle of masses bodies)
2) the rise and fall of michael jackson
3) the gender roles, and the use of one transgendered prisoner as a "star"
4) the last few seconds, with their portrayal of prison rape, turn the implication of horror, into something more autobiographical.

just when you thought bush couldnt widen executive privelege any more, he goes and does it...also this peice of legistalation that threatens to confiscate property and capital from:

"(i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing, an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:

(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of Iraq; or

(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people;

(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or

(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section include, but are not limited to, (i) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person."

its a reworking of the seizure leg that udnergirds the war against some drugs,and it is vague enough to be politically convienent.

jenny holzer does twitter.


Shot at 2007-07-24


Koen Harner, Modified Atlas of Anatomy, Digital Print, 2000

images of the ventroliquist musuem in knoxville tennessee, creepy in the uncanny valley sense.

swansea university translates and digitizes the collected work of medeival welsh poet dafydd ap gwilym, poltical, filthy, and often v. funny, the limited translations i have fond gwilym have made him one of my favourite poets of the era, here is a dick poem with the fantastic lines:
By God penis, you must be guarded
with eye and hand
because of this lawsuit, straight-headed pole,
more carefully than ever now.
Cunt's net-quill, because of complaint
a bridle must be put on your snout

Rugger
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Situtiaonal Homsexuality and Rugby: A Case Study in Scouse. (w. druken publick handjobs)

The Mull of Kintyre was an unofficial guideline said to have been used by the British Board of Film Classification in the United Kingdom to decide whether an image of a man's penis could be shown.The BBFC would not permit the general release of a film or video if it depicted a phallus erect to the point that the angle it made from the vertical (the "angle of the dangle", as it was often known) was larger than that of the Mull of Kintyre, Argyll and Bute, on maps of Scotland.

(via wikipedia)

237 reasons to have sex

four pages of vazoleen posters.

250k promise keepers go to washington, rising from the dead.

gullaini'sd advisors included a adult baby, a cop who hires illegals and took kickbacks, and now a paedophile preist.

russian neo nazi skinheads, beat 7 anarchsits and killed one enviromental, in the ukraine. more information via indy media uk

new w photoshoot that combines fur with furries, in some wierd magical autumnal forrests.

this is the correct link to those container ship casulaties

jihadist blog attempts to prove that homosexuality is a jewish conspiracy, with a list that features both tony kushner and gerteude stein.



Still from Captavity, the thing that pissees me off about the film its cliches, its lolitiachan aesthetic, its boredom, and its lack of effort, is encompassed in this image.

three acoustic guitar tracks with indie vocals ive liked recently...

fion reagon penny in the slot
fion reagon good or be gone
plain white t's deliliah

i have no idea why...

three thots about the new harry potter

1) harry dies, goes to the underworld, and rises to fight the final battle. except its not hte underworld, its a cleaner version of the kings cross railway station in london, where he has a long discussion with dumbledore, who answers all of his questions, and defends himself, like YHWH for a touchy feely blairite britian.
2) the final battle feels like one for a cozy and domesticated britian, you knew that was the case w. lewis, but his pacing suggested something real and iconic was at stake. nothing feels like that here (
3) the whole fucking thing is laced with death, but it doesnt really seem real, its all that move so quick pulp serial stuff so that the adventure matters, and death doesnt seem to. the only one t hat gets burried is doddy.
4) there is a whole section that is so catholic blood magick and other sections that seem to be code for the third reich, or the recent war on terror.
5) she is trying to write for the eventual 170m feature, but the work is bloated, so i dont know how she is going to tie the set peices in at the end.
6) speaking of cozy set peices, the book endso n a train station, 19 years later, harry married to ginny, hermonie married to ron , sending their 3 children each off to hogwarts, fleur and bill have a child at the middle of the book, and one of the set peices has them interupting a wedding, while another is about skeeeters tell-all bio about dumbdledore pulling a rosemary kennedy on his sister, except w/o the instution bit.
7) the thing about lots of english childrens fiction, is that the villian is seductive, the only time that lewis seems to understand sex is when he is writing the white witch, or the queen in alice in wonderland, etc the problem is that voldemart is just faceless and evil, all skill and no scheming personality.

shimmery gold paradise

shimmery gold paradise
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Egyptian

Egyptian
Originally uploaded by PinkMoose

No Advertisements, No Outing, Make Sense, and Address The Writing (not the writer).

new comment policy on ryans blog, make sense allows him to erase anything he disagrees with, and no outing allows him not to own his words, though he actively attacks other writers and artists, and the assumption that one can understand art w/o knowing at least some about the authour. (when he gives me shit for comment modding on my blog, when i have no problem at all allowing any non spam comment and encourage all comers)

apparently i dont understand modernism, and i was kind of thinking about that, when at kdays, we saw the women in the fur bikini, we see every year, she is painted with great care, touched up, maintained, an exquisite level of craftsmenship, and an understanding of her narrative is present.

i think of kdays, in general, and the women in fur bikini, as an explicit rejection of modernist aesthetics. or to put it another way, i cannot imagine living a life where there is just one aesthetic expereince. i dont trust people who's aesthetics only allow one narrative, one kind of narrative, who think they are going in one direction.

the painting of tht women, goes thru 50 states, 10 provinces, she sees all, like a h ridder haggard villian, and she welcomes me, when i go back to pay tribiute. i want her to be present in my life, as much as i want photos to be present, or installations. i want to live in a world where bonnard, de kooning, etty, penthouse, the girl in the fur bikini, and chez peirre can tell me what i need to know about straightboy lust, where felix gonzales torres, kdays, buddhist sand mandalas tell me about embrabillity and loss.

its like the netitche qoute, which seems to undergird modernism, that which doesnt kill me makes me stronger, i dont want to be strong, i want to be weak, tender, and small.

(apparently i dont understand modernism though, and he has kept the rhetoric up as opposed to sitting down with me, and actually schooling me about his definings.)

review of my december

Harry potter and the deathly hallows / Rowling, J. K.
ON ORDER - Position in holds queue: 1105
- Date Hold placed: 2007/7/20
- When available, pickup at:
Stanley A. Milner Library

1) Favorite quote from a filmmaker
"Strive for art in reverse." John Waters

2) A good movie from a bad director
Duel--Spielberg

3) Favorite Laurence Olivier performance
when he fucked danny kaye in the security room at idylewilde. in the movies: Clash of the Titans, Boys From Brazil, or Marathon Man

4) Describe a famous location from a movie that you have visited (Bodega Bay, California, where the action in The Birds took place, for example). Was it anything like the way it was in the film? Why or why not?

walking about vancouver has this really post-geography quality, where most buildings or vistas remind one of endless bad television, movies of the week, hollywood cheapsters, commercials, etc. when ever i stumbled onto a production there, no one seemed excited (esp the scenes around the marine building when fantastic four was shot.) it was its exact opposite of a famous location or memorable location. same thing with toronto, except i saw romero shoot in the sky cloud garden near the bay building downtown, on adelaide, and his use of the blank cleanness of the downtown core subverted that instinct.

5) Carlo Ponti or Dino De Laurentiis (Producer)?
Dino.

6) Best movie about baseball
Bull Durham.

7) Favorite Barbara Stanwyck performance
Mexicali Rose, for its v. early performance, with abuse, sex, gambling, adultery, and a smoldering, horribly erotic performance, this seems sexier now, then almsot anything since, and it was done in 1929.

8) Fast Times at Ridgemont High or Dazed and Confused?
Dazed and Confused, which managed to get good to excellent performances from a variety of people who have proven they just cant act, including affleck, mcconaughey, and jason london.

9) What was the last movie you saw, and why? (We’ve used this one before, but your answer is presumably always going to be different, so…)
Ratatouille. Because I like pixar movies, and was interested in it formally.

10) Whether or not you have actually procreated or not, is there a movie you can think of that seriously affected the way you think about having kids of your own?
the omen, lolita, the bad seed, pretty poison, kids, gummo. it reasserted my assumption that children were dangerous, frightening creatures that could cause serious damage if allowed any autonomy. i didnt want any.

11) Favorite Katharine Hepburn performance
Pat and Mike

12) A bad movie from a good director
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.

13) Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom-- yes or no?
I changed my mind after seeing the photos from abu gharib. There were apparently 2000 photos of Abu Gharib, would the extra 1900 provide us with any insights—or would it have proven that Sade, and Passolini were right, that human beings descend to the level of degradation that the state allows (Watching the scenes of Matt Damon wrestling in mud, naked, while being pissed on, as an a initiation rite for the Skull of Bones, and by extension, the CIA, in Robert De Niro's Good Shepherd, an argument could be made, not allows, but is founded on.)


14) Ben Hecht or Billy Wilder (Screenwriter)?
Wilder.

15) Name the film festival you’d most want to attend, or your favorite festival that you actually have attended
The Mods and Rockers film fest in LA; the film festival put on by mentally ill people in Toronto every year.

16) Head or 200 Motels?
Head

17) Favorite cameo appearance
(Try visiting here and here for some good ideas! This question was inspired by Daniel Johnson at Film Babble)
Kathy Bates as Queen Vic, in the most recent around the world.

18) Favorite Rosalind Russell performance
Auntie Mame

19) What movie, either currently available on DVD or not, has never received the splashy collector’s edition treatment you think it deserves? What would such an edition include?
Top Gun. Like the Criterion's Armageddon, it would include discussions of how the pentagon was involved, making of docs, commentaries from the film makers, and essays from critics. I would also like to have commentary from the actors, esp. Tom Skerritt and Anthony Edwards. Ideally, it would also include both the scene from Talk to Me with QT and the Will Young video that parodies it.

20) Name a performance that everyone needs to be reminded of, for whatever reason
Elizabeth Taylor's 60s run, including Secret Ceremony, Cleopatra, and Butterfield 8, including Cleopatra. Movies that are dismissed as silly, are some of the most iconic, post verbal performances. I keep thinking about how she uses her body, and how she costumes her body, and how those skills have been subsumed to people who talk and make tiny gestures have become the example of execllent acting. It's the same situation with Angelina Jolie, who's sheer fuckability, parodic domesticity, and aggression in Mr and Mrs Smith was the best performance of the year.

21) Louis B. Mayer or Harry Cohn (Studio Head)?
Mayer

22) Favorite John Wayne performance
The Searchers

23) Naked Lunch or Barton Fink?
Barton Fink

24) Your Ray Harryhausen movie of choice
Clash of Titans

25) Is there a movie you can think of that you feel like the world would be better off without, one that should have never been made?
Olympia. (easy answer, and a great work, but its justification of eugenics using visual techniques, makes a disturbing precedent.)

24) Favorite Dub Taylor performance


25) If you had the choice of seeing three final movies, to go with your three last meals, before shuffling off this mortal coil, what would they be?
My first instincts was to go for the ones that that last forever, in order to lengthen my life, but i think the better answer would be movies that are pure pleasure:
1) pink narcissus
2) she devils on wheels
3) the opening of misty beethoven

26) And what movie theater would you choose to see them in?
the venus, in vancovuer.

i just had a call from lifemates, a realtionship company, matchmaking, bu they dont do same gender matches

6 members of sjsa on facebook (including liam, who i wouldnt mind a pint w.)
they seem to view it as positive experience.

chelsey and john are getting hitched next may.

Maxims of Francis David, founder of unitarians:

We need not think alike to love alike.

There is no greater mindlessness and absurdity than to force conscience and the spirit with external power, when only their creator has authority for them.

the wombat ranch supports nevilles status as conquesting elder god. w. more snuggling.

do you know those picasso drawings, late in his career, w. minatours and naked ladies--replace the naked ladies with men, make it a film instead of drawings, and add more blod, and you have the above video.

jeffery lewis has turned down 5b/aus for his tribal land.

a montanna farmer lies dead, after asking for sexual favours from his same gendered buddy. why brokeback couldnt exist in the states.




container ship casulties contains hundreds of images of these ships going tits up.



From Steve Miesel's new photo shoot from Vogue Italia, on a rehab theme, proving once again he's a master satirist.

vatican pays 660 million for abuse cases in LA.



Argyle Sweater, in Three Prints, by Joe P Vogels.

collection of prophetic inforgraphics from the 19th century millerites, including some fascinating examples of last days chronographs and time lines. the formal components of the work, including the goldish yellow to indicate heaven and the non infographic work, including a strange and lovely illustration of the book of Daniel, suggest aesthetically the connections that have been made by the millerites and other american prophetic protestant sects (ie the demons and dragons look watchtowery,hulbert's tree of life looks shakery, and the collusus of daniel looks lds.) (its also interesting how much the millerites put on daniel. Carol Crown, who did a show of bibically based apolyptic art from the american south alst year, adn who is an art historian, writes about some similar themes here a long article with some images that mostly are in black and white, she points out issues of scale, and how even at gigantic scale, the information contained in them falls off the edges or is packed into most availble surfaces...which i think is one of the things that marks the best of evangelical or religious work. she fails to mention the use of colour as both a aesthetic and informational code which is problematic. This is esp true for the Millerites obsession with the images of Nabuchnezzer in Daniel 2:32-35:

e head of this image was of fine gold,(B) its chest and arms of silver, its middle and thighs of bronze, 33(C) its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay. 34As you looked, a stone was cut out(D) by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and(E) broke them in pieces. 35Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold, all together were broken in pieces, and became(F) like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that(G) not a trace of them could be found. But the stone that struck the image became(H) a great mountain(I) and filled the whole earth.

i can imagine how this image would be comforting to people thinking of themselves against the american state, or the american mainstream...
I would like more information on Henritta Black or Joesphine Lawson, but google is proving difficult



Henrietta Black (1900-1971),Daniel 2 and 8, 1935.
Remember the day of disappointment was 90 years before this picture was painted.



Joesphine Lawson
Prophecy Chart, Colossus of Daniel 2, 1917,
Oil, tempera, and ink on cotton muslin
(She was born 15 years after the great disappointment)

both Black and Lawson would have considered themselves adventists.

speaking of similar things here are some celestial charts that attempts to prove that the earth is the center of the earth, from the 19th Century.

43 Road Runner Cartoons


Liz Edwards against Coulter. Edwards is one classy broad.


Really well cut and constructed thriller trailer, esp with its use of DV, and radical tonal shifts.



I Want This Jacket

ny times story about kinky porn star (and legend) becoming an episcopial priests.

can i use blackface on my blog a flow chart.

Gerard and Tracey just gave birth to Maria Theresa.

Neo Classical

Neo Classical
Originally uploaded by PinkMoose

its been 30+ for a week, and every 25 yr old construction worker refuses to wear shirt, just to tease em

how the hippies saved america




you tube video of classical japanese dance as done by a geisha. quiet, small, and glacially slow, the movement recorded here has a cold formal balance that is the epitome of arts for arts sake.



Dior Men's collections, Spring 2007


The Giant Squid is lonely, sad, horny.



Beyonce at this years BET Awards

heroic footage of the cramps live at the naopli state mental instution. im amazed that nurses and doctors would view this as theraputic, though i can imagine that the rawness and the anger, could be catharatic. esp when Lux Interior says :"And somebody told me you people are crazy! But I'm not so sure about that; you seem to be all right to me."



Worlds Largest Pearl at 14.4 lbs.


The muppets do in the navy. with pig vikings. the 70s were weirder then possibly imagined were they?



Earle Brown, Graphic Notation, where the orchestra responds to the bodily movement of the conductor, which is recorded visually. So if the conducter raises his right hand, the woodwinds play.

sight and sound article on ken russell, and how his visual frenzy made him a kind of outsider auter.
I am glad that his critical reception, the camp aesthetics, the rabid refusal of history, the sexuality and the gender politics, have become to be viewed as good things, as opposed to the worst movie evers, i keep thinking russell as the mother of almodovar, and fellini has called himself the itialian russell.



The glasses make it. From Real Australian Girls.

john dolan the exile writer, makes fun of american books on amazon. Here id an excerpt of the absurd For Common Things by Jerbeidah Purdy:

Jedediah Purdy is something Jefferson could never have foreseen: an oligarch in peasant's clothing, the son of upper-class hippies who moved to West Virginia in 1974, just in time to give birth to Jed, whom they bred as a weapon. They knew if their boy-weapon was to be effective, it couldn't be born in their native haunts--Beacon Hill, New Haven, Martha's Vineyard--so they sped south to the deepest, most wretched corner of Appalachia as this bucolic Damien's hour approached. Jed's mother was probably barking like a seal in her tenth hour of labor when their VW van zoomed through Trenton on the Interstate, with her hirsute spouse screaming at her, "God damn it, maintain! Maintain! You want the little brat to be born in New Jersey, for Christ's sake?"

Valentino controls his fembot army.


Bill O Reilly warns against hordes of Lebian Gangs.






These Gallon Jugs of urine, collected by highway workers, are called trucker bombs.

these musical toys liscended by the blue man group, seem more likely to be used by under grad avant gardists.

phelps clan charged with child abuse.



Hockney, In the Beginning, Graphite and ink on paper, 1967.

atlanta defrocks the prsit of the oldest lutheran church there for being a gay man.

120 African Bishops are threatinging to boycott the lambreth next year, unless the americans are less nasty to queer folks.

the iraqi and afgan veterans of america start talkign about their injuries and lack of care publically.

patrick cates shoots clever and well composed shots of LA's urbanity.

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Tipelo, 1670s

charity from billy bragg that gives guitars to prisoners.


First episode of a 6 hour history of silents. the scale, and technoogical innovation of this film, and the politics of scandal all seem familiar, but to see even smal parts of the films in question, esp, Danish scandals and Italian fantasias, both from the 20s, make the time time comittment well worth it.


Johnathon King, the pederast music producer, records and makes a video, for his new single,which might be the craziest defense for fucking 14 yr olds, perhaps ever (qoutes bosch, hitler, maledus maefecti, the blitz, christina richie, atom bombs and troll dolls)

SoDak is burning, along with a large chunk of the western united states.

a few dozen old vegas postcards

who knew that the north western university had a comprehensive collection of photographs of africa by africans, from the first half of the 20th Century. Of the 7610 Images, they have managed to digitize less than 100, but its still fantastic.

Colin Chrisitan>. relies too much on fashionable fetishes, and low culture tropes that have become cliches, including chthullu, devil girls and anime girls. i still like the slickness of the surfaces though.

latin mass and the whole protestant thing suggests that Ratzinger's desire for pre vatican two catholicism is keeping apace.

Basketweaving 29
Calligraphy 33
Candlemaking 36
Candlewicking .43
Ceramics 47
Counted Cross Stitch .49
Crewel Embroidery 53
Crochet 56
Decoupage 58
Dollmaking 60
Drawing 63
Embossing 67
Embroidery 71
Flower Arrangement 75
Knitting 78
Latch Hooking 82
Macrame 84
Miniatures 91
Needlepoint 92
Oil Painting 96
Photography 100
Plastic Canvas 103
Pressed Flowers 106
Quilling 110
Quilting 115
Rubber Stamping 120
Scrapbooking 124
Spinning 127
Stenciling 130
Tatting 133
Tole Painting 136
Watercolors 140
Weaving 142
Homemaking 147
Baking 148
Budgeting 150
Cake Decorating 153
Camping 155
Cleaning 157
Cooking 160
Fire Safety 166
First Aid 169
Food Preservation 171
Gardening 175
Health and Fitness 182
Home Decorating 187
Hygiene 189
Ironing 193
Laundry 194
Organization 196
Proverbs 31 Study for Girls 199
Scheduling 209
Sewing 214
Soapmaking 216
Knowledge and Skills 220
Biography 221
Computer. 227
Foreign Language 230
Genealogy 232
Library 236
Literature 239
Music 242
Poetry 244
Sign Language 248
Storytelling 250
Teaching 252
Typing 254
Writing 256
Nature 260
Birds 261
Butterflies 264
Flowers 268
Horses 270
Insects 273
Pets 278
Trees 281
Wildflowers 285
Others 287
Bus Worker 288
Child Care 290
Church 292
Ecology 295
Etiquette 298
Family 300
Friends 306
Grandparents 310
Hospitality 313
Letters 316
Love 320
Missionary 325
Neighbor 327
Others 330
Rest Home 332
Special Needs 334
Witnessing 338
List of Badges for Girls, by Keepers at Home, an orgination that was created in opposition to the girl guides.

General David Petraeus, has told the BBC that fighting the insurgency is a "long term endeavour" which could take decades. it has taken decades if you count the first gulf war and clintons bombing missions part of the same war.

the graphic design for terrorist orgs

an excellent essay on why Armageddon belongs in the criteron collection, and an arguement for it as a good film.

ann powers on kelly clarkson, i hope to have my review of this and miranda lambert down this weekend.

John Szarkowski, the innovative curtor and writer, who founded the instuional interest in american photogrpahry as a staff member for MoMa, died last week.

Rachel Friemean's photos of teenagers crusing and hanging out, has been done beofre, but instead of assumptions of terror and violence, ennui and boredom.

south african photog of Musina, a town in the north of that country, near Zimbabwae, look a lot like similar images taken in the southern united states, only a few suggest the odd anglo/commonwealth or v. rarely african notes.

Louisiana Sen. David Vitter's likes whores, according to a DC Madam. He likes to be diapered, according to a Louisana madam. He also loves family values.

horses frolic with pink or blue rubber balls.

jeff brows american typologies, freshly painted houses, suggests what the new topographers would do if they werent afraid of colour.

i am becoming less and less of a theist. i think i might be almost agnostic.

Honest Ed attracts squirrels! "At these prices, they think he's nuts !!"

Honest Ed's an honest man. People look at him and say, "Honest, is this a man?"

Honest Ed's a freak! "He has bargains coming out of his ears !!"

Honest Ed's all wet! "But he never soaks you !!"

Honest Ed's fulla baloney! "But his prices are teeney-weenies !!"

Honest Ed's a nut! "But look at the "cashew" save !!"

Honest Ed's embarrased! "He gets caught with his prices down !!"

Honest Ed's a blabbermouth! "He can't keep his bargains secret!"

Honest Ed's a monkey! "You can buy his bargains for peanuts!"

Honest Ed's a shrimp! "He can't see "overhead" !!"

Honest Ed's toothless! "His prices will never put the bite on you !!"

Honest Ed's a flop! "But his prices make you flip!"

Honest Ed's no midwife... But the bargains he delivers are real babies!

Honest Ed's a lazy lout... He won't get his prices up!

Honest Ed won't squeal... He lets his bargains do the talking.

Honest Ed's a freak... But his prices ain't so weird.

Honest Ed has holes in his sox... But his bargains are "darned" good!

Honest Ed's no bloomin' rose... But his bargains are worth pickin'!

Honest Ed's a fat slob... But his prices keep a slim figure!

Honest Ed's got a small "Ed"... But his low prices are his "big feat"!!

Honest Ed's unfair to low prices... They never get a "raise"!

Honest Ed ain't upper crust. "But his bargain prices will save you dough !!"

Honest Ed's no beauty! "What do you expect at these prices, a movie star?"

Honest Ed's: Only the floors are crooked.

Ed Mirvish died today.

“All reasoning is powered by feeling and all serious feeling has some reasoning in its skeleton. Thought and feeling are not opponents.” Mary Midgley

From a Poptimist LJ Thread, i think my thesis might be correct, but need more info


strange_powers
2007-07-06 11:03 pm UTC (link) Track This
My point is that Sinatra wasn't part of adolescent culture because there was no adolescent market to sell to in the forties. But I don't think adolescent culture defines the boundaries of pop.

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anthonyeaston
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depending on how you define adolsecent, but there was war cash in the forties

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dubdobdee
2007-07-07 07:20 pm UTC (link) Track This
sinatra was totally a bobbysoxers scream idol in the early 40s -- he had to reinvent himself as an adult concern, via films and the capitol sleeves and so on, and the fact that he was able to was a very big deal in fashioning a conception of "adult" sophisto-pop in the early 50s

(swing -- esp.white swing, like benny goodman -- had its first big success among students and fairly young adults)

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anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 07:24 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
he was also considered both louche and dangerous in the 40s, not doing his duty and stealing the girls from boys who did.

then his adult sophisto pop was not a reboot or a newness, but turning a bug into virtue...

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dubdobdee
2007-07-07 07:49 pm UTC (link) Track This
more than this -- it was about key elements of a generation seeing themselves as kids-no-more but rather adults, so it was also a kind of "coming of age" music, rooted in the earlier style but more mature in content and manner (LPs were new and aimed at non-kids; 45s were new and aimed at kids; teens -- who obviously already existed -- were now targeted as a specific market)

i'm fairly sure this idea of a generation aware of itself maturing was new, as a marketing thing and as a point of social discussion (pop sociology as a thing that got into the papers was also a new and widespread thing in the early 50s)

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anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 08:07 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
i dont think the pop soc thing is nessc accurate, cant almost all yr claims also cover the 20s?

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dubdobdee
2007-07-07 08:24 pm UTC (link) Track This
i can't think of a development in film or music which manifests this, can you? age-distinct tastes obviously predated the 20s, and the jazz age was a manifestation of a generation defining themselves by taste-choice, but i can't think of the arrival (in the music; in movies) of a realisation that "look we jazz agers are older now and this is what we've moved on to liking" (if there is one, what is it?) (conscious niche-marketing really didn't begin to evolve until the 30s, and it was still broadly regional and cultural)

i think the idea of pop culture having a historical sense of its own movement is a 50s things

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anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 08:38 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
Niche Marketing is what happened w. the entire career of Clara Bow....

and in europe esp, when swing moved from an american import of pleasure into something more radical with the rise of nazis, wouldnt that be similar:


In the Rhine-Ruhr area, resisters from the Socialist Worker Youth, the Red Falcons, the Bunde, and Catholic Youth Groups got together in large, ad hoc delinquent groups called the ... Kittlesback pirates. With size and local knowledge on their side, they openly defied the Hitler Youth, the the extent that the organization became "virtually defunct" in some areas. The most consistent irritant for the Nazis, were the Catholic youth org., which refused to integrate with the Hitler Youth even after they had expressly ordered to do so...
John Savage Teenage, pg 272

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dubdobdee
2007-07-07 08:56 pm UTC (link) Track This
ok, i think you're right about the notion that particular stars were favoured by particular audiences and age groups maybe -- and that that's the first manifestation of niche marketing -- but there wasn't a general sense of a "youth market", so much as a sense of a "clara bow market" who happened to be young? the specific analog to what i'm talking about would be more like, who did the clara bow audience move onto AFTER her (and did these latter films contain consciousness of the having been crala bow fans at an earlier time)

(jon may say difft, i haven't read his book yet, but isn't it largely about teens rather than ppl who were formerly teens but now aren't?)

swing in germany: no, that's not the same thing at all (adoption of a music or a look or whatever as badge of political difference long predates the 20th century -- besides, what yr describing doesn't contain a sense of the fact of change over time as part of its content, at least as you've stated it)

obviously generations have aged and their tastes changed since time immemorial -- what i'm saying is that the marketing towards that generation didn't (prior to the 50s) depend in any significant degree on their knowing that they were collectively aware of what their tastes had been and had now become

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anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 09:26 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
i dont know the answer to the clara bow question, the hayes code was constructed to avoid youth from enjoying the sex and death--explotation and b movies were made and marketed to youth, post hayes, and there was some interlocking b/w those and war films during wwii...but that isnt music...

you are right about swing, i think

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anthonyeaston
2007-07-07 10:04 pm UTC (link) DeleteTrack This
what about pulp sf and fandom?

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dubdobdee
2007-07-07 10:16 pm UTC (link) Track This
sf didn't really divide internally into niches until the 60s, i don't think -- when the new wave arrived, elements of golden-age content became straight kids-stuff fare (for example andre norton increasingly wrote for children; i don't think she'd set out to when she started, and her sf style didn't really change)

reflexivity and nostalgia-for-my-own-tastes-as-a-teen maybe arrives with star wars in movies (lucas recapping HIS tastes as a teen, but not as a "matured teen"; so it's not like capitol-era sinatra's rlationship to late 30s swing); matured reflexivity becames SF's "thing" with william gibson's "the gernsback continuum", tho arguably delany -- a very reflexive and self-aware writer -- had gone there a lot earlier (but i don't think he took many readers with him)

the sf and monster movie stuff in the 50s is more consciously adolescent in aim than the same material in the 20s or 30s

artpeice:
The Words Utopia in Ten European Languages
language peice on carved white limestone.

1) Utoopiasse (Estonian)
2) Idéalement Parfait (French)
3) Luogo Immaginario (Italian)
4) das Luftschloß (German)
5) Utopista (Slovak)
6) ут опія (Ukranian)
7) DÜŞLER ÜLKESİ; GERÇEKLEŞMESİ İMKÂNSIZ DÜŞÜNCE (Turkish)
8) beskrivning av en idealisk framtid (swedish)
9) المثالية, الطوبى مكان خيالي (Arabic)
10) ουτοπία (Greek)

so can anyone explain the whole lesbian folk movement of the 70s, and also perhaps an mp3 blog, because heather bishops discofolk political masterpeice i love women is realy turning me on

Peonies

Peonies
Originally uploaded by PinkMoose

Now Public, the australian new media press org, has used one of my photos for a story about condoms.

Four From Dior's Spring Couture this year.

scooter libby goes free, and no one is really suprised.



A Woman Polishes Her Cunt on Stalin's Head.


Fantastic video for the newish Merle Haggard single, lets rebuild america first, with a strong isolationist angle.



From a European Supplier of Modernist Furniture, 20 bucks, hiart.

you know those conversations you had about the meaning of life, at dinner parties in the first year of college, where eevryone was either drunk or stoned, and everyone thought they were changing the world by being v. v. clever, apparently bush is having those salon style in the oval office, w/o the drugs. and compares the iraq imperial adventure to the american revoultion. john howard refuses to acknowledge the connections b/w petro dollars and the war.

48 Minutes of Sontag talking about Regarding the Pain of Others.



Cover for MIA's new album Kala. I am thinking of writign an essay about the folk culture of 8 bit nostalgia, but dont know where to sell it.

a one minute video from Ryan McGinley, funded by Puma. Its two people riding a bicycle naked thru a verdant green field in what looks like the south of france. isolated, pleasurable, and deeply a political, it lacks the erotic frission of his early work, but has a back to the garden gorgeousness. reminds me of the idealazation of woodstock as presented by mitchell, as opposed to the real muck of the concert:
We are stardust
We are golden
And weve got to get ourselves
Back to the garden

the best things about these altered book peices, is not the narrative constructed by absence, but the visual construction that binds them together.



This Weiermer has a genetic condition called double muscle disorder.

great murky photos of commonness, by will rogan.

new jason panels. including this one:



Shot at 2007-07-06
the transition b/w outside adn in, in the fourth panel, told mostly thru colour, is outstanding.

apparently the biggest seal hunt int he world is in nambia.

Count Gottfriend Von Bismark infamous german decadent, finally overdosed on heroin. the telegraph obit is so dry and really quite bitchy--the last sentence is a must read.


This video was in the New Yorker. The idle rich, etc.

Wong Kari Kai is remaking Welle's The Lady From Shanghai.

chicago poster designer aesthetic appartus, makes these gig posters, that move b/w being legible and redectivley elegant, and noisy, scummy mess ups. really excellent work.


this one is my favourite.

South-African composer Philip Miller debuts his multimedia opera about the dissolution of apartheid. The performance blends image projections, recorded testimonies from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, the voice of opera star Sibongile Khumalo, and a 100-person choir.
From New York Magazine...I want to hear this.

Albini answers questions about music on a chicago poker story.

more violence in a pakistan mosque.

biafra is thinking about doing a ethopia/ereteria thing with nigeria.

our favourite madam has been given permission to release the names of her 15k clients,.



Josh Duhamel, Still From Transformers.
He looks so intense and vietnammy here, but instead of maoists he is killing giant robots, its bizarre.



Claude Cahun, 1936. (i wonder what the tapestry in the back is, it looks like a rothko or something)