Monday, January 05, 2009
. i went in to this program at 9, which means i got up at 7:30, after having nightmares, and waking up and being unable to sleep for a couple of hours in the middle of the night, and i missed the first street car, so i was 15 minutes late, and i got to the place late, which made me panic, and then i realised i was scheduled for thursday instead, which means i have four days where i am doing nothing, but they let me fill out the paper work--and its filled with the same questions i have no idea how to answer--like tell me about yourself, or what do we need to know to help you, or what do you want to do with your life, or all of that shit, and i mean, i have no idea, how they can help
Saturday, January 03, 2009
From the “Quickies” section of the “Joy of Sex.” “If you are a child of the seventies and were raised on ‘The Joy of Sex,’ you are not likely to have forgotten the illustrations,” Levy writes. Comfort and his mistress, Jane Henderson, submitted dozens of Polaroids along with the manuscript. “The artists Charles Raymond and Christopher Foss were charged with transforming those photographs into pencil drawings, although the couple they depicted looked nothing like Comfort and Henderson.”
From this weeks nyer
a) i would kill to see those polaroids.
b) i liked the mangey, hippie look of the 70s illustrations
From this weeks nyer
a) i would kill to see those polaroids.
b) i liked the mangey, hippie look of the 70s illustrations
Thursday, January 01, 2009
1) What was the last movie you saw theatrically? On DVD or Blu-ray?
Milk, My Architecht: A Son'S Journey
2) Holiday movies— Do you like them naughty or nice?
I am fond of the horror movies, silent night, deadly knight or black xmas...is that naughty?
3) Ida Lupino or Mercedes McCambridge?
Mercedes McCambridge, for her black clad villian in Ray's Johnny Guitar, plus the voice of Satan.
4) Favorite actor/character from Twin Peaks
Lara Flynn Boyle, who did a string of sexually complicated heroines in the 90s and then sadly lost it, and this was an almost perfect noir performance.
5) It’s been said that, rather than remaking beloved, respected films, Hollywood should concentrate more on righting the wrongs of the past and tinker more with films that didn’t work so well the first time. Pretending for a moment that movies are made in an economic vacuum, name a good candidate for a remake based on this criterion.
I keep wondering if films like Ishtar or Death to Smoochy, which were marketed in a way that undersold their considerable charms, and were odd enough that they needed to be explained, would do well not nessc. with remakes, but reissues, sort of like Criterion but on the big screen. I also wonder what would happen if you gave someone like Harmony Kormine or some of the mumble core fellows 20 millon dollars and told them to remake Waterworld or Superman:Returns, or even Titanic?
6) Favorite Spike Lee joint.
As a politican: Bamboozled (because loose limbed, burlesque that is so soaked with bile is a hard balance, and it was so meta it hurt). As a film maker, the remarkably tight, beautifully acted Inside Man, with Jodie Foster playing someone new, strong, and dislikeable.
7) Lawrence Tierney or Scott Brady?
The Scott Brady who was in an episode of the littlest hobo? Then yes!
8) Are most movies too long?
Most movies spend too long explaining, and too little time working out emotions, and realtionships--as a general rule, they are badly paced (Role Models is a good example of in/out with lots of good actors scene, so is Sarah Marshall)
9) Favorite performance by an actor portraying a real-life politician.
Helen McCroy, who made the easily parodied, easily mocked Cherie Blair, into a modern, open, moral counterpoint to the cold and formal Frears.
10) Create the main event card for the ultimate giant movie monster smackdown.
Godzilla vs the Cloverfield Monster but in North Dakota.
11) Jean Peters or Sheree North?
Sheree North. (for the episode while she was the hooker with Archie Bunker and for the weird, little seen, Schumacher riff on Altman Amatuer Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill)
12) Why would you ever want or need to see a movie more than once?
If I was wrong, if people I trust tell me I am wrong, If what I feel is overwhelming what I think, if my dick or my heart gets in the way, if i am hungry or distracted while watching it, if i leave the film ambigiously
13) Favorite road movie.
true romance/crossroads
14) Favorite Budd Boetticher picture.
i haven't seen enough.
15) Who is the one person, living or dead, famous or unknown, who most informed or encouraged your appreciation of movies?
my mother, who made me talk about things when i left the cinema, my friend pat, who kept arguing about the movies with me, the art critic david hickey, who taught me to trust my love of pop trash and to treat pop trash as significant, as worthy of writing about, the english critic Mark Sinker who told me that academic criticisms were worthy of being in the same places as quatidian experiences, and David Thomson, because his reference books are so opinatned.
16) Favorite opening credit sequence. (Please include YouTube link if possible.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXrEptVgUnc&eurl=http://movieblog.ugo.com/index.php/movieblog/more/best_credits_sequences_the_taking_of_pehlam_one_two_three/ (font shot!)
17) Kenneth Tobey or John Agar?
John Agar, for working from the 40s, to 2002.
18) Jean-Luc Godard once suggested that the more popular the movie, the less likely it was that it was a good movie. Is he right or just cranky? Cite the best evidence one way or the other.
I am not sure that Goddard was in the buisness of making movies, as much as he was in the business of making essays...and i always distrust people who refuse to have catholic (small c) tastes---why can we not enjoy both alphaville and logan's run? (same themes, same aesthetics)
19) Favorite Jonathan Demme movie.
silence of the lambs
20) Tatum O’Neal or Linda Blair?
Tatum O'Neal--because of her unhinged, incenstous, drunken falling apart, in the last few years of rescue me, something that Blair never seemed to be able to do (as teenagers, O'Neal struck me as more of control of her talent)
21) Favorite use of irony in a movie. (This could be an idea, moment, scene, or an entire film.)
How unresolved Zodiac was, how the whole movie was about finding a killer, about obsessional knowing for two decades and three charchaters, and how that knowing was impossible.
22) Favorite Claude Chabrol film.
i don;t have one
23) The best movie of the year to which very little attention seems to have been paid.
Role Models
24) Dennis Christopher or Robby Benson?
Robby Benson for his voice work as the Beast.
25) Favorite movie about journalism.
Zodiac
26) What’s the DVD commentary you’d most like to hear? Who would be on the audio track?
Deep Throat Catherinne McKinnon, Andrew Sarris, Susie Bright, Larry Clarke, Phyllis Schafler, Al Goldstein, and Caitlin Flannagan.
27) Favorite movie directed by Clint Eastwood.
NA
28) Paul Dooley or Kurtwood Smith?
Kurtwood Smith
29) Your clairvoyant moment: Make a prediction about the Oscar season.
It will bore me.
30) Your hope for the movies in 2009.
Actually Gays and Lesbians fucking on Screen.
31) What’s your top 10 of 2008? (If you have a blog and have your list posted, please feel free to leave a link to the post.)
1) Role Models
It was charming, and low key, and shaggy, and v. funny, and tender.
2) Wall E
the aestheics, the arguements against copyright, and finally feeling something for robots
3) Cloverfield
how do we make movies with DV? How do we create a movie about terror in new york, after real terror exists? How do 20 year olds process and disemaite information?
4) The Strangers
formally brilliant.
5) Death Race
joan allen, saying cocksucker.
6) Burn After Reading
a perfect little coen bros. confection.
7) Speed Racer
one of the ways to solve the uncanny valley, is to make things hyperreal, made me think the most about how movies are made in this post green screen era.
8) W
profoundly flawed, with wildly inapproite shifts of tone, but for james cromwell as papa and brolin's pitch perfect performance.
9) Paranoid PArk
Van Sant should only be allowed 1 million dollars to make a movie, any more then that, and he fails.
10) My Winnipeg
guy maddin pyschogeographically deconstructs what it means to be canadian.
BONUS QUESTION (to be answered after December 25):
32) What was your favorite movie-related Christmas gift that you received this year?
I received no movie releated gifts
Milk, My Architecht: A Son'S Journey
2) Holiday movies— Do you like them naughty or nice?
I am fond of the horror movies, silent night, deadly knight or black xmas...is that naughty?
3) Ida Lupino or Mercedes McCambridge?
Mercedes McCambridge, for her black clad villian in Ray's Johnny Guitar, plus the voice of Satan.
4) Favorite actor/character from Twin Peaks
Lara Flynn Boyle, who did a string of sexually complicated heroines in the 90s and then sadly lost it, and this was an almost perfect noir performance.
5) It’s been said that, rather than remaking beloved, respected films, Hollywood should concentrate more on righting the wrongs of the past and tinker more with films that didn’t work so well the first time. Pretending for a moment that movies are made in an economic vacuum, name a good candidate for a remake based on this criterion.
I keep wondering if films like Ishtar or Death to Smoochy, which were marketed in a way that undersold their considerable charms, and were odd enough that they needed to be explained, would do well not nessc. with remakes, but reissues, sort of like Criterion but on the big screen. I also wonder what would happen if you gave someone like Harmony Kormine or some of the mumble core fellows 20 millon dollars and told them to remake Waterworld or Superman:Returns, or even Titanic?
6) Favorite Spike Lee joint.
As a politican: Bamboozled (because loose limbed, burlesque that is so soaked with bile is a hard balance, and it was so meta it hurt). As a film maker, the remarkably tight, beautifully acted Inside Man, with Jodie Foster playing someone new, strong, and dislikeable.
7) Lawrence Tierney or Scott Brady?
The Scott Brady who was in an episode of the littlest hobo? Then yes!
8) Are most movies too long?
Most movies spend too long explaining, and too little time working out emotions, and realtionships--as a general rule, they are badly paced (Role Models is a good example of in/out with lots of good actors scene, so is Sarah Marshall)
9) Favorite performance by an actor portraying a real-life politician.
Helen McCroy, who made the easily parodied, easily mocked Cherie Blair, into a modern, open, moral counterpoint to the cold and formal Frears.
10) Create the main event card for the ultimate giant movie monster smackdown.
Godzilla vs the Cloverfield Monster but in North Dakota.
11) Jean Peters or Sheree North?
Sheree North. (for the episode while she was the hooker with Archie Bunker and for the weird, little seen, Schumacher riff on Altman Amatuer Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill)
12) Why would you ever want or need to see a movie more than once?
If I was wrong, if people I trust tell me I am wrong, If what I feel is overwhelming what I think, if my dick or my heart gets in the way, if i am hungry or distracted while watching it, if i leave the film ambigiously
13) Favorite road movie.
true romance/crossroads
14) Favorite Budd Boetticher picture.
i haven't seen enough.
15) Who is the one person, living or dead, famous or unknown, who most informed or encouraged your appreciation of movies?
my mother, who made me talk about things when i left the cinema, my friend pat, who kept arguing about the movies with me, the art critic david hickey, who taught me to trust my love of pop trash and to treat pop trash as significant, as worthy of writing about, the english critic Mark Sinker who told me that academic criticisms were worthy of being in the same places as quatidian experiences, and David Thomson, because his reference books are so opinatned.
16) Favorite opening credit sequence. (Please include YouTube link if possible.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXrEptVgUnc&eurl=http://movieblog.ugo.com/index.php/movieblog/more/best_credits_sequences_the_taking_of_pehlam_one_two_three/ (font shot!)
17) Kenneth Tobey or John Agar?
John Agar, for working from the 40s, to 2002.
18) Jean-Luc Godard once suggested that the more popular the movie, the less likely it was that it was a good movie. Is he right or just cranky? Cite the best evidence one way or the other.
I am not sure that Goddard was in the buisness of making movies, as much as he was in the business of making essays...and i always distrust people who refuse to have catholic (small c) tastes---why can we not enjoy both alphaville and logan's run? (same themes, same aesthetics)
19) Favorite Jonathan Demme movie.
silence of the lambs
20) Tatum O’Neal or Linda Blair?
Tatum O'Neal--because of her unhinged, incenstous, drunken falling apart, in the last few years of rescue me, something that Blair never seemed to be able to do (as teenagers, O'Neal struck me as more of control of her talent)
21) Favorite use of irony in a movie. (This could be an idea, moment, scene, or an entire film.)
How unresolved Zodiac was, how the whole movie was about finding a killer, about obsessional knowing for two decades and three charchaters, and how that knowing was impossible.
22) Favorite Claude Chabrol film.
i don;t have one
23) The best movie of the year to which very little attention seems to have been paid.
Role Models
24) Dennis Christopher or Robby Benson?
Robby Benson for his voice work as the Beast.
25) Favorite movie about journalism.
Zodiac
26) What’s the DVD commentary you’d most like to hear? Who would be on the audio track?
Deep Throat Catherinne McKinnon, Andrew Sarris, Susie Bright, Larry Clarke, Phyllis Schafler, Al Goldstein, and Caitlin Flannagan.
27) Favorite movie directed by Clint Eastwood.
NA
28) Paul Dooley or Kurtwood Smith?
Kurtwood Smith
29) Your clairvoyant moment: Make a prediction about the Oscar season.
It will bore me.
30) Your hope for the movies in 2009.
Actually Gays and Lesbians fucking on Screen.
31) What’s your top 10 of 2008? (If you have a blog and have your list posted, please feel free to leave a link to the post.)
1) Role Models
It was charming, and low key, and shaggy, and v. funny, and tender.
2) Wall E
the aestheics, the arguements against copyright, and finally feeling something for robots
3) Cloverfield
how do we make movies with DV? How do we create a movie about terror in new york, after real terror exists? How do 20 year olds process and disemaite information?
4) The Strangers
formally brilliant.
5) Death Race
joan allen, saying cocksucker.
6) Burn After Reading
a perfect little coen bros. confection.
7) Speed Racer
one of the ways to solve the uncanny valley, is to make things hyperreal, made me think the most about how movies are made in this post green screen era.
8) W
profoundly flawed, with wildly inapproite shifts of tone, but for james cromwell as papa and brolin's pitch perfect performance.
9) Paranoid PArk
Van Sant should only be allowed 1 million dollars to make a movie, any more then that, and he fails.
10) My Winnipeg
guy maddin pyschogeographically deconstructs what it means to be canadian.
BONUS QUESTION (to be answered after December 25):
32) What was your favorite movie-related Christmas gift that you received this year?
I received no movie releated gifts
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
this years goals:
# Publish in Vue and See
nope
# Pitch One Story a Month
nope
# Write one CD Review a Month
7 in 12 months
# Complete Between 3-6 Grant Proposals.
completed 2, with one on the way.
# Send Proposals to Plug In, AKA, Stride, Gallery 44, Le, Works Gallery and YYZ
no to plug in, aka, stride, le, yes to 44, works, and yyz
# Find Shows in proper gallery contexts.
moving away from this as an idea
# Find place for Post Modern Grid, Deer and Edmonton Erotica shows
nope
# Write 1000 words a week.
yes
# Save at least 100 dollars a month
learned how to budget, better.
# Get to Vancouver, Grand Prarie, Calgary, Saskatoon
got to toronto, ottawa, new york, and san fransico instead
# Only Spend 250/wk, write down spending
now spending 70 a week.
# Organize Books and Cds, other junk
slowly
# Do Taxes in a timely manner
done them, just not in a timely manner
# Finish or Continue working on, finding a place, etc the following projects: PNOG, Movie Stars, Lips and Nips, Fruit Project, Mirror Project, Utopia, Purity Balls, Catalog for the Ford Show, Pyschogeography of fort sask. lensculture, apartamento, sunstone, etc
still to do, art met, come as you are, not sure, mandolin, still working, depending on rachel, dropped the ball, need to find a printer, emailed and no luck on those three.
# Tighten Writing
slowly working thru
# work on drafts, using Norm's revisions for the poems, think about sonnets, learn how to write a sonnet
yep, nope, nope
# Work on Controlling social anxiety, aggression, mood, etc
yep
# ask 4 people out on dates.
actually yes.
# Read more conservative texts, esp conservative religious texts, read 25 books of poetry, take notes, write about them.
read about that level of poetry, did not write notes, read the pope, some orthodox religious work, and some neo-cons
# Keep processing the radical/conservative split in yr politics
done
# attempt to get into the Fort Sask Collections
still working
# Library issues
what were the library issues?
# avoid the baths (not for sex negative ways but because it makes me a little lonely)
this was just silly
# Continue work with exposure, and the edmonton arts thing
done
# learn how to say no
done
# SF in March
done
so a fairly successful year.
2009:
Jan:
3rd: Install Danforth Show
5th Confirm Hawkins, Confirm Job Club
17th: Birthday Party
Mail school app, sort out funding for Seattle (travel grant), if accepted, lease for OW, Landscape show (Mike Bridge, Marshall, Ted, Zach,
Feb:
Deinstall Danforth Show, move from 1318 Danforth
look for housing, apply for travel grants for august, buy plane ticket, apply for ODSP
28th Apply for Nebraska Residency.
March:
March 1st Apply for Toronto Outdoor Arts exhibition
Hamilton for Company and the Muybridge Exhibition (closes on the 29th)
April
Moms Bday
New Orleans for PCA/AA
May
Confirm and seek funding for Poughkeepsie, sort out money via Exhibition grant for framing show in December.
May 15th Deadline for Frogs at Toronto Public etc
June
July
Poughkeepsie
August
Poughkeepsie
Sept
If all is well, and god is willing, School.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
9th Come as You are Show.
# Publish in Vue and See
nope
# Pitch One Story a Month
nope
# Write one CD Review a Month
7 in 12 months
# Complete Between 3-6 Grant Proposals.
completed 2, with one on the way.
# Send Proposals to Plug In, AKA, Stride, Gallery 44, Le, Works Gallery and YYZ
no to plug in, aka, stride, le, yes to 44, works, and yyz
# Find Shows in proper gallery contexts.
moving away from this as an idea
# Find place for Post Modern Grid, Deer and Edmonton Erotica shows
nope
# Write 1000 words a week.
yes
# Save at least 100 dollars a month
learned how to budget, better.
# Get to Vancouver, Grand Prarie, Calgary, Saskatoon
got to toronto, ottawa, new york, and san fransico instead
# Only Spend 250/wk, write down spending
now spending 70 a week.
# Organize Books and Cds, other junk
slowly
# Do Taxes in a timely manner
done them, just not in a timely manner
# Finish or Continue working on, finding a place, etc the following projects: PNOG, Movie Stars, Lips and Nips, Fruit Project, Mirror Project, Utopia, Purity Balls, Catalog for the Ford Show, Pyschogeography of fort sask. lensculture, apartamento, sunstone, etc
still to do, art met, come as you are, not sure, mandolin, still working, depending on rachel, dropped the ball, need to find a printer, emailed and no luck on those three.
# Tighten Writing
slowly working thru
# work on drafts, using Norm's revisions for the poems, think about sonnets, learn how to write a sonnet
yep, nope, nope
# Work on Controlling social anxiety, aggression, mood, etc
yep
# ask 4 people out on dates.
actually yes.
# Read more conservative texts, esp conservative religious texts, read 25 books of poetry, take notes, write about them.
read about that level of poetry, did not write notes, read the pope, some orthodox religious work, and some neo-cons
# Keep processing the radical/conservative split in yr politics
done
# attempt to get into the Fort Sask Collections
still working
# Library issues
what were the library issues?
# avoid the baths (not for sex negative ways but because it makes me a little lonely)
this was just silly
# Continue work with exposure, and the edmonton arts thing
done
# learn how to say no
done
# SF in March
done
so a fairly successful year.
2009:
Jan:
3rd: Install Danforth Show
5th Confirm Hawkins, Confirm Job Club
17th: Birthday Party
Mail school app, sort out funding for Seattle (travel grant), if accepted, lease for OW, Landscape show (Mike Bridge, Marshall, Ted, Zach,
Feb:
Deinstall Danforth Show, move from 1318 Danforth
look for housing, apply for travel grants for august, buy plane ticket, apply for ODSP
28th Apply for Nebraska Residency.
March:
March 1st Apply for Toronto Outdoor Arts exhibition
Hamilton for Company and the Muybridge Exhibition (closes on the 29th)
April
Moms Bday
New Orleans for PCA/AA
May
Confirm and seek funding for Poughkeepsie, sort out money via Exhibition grant for framing show in December.
May 15th Deadline for Frogs at Toronto Public etc
June
July
Poughkeepsie
August
Poughkeepsie
Sept
If all is well, and god is willing, School.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
9th Come as You are Show.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
the LA Times extensive seires on the drug wars that are pulling mexico apart, and the consquences for south western united states, without being too racist or needlessy paniced, this is why we need newspapers. (excellent multimedia work as well, with photos, videos, interactive maps, and hyperlinked stories)
New Baby Aardvark, Detroit Zoo
laudatory ny times review of DTWOF. Bechdel noted that this is the first time in history that the times has used the word dyke ever, and that they only started using gay and lesbian instead of homosexual ca 1994.
an opthomologist reviews Riley.
nice little article that lists objects that genuinely shocked a professional art historian, who was used to contempary art that was intended to decimate. (the list of work that has genuinely shocked me is fairly small, and neatly mirrors her categories (ie the shock of sex, the shock of colour, the shock of violence, the shock of prank, and the shock of shock) (sex: borgeious's phalluses, les naieds at the national gallery, sarah lucas newspaper works, sickert's prostitutes, czech bestality etchings from the 1890s, Salo) (colour: riley's veldt, noland from 1967, frankenthaler's sea and mountain) (violence: grosz's drawings, the artist worker coalition's and babies:and babies poster (i saw again, at MoCCa last week and it still punches me in the guts), Chaim Soutine's oxen) (prank: warhol's screen tests, spock madonna now on the streets of new york, hermann nitsch's specatcles (though also sex and violence)) (shock of shock: paul mccarthy, kara walker, terrance houle) (sickertt is a good example, because when i read cornwall's foolish book, i knew where she was coming from, the works looked like they belonged to a sex murderer)
tucker nichols virtually curates ten natural patterns for the sf:moma
Model Guinevere Van Seenu for ACne JEans, 2008.
Americans refuse to signanti gay discriminaiton bill at the UN
nascar settles a 2225m sexual harrassment suit.
beautifully written article on a small house near mount rainer, in the middle of a suburban neighbourhood, that was designed to work in relation to the landscape.
100 cereal box covers.
andy mangold redesigns the new monopoly box that is both gorgeous and much more functional.
Nixon, Dinner at the Mural Room
Kenneth L:ibrecht of Cal Tech photographs snowflakes.
marx lennist rewrite of thomas the tank engine.
i dont know if i like these mumble fuck photos, i know what he is doing, the compoistion is strong, but its a little too dirty, a little too derritiave, i think. (but i keep coming back to them, and there is something about their wetness, their heavily calculated faux realness, that overcomes the hipster obviousness? maybe?
Illustration to a guide to Historical Biology, 1867
leah evans does really gorgeous topographical maps.
the german love of canadina continues unabated.
tanuki are japanese racoon dogs with epic testicles. here are some prints of them
some important unanswered questions about the madoff mess.
some classic anti papist photo propganada from the 19th century.
beard revue a beard blog.
303 gallery shows a table made from a chevy truck back.
annie vought uses cut paper and adhesive to make large scale antomioncal models--the ones of the neck are esp beautiful.
James Fuentes
Grandfather Clock, 2006
Cardboard, quartz clock movement
12" x 9" x 64"
washington city paper used a photo of mine
Ratzinger is not a moron, and he has a well thought out, entirely consistent theology, and a moral theology that has yet to be queered, or at least a queer response has not been formulated (i should not say queer, i should say gay) to the idea that homosexuality is not natural--that he makes a carefully articulated defense of nature as he sees it, that he has a holistic view that suggests the lack of care that we take as humans to trees and owls is the same as a lack of care we take to our sexualities, is most likely correct at least in a thomist sense, and he is profoundly thomist (in general he is reactionary in extreme, from his latin xmas messages to his revival of hats last seen since sixtus). i think the question that queer theologians have to ask, is if same gendered sexual contact is unnatural, what are the implications for us, and the follow up is, how is same gendered sexual contact natural? (lee edelman tries to answer some of these questions in Queer Theory and the Death Drive, a book well worth picking up) (the link goes to Rocco Palmo's essay on ecology and Benedict, in relation to these recent ideas)
Richard Tuttle's small set of geometric abstractions, Purple, are cryptically, a formal taxonomizing of all the ways green can be close to blue or yellow, while still maintaining its formal ability.
coal companies posion tennessee, this time with hundreds of thousands of toxic, radioactive ash breakign levvees.
photoblog of a new york city fireman
the cavanagh company of providence rhode island makes most of the communion wafers for catholics, anglicans and lutherans in the US, the photos of ths nyt profile are bizarre.
robin covers cobrasnake
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New Baby Aardvark, Detroit Zoo
laudatory ny times review of DTWOF. Bechdel noted that this is the first time in history that the times has used the word dyke ever, and that they only started using gay and lesbian instead of homosexual ca 1994.
an opthomologist reviews Riley.
nice little article that lists objects that genuinely shocked a professional art historian, who was used to contempary art that was intended to decimate. (the list of work that has genuinely shocked me is fairly small, and neatly mirrors her categories (ie the shock of sex, the shock of colour, the shock of violence, the shock of prank, and the shock of shock) (sex: borgeious's phalluses, les naieds at the national gallery, sarah lucas newspaper works, sickert's prostitutes, czech bestality etchings from the 1890s, Salo) (colour: riley's veldt, noland from 1967, frankenthaler's sea and mountain) (violence: grosz's drawings, the artist worker coalition's and babies:and babies poster (i saw again, at MoCCa last week and it still punches me in the guts), Chaim Soutine's oxen) (prank: warhol's screen tests, spock madonna now on the streets of new york, hermann nitsch's specatcles (though also sex and violence)) (shock of shock: paul mccarthy, kara walker, terrance houle) (sickertt is a good example, because when i read cornwall's foolish book, i knew where she was coming from, the works looked like they belonged to a sex murderer)
tucker nichols virtually curates ten natural patterns for the sf:moma
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Model Guinevere Van Seenu for ACne JEans, 2008.
Americans refuse to signanti gay discriminaiton bill at the UN
nascar settles a 2225m sexual harrassment suit.
beautifully written article on a small house near mount rainer, in the middle of a suburban neighbourhood, that was designed to work in relation to the landscape.
100 cereal box covers.
andy mangold redesigns the new monopoly box that is both gorgeous and much more functional.
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Nixon, Dinner at the Mural Room
Kenneth L:ibrecht of Cal Tech photographs snowflakes.
marx lennist rewrite of thomas the tank engine.
i dont know if i like these mumble fuck photos, i know what he is doing, the compoistion is strong, but its a little too dirty, a little too derritiave, i think. (but i keep coming back to them, and there is something about their wetness, their heavily calculated faux realness, that overcomes the hipster obviousness? maybe?
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Illustration to a guide to Historical Biology, 1867
leah evans does really gorgeous topographical maps.
the german love of canadina continues unabated.
tanuki are japanese racoon dogs with epic testicles. here are some prints of them
some important unanswered questions about the madoff mess.
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some classic anti papist photo propganada from the 19th century.
beard revue a beard blog.
303 gallery shows a table made from a chevy truck back.
annie vought uses cut paper and adhesive to make large scale antomioncal models--the ones of the neck are esp beautiful.
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James Fuentes
Grandfather Clock, 2006
Cardboard, quartz clock movement
12" x 9" x 64"
washington city paper used a photo of mine
Ratzinger is not a moron, and he has a well thought out, entirely consistent theology, and a moral theology that has yet to be queered, or at least a queer response has not been formulated (i should not say queer, i should say gay) to the idea that homosexuality is not natural--that he makes a carefully articulated defense of nature as he sees it, that he has a holistic view that suggests the lack of care that we take as humans to trees and owls is the same as a lack of care we take to our sexualities, is most likely correct at least in a thomist sense, and he is profoundly thomist (in general he is reactionary in extreme, from his latin xmas messages to his revival of hats last seen since sixtus). i think the question that queer theologians have to ask, is if same gendered sexual contact is unnatural, what are the implications for us, and the follow up is, how is same gendered sexual contact natural? (lee edelman tries to answer some of these questions in Queer Theory and the Death Drive, a book well worth picking up) (the link goes to Rocco Palmo's essay on ecology and Benedict, in relation to these recent ideas)
Richard Tuttle's small set of geometric abstractions, Purple, are cryptically, a formal taxonomizing of all the ways green can be close to blue or yellow, while still maintaining its formal ability.
coal companies posion tennessee, this time with hundreds of thousands of toxic, radioactive ash breakign levvees.
photoblog of a new york city fireman
the cavanagh company of providence rhode island makes most of the communion wafers for catholics, anglicans and lutherans in the US, the photos of ths nyt profile are bizarre.
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robin covers cobrasnake
Saturday, December 27, 2008
1) it felt that the white and handsome Scott was viewed as the proper lover and the Hispanic Jack was viewed as needy, hotheaded. it seemed to be literally whitewashed.
2) there was not alot about fucking. mainstream movies about queer lives still have no idea how to handle the fucking.
3) it made his less noble connections invisible, but this might be a matter of history already done--i would like to see a solid investigative piece about how he interacted with/used the People's Temple to consolidate votes, for example.
4) it was a step back formally, for Van Sant, who's last few movies were these elliptical, almost anti plot, diversions about sex, desire, history, lust, and death----the aesthetics of paranoid park, elephant or last days could have been used really effectively for Milk, and it seems to be this horribly didactic step backwards.
5) and this is my most complicated point. I think that we have treated Dan White badly, as a community, and I think that this movie does as well. A bunch of things---Milk treated White badly, he manipulated him, promised things and didn't deliver, pulled the rug underneath him, stonewalled his issues, and they were legitimate issues, whether we agree with White or not--Milk refused to treat him democratically, no matter how much he used the mantle of electoral politics to maintain progress. The sticking point between Milk and White seems to be more about land use, then anything else. White was mentally ill, under finical pressure, unable to feed or take care of his wife and kids, and viewed his masculinity being threatened. When he was convicted of manslaughter, it was the system working--he was suffering from diminished capacity, and continued to be. There is something almost bathetic about this man returning home, unable to live with the enormity of his crime, and doing what so many gay men and lesbians wished during the white night riots.
5) I think it does a disservice to Milk's collation building that White is treated so simply, or at least Milk's attempts at coalition building before he became (as the film says) the gay boss tweed.
6) All of that said, I am unsure of how prescriptive it is, is Milk's moving from a general radical stance to a more assimilationist one, from a broad coalition to a v. specific identity politics something that the glbtq community (as if there is one community) should attempt to assimilate?
(and a movie about Dan White would be much more interesting I think)
2) there was not alot about fucking. mainstream movies about queer lives still have no idea how to handle the fucking.
3) it made his less noble connections invisible, but this might be a matter of history already done--i would like to see a solid investigative piece about how he interacted with/used the People's Temple to consolidate votes, for example.
4) it was a step back formally, for Van Sant, who's last few movies were these elliptical, almost anti plot, diversions about sex, desire, history, lust, and death----the aesthetics of paranoid park, elephant or last days could have been used really effectively for Milk, and it seems to be this horribly didactic step backwards.
5) and this is my most complicated point. I think that we have treated Dan White badly, as a community, and I think that this movie does as well. A bunch of things---Milk treated White badly, he manipulated him, promised things and didn't deliver, pulled the rug underneath him, stonewalled his issues, and they were legitimate issues, whether we agree with White or not--Milk refused to treat him democratically, no matter how much he used the mantle of electoral politics to maintain progress. The sticking point between Milk and White seems to be more about land use, then anything else. White was mentally ill, under finical pressure, unable to feed or take care of his wife and kids, and viewed his masculinity being threatened. When he was convicted of manslaughter, it was the system working--he was suffering from diminished capacity, and continued to be. There is something almost bathetic about this man returning home, unable to live with the enormity of his crime, and doing what so many gay men and lesbians wished during the white night riots.
5) I think it does a disservice to Milk's collation building that White is treated so simply, or at least Milk's attempts at coalition building before he became (as the film says) the gay boss tweed.
6) All of that said, I am unsure of how prescriptive it is, is Milk's moving from a general radical stance to a more assimilationist one, from a broad coalition to a v. specific identity politics something that the glbtq community (as if there is one community) should attempt to assimilate?
(and a movie about Dan White would be much more interesting I think)
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Eartha Kitt, died today. if all she ever did was sing the word cerise in this song, it would make her immortal, one of the best interpertive singers, wry, erotic, fresh, and open, without anger or darkness...but political enough for the FBI and CIA to investigate her for being pornographic, plus dancing until her 80s, she was iconic. (also, her bitching out Lady Bird Johnson at the white house for being blind to real issues was one of the great (under rated) acts of the civil rights movement.telling the first lady
"No wonder the kids rebel and take pot,Boys I know across the nation feel it doesn't pay to be a good guy. They figure that with a record, they don't have to go off to Vietnam."
That she was forced to, like Josephine Baker, James Baldwin, Nina Simone, and others, move to Europe to record and sing, is indicitave of american racisim, as is her (frankly spotty) film career
after midnight mass:
went to midnight mass at st mary magdalenes, a high anglican church (ie 2 hour service, 12th century plain song, therminer, silver bells, and book of common prayer), with two new friends (andy and jamie). its been a couple of months since i have been to church, and my desire to do theology has increased, while my theism has decreased. or not strictly my theism, but something more complicated...i think the question i am working on answering, is how to live a life under the traditions of christianity, and the virtues of vhristianity, not only the aesthetics (though the aesthetics are vital to me), or the deep mysticisms of Her monastic traditions, or her history of social justice, but also such basic virtues as temperance, justice, mercy, grace, fortitude, or hope, esp when one for example reads thru the nicene cred, and thinks i do not belive any of this. i think maybe i am becoming more protestant, in the sin boldly/here i stand sense of the world, but where do i stand, and does sinning boldly include basic heresys?
(or to put it another way, one of the reasons i love the anglo-catholic tradition is that it allows for one to be both logocentric, and committed to the ambiguity of language, to allow for the full range of human emotions, and to realise that the narrative of the divine is never completed, that one can always attempt to seek god, fail at that attempt, and still live a life of fullness--and to live a life of fullness while using ones gifts and subjucating ones ego--the instability, and the stability, and the desire to live in parodox--but also not chaos, that the scripture, and the liturgy, and the saints, and the hymns, and the glosses on the glosses, all provide an undergirding, a pattern to mould not only ones years, but ones days, and ones hours--but that pattern is fractal and renewing/able...but there has to be a core, and if the core has left you, if the core does not resonate with you (the core here being the apostolic and nicene creeds) can one really be renewed in the blood of the lamb?
went to midnight mass at st mary magdalenes, a high anglican church (ie 2 hour service, 12th century plain song, therminer, silver bells, and book of common prayer), with two new friends (andy and jamie). its been a couple of months since i have been to church, and my desire to do theology has increased, while my theism has decreased. or not strictly my theism, but something more complicated...i think the question i am working on answering, is how to live a life under the traditions of christianity, and the virtues of vhristianity, not only the aesthetics (though the aesthetics are vital to me), or the deep mysticisms of Her monastic traditions, or her history of social justice, but also such basic virtues as temperance, justice, mercy, grace, fortitude, or hope, esp when one for example reads thru the nicene cred, and thinks i do not belive any of this. i think maybe i am becoming more protestant, in the sin boldly/here i stand sense of the world, but where do i stand, and does sinning boldly include basic heresys?
(or to put it another way, one of the reasons i love the anglo-catholic tradition is that it allows for one to be both logocentric, and committed to the ambiguity of language, to allow for the full range of human emotions, and to realise that the narrative of the divine is never completed, that one can always attempt to seek god, fail at that attempt, and still live a life of fullness--and to live a life of fullness while using ones gifts and subjucating ones ego--the instability, and the stability, and the desire to live in parodox--but also not chaos, that the scripture, and the liturgy, and the saints, and the hymns, and the glosses on the glosses, all provide an undergirding, a pattern to mould not only ones years, but ones days, and ones hours--but that pattern is fractal and renewing/able...but there has to be a core, and if the core has left you, if the core does not resonate with you (the core here being the apostolic and nicene creeds) can one really be renewed in the blood of the lamb?
Monday, December 22, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
St Bride’s
So this is women’s work: folding
and unfolding, be it linen or a selkie-
skin tucked behind a rock. Consider
the hare in jizzen: her leverets’ ears
flat as the mizzen of a ship
entering a bottle. A thread’s trick;
adders uncoil into spring. Feathers
of sunlight, glanced from a butterknife
quiver on the ceiling,
and a last sharp twist for the shoulders
delivers my daughter, the placenta
following, like a fist of purple kelp.
Kathleen Jamie, from an anthology of poems about child birth, called, all the poems you need to say hello. it's the double rhyme of jizzen and mizzen that makes it.
So this is women’s work: folding
and unfolding, be it linen or a selkie-
skin tucked behind a rock. Consider
the hare in jizzen: her leverets’ ears
flat as the mizzen of a ship
entering a bottle. A thread’s trick;
adders uncoil into spring. Feathers
of sunlight, glanced from a butterknife
quiver on the ceiling,
and a last sharp twist for the shoulders
delivers my daughter, the placenta
following, like a fist of purple kelp.
Kathleen Jamie, from an anthology of poems about child birth, called, all the poems you need to say hello. it's the double rhyme of jizzen and mizzen that makes it.
so i was reading this catalog of Riley work, including an amazing colourfield work called veldt, spring green diagonals, with orange highlights--difficult to describe, but all over one of the strongest works i have seen, so i look it up in the national collection of Australia, where it is housed---huge amounts of other Riley work on the web, but this peice (and a few other of her strong, but not often reproduced colour field work in the 70s) is under copyright protection, and so no digital images.
fuxstix
fuxstix
Thursday, December 18, 2008
a nice little article about Betjeman's thots on the Wilde arrest, his friendship with Bosie (!), and his general human decentness (Bethjeman's ballad of Wilde is excorating on the english hypcrosies that occur when they talk about public and private)
i am of the opinon that the director of the CIA should not be in the swimming pools of saudi princes, drunk or not. I am also suprised that the Bush director of the CIA cannot hold his liqour
the journalist who threw his shoe at Bush has been beaten and perhaps tortured in custody.
50s Pulp Illustrtation, Author and date unknown.
a couple of dozen photos of riots in Greece, via the Boston Globe's big picture. I have no idea how I feel about the greek riot situation. though the greek police have run out of tear gas.
Beaker does ode to joy.
5 prreisdents who might be worse then bush.
i am wondering if the black and white in these photographs of Kotzebue Alaska, are as effective as Dennis Whitimer thinks they are, but it is nice that he actually lives in the town he shoots in.
I love that the controversial mexican madonna playboy spread came out during advent.
we are in the middle of radical new understandings of how the brain works due to new imaging technologies.
christies is lowering prices, estimates, and cancelling garuenttes after their disasterous fall season.
this video about abuse, and genetic disorders in pedifgree dogs, is a scandolous must watch. (for example one third of king charles spaniels have a genetic disorder where there brain is too large for their skull, causing unendable pain) (the ridges on rodesian ridgebacks are a form of spinal bifidia and it was until this doc, ethical according to the ridgie standards to cull non ridgeback ridgies)) (german sheperads have such severe hip displayia they cannot walk properly) (bulldogs and pugs faces are so squished in that they cannot breathe, and the tail that curls means their spines do not grow properly) (and others)
fuck you penguin is an obscene parody of lolcats.
Still from Speed Racer, Mathew Fox.
the vatican has approved its first cell phone app, a breviary for the jesus phone.
katamari bento!
Peggy Atwood Dances
a dozen videos of new york public library special collections workers.
it says a lot about the nessc. of regulation that a 50b ponzi scheme managed to surrive for most of the 90s.
i want this calendar
This hotel used to be on Fisherman's Wharf, it is no longer.
great mp3 blog, all original compositon.
i want to move to NoDak.
dozens of idlewild photos, vintagey scans.
sweet drawings made in the snow, on mailboxes.
just to prove that bush has to be against all that is holy and good, he comes out against national wifi
Catherine Denuve, 2008 (still from her new xmas movie)
7 free Ryan McGinness desktops.
dice monster scans dozens of different spinning tops, not all of them driedels, lovely photography, and design.
i think i like these paintings by Jonas Wood, the best of them look like they have spent alot of time looking at 40s era Braque as filtered thru a 70s pop culture/design sensiblity--lots more drawing then painting, it seems to be.
mark simpson argues in favour of civil unions as a radical solution to the untennable affliations b/w the state and queerdom that marriages provide. money qoute:
the thing that scares me, is that there do not seem to be any dissenting voices in public, that gay marriage might not be a good thing, that free speech or free sex or devotion to other more intangible freedoms are being thrown under the bus, in order to civilise us. (CF Rufus Wainwright or Elton John)
nice little defense of Anderson.
Ellsworth KElly, Green and Orange, Lithograph, 1976
WANT
Norwegian PSA against bothering Seeing Eye Dogs when they are working.
Obama's VA cheif is critical enough of BUsh, that the Walter Reed scandal might work itself out under
this discussion of how Iowa worked to save it's collection against floods last winter is ripe with midwestern practicality
Richard Estes, from Manhanttan, Lithographs, 1971
my favourite erotic calendar of the year. my second favourite erotic calendar of the year.
i keep forgetting how many break away lutheran and semi-lutheran sects the US holds, the lastest is the semi shaker, v. communal Schwenkfelders.
This new still from Where the Wild Things ARe, gave me that lovely warm and excited/nostalgic feeling in my belly, the book is one of those magic things that gave kids power, autonomy, and saftey, and this still at least suggests that they are going to do the same thing with the film.
rob roy kelly library of wood type at the university of texas at austin.
mickey smith takes photos of bound perodicals in libraries, brilliantly formal.
Alos Want
these straight blades make me want to start shaving.
Scott Caan Why Wont You Love ME
i am of the opinon that the director of the CIA should not be in the swimming pools of saudi princes, drunk or not. I am also suprised that the Bush director of the CIA cannot hold his liqour
the journalist who threw his shoe at Bush has been beaten and perhaps tortured in custody.
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50s Pulp Illustrtation, Author and date unknown.
a couple of dozen photos of riots in Greece, via the Boston Globe's big picture. I have no idea how I feel about the greek riot situation. though the greek police have run out of tear gas.
Beaker does ode to joy.
5 prreisdents who might be worse then bush.
i am wondering if the black and white in these photographs of Kotzebue Alaska, are as effective as Dennis Whitimer thinks they are, but it is nice that he actually lives in the town he shoots in.
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I love that the controversial mexican madonna playboy spread came out during advent.
we are in the middle of radical new understandings of how the brain works due to new imaging technologies.
christies is lowering prices, estimates, and cancelling garuenttes after their disasterous fall season.
this video about abuse, and genetic disorders in pedifgree dogs, is a scandolous must watch. (for example one third of king charles spaniels have a genetic disorder where there brain is too large for their skull, causing unendable pain) (the ridges on rodesian ridgebacks are a form of spinal bifidia and it was until this doc, ethical according to the ridgie standards to cull non ridgeback ridgies)) (german sheperads have such severe hip displayia they cannot walk properly) (bulldogs and pugs faces are so squished in that they cannot breathe, and the tail that curls means their spines do not grow properly) (and others)
fuck you penguin is an obscene parody of lolcats.
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Still from Speed Racer, Mathew Fox.
the vatican has approved its first cell phone app, a breviary for the jesus phone.
katamari bento!
Peggy Atwood Dances
a dozen videos of new york public library special collections workers.
it says a lot about the nessc. of regulation that a 50b ponzi scheme managed to surrive for most of the 90s.
i want this calendar
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| From Untitled Album |
This hotel used to be on Fisherman's Wharf, it is no longer.
great mp3 blog, all original compositon.
i want to move to NoDak.
dozens of idlewild photos, vintagey scans.
sweet drawings made in the snow, on mailboxes.
just to prove that bush has to be against all that is holy and good, he comes out against national wifi
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| From Untitled Album |
Catherine Denuve, 2008 (still from her new xmas movie)
7 free Ryan McGinness desktops.
dice monster scans dozens of different spinning tops, not all of them driedels, lovely photography, and design.
i think i like these paintings by Jonas Wood, the best of them look like they have spent alot of time looking at 40s era Braque as filtered thru a 70s pop culture/design sensiblity--lots more drawing then painting, it seems to be.
mark simpson argues in favour of civil unions as a radical solution to the untennable affliations b/w the state and queerdom that marriages provide. money qoute:
But not all gays agree. This one for instance sees gay marriage not so much as a touchstone as a fetish. A largely symbolic and emotional issue that in the US threatens to undermine real, non-symbolic same-sex couple protection: civil unions bestow in effect the same legal status as marriage in several US states - including California. As a result of the religious right’s mobilisation against gay marriage, civil unions have been rolled back in several US states.Perhaps the lesson of Proposition 8 is not that most straight people think gay people should sit at the back of the bus, but that if you take on religion and tradition on its hallowed turf - and that is what marriage effectively is - you’re highly likely to lose. Even in liberal California.
the thing that scares me, is that there do not seem to be any dissenting voices in public, that gay marriage might not be a good thing, that free speech or free sex or devotion to other more intangible freedoms are being thrown under the bus, in order to civilise us. (CF Rufus Wainwright or Elton John)
nice little defense of Anderson.
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Ellsworth KElly, Green and Orange, Lithograph, 1976
WANT
Norwegian PSA against bothering Seeing Eye Dogs when they are working.
Obama's VA cheif is critical enough of BUsh, that the Walter Reed scandal might work itself out under
this discussion of how Iowa worked to save it's collection against floods last winter is ripe with midwestern practicality
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Richard Estes, from Manhanttan, Lithographs, 1971
my favourite erotic calendar of the year. my second favourite erotic calendar of the year.
i keep forgetting how many break away lutheran and semi-lutheran sects the US holds, the lastest is the semi shaker, v. communal Schwenkfelders.
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| From Untitled Album |
This new still from Where the Wild Things ARe, gave me that lovely warm and excited/nostalgic feeling in my belly, the book is one of those magic things that gave kids power, autonomy, and saftey, and this still at least suggests that they are going to do the same thing with the film.
rob roy kelly library of wood type at the university of texas at austin.
mickey smith takes photos of bound perodicals in libraries, brilliantly formal.
Alos Want
these straight blades make me want to start shaving.
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| From Untitled Album |
Scott Caan Why Wont You Love ME
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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