Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Here is a wonderful documentary from 1983 called Anarchism in America? directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher:



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"Graphs on the death of Marxism, postmodernism, and other stupid academic fads"

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New series of Jack Kerouac photos.

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Osama bin Laden reading from his new poetry collection...yes, the bin Laden.

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Russian artist Vladimir Kuch:

Star Target


Sunrise by the Ocean


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Sunday, September 28, 2008

Click here for more sexist advertisements from our not-to-distant past.

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Classic physics experiment involving sound and fire, Ruben's Tube:



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Here is a listing of every book Art Garfunkel has read over the last 40 years.

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Can you distinguish between an artist and an ape?

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The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life


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Bruce Covey presents Lyn Hejinian, over at Best American Poetry

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Rae Armontrout reading at Artifact

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Underground art galleries in San Francisco

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Canadian artist Brian Donnelly:

Double Goat
(2008)


Coyote Graft
(2006)


Butterfingers
(2005)


Scatter
(2006)


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Friday, September 26, 2008

Julie Murphy earned her MFA at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California:

Concerto for Aspis Demon
(2006)


Beauty Pageant
(2006)


Study 35742b
(2005)


Swingtime at Dusty Dusk
(2005)


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Abe Books releases their list of the Ten Most Expensive Art Books Sold in 2008

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Provocative philosopher Crispin Sartwell posted a helpful handout he gave his students, which is a concise description of Philosophy and its Sub-Disciplines.

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The new issue of Sight & Sound "asked leading critics to choose the works of criticism which have had the greatest impact on them, inspiring them to become critics themselves, and which make a case for criticism as a minor art form in itself."

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Here are some fresh Slavoj Žižek links:



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Thursday, September 25, 2008


Kyla Zoe Luedtke is a current MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin:

Gun Moll Film Still


Gun Moll Picnic


Snow White & Rose Red Go Hunting


Britney Goes Noir


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Here are two free albums to check out:

Wale's Mixtape About Nothing

&

Charles Manson's One Mind


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Google has just launched "an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives."

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Jezebel responds to Esquire's recent list with the 75 books every woman should read.

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A review of André Breton's newly translated Martinique: Snake Charmer.

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Italian artist Lilya Corneli:







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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Belgian artist Stephan Balleux:

Sisters
(2008)


Not Yet
(2007)


Black Flag
(2006)



Valerie Hegarty earned her MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago:

Unearthed
(2008)


Rothko Sunset
(2007)


George Washington Shipwrecked
(2007)


Also...

Here are two recently published, ubercool-looking books by authors new to me:



excerpt, from Relata & Anti-relata: 4. Execution Errors:

Write until breakpoint.
Then execute trace.
There is a syntax error in line 2. This error can be corrected.
There is a logical error in line 3. This error
when an unintended output is produced
as for example the grid coordinates lock in
on the wrong house.

       and a bug is dead
       in the bug.

Write words
and this other stuff happens.
An exit status of zero indicates success;
any other exit status indicates failure. Failure
does not necessarily indicate that the process
failed altogether to accomplish its task.




Blurbs:

"Incomparable. Post-genre horror, apocalypse theology and the philosophy of oil, crossbred into a new and necessary codex." China Miéville, author of Perdido Street Station.

"Reading Negarestani is like being converted to Islam by Salvador Dali." Graham Harman, author of Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Sexy People is a collection of ordinary portraits:








Bedjumper is a collection of photos of people jumping on beds:







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Monday, September 22, 2008

Today...various renditions of my favorite Charles Mingus tune, "Fables of Faubus":

Big Friendly Jazz Orchestra (Takasago High School Jazz Band)
Live at Japan Student Jazz Festival 2008





Project





Guido Canavese
Live at Le Ginestre Jazz Club, Torino, Italy April 5, 2008





The Barrett's





Saxofonicos
Live at The Buenos Aires Jazz Festival 2007





Paulao




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Sunday, September 21, 2008

Italian artist Andrea Giacobbe:








Spanish artist Gervasio Gallardo:









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Saturday, September 20, 2008

French artist Belinda:










Oregon artist Renee Bolser:

Tanith Bierce, Lady Pyrate and Snowball the ferret
(2007)


Lady Alchemist of Brittany
(2007)


Edith the Cat
(2006)


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Esquire suggests "The 75 books all men should read."

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Christopher Sorrentino on the new John Barth novel, at Bookforum.

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Gertrude Stein Poemtalk Podcast.

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Lastly, Lasse Gjertsen is back; this time he's created a drum performance titled "Amateur":



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Friday, September 19, 2008

I'm back...

& so is Diagram. In the new issue you'll find many wow items including an essay by Michael Jauchen called "My Favorite Chapter in Moby Dick."

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& so is Action Yes. The new issue is brimming with brilliance, including an essay by Robert Archambeau entitled "The Avant-Garde in Babel: Two or Three Notes on Four or Five Words"; "Two Stories" by Blake Butler; & seven quasi-historical vignettes on artists and philosophers called "Today the Smell of Worms and Wet Pennies," by Josh Maday.

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& so is the annual University of California Press book sale. Here are some good-looking sale items:


























































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