Wednesday, July 29, 2009

the author or the structure




Sir Travis Swain Pendlebury
is a practicing wizard who makes doodles in his alchemist's lab in Brooklyn:











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I have three miniature ontologies in the newest edition of H_NGM_N.




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Jen Stark lives and works in Miami, FL:











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"As a teenager, from a Punk I became a New Romantic and I was really into make-up. Through wearing make-up and living in squats around London, I met other friends and the opportunity arose to do people’s make-up."





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G. Bradley Rhodes was born in Waynesboro, Virginia, and now lives and works in Brooklyn:














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Lauren Clay
earned an MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Virginia Commonwealth University:











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Brad Brown was born in North Carolina, and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY:








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Katarina Dalayman - Richard Wagner Brünnhilde´s Inmolation Scene @ the Festival d´Aix en Provence (2009)





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Leslie Ditto is from Memphis, Tennessee:











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Nirvana vs Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up





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Jonathan Bergeron aka Johnny Crap:











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UbuWeb's Avant-Garde Radio Stream is Back!


"UbuWeb's 24-hour non-stop radio stream has returned, randomly pulling from our terabyte's worth of avant-garde MP3s. Thanks to the Center for Literary Computing for making this possible. Click here to listen."



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Artist/gallery curator David "Netherland" van Alphen lives and works in Chicago:











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British artist Dryden Goodwin:








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Jim Gaylord was born in North Carolina & now lives and works in Brooklyn:











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I dream of Sarah eating raw elk, blood leaking down her chin.......................

I dream of Sarah in a red negligee playing the flute......................


"23 Erotic Dreams of Sarah Palin"
by
Kate Durbin




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Brian Bress earned an MFA in Painting & Drawing at UCLA:











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Literature as performance art:

Blake Butler has committed to eating a whole copy of his forthcoming book Scorch Atlas, one page at a time.

[You can follow his progress by clicking on his name; if you click on the title you can pre-order Scorch Atlas for only $10, and as an added bonus he will hand destroy your copy for you just enough so that it is still readable.]

Here he is eating page one:





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Carolein Smit lives in Breda, The Netherlands:














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"I've never been able to decide what Klee is trying to say."

"Maybe he's not trying to say anything. Maybe he's just having a good time."





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French artist Pascal Lièvre:











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"Vocality is lost in silence, and yet it is also always potentially present. This silence is both nothing more than a single moment and also infinite. We lose our voice in an equivocity that reminds us of the simultaneity of our singularity and plurality. It reminds us that it is possible to be together."

"How To Lose Your Voice Well"
by
Marc Botha




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Rob Hornstra is a young social documentary photographer in the Netherlands:











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[For Shane, whose novel Light Boxes has just been optioned by Spike Jonze, with the plan currently being: Jonze to Produce & Ray Tintori to Direct]


Two short films directed by Ray Tintori:


"Jettison Your Loved Ones"






"Death To The Tinman"




Wednesday, July 22, 2009

open at the close







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French photogrpaher Viktor Vautier:











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Zoë Keating - "Legions" - Live at The Music Box





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Ruud van Empel
works and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands:











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Darkroom
preview of a 50 minute minute dvd soundscape by Karthik Pandian and Eric D. Clark





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Dutch artist Martijn Beukers:











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Tadeusz Kantor (1915 -- 1990)
Polish stage director, creator of happenings, painter, scenographer, writer, art theoretician, actor:





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Chad Grohman lives and works in Buffalo, New York:











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Illustrator Kim Herbst:











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The History of Performance Art
a lecture by Martha Wilson



[parts 2-3]




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British photographer Sam Hiscox:








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Jeff Koons lives and works in New York City and York, Pennsylvania:











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French designers Les Queues de Sardines:











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Ben Sollee @ WFPK Live Lunch - Panning for Gold - June 11, 2008





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French photographer Melanie Mathieu:











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BBC interviews Federico Fellini (circa 1965)





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Kevin Van Aelst currently lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut: