methodical, ascientific, calculated

Aimee Walleston honors Bright Stupid Confetti in an article at
Art in America!!!

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Julien Langendorff is currently represented in New York by Cinders Gallery and in Paris by Fat Galerie:

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Spanish photographer Salva López is working on a new project called "After Hours":

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"I think there's also a sense (certainly for myself) that current ideas in continental philosophy have exhausted themselves. Do we really need another analysis of how a cultural representation does symbolic violence to a marginal group?"

Interview with Nick Srnicek

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Work from Ben Skinner's "Ghost hide-a-beds: series:

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Complexity Pages
A non-technical introduction to the new
science of Chaos and Complexity

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In Brandon Jan Blommaert's "Eco Station" sculptures, discarded objects are recycled into alien bodies and set loose against Earthly landscapes:

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Leontyne Price sings final scene from Richard Strauss's Salome

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Photographer Marc Da Cunha Lopes shows the factory work behind iconic video games:

Sonic

Mario

Tetris

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"Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man"
directed by Philippe Molins
Runtime: 47mins

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Spanish photographer Ana Cuba:

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David Lynch presents
Fox Bat Strategy
a tribute to Dave Jaurequi

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Jill K. Gregory received an MFA in Medical and Biological Illustration from The University of Michigan:

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8. Connection; distinction. Feeling of little wings growing in one’s smile. Smiling and flapping as related. One has among other things the feeling of being distinguished because one fancies oneself in such a way that one really doesn’t become too deeply involved in anything: however deeply one delves, one always moves on a threshold. Type of toe dance of reason.

PROTOCOL I: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FIRST HASHISH IMPRESSION
[by Walter Benjamin:] Written 18 December [1927]. 3:30 a.m.
Translated by Scott J. Thompson

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Quentin Tarantino lists his Top 20 movies since he began directing in 1992

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Chinese artist Zhang Xiao:

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"All he has left are her clothes, rack after rack after rack. But without her, the clothes are dead too. So he hires a girl to wear the clothes, just so he could get used to her death. But as soon as he sees the girl in the clothes, he realizes his efforts are ridiculous, even creepy. He gives the clothes away and loses his last connection."

"Tony Takitani
A Film Directed by Jun Ichikawa
Adapted from a Novel by Haruki Murakami"
by
J.A. Pak

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David Gilbert earned an M.F.A at UC-Riverside:

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Two music videos from O+S (Orenda Fink and Scalpelist)


"Permanent Scar"
directed by Aaron Gum





"We Do What We Want To"
directed by Chris Lawson

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The Royal Art Lodge was founded in 1996 by Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, Jonathan Pylypchuk, and Adrian Williams in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:

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Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation
(from Ukraine's Got Talent)

these curtains are poltergeists

Alison Malone is a photographer based in New York City:

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Dennis Cooper unleashes a brilliant compendium of material regarding French composer Pierre Henry, a pioneer of musique concrète.

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Chrystal Chan was born and raised in the Bay Area, California:

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"She answered the telephone, thought it was herself who called, she said Hello and no one said anything, so Clarabelle never answered the telephone and hung up."

"Milk Like a Melted Ghost"
by
Eric Beeny

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Little Gold - On the Knife (2009)

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"Say you're a kid, and one dark night you're running along the cold sand with this helicopter in your hand, saying very fast witchy-witchy-witchy. You pass the sick man and he wants you to shove off with that thing. Maybe he thinks you're too old to play with toys. So you squat next to him in the sand and tell him it isn't a toy, it's a model. You tell him look here, here's something most people don't know about helicopters."

"The Man Who Lost the Sea"
by
Theodore Sturgeon

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I have a story in the new issue of
Bust Down The Door And Eat All The Chickens

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Turkish photographer Nazif Topçuoğlu:

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"In order to name with a unifying term the forms of life and the linguistic games which characterize our era, I have used the notion of "multitude." This notion, the polar opposite of that of "people," is defined by a complex of breaks, landslides, and innovations which I have tried to point out."

"A Grammar of the Multitude"
by
Paolo Virno

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The Paris Commune, the first successful worker's revolution, existed from March 26 to May 30, 1871.

[parts 2-26]

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We, the First Committee of the International Necronautical Society, declare the following:-

1.That death is a type of space, which we intend to map, enter, colonise and, eventually, inhabit.

2. That there is no beauty without death, its immanence. We shall sing death's beauty - that is, beauty.

manifesto

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from Dawn Cerny's show "We’re all going to die (except for you)”:

[thanks Matthew]

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Sunn O))) - ØØ Void (2000)

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Harold & Blúm. Cap. 10 "Resurrección" de Roberto Bolaño

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Jeffrey Simmons lives and works in Seattle:

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12 - What do you really want?

I want people to respect the work I do, take it seriously, wonder about it, try living with it for a while, before giving up on me.

12 or 20 questions: with Ken Sparling

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Adam Jones has a studio in Chinatown (Los Angeles):

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"One sees, then, what the surreal is. But its notion can only be grasped by extension; or rather, it is a notion that retreats like the horizon before the traveler, for, like the horizon, it is a relation between the mind and what it will never reach. As the mind has envisaged the relation of the real in which it indistinctly lumps together what exists, it naturally opposes to this relation the relation of the unreal. And it is when it has superseded these concepts that the mind imagines a more general relation, where these two relations pay neighborly calls on each other-the surreal. Surreality, the relation in which the mind brings notions together, is the shared horizon of religions, magic, poetry, dreams, madness, drunkenness-and of paltry life, that trembling honeysuckle that you believe is enough to populate heaven for us."

"A Wave of Dreams"
by
Louis Aragon

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British artist Edward Lipski:

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"Doghead"
stop-motion puppet animation by Jase Daniels

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Austrian artist Lisa Wolf:

[thanks Steve]

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TwinSisterMoon - The Hollow Mountain (2009)

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Ellen de Meutter lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium:

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Matthias Sturm - "Blood And Thunder"
directed by Tobias Stretch

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And new philosophy calls all in doubt,
The element of fire is quite put out,
The sun is lost, and th'earth, and no man's wit
Can well direct him where to look for it.
And freely men confess that this world's spent,
When in the planets and the firmament
They seek so many new; they see that this
Is crumbled out again to his atomies.
'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone,
All just supply, and all relation;

from "An Anatomy of the World"
by
John Donne

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Faris McReynolds lives and works in Los Angeles:

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98.6 author Ronald Sukenick interview by Robert Carl Cohen