Wednesday, March 31, 2010

maybe you forgot you exist



Mark Bryan was born in Southern California in 1950:








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Greg Gossel
lives and works in Minneapolis, MN:











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Kids performing Scarface





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Swedish artist Julia Peirone:








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"The theory of historical materialism has brought to light some most important truths. Humanity is not an animal species, it is a historical reality. Human society is an antiphysis – in a sense it is against nature; it does not passively submit to the presence of nature but rather takes over the control of nature on its own behalf. This arrogation is not an inward, subjective operation; it is accomplished objectively in practical action."

from The Second Sex
by
Simone de Beauvoir
(1949)



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Sue Havens was born in 1972 in Rochester, New York:














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Czech artist PAVEL BÜCHLER:








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Norwegian artist Tony Tundra:





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Aaron Bagley lives and works in Seattle with his wife and cat:











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Jean-Luc Godard's portrait by Gérard Courant (1981 - silent)





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76 year old London artist Rose Wylie:








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"Off The Beaten Track"
by Leo Bridle
music by Chien Bizarre





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Mickey Smith (b. 1972, Duluth, MN, USA) received her B.A. in Photography from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 1994:











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"Fraternity"
by
Richard Mosse

5min 10sec

"Fraternity was shot at Yale University's infamous DKE frat house in under an hour. The men were happy to participate in the project in exchange for a keg of beer. They compete against each other to shout or scream the loudest and for the longest time. When they cannot scream any longer they must stop, and cannot begin again. DKE (pronounced Deke) stands for Delta Kappa Epsilon, and counts five US presidents in its alumni, including George Bush Jr, George Bush Sr, Gerald Ford and Theodore Roosevelt. Other famous Dekes include three Justices of the US Supreme Court, one Vice President, and countless State Governors, Senators and Speakers."






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Jim Torok received an M.F.A. Brooklyn College:








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David Jien resides in Los Angeles:











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"No double is a double to doubling itself. You cannot double a double; only repeat the twofold over from the beginning again. The process may imply accumulation but its accretion is a lie. Replication will only return you to the sum with which you started."

"ALTER EGO"
BY
DAVID RYLANCE



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Mark Dutcher
resides in Los Angeles:








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Stefan à Wengen was born in Basel Switzerland, but now lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany:








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"Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood. The moment it tries to be anything else it becomes cheap, puerile, and unconvincing. Prime emphasis should be given to subtle suggestion—imperceptible hints and touches of selective associative detail which express shadings of moods and build up a vague illusion of the strange reality of the unreal. Avoid bald catalogues of incredible happenings which can have no substance or meaning apart from a sustaining cloud of colour and symbolism."

"Notes on Writing Weird Fiction"
by
H. P. Lovecraft



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The Rolling Stones - Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)



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Mumford & Sons - "Winter Winds"
directed by Ian "Emma" Bonhote & Fred & Nick





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"inside the new light above Ricky the room had opened up into the sky, in the sky there were a billion chandeliers winking on and off beside each other"

Ricky's Shoulders: an excerpt
by
Blake Butler



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Roberto Kusterle was born in Gorizia ( Italy ) in 1948:











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"This is a story about a girl I'm after named Ohey! that ends with me on The Worm Gang's couch watching Jeopardy! Ohey! is a witch I'm after with benefits."

"Ohey!"
by
Darby Larson



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Fashion photographer Maria Simon:










Wednesday, March 24, 2010

catapelting the camibalistics



Manuel Delanda gives lecture entitled "Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture"





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Polish artist Agnieszka Polska:








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from Redhead Canvas:








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two from The PS22 Chorus

Phoenix's "Lisztomania"



Owl City's "Fireflies" (w/ Ithacapella)





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aaron louis fowler is currently in chicago, il:








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Anne C. Smith is a visual artist with roots in Upstate New York:








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Barbara Takenaga
was born in North Platte, Nebraska:








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"Movement is non-verbal; it is visual, sensual, pleasurable, and universal. With words often engulfing us in rationality, the sensorial loses its influence over our lives. I work intuitively in the creation of organic, abstract spaces and forms that seem to be living and constantly in motion, captured only in pause. I want my images to offer a quiet yet pulsating non-verbal space."
-- from the artist's statement of Beverly Acha:








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Sofia Torres was born in 1987:











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Australian artist Jackson Eaton:











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Jen Gotch lives in Los Angeles:





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Sarah Meadows
lives and works in Portland, OR:





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Michael Cutlip
was born in Belmont, California:








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Erik Otto
earned a BFA at San Jose State University:








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British artist Antony Micallef:








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Photographer Patrick Hoelck:











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[thanks for the heads up on Magma, Matthew]