Wednesday, February 24, 2010

destroy! say mangraphique



French artist Elene Usdin:











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"Smash Cuts and Non Sequiturs"
Michael Kimball Interviews Me About The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney




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Melody Gardot - "Baby I'm A Fool"
Directed and Shot by: Aaron Platt





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Belgian photographer Elkie Vanstiphout:








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"A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything"
created by Jamie Bell





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Dutch artist Thorsten Brinkmann:











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The Black Ryder - "Sweet Come Down"
directed by Michael Spiccia





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Canadian artist Liam Crockard:








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French artist Daniel Firman:











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Ashlie Chavez
lives near Los Angeles:








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Chinese photographer Zephyrance:











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from Joe Stevens's "Vans and the places where they are" project:











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Russian artist Dimitri Drjuchin:








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"Journey to the Moon"
created by William Kentridge



[thanks Molly]



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British artist Robert Nicol:








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Dutch artist Marcel van Eeden:








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Who Invented the Avant Garde - and other half-truths
Paintings from the exhibition
Ward Shelley








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Georges Bataille : Literature And Evil





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"A common mistake made by the uninitiated listener is to conflate death metal and black metal. I’ve been at a few parties or dinners or whatever where someone has asked me to describe the difference between the two. To answer involves me trying to explain a blast beat, followed by vocal impressions of a death-metal vocalist (low, deep, guttural growling) vs. a black-metal vocalist (usually higher, wispy, wraithlike, and screeched)."


"A BLAZE IN THE NORTH AMERICAN SKY: AMERICAN BLACK METAL BANDS SPECIALIZE IN A UNIQUELY BRUTAL, HOMEGROWN SOUND, BUT THEY DON’T ACTUALLY KILL PEOPLE. SO WHY SHOULD THEY BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY?"
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BRANDON STOSUY



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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

My First Book Is Now Available!!!





I am super thrilled to announce that my novel The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney is now available directly from the publisher (Sator Press) at a discounted price, for a limited time.

This is a “pre-official release” sale. The “official” release date is 10/5/10.

But you can get it right now in a variety of formats: the actual book ($12, which includes shipping), the e-book for your Kindle or Nook or whatever format you have ($4), and the complete audio book – which, unlike a normal audio book where the author or some actor quietly reads the text, is a wild sound collage incorporating all kinds of location recordings, sound effects, robotic interfacing, found sounds, landscape background ambient layerings ($6).

If you are interested in reviewing it or conducting an interview, please email me!

And please feel free to spread the word widely!


Contest/Giveaway!!!


To celebrate, I have five copies to give away, and here’s how I’m gonna do it:

In the spirit of our promotional videos --



-- make a video of two or more people reading page 243 of the book (pasted below), post that video on your blog/website, along with a link to Sator Press, then email me or leave a comment. The first five entries win a free signed copy. I'll keep the contest going at my personal website, until the five books have been awarded.

Page 243

Do you read upside down on the couch with your feet in the air and chocolate milk there by your side? Can you say the Czech alphabet backwards while juggling eggs over a thirty story balcony? Have you ever hotwired a car in downtown Berlin with a safety pin, a screwdriver, and a metal emory board, with the heat encroaching? Are you the sort of person who folds while holding a royal flush just to give the other person a win? Would you ever purposefully misappropriate syntax? Would you orchestrate everything down to the color of the dishtowels, teacups, and magnets? Have you ever not paid your taxes? Do you ever obsess over numbers? Ever set your alarm clock to an even number? What kind of deodorant do you wear? Is it masculine? Can you name a city in France you haven’t been? Are there places in the north of Spain that you have never seen? Have you ever planted a tree? Have you ever forgotten a friend’s birthday? Ever been caught in a lie and forgot what version of the truth you previously spilled? Have you ever raced across the countryside on a horse in complete rhythm? Ever challenged an anteater to a duel? Ever made your loved one go running? Ever parked on the wrong side of the road? When was the last time you bought a lottery ticket? Watched television? Bought clothes from a thrift store, a shopping mall, or on eBay? Would you even recognize the secret password when it mattered most? Would you leave town? Would you try to dig a tunnel to Japan?




Wednesday, February 10, 2010

you are not alone



OOOM
helmed by Melissa Auf der Maur





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Work from British artist Kirsty Whiten's "Feral Lingerie Model" series:











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Chicago based artist and illustrator Brett Manning:








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"My artwork focuses on the female body, and is to a large extent autobiographical. Issues such as beauty ideals and the body’s relationship with popular culture, fashion, health and food are central to my themes." -- Pamela Stretton








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Drawings by Mercedes Helnwein:











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British artist Meryl Donoghue is 23 years old:











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British artist Samuel Branton:











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Yuko Nasu was born in Hiroshima, Japan. She lives and works in London:














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Latvian artist Henrijs Preiss:











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German artist Miriam Jarrs:








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Originally from Buffalo, Kate Westerholt lives and works in London:








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Heather Jansch sculpts horses out of driftwood:








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Lucas Foglia
(b. 1983) was raised on a small family farm in Huntington, Long Island. A graduate of Brown University and a current MFA candidate at Yale School of Art, Foglia exhibits nationally:








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ICE CREAM FOR FREE™ is a Berlin based design studio founded in 2005 by Oliver Wiegner:











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Sofia Jannok - "Irene"
directed by Mathieu Hebeisen