In anticipation of the upcoming publication of William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac's collaboration And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, dropping the first week of November, here's a cool site dedicated to images of their books:

Today, a tour through Sartorial Contemporary Art Gallery, established in March 2002 in a Georgian house in Notting Hill, London, by artist/curator Gretta Sarfaty Marchant...

Wen Wu:

Young Man from Louis XIV's Court
(2008)

Untitled II
(2008)

Chris Tosic:






Gavin Nolan:

Charmed
(2006)

Charmer
(2006)

Martin Lea Brown:

Tears of a Clown
(2007)

Dirty Rat
(2007)

Mat Humphrey:

May Day
(2007)

Red Wood
(2007)

Three Wishes
(2007)

Mikey Georgeson:

Bullet Catch
(2008)

Backwards Causality
(2008)

Cyclops:

Blood Skulls of North Hollywood
(2008)

Blaque
(2007)

Paparazzi Photography As Art

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Charles Bernstein's poetic experiments.

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Best Science Images of 2008 Announced

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Jahsonic suggests an interesting topic of research: dream sequences in literature and film.

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Bruce Elliott with his infamous nude painting of Sarah Palin

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New issue of Absent magazine.

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New issue of Lamination Colony.

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British artist Harry Pye:

Women go Crazy for a Sharp Dressed Man
(2007)

Lonely at the top
(2008)

Principals
(2007)

Mr. Brainwash hits Los Angeles

On campus yesterday someone asked me who I intended to vote for in the upcoming presidential election. I smiled politely and said, "I don't vote."

"What do you mean, you don't vote?" the person said, visibly peeved by my answer.

I dropped Goethe and bid them adieu, "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."

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Swiss artist Léopold Rabus:

Le manque de lumière
(2005)

Les Corbeaux
(2006)

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Speaking of politics...

Adam Peterson has a great analysis of the last presidential debate.

After you read Adam's post, check out this video of the final debate in one minute:

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Crazy new issue of Mad Hatters' Review.

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Glenn C. Loury has an interesting article in Boston Review online called "The Call of the Tribe: Where are the boundaries between our group and ourselves?"

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Jessa "Bookslut" Crispin has an interesting article on feminism and pornography at The Smart Set.

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Islandic artist Sigurdur Gudjónsson:

Deathbed
(2006)

Host
(2004)

"My name is Simon Berg and I'm a photographer based in Gothenburg,Sweden":

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"The Big McCain: Mark It Zero"
Concept by David William and Jeff Simmermon
Editing/execution by Chad Williams

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Hipster photographer icanteachyouhowtodoit:

Fun research topic of the day: 70s anti-rock band Destroy All Monsters. [manifesto; myspace]

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Jeaneen Carlino earned her BFA at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA:

Intimately Oppressed

Rising Like Corn

Womb of Man

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Look what comes out next week:

Correspondence: Pablo Picasso and Gertrude Stein

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George Orwell's diary is being posted online.

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College professors can be stylish.

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Against Hauntology.

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Žižek on the economic crisis.

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Lolita turns 50.

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I learned about artist Bill Dunlap from the new online journal Improbably Object; here is a sample of his work:

I Know No Name Better Than Anarchism
(2008)

Brother Nature
(2006)

Great Days To Come
(2008)

Another wild Saturday video carnival...

Kitundu PhonoKora Demonstration





Stockausen on Sounds
Excerpt from May 1972 lecture "Four Criteria of Electronic Music"





OOIOO - "Grow Sound Tree"





Short film "N or NW"
Directed by Len Lye (1938)





Johann Johannsson - "Sun's Gone Dim"





Bireli Lagrene Guitar Solo - "Vienne Song"





The Corpus Clock & Chronophage





Andre Rieu - Shostakovich's Second Waltz





Cult Of Luna - "Ghost Trail"
live at Summerblast 6/21/08





Sonseed - "Jesus Is My Friend"





"Questions about Anarchism"
Barry Pateman interviews Noam Chomsky
parts 2-5





Praxis - "Animal Behavior"





Dali and Hitchcock collaboration – Spellbound (1945)





Splendid Declivities: The Poetry of Jorie Graham

French artist Jacques Resch:

Tete Morte

Les endormeurs

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Look what came out eight days ago:

John Ashbery: Collected Poems 1956-1987
(Library of America #187)

Contains:
Some Trees • The Tennis Court Oath • Rivers and Mountains • The Double Dream of Spring • Three Poems • The Vermont Notebook • Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror • Houseboat Days • As We Know • Shadow Train • A Wave • April Galleons • uncollected poems

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Ecology: A New Opium for the Masses
Slavoj Zizek - Tilton Gallery, November 28 2007
Introduction by Josefina Ayerza

part 2-8

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Rodger Roundy got his BFA at Yale:

The Flying Veronicas: Stretching
2003

The Rufus Girls: Drag
2003

Tron
(1982)

Check out this new publishing company called Romance By You:

"You co-author your 160 to 200-page novel by providing the names, features and places that personalize your book. Customize over 26 characteristics - even include your dog or cat! A personalized cover adds the finishing touch. Choose from nine action-packed romantic titles. A gift that will be treasured forever!"

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The For Godot folks explain themselves here & here.

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New literary journal called Sweet.

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New online resource HTML GIANT.

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The poetry of Sarah Palin.

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Diagramming Sarah Palin's sentences.

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It's official, Ridley Scott will helm Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

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Are you going to Deleuze Camp?

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Click here to learn how to create an inverted bookshelf like this one:

There's a curious hoax afoot.

The perpetrators are a group of "poetic researchers" named Vladimir Zykov, Steve McLaughlin, and Gregory Laynor, who have published a 3785 page journal of poems called For Godot.

The journal is full of spam-like poems (flarf?) which they have attributed to different writers alive and dead. I happen to be one of them. Many other folks I know and admire are in it, too. Maybe even you!

Here's the poem they published under my name, which I didn't write:

Of intensity

Invincible as a possession, angry as a dew
Only as a time, long as a time

Long and unretentive

They have feet
Late at night they acquit
   him

Like a black way

They can see the noise of the
   hand, between these invasions and those invasions
Early in the morning they answer him
Into a driven
   flame a bad
        hour appears
The ages concentrate as if they
   see it

(pg. 1453)

Here's Mathias Svalina's poem:

Mankind

Mankind
A suit
Writing mankind with humanity

Air and flying
An other cherry
Suffocating

A cherry of
    suits
Throttled
A man of
    crumbs
A kind of cherry
Fitting panic

A sort of rioting
Like an imbecile
The sandy visions
Of wilderness
People

The towering glances

(pg. 1272)

Here's Blake Butler's poem:

Lands changed inside admiration

After now it skulked you, exiling, skulking, a sort of country

(pg. 1595)

Here's Gary Lutz's poem:

A flag

An added leap

Like a dome
Like a grave
A forest
A hint of bodices
Thirst written into nature

Sure lights and wise triumphs

Of fame
Like a trade

Nodding creation
True reasons and altered
     rotations
Anguish
Good hillsides and untravelled earths
Like a hillside

Like a company
Brave midnights and
     livelong worlds
Silent asphodels and wounded flags
Slow nails and light prints
Cautious breasts and old nights

(pg. 2829)

can't stop...

...more music....more videos:

Radicalfashion - "Shousetsu"
Directed by Throwing Shapes Away





Efterklang - "Mirador"
Directed by Jens Christian Høgni Larsen & Nan Na Hvass





Bretton - "Exaggerated Porn Features"
Directed by Sophie Rautenbach





Dr. Dog - "Alaska"
Directed by Albert Birney






Jacaszek - “Grill In The Enchanted Forest”
directed by Antek Grzybek






Johnny Flynn - "Brown Trout Blues"
Directed by Ben Goodger





Nico Muhly - "It Goes Without Saying"
Directed by Una Lorenzen





CDOASS - "Speak To Me"
Directed by Johanna Andersson





Olga Kouklaki - "Her Own Right"
Directed by Frenzystudio





Ratatat - "Shempi"
Directed by Ratatat

Ophelia's recent post on the birth of MTV and 80s videos has got me in the mood to post some music. She did a great roundup of tunes from the days of my youth (you should check it out) so I'll do a few newish videos:

Lykke Li - "Little Bit"
Directed by Mattias Montero





Our Brother the Native "Seminal Paws"
Directed by Greg DeLiso and Khalid Ghafir

Johanna Kunin - "Fireflies"
Directed by Clyde Petersen

Wye Oak - "Please Concrete"
Directed by Caleb Stine

Thao Nguyen - "Bag of Hammers"
Directed by Clyde Petersen and Forrest Baum





Lil Wayne - "A Milli"
Directed by Gil Green