Thursday, September 25, 2008


Kyla Zoe Luedtke
is a current MFA candidate at the University of Wisconsin:

Gun Moll Film Still


Gun Moll Picnic


Snow White & Rose Red Go Hunting


Britney Goes Noir


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Here are two free albums to check out:

Wale's Mixtape About Nothing

&

Charles Manson's One Mind


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Google has just launched "an initiative to make more old newspapers accessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaper publishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives."

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Jezebel responds to Esquire's recent list with the 75 books every woman should read.

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A review of André Breton's newly translated Martinique: Snake Charmer.

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Italian artist Lilya Corneli:







Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Belgian artist Stephan Balleux:

Sisters
(2008)


Not Yet
(2007)


Black Flag
(2006)



Valerie Hegarty earned her MFA at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago:

Unearthed
(2008)


Rothko Sunset
(2007)


George Washington Shipwrecked
(2007)


Also...

Here are two recently published, ubercool-looking books by authors new to me:



excerpt, from Relata & Anti-relata: 4. Execution Errors:

Write until breakpoint.
Then execute trace.
There is a syntax error in line 2. This error can be corrected.
There is a logical error in line 3. This error
when an unintended output is produced
as for example the grid coordinates lock in
on the wrong house.

and a bug is dead
in the bug.

Write words
and this other stuff happens.
An exit status of zero indicates success;
any other exit status indicates failure. Failure
does not necessarily indicate that the process
failed altogether to accomplish its task.




Blurbs:

"Incomparable. Post-genre horror, apocalypse theology and the philosophy of oil, crossbred into a new and necessary codex." China Miéville, author of Perdido Street Station.

"Reading Negarestani is like being converted to Islam by Salvador Dali." Graham Harman, author of Guerrilla Metaphysics: Phenomenology and the Carpentry of Things.

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Sexy People is a collection of ordinary portraits:








Bedjumper is a collection of photos of people jumping on beds:







Monday, September 22, 2008

Today...various renditions of my favorite Charles Mingus tune, "Fables of Faubus":

Big Friendly Jazz Orchestra (Takasago High School Jazz Band)
Live at Japan Student Jazz Festival 2008





Project





Guido Canavese
Live at Le Ginestre Jazz Club, Torino, Italy April 5, 2008





The Barrett's





Saxofonicos
Live at The Buenos Aires Jazz Festival 2007





Paulao




Saturday, September 20, 2008

French artist Belinda:










Oregon artist Renee Bolser:

Tanith Bierce, Lady Pyrate and Snowball the ferret
(2007)


Lady Alchemist of Brittany
(2007)


Edith the Cat
(2006)


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Esquire suggests "The 75 books all men should read."

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Christopher Sorrentino on the new John Barth novel, at Bookforum.

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Gertrude Stein Poemtalk Podcast.

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Lastly, Lasse Gjertsen is back; this time he's created a drum performance titled "Amateur":



Friday, September 19, 2008

I'm back...

& so is Diagram. In the new issue you'll find many wow items including an essay by Michael Jauchen called "My Favorite Chapter in Moby Dick."

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& so is Action Yes. The new issue is brimming with brilliance, including an essay by Robert Archambeau entitled "The Avant-Garde in Babel: Two or Three Notes on Four or Five Words"; "Two Stories" by Blake Butler; & seven quasi-historical vignettes on artists and philosophers called "Today the Smell of Worms and Wet Pennies," by Josh Maday.

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& so is the annual University of California Press book sale. Here are some good-looking sale items: