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

Here is a wonderful documentary from 1983 called Anarchism in America? directed by Steven Fischler and Joel Sucher:

parts 2-8

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"Graphs on the death of Marxism, postmodernism, and other stupid academic fads"

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New series of Jack Kerouac photos.

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Osama bin Laden reading from his new poetry collection...yes, the bin Laden.

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Russian artist Vladimir Kuch:

Star Target

Sunrise by the Ocean

Click here for more sexist advertisements from our not-to-distant past.

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Classic physics experiment involving sound and fire, Ruben's Tube:



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Here is a listing of every book Art Garfunkel has read over the last 40 years.

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Can you distinguish between an artist and an ape?

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The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life

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Bruce Covey presents Lyn Hejinian, over at Best American Poetry

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Rae Armontrout reading at Artifact

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Underground art galleries in San Francisco

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Canadian artist Brian Donnelly:

Double Goat
(2008)

Coyote Graft
(2006)

Butterfingers
(2005)

Scatter
(2006)

Julie Murphy earned her MFA at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California:

Concerto for Aspis Demon
(2006)

Beauty Pageant
(2006)

Study 35742b
(2005)

Swingtime at Dusty Dusk
(2005)

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Abe Books releases their list of the Ten Most Expensive Art Books Sold in 2008

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Provocative philosopher Crispin Sartwell posted a helpful handout he gave his students, which is a concise description of Philosophy and its Sub-Disciplines.

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The new issue of Sight & Sound "asked leading critics to choose the works of criticism which have had the greatest impact on them, inspiring them to become critics themselves, and which make a case for criticism as a minor art form in itself."

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Here are some fresh Slavoj Žižek links:

Audio interview with Christopher Lydon at the Watson Institute, September 23rd, 2008

Audio Debate With Bernard-Henri Lévy, Instigated by Paul Holdengräber, on "Violence & the Left in Dark Times," September 16, 2008.

Video interview with Euronews, at Sarajevo Film Festival, September 12, 2008.


Video lecture on his book Violence at the University of Leeds, March 18, 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: