Monday, April 27, 2009

cloud text or porch swing?



Today is the deadline for the 2009 Salvador Dalí Look-Alike Contest!




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"And somewhere around 1985, my friend Kathy Acker took me to a party/book launch/some kind of event somewhere in London and I met William Burroughs and Jim Ballard, stood there and chatted as they reminisced about London in the 1960s. I don't know what or who I had been expecting, but Jim Ballard, then, and whenever I met him after that, was terrifying in his ordinariness, like the protagonists of his high-rises and drowned worlds, like the man on the motorway island."

"J.G. Ballard and the way the future was"
by
Neil Gaiman




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Right now David Lynch is producing three films: one for Alejandro Jodorowsky (who hasn't directed a film in nearly twenty years!) called King Shot, one for his daughter, Jennifer Lynch, called Surveillance :




And one for Werner Herzog called My Son, My Son, What have ye Done?, for which no trailer yet exists; I did, however, find Alana Kearns-Green's audition tape for the role of Ingrid:





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"Even the most subtle and complex artists can’t escape the crudity of synopsis."

"Werner Herzog: Beyond the syphilitic machine"
by
Edward B. Rackley




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Tribus by Erik Roren

"Tribus is a sculptural tag, a mass-produced object for the street. It is a work with such a strong and direct shape and color language that a signature is unnecessary. The expression is the signature and the link between the art pieces."











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"Literary texts emerge from cognitive evolution, which is a localized creative awareness. Languaging is their most essential process. They exist as products of reading/writing and might even be considered “alive” in that they are taking part in the evolution of Life as long as they are being written/read."

"Nature's Ching, Parts 1 & 2 (a manifesto in progress)"
by
Chuck Richardson




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(612): I think tonya harding is in my dwi class!
(763) Ask her how she and Jeff Gillooly split the cats after the divorce.





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Michael Allison is based out of Nashville, TN:











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"The natural world seems intent on synchronizing. Schools of fish, flocks of birds, herds of wildebeest, and swarms of fireflies all effortlessly coordinate their actions with one another. A recent study published by Scott Wiltermuth and Chip Heath of Stanford University in the journal Psychological Science, suggests that humans are no different."

"Come Together: Our Need to Cooperate"
by
Piercarlo Valdesolo