Wednesday, August 26, 2009

methodical, ascientific, calculated



Aimee Walleston honors Bright Stupid Confetti in an article at
Art in America!!!






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Julien Langendorff
is currently represented in New York by Cinders Gallery and in Paris by Fat Galerie:











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Spanish photographer Salva López is working on a new project called "After Hours":











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"I think there's also a sense (certainly for myself) that current ideas in continental philosophy have exhausted themselves. Do we really need another analysis of how a cultural representation does symbolic violence to a marginal group?"





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Work from Ben Skinner's "Ghost hide-a-beds: series:











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Complexity Pages
A non-technical introduction to the new
science of Chaos and Complexity




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In Brandon Jan Blommaert's "Eco Station" sculptures, discarded objects are recycled into alien bodies and set loose against Earthly landscapes:











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Leontyne Price sings final scene from Richard Strauss's Salome







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Photographer Marc Da Cunha Lopes shows the factory work behind iconic video games:

Sonic


Mario


Tetris




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"Jorge Luis Borges: The Mirror Man"
directed by Philippe Molins
Runtime: 47mins





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Spanish photographer Ana Cuba:








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David Lynch presents
Fox Bat Strategy
a tribute to Dave Jaurequi




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Jill K. Gregory received an MFA in Medical and Biological Illustration from The University of Michigan:








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8. Connection; distinction. Feeling of little wings growing in one’s smile. Smiling and flapping as related. One has among other things the feeling of being distinguished because one fancies oneself in such a way that one really doesn’t become too deeply involved in anything: however deeply one delves, one always moves on a threshold. Type of toe dance of reason.

PROTOCOL I: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE FIRST HASHISH IMPRESSION
[by Walter Benjamin:] Written 18 December [1927]. 3:30 a.m.
Translated by Scott J. Thompson




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Quentin Tarantino lists his Top 20 movies since he began directing in 1992





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Chinese artist Zhang Xiao:














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"All he has left are her clothes, rack after rack after rack. But without her, the clothes are dead too. So he hires a girl to wear the clothes, just so he could get used to her death. But as soon as he sees the girl in the clothes, he realizes his efforts are ridiculous, even creepy. He gives the clothes away and loses his last connection."

"Tony Takitani
A Film Directed by Jun Ichikawa
Adapted from a Novel by Haruki Murakami"
by
J.A. Pak




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David Gilbert earned an M.F.A at UC-Riverside:











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Two music videos from O+S (Orenda Fink and Scalpelist)


"Permanent Scar"
directed by Aaron Gum





"We Do What We Want To"
directed by Chris Lawson






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The Royal Art Lodge was founded in 1996 by Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, Jonathan Pylypchuk, and Adrian Williams in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada:











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Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation
(from Ukraine's Got Talent)