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ALIEN ALIEN - SAMBACA

2011-12-15T07:38:00.000-08:00

A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY HAHN-BIN

2011-06-07T08:00:00.000-07:00

A SPECIAL PERFORMANCE BY HAHN-BIN from V Magazine on Vimeo.

ZOMBIE BOY

2011-04-08T10:58:00.000-07:00

MONODRAMAS

2011-04-05T17:28:00.000-07:00

'Monodramas' at the New York City Opera directed by Michael Counts, formerly of GAle GAtes, et al.

Notes on MonoDramas At The New York City Opera

IT'S NOT MY PARTY : DIAMOND RINGS

2011-04-02T07:02:00.000-07:00

Great video, directed by Jeff Scheven.

SECRETIONS MAGNIFIQUES

2011-02-07T09:45:00.000-08:00

A very exuberant review from the usually staid Katie Puckrick of the foul fragrance endeavor Secretions Magnifique by Etat Libre d'Orange.

UNDERCITY

2011-01-06T09:26:00.001-08:00

DESIGN RESEARCH 1969

2010-10-04T06:30:00.000-07:00

The great Design Research building by Benjamin Thompson and Associates, 1969, Cambridge, Massachusetts. A beautiful example of Modernist architecture profiled in the Design issue of the NYTimes Style Magazine.
One-Stop Living - NYTimes.com

RUTH HOGBEN

2010-10-03T11:11:00.000-07:00

Ruth Hogben, ASVOFF'09 Jury Prize Winner, Gareth Pugh film
Uploaded by AShadedView. - Independent web videos.

Ruth Hogben, represented by Gainsbury & Whiting, Associates, discussing the emerging genre of fashion film. Frequent collaborator of Gareth Pugh and former film editor for Nick Knight, her aesthetic tends toward hypnotic, repeating visual themes and ideas of the extreme, with sound or music, often of an experimental type, playing a central part in her work.

Another very compelling piece of hers, completely silent:

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM AND JAMES FRANCO

2010-10-01T21:18:00.000-07:00

An interesting conversation between two writers about their process and school. And John Rechy.

FOOTAGE FROM CHICAGO GAY PRIDE 1977

2010-09-20T22:47:00.001-07:00

Really amazing and touching. Such a different era. They still had Brown's Chicken.

Kenyan filmmaker, Lupita Nyong'o speaks on her acclaimed documentary about Albinism, "In My Genes" // Current

2010-07-21T18:10:00.000-07:00

ALEXANDER MCQUEEN - PLATO'S ATLANTIS

2010-07-21T10:13:00.000-07:00

I cannot believe I have not yet posted this on this blog. This is the last show produced while Alexander McQueen was alive and it is truly a cultural pinnacle. There are shapes and themes in this show that seem to access and trigger some primeval and, and at the same time, non-linear absolute knowledges and sensations. It's as if there's a nostalgia happening for something that we have not yet experienced, but also as if we have always known this theme, this feeling, this communication and it just yet hadn't been brought out from the collective unconscious into the collective conscious.

(All this leads me to consider the idea of the "noosphere," a concept elaborated on by French theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, where the planet is seeing sort of a direction towards a unified psychic envelope/atmosphere called the Omega Point. Technology is assisting in a degree which he may or may not have considered, but nonetheless is help transmit ideas, feeling, and thought processes faster and further. This is a complete digression, and probably better suited for another of my blogs.)

LOUISE BOURGEOIS IS DEAD

2010-06-01T12:31:00.001-07:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704366504575278901828488676.html?mod=fox_australian

MARINA ABRAMOVIC : THE ARTIST IS PRESENT

2010-06-01T12:28:00.000-07:00

The more interesting component to this performance piece that just wrapped up at MoMA NYC has been the portraits captured of every single person that sat in front of Abramovic. SO fascinating. From smiles to tears.

AMIR BARADARAN

2010-05-27T14:15:00.000-07:00

An interesting response the Abramovic piece at NY MoMA.

IF SAN FRANCISCO WERE VENICE

2010-05-11T06:41:00.000-07:00

EYJAFJALLAJOEKULL

2010-04-19T12:35:00.000-07:00

The most incredible footage of the eruption yet. Watch for the lightning towards the end. SO breathtaking.

MALCOLM MCCLAREN IS DEAD

2010-04-08T12:56:00.000-07:00

Malcolm McLaren, Impresario and Rock Music Manager, Is Dead - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com

LOGORAMA : 2010 ACADEMY AWARD FOR ANIMATED SHORT FILM

2010-03-16T22:44:00.000-07:00

Klik hier om het video filmpje

Simply incredible!

A LA MODE

2010-03-15T09:19:00.000-07:00

Courtesy of Face Hunter

THE MORNING BENDERS - "EXCUSES"

2010-03-07T14:08:00.000-08:00

Yours Truly Presents: The Morning Benders "Excuses" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

A beautiful recording made at San Francisco's Different Fur Studios.

TAKE AWAY SHOW #89 : REM

2010-03-06T08:50:00.000-08:00

While this is definitely not one of my favorite Vincent Moon Takeaway Shows, it's REM so I'm posting it. This video lacks the spontaneity and freedom and public feeling of his other videos that are what makes them special. Whether or not this is due to the level of REM's fame and ability to be in public are factors, their definite seasoned experience and coming of age as music television performing video artists and self-consciousness in front of a camera makes this video different. Stipe is performing, narrating to the camera. This is just another "music video." There are moments though when this falls away, there are mistakes, and realness, which is the point of the takeaway shows. And it's just great to see a great band who has been together for so long doing great work still having great fun.

MARINA ABRAMOVIC DOCUMENTARY

2010-03-01T20:12:00.000-08:00

View Trailer | Marina - A Documentary Film about Marina Abramović

In preparation for her upcoming piece to be performed at the Museum of Modern Art this spring, the performance artist Marina Abramovic takes her performers to the woods for a retreat.

To prepare them for the retrospective at MoMA, last Fall Marina invited the re-performers to a workshop at her home in upstate New York. Participants slept outside and did not eat nor speak for four days. They engaged in a regimen of individual and group exercises, such as walking backwards in slow motion, counting grains of rice, and observing a single object for hours. The goal of these exercises was to enable the re-performers to become aware of their limits and to find their own charismatic space.

THE CENTURY OF THE SELF

2010-03-01T14:16:00.000-08:00

Adam Curtis' acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty.

To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?

The Freud dynasty is at the heart of this compelling social history. Sigmund Freud, founder of psychoanalysis; Edward Bernays, who invented public relations; Anna Freud, Sigmund's devoted daughter; and present-day PR guru and Sigmund's great grandson, Matthew Freud.

Sigmund Freud's work into the bubbling and murky world of the subconscious changed the world. By introducing a technique to probe the unconscious mind, Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.
- BBC.co.uk