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Feel A Whole Lot Better

2008-10-06T23:41:00.004-05:00

Flamin' Groovies... Feel A Whole Lot Better (.mp3 audio 02:26). From the album Now (1978, Sire SRK 7059, produced by Dave Edmunds). Cover of The Byrds' song.

Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70

2008-10-06T23:13:00.000-05:00

Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70 at the Victoria and Albert Museum. "...The period after the Second World War was one of anxiety and tension but also one of great optimism and unprecedented technological development. This exhibition examines how design was shaped by the cold war period against the backdrop of the battle between communism and capitalism, the advances of the space race, and the international competition to be modern.
Concentrating on the years from 1945 to 1970, the exhibition displays objects from around the world including the USA, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Italy, France, East and West Germany, Cuba and the UK."

Catherine Opie: American Photographer

2008-10-06T22:53:00.000-05:00

Catherine Opie: American Photographer at the Guggenheim Museum. "...Since the early 1990s, Catherine Opie has produced a complex body of photographic work, adopting such diverse genres as studio portraiture, landscape photography, and urban street photography to explore notions of communal, sexual, and cultural identity. From her early portraits of transgender people and performance artists to her expansive urban landscapes of cities like Minneapolis, Los Angeles, and New York, Opie has offered profound insights into the conditions in which communities form and the terms in which they are defined. All the while she has maintained a strict formal rigor, working in stark and provocative color as well as richly toned black-and-white."

Feminae

2008-10-06T22:28:00.003-05:00

Pierre Molinier... Effigie (1967, Photomontage). From the exhibition Feminae - works by Marina Abramovic, Ghada Amer, Per Barclay, Olivier Blanckart, Carmen Calvo, Mat Collishaw, Rebecca Horn, Teresa Margolles, Pierre Molinier, Carmen Perrin, Markus Raetz, Gregor Schneider, Sandy Skoglund and Alberto Sorbelli at Galerie Guy Bärtschi in Geneva.

Get Up

2008-10-05T23:42:00.004-05:00

Ron Wilson... Get Up (.mp3 audio 02:25). From the album Check The Winner: The Original Pantomine Instrumental Collection, 1970-74 (Tracks produced by Glen Brown, mixed by King Tubby).

Odd Wisconsin

2008-10-05T23:05:00.002-05:00

Giant Punt Gun (Punt gun used to hunt waterfowl on Lake Mendota, Madison, Wisconsin, c. 1866-1870). "...Made by August Herfurth of Madison, Wisconsin, this jumbo shotgun, called a punt gun, could kill an entire flock of waterfowl with a single shot. Punt guns were used by commercial hunters in the 19th century to maximize their takes. The guns were so large, and their recoil so severe, that they were typically mounted on narrow, flat bottomed hunting boats called punts." From the exhibition Odd Wisconsin at the WHS.

Radioactive Quack Cures

2008-10-05T22:52:00.002-05:00

Radonite Jar (late 1920s, early 1930s). One of many Radioactive Quack Cures at the Health Physics Historical Instrumentation Collection.

The Story of Randy’s

2008-10-05T22:36:00.000-05:00

The Story of Randy’s. "...On the occasion of the Randy’s 50th Anniversary album, 17 North Parade presents exclusively on United Reggae, The Story Of Randy’s, a documentary about the Chin Family and the golden age of the mythic Randy’s Studio. This film features some rare archive footage and interviews with legendary artists like Lord Creator, Ken Boothe, Stranger Cole, Derrick Harriott, Niney The Observer, Johnny Dizzy Moore, Jah Stitch, Big Youth, Sly Dunbar, Earl Morgan (The Heptones), and Pat Kelly." Thank you, DMc.

Long Long Time

2008-10-02T23:44:00.004-05:00

Winston Heywood... Long Long Time (.mp3 audio 03:08). From the album The Upsetters With Lee Perry & Friends: Build The Ark (1989, Trojan Records).

half awake and half asleep in the water

2008-10-02T22:57:00.003-05:00

Asako Narahashi... Kawaguchiko (2003, c-print). From the series half awake and half asleep in the water, on exhibition September 12 – November 6, 2008 at Galerie Priska Pasquer in Cologne, Germany. "...Standing half in water, or floating, Asako Narahashi photographed modern civilization as well as the characteristic symbols of Japan, such as Fuji Mountain, in connection with water. The exhibition shows a selection of color photographs from the series as well as to date still unpublished black-and-white photographs."

Pixação

2008-10-02T22:39:00.003-05:00

Pixação - Por Trás das Letras, São Paulo, Brazil. "...São Paulo is covered in writing unlike any other city in the world. 'Pixação' tagging is everywhere in the city, despite the administration's numerous attempts to stop it. Often seen but rarely heard, 'Por Trás das Letras' ("behind the letters") is a simple recording of three unidentified 'pixadores' discussing their motives and ideas."

Doll Clothes

2008-10-02T22:30:00.001-05:00

Cindy Sherman... Doll Clothes (1975, Super-8 black and white film transferred to video, silent. 02:22) at UBUWEB Film & Video. "...One of the first of Cindy Sherman's super-8 films, 'Doll Clothes' has not been viewed since 1975, the year it was made. It comically crosses Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase with animated paper dolls in a sly, funny and clever precursor to the concerns that became signature elements in Sherman's remarkable body of photographic work."

US Trailer for Let The Right One In

2008-10-02T22:21:00.002-05:00

US Trailer (various formats) for Let The Right One In - opening in limited release on October 24.

Love I Can Feel

2008-10-01T23:47:00.002-05:00

Creation Rebel... Love I Can Feel (.mp3 audio 05:24). From the album Lows & Highs (1982, Cherry Red BRED 33). Cover of the John Holt song, which was a retooling of The Temptations' I Want A Love I Can See.

Jeff Whetstone: Post Pleistocene

2008-10-01T23:33:00.001-05:00

Jeff Whetstone: Post Pleistocene. Photographs by Jeff Whetstone. "...Jeff Whetstone spent a good part of 2007 underground, creeping through the caverns and passageways that form vast networks of caves in Tennessee and Alabama. The North Carolina-based photographer took an assistant with him, along with loads of battery-operated equipment, water, food and supplies, often staying beneath the Earth's surface for days at a time. The result of these subterranean journeys is "Post-Pleistocene," an impressive series of large-format photographs that is so strangely gorgeous it takes a while to acclimate your eyes - not to mention your mind - to what you're seeing." - LA Times

Abelardo Morell: Pictures In Pictures

2008-10-01T23:23:00.000-05:00

Abelardo Morell: Pictures In Pictures at Bonni Benrubi Gallery in New York, NY.

The Ballad of Frankie Silver

2008-10-01T23:10:00.001-05:00

The Ballad of Frankie Silver - a film by Tom Davenport (1996, 47 minutes, Color). "...In 1833 Mrs. Frances Silver was hanged in Morganton, North Carolina, for the ax murder of her husband Charles. For a century and a half the case has lived on in newspapers, pamphlets, memoirs, petitions, legends, a Sharyn McCrumb novel, plays, a ballet, documentary films, websites, and folksong scholarship. Did Frankie have cause to act or hope of justice? The Ballad of Frankie Silver explores the case through the singing and stories of Bobby McMillon and the comments of North Carolina Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Gray and others."

31 Days of Horror V

2008-10-01T22:55:00.000-05:00

31 Days of Horror V at Not Coming To A Theater Near You.

Celebrating Photographic Garbage

2008-10-01T22:51:00.001-05:00

Lens Culture... Celebrating Photographic Garbage - photo-based art by Joachim Schmid. "...Using other people’s (often mundane) photographs, he creates artwork that is alluring, intriguing, and captivating. He revels in photographs that other people lose or throw away in public, especially if they seem to have been discarded with some animosity or intense feeling. He is very much a modern day anthropologist who tries to understand contemporary cultures by studying its visual garbage."

Trailer for Stranded

2008-09-30T23:37:00.001-05:00

Trailer (QuickTime Video) for Stranded: I’ve Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2008, Zeitgeist Films, directed by Gonzalo Arijon).

Lee Friedlander: New Mexico

2008-09-30T23:15:00.002-05:00

Lee Friedlander: New Mexico at Andrew Smith Gallery. "...The exhibit features photographs taken in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Gallup, Chimayo, and Diablo Canyon between 1995 and 2005. Friedlander's fondness for urban and wilderness areas in disarray is evident in this plethora of scenes that will be familiar to any New Mexico resident. Scraggly back yards, sun baked streets studded with poles and signs, makeshift hovelsand historic buildings, juniper dotted hillsides, and ubiquitous pickup trucks are all packed together in a befuddling mixture of order and chaos, warmth and alienation, freedom and restraint, nature and commercialism. 'The same nosy, curious eye is at work, poking through thickets and chain link fences, playing its usual Cubist game of figure and ground.'"

Story Come To Bump

2008-09-30T22:55:00.003-05:00

Prince Jazzbo... Story Come To Bump (.mp3 audio 03:12). From the album Ital Corner (1976, Clocktower Records, produced by Lee Perry). PJ cuts loose over Perry's "Long Long Time" rhythm.

If You Were Mine

2008-09-29T23:47:00.002-05:00

Honey Boy Martin... If You Were Mine (.mp3 audio 02:56). Cover of the Ray Charles song, produced by Clancy Eccles.

The MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations

2008-09-29T23:34:00.000-05:00

The MacKinney Collection of Medieval Medical Illustrations.

L’estampe japonaise - Images d’un monde éphémère

2008-09-29T23:18:00.002-05:00

Hokusai... Série dite des Grandes Fleurs Volubilis et rainette (10 planches, vers 1830-1834). From the exhibition L’estampe japonaise - Images d’un monde éphémère at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. (fr)