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11:19 pm EDT, Aug 3, 2004 |
Skinner: Oh oh. Two independent thought alarms in one day. The students are overstimulated. Willie! Remove all the colored chalk from the classrooms. Willie: I warned ya! Didn't I warn ya?! That colored chalk was forged by Lucifer himself! Lisa the Vegetarian |
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fragments of an origami tiger |
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12:09 pm EDT, May 2, 2004 |
I thought this author was trying to hard, but I enjoyed this anyway... All past scenes. All mummified in vintage yellow police tape, displaying warding epithets in four different languages. They were all the abandoned stages of other players. The disarrayed remnants of a wild performance with abused props still scattered where they had been disposed of. This time, I figured, it was my own stage, my own script and my own trio of acts. Somewhere distant, past the imperceptibly sprawling borders of the city. I saw the fragments of an origami Bengal tiger folded by your hands crumble and scatter on an unbound wind, and wished I was there. fragments of an origami tiger |
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'Global Networks': Webs Connecting the Power Brokers, the Money and the World |
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9:28 am EST, Nov 16, 2003 |
Mark Lombardi was onto something ... His drawings - you could call them maps or charts, and they also have some connection with 19th-century panoramas - track global financial fiascos and related political shenanigans, mostly of the 1980's and 90's. Some drawings are as much as 10 feet wide, rather lightly marked in pencil with arrows and names: delicate spider webs of scandal. Lombardi's work has been called "conspiracy art". It's a kind of global MemeStreams, elegantly visualized with a purpose, as Art. (Unfortunately, it appears impossible to obtain large prints of these drawings (some of which are absolutely fascinating). There is a book available, but the only poster/print I've found was in "Cabinet Magazine" in 2001. They've sold out of back issues and want $250 for a copy. I can buy the originals at pierogi2000.com, but I'm not Bill Gates.) 'Global Networks': Webs Connecting the Power Brokers, the Money and the World |
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Have You Heard the New Neil Young Novel? |
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8:09 pm EST, Nov 9, 2003 |
It is best to consume "Greendale", Neil Young's newest work, by treating it as a hybrid between a printed work and a book-on-tape -- to read it as one reads a novel. Mr. Young really has done something new, rendering into this combination of print and audio a novel that is surprisingly sophisticated and satisfyingly complete. ... the fusion of news and entertainment media has completely eaten up everything we used to think of as concrete reality. With the multidimensional twists that bind his music to his narrative, he's stitched the novel into a whole new set of clothes. I must confess that I'm not a big Neil Young fan, but this does sound interesting... Have You Heard the New Neil Young Novel? |
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Fuji: Images of Contemporary Japan |
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9:53 pm EST, Oct 26, 2003 |
Stark, mysterious, potent, looming, seductive, beautiful, iconic Mount Fuji. Overcommercialized, stereotypical, omnipresent, overcrowded Mount Fuji. Typically seen as a backdrop to Japanese life, Chris Steele-Perkins offers a different frame to Japan's magical mountain. Mr. Steele-Perkins captures this collision of time -- the past rushing full force into the future -- from a careful outsider's view of Japanese society. This is short and interesting. I wonder what personal non-motorized water craft consisted of in Japan before the British brought canoes from America. Fuji: Images of Contemporary Japan |
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Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised |
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1:27 pm EST, Mar 2, 2003 |
Welcome to the exhibition of rediscovered works by the mid 20th century illustrator A.C. Radebaugh. A very cool exhibit, soon to open in Philadelphia, displaying lots of futuristic graphic artwork from the 1950s. Flying cars, urban airships docked at skyscrapers, and more. This stuff is almost propagandist in its technological optimism. Radebaugh: The Future We Were Promised |
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