linda said to say hello from Costa Rica--she left a meeage on my voicemail that she cant log on to DMTree or Inch for CR--wierd

Dear Friends: American photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918


at the international center for photography; through 6/10
mother gong
eX- giRL

space acapella from japan
i,m mostly braindead but one circuit thats firing is helped by the good doctor wilson--the seasons i see more, mainly in the hood and today was a special day--one type of tree was sheading its seeds and they are blowing everywhere all over 14th between 7/8--its like a parade, i throw handfuls up in the air to join the celebration--i,m kicking the piles like crazy not looking where i am going and almost bump into a guy whom was kicking them in my direction--rock on earth and love you alex
market is jumping--more fish variety, fiddleheads, ramps galore, pea shoots too....
from JAPAN :
Ghost
acid mothers temple
The King Brothers
Add fuel to the fire : Sqrat
YAT 5/31 lets hope i dont have a biz thing pop up cause we can meet over here and do El Cid....
"Boogie Bass" and the shameless imitator "Billy Bass" are the runaway popular novelty items of the day. To wit, if you've been watching The Sopranos season III, you are aware that Boogie Bass throws Tony into mad hysteria (once at the "Botta Bing" and again last week implied via the glazed look & fade out ending after Meadow gave him one for x-mas). Hack Boogie or Billy to cuss like a mook.

Take me to the river.......
Reflections from the think tank.
YAT (Yet Another Thursday.) Back to Rivington Street for this week. Fun starts at 5:30. We'll have food and wine.



"Bitstreams" Debuts at Whitney Museum

--New York, March 22, 1969 (AP)

In the future, technology will offer new marvels in our day-to-day lives. Liquid lead-filled pencils, hovercars, and wafer-thin TV screens are but a few of the items we will see in coming years. Now, in an exhibit at the Whitney Museum of Art, we can glimpse how science will change the art of the future, today. In "Bitstreams," curated by Lawrence Rinder, artists using computers, electronic cameras, oscillators, and other gadgets offer up a humming, flickering smorgasbord of newfangled art.

"It's fun," says Tommy Rettig, a junior high school student from P.S. 122, working the controls on John Klima's "ecosystm." "I can make the pterodactyls [extinct birdlike dinosaurs] fly up and down and all around." But Klima's work isn't all just fun and games: as the artist explains, it's "an animated representation of real-time global stock market fluctuations, currency volatility, and local weather conditions." Fortunately for Tommy, who justs wants to experience some new art, that brain-bending data can be switched off at the touch of a button!

In an adjacent room, Jim Campbell's pieces not only have great beauty, but they teach you something about optics and physics. In his programmed patterns of lights, figures can be discerned. "The subject can best be seen from straight on," according to the Museum's brochure: "Our eyes fill in 'missing' information between the lights." Other works also teach us about science. In Diana Thater's "Six Color Video Wall," NASA films of the sun, with solar storms and flares boiling like lava, are arbitrarily assigned six different colors.

The exhibit has been drawing record crowds, and director Maxwell Anderson predicts we'll see a lot more technological art. "The show's been very popular. People are genuinely curious to experience the ways science and technology are changing art. We have upcoming exhibits devoted to holography and kinetic art, and even a show of works based entirely on mathematics." Rinder agrees: "This is my first show here, but it's just the beginning of the Whitney's commitment to these exciting new developments in art." Move over, Rembrandt!

"Bitstreams" runs through June 10, 1969. Museum hours are Tuesdays through Sundays, 11:00 - 6:00 pm, with extended hours (til 9:00 pm) on Fridays. Call 1-877-WHITNEY for further information. Photo: "Against Shadows" by Juan Downey and Fred Pitts, 1968.

burning bush
Lightning Bolt
Providence, RI.
vanishing point
Spirit , the tree

Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds
Randy California
"Dear Visitor, I’m happy to report that the people have selected the oak as their choice for America’s National Tree in the nationwide vote hosted by The National Arbor Day Foundation on this Web site."
Heart of Gold , Neil Young's that is

Lucinda Williams, preview sound clips from new album : Essence / due out 6/5
Not too sure what to make of this, but BMW is now in the film business. Or at least on the edge of it that rubs up against the advertising business. John Frankenheimer leads off an impressive list of directors (also: Ang Lee, Wong Kar-Wai, Guy Ritchie, and Alejandro González Iñárritu) all producing 5 minute shorts to be shown on the BMWfilms site. The Frankenheimer is already there (in Quicktime, Real, and Windows Media formats.) And you guessed it, each piece features a BMW automobile. Is this the future of free content? High end commercials? And if it is - and keeping in mind the relative quality of television shows compared to television commercials - is this a bad thing?
The United Lodge of Theosophists
Cinema of Transgression

"Where Evil Dwells' was about suburban life, kind of crashing in on itself. Ricky Casso was a high school kid. He grew up in the suburbs and he went to some extremes to get some attention. He talked a bunch of his friends into doing these rituals. They killed cats and dogs and shit like that. They tried to get into the satanic world because other kids would be scared of them, fear them, respect them. Ricky eventually killed Gary, who was a friend of his, supposedly because he stole angel dust. So then, Ricky said if he ever got caught,he would chase Gary's soul to hell and track him down. Which is what we did in 'Where Evil Dwells', after the other kid gets killed, he finds Gary and the devil and that's where the movie ends. He's happy; 'cause he like, got what he actually wanted."
- Tommy Turner



and the rest
great night in nyc

Prune, an awesome and funky, yet slightly buttery meal

71 Clinton Fresh Foods for a hang and a glass or two

Florent for a crab cake sandwich at 2am
what's up with these cnet auctions? some people at my office have gotten very cheap computers, laptops, all (i think) new.

Factory speedfreak Brigid Berlin gets her own documentary, now playing at the Film Forum. It must be included in the films press release because both the NYT and VV pointed out how early on she developed and created art aplications for tape recorder and Polaroid camera (concepts Warhol would pick up and run away with).