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 more images of Paro Mrs. Hirakawa: "Paro answers and looks at me when I call it. Then I feel communication with Paro." Nattie: "We still feel horrible just remembering Shelby. When I came across Shelby later in a box, I literally felt sick with guilt, just leaving him in there. When my husband saw what I was holding, his face just drained and he let out a panicked, "FUCK!" and tried to leave the room, but I wouldn't let him. Instead, we just both stared uncomfortably for a moment." Sherry Turkle: "You can see seniors chatting with robots, telling their stories, and feel positive. Or you can see people speaking to chimeras, showering affection into thin air, and feel that something is amiss." ovvl: "...don't take away my seal-doll unless you crank up the soma on my feed. (And give me a cigarette)." |
Sunday - Long Black Veil
Johnny Cash and Joni Mitchell
Dave Matthews and Emmylou Harris
Mike Nesmith
(found)
I finally found my old slides from the 90s (in milk crate buried under other milk crates full of other things from a long time ago) and got some of them scanned. Aaaah, dusty-old-art nostalgia.
Bert and Ernie, 1996. Free Parking Gallery
Collection, 1998. Part of the exhibition A Living Dog is Better,
curated by Michelle Jacques for the Present Tense series, AGO
Make Me Pretty, 1998. Stickers in women's washroom at Ted's Collision, part of In Lieu curated by Eileen Sommerman
Safety Animal, collaboration with Ben Smith Lea, 1998. Street performance at "The Peanut," Don Mills
and the Donway, Toronto, part of the exhibition Offsite@Toronto, curated by Kym Pruesse for Mercer Union
Goodbye Planet, 1999. Window installation at Pages Bookstore
We were going through the toy box the other day and I re-discovered this lovely lovely organizer. The red button is for wireless. If you push it, a spring is released and a plastic projectile shoots out of the top. On the back of the organizer there's a little plastic flap that covers a tiny pad of sticky notes. What you do is write a little message on a note, and fold it into the grooves on the plastic projectile. Then cram the projectile into the organizer and wait until you are in range of the person you want to communicate with. Then...fire up the wireless! It doesn't use wires. Be careful not to aim it at animals or people.
Email from Jol Thomson
Borna Sammak
Sunday - The Easybeats
Good Time
Sorry
Friday On My Mind
Anthony Easton's some notes on visuals - 100 words every day about one specific work of art
Gordon Rayner (1935 -2010)
What's This 1968 acrylic on canvas, 84 x 72 in.
Infinite Compass 1978 acrylic on canvas, 84 x 72 in.
Love in the Jungle 1969 acrylic on canvas, 84 x 116 in.
email from joester :
Sarah Cale at Jessica Bradley Art & Projects, 1450 Dundas Street West, Toronto. Until feb. 19, 2011.
Joe McKay's Tweetagraph - The Tweeting Telegraph
Wondrously Diverting.
Sunday - Dick Dale & The Del Tones
Misirlou
Bony Moronie
Pipeline/Surf Beat Medley
(I think we've all had enough now).
Sunday - Poppy Family
Where Evil Grows
Different Drum
That's Where I Went Wrong
Sally's axon gifs (I stuck an owl in there, otherwise she did all the work.)
Michelle Allard - Pink Peak(s) @ Convenience Gallery, 58 Lansdowne Avenue, Toronto.
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Mnobody A stream of consciousness sampling of things i liked this year Slayer, or i should say in the proper vernacular, Fuckin' Slayer! Saw them perform this past year, awesome, they just rock. The sound, lighting and stage set up was amazing, you just can't beat a giant wall of marshall amps!  Slayer, Canadian Carnage Tour, Toronto, Ontario July 29, 2010, photo by tanya read John Carpenter's The Thing. Paranoia in the arctic, aliens, music by Ennio Morricone, Kurt Russell, what more do you want? the seven minute version! the sweded version! the fart version! *Other favorite Kurt Russell/John Carpenter movies, Big Trouble in Little China, Escape from New York.  Andy Shernoff Member of the seminal New York hard rock/punk band the Dictators and the writer of most of their songs. He performed at my local bar, Mitzi's Sister doing an acoustic set interspersed with humorous and touching stories of his time in New York during the dawn of punk. A very good writer of rock/pop songs and an entertaining raconteur. I've also been digging Handsome Dick Manitoba (of the Dictators) on Little Steven's Underground Garage. 
The opening of the Dufferin Underpass, an exercise in civic pride and the most exciting mundane thing i have ever attended. complete with an old-timey car to lead the precession. Adam Giambrone, Joe Pantalone, David Miller were on hand for the ceremony. All the lefty Pinkos together in a last hurrah, before gettin' kicked out by the haters.  On a brighter note, looking forward to the addition of work by Louis Jacob to the Dufferin tunnel.   Luis Jacob proposes lining both sides of the Dufferin Jog with mosaic-tile versions of this artwork, from the series "They Sleep With One Eye Open." Image courtesy of Birch Libralato Gallery. Pants off dance of with Larry. just because he tries so hard. go Larry! My all time favorite movie discovery of 2010, House (Hausu)! 
Been wanting to watch this one for a while after seeing a clip on the Lost and Found video collection. Finally got to see it this new years eve and woa nellie what a trip! I mean isn't new years a kind of hallucinatory time anyhow, stuck in the limbo world between the past and the future? The Director, Nobuhiko Obayashi, just basically took the conventions of narrative and movie making and threw them out the window. ...and the special effects, wow! forget CGI crap, this is how i want my movies to look. This film uses the height of 1970's tacky video effects, inspirational! Also a treat is the bizarre musical score featuring Japanese takes on blues, rock and pop. Somehow it perfectly summed up 2010 for me while setting the mood for the year to come. Obayashi started out directing commercials like this one. Mandom! God, i love Chuck Bronson. Bronson's performance in another of my favorite films Mr. Majestyk (written by Elmore Leonard) is classic. 
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Sally's animation for a project we are working on. ...due soon.
Mail from Julie Voyce:
Sunday - Courtesy of Chris Ashley: Only Eleven of the Many Songs I Can't Get Out of My Head in 2010 and Now You Can't In 2011
The Archies - Sugar, Sugar
Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
Beastie Boys - Sabotage
Monkees - Daydream Believer
Neil Young - Hitchhiker
Beatles - Paperback Writer
Foundations - Build me up Buttercup
Otis Redding: That's How Strong My Love Is
Hank Williams - Move it on Over
Paul Revere and The Raiders - Kicks
The Delfonics - Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time
A brief list from Lorna Mills
1. AA Bronson for fighting the good fight and repeatedly requesting the removal of his magnificent and heartbreaking piece, "Felix, June 5, 1994", from the "Hide/Seek" exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, until such time as the David Wojnarowicz video is reinstated in its full unedited version. He has also requested that Marc Mayer, head of the National Gallery of Canada honour his moral rights by formally requesting the removal of his piece. (the piece is on loan from the National Gallery's permanent collection)
From an article in the Globe & Mail:
In an interview with The Globe and Mail Friday, Mr. Mayer said he hoped, “informally, unofficially ... they do actually withdraw the work” of their own volition.” “I do understand AA Bronson’s position. I share his discouragement. I don’t necessarily share his strategy.” From an official professional and institutional standpoint, though, these are not “the circumstances that would make me wish to enact the kill clause we always have in these agreements. ... I don’t want the free exchange of art between public institutions be politicized in this way.”
(It's a strategy that wouldn't pay off for any Gallery Director's future career ambitions.)
For a Q podcast of an interview with AA (scroll down to the Dec 23rd edtion of Q)
2. Bravo's Work of Art
Just kidding, it sucked giant donkey dicks, and I'll watch the next season, but it did inspire a brilliant collection of animated GIFs by Wesley Miller
3. Katie Bethune-Leamen's Dazzle Shizzle at MKG 127
Gouzenko Hoods #2, #8 and #3 (It’s A Thing Covered By A Thing That Thereby Becomes Another Thing)
4. Some art websites I started looking at regularly this year:
http://pietmondriaan.com/, http://arielrebelshauntedgrafenbergspot.tumblr.com/ and http://yrmomma.tumblr.com/
5. I want this painting by Joseph Hughes showing right now at Chris Ashley's project space, Some Walls
Joseph Hughes: 2004-D I (JENKINS GREEN) 2004 Acrylic on paper, 12 x 11 in 30.5 x 28 cm
6. OXYCODONE!!!!!! and British Nerd TV
I got a bit sick at the end of October, but who cares because: OXYCODONE!!!!!!OXYCODONE!!!!!!OXYCODONE!!!!!!. I was so very very happy for a while and devoted my days to watching history documentaries like Nazi Collaborators, a six part series called Apocalypse.The Second World War, At Home with the Georgians, Edwardian Farm and Wartime Secrets with Harry Harris .
OXYCODONE!!!!!!