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the nyt has an interactive (read: cannot link to) election map of the us by county. its in the far right column headlined "campaign 2004" right under those two grinning shitbirds - click *graphics* - various sized red and blue circles tell an american story
"What to put where? Sherrie Levine would put seventy-five pairs of small shoes, sized for a child but styled for a man, on sale at the Three Mercer Street Store. That she had found them at a California job-lot sale hardly mattered. Artists could work through any economy, the thrift economy too. The money economy proved more difficult. Levine made a series of silhouettes taken from the penny, the quarter, and the new half-dollar coins, painting the presidents so that they faced each other flatly fluorescent on small sheets of graph paper. Happily parodying D.H. Lawrence, she called them Sons and Lovers. Douglas Crimp included them in the group show he curated at Artists Space in the fall of 1977. He called it "Pictures." "Pictures" also announced a twenty-six-second film loop by Jack Goldstein called The Jump, in which he had altered some stock footage so that one saw only a human silhouette filled with a light effect repeatedly run, jump, and dive, piking stylishly off the end of an unseen board into perfect d arkness that, like a psychedelic reflex, swallowed it whole. Crimp highlighted it in his catalogue essay. In hindsight The Jump looks like a pure description of a professional situation."
. . . a resident six year old required to know why I spent so many consecutive evenings at the bench with a film that was not my own. Because I don't understand it, I said, and he answered: 'You're not supposed to *understand* films, you're only supposed to *make* them.' It is as remedy for some such jejune superstition, I suspect, and as prophylaxis against the syndrome of manipulated, insentient valorization which it masks and sustains, that these speculations have been written during the intervening decade.' [1]
Perhaps he is being a bit hard on the boy. But were the superstition in question confined to six-year-olds (a class of individuals known, if nothing else, for their uncanny ability to revise their own blunders) there would be little need for any remedy. Unfortunately, the better part of contemporary discourse on film continues to be afflicted by the unfortunate supposition that those who make films and those who understand them are by nature distinct groups.
--Matt Teichman / Prelude to the Philosophy of Hollis Frampton
its not easy being concrete
"Architecture, being a sensory experience, must be interpreted through a sensory medium."
rip ezra stoller
a selection of images
light impressions
"Don't get me wrong. As a holes-in-the-pockets modernist myself I'm not looking for corks round the brim here. It's just there are things we're not seeing - not because we're stuck in some elsewhere history, but because we refuse to learn from it."
thacher house morongo valley
fugly west side stadium
the end of 1960's architecture
tompkins square park EV
The SÉance In Experimental Writing
A two-day public meditation on the condition of language and narrative in contemporary writing.
The Séance in Experimental Writing gathers new and established writers to speculate on the boundaries of structural and linguistic experiments today. Participants include novelists, short-story writers, poets and hypertextualists from Canada, the U.S., and Europe, including Dodie Bellamy, Charles Bernstein, Jaap Blonk, Christian Bök, Dennis Cooper, Madeline Gins, Robert Glück, Kenneth Goldsmith, Shelley Jackson, Kevin Killian, Ben Marcus, Eileen Myles, Joan Retallack, Cristina Rivera Garza, Steven Shaviro, Janet Sternburg, and Lidia Yuknavitch.
beta-blockers
RIP Greg Shaw
LOS ANGELES -- Independent record producer Greg Shaw, who helped pioneer the "garage rock" sound by recording such edgy bands as the Stooges, the Germs, Sky Saxon and the Flamin' Groovies, died Tuesday of heart failure, his record label announced. He was 55.
Shaw founded Bomp! Records in 1974 to release a single by the Flamin' Groovies and later managed the group,
Shaw, who spent his career championing the works of artists considered too unruly for mainstream labels, represented groups whose musical styles ranged from rockabilly to surf to psychedelia to power pop.
The San Francisco native's interest in music was piqued when he began collecting records in the 1950s, eventually accumulating more than 1 million.
After moving to Los Angeles, Shaw wrote for several rock music publications and worked for a time for United Artists Records.
tobacco auctioneer's song
livestock auctioneer world champions
prepare for (more) massive change
americas best and worst cities for sleeping