Dennis Hopper, Double Standard (1962)
Just watched "Rumblefish" last week...
5/29/10
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5/11/10
Let Down Vol.3 Coming Soooon!
IN VOL.3:
- Recipes for "hooch" and other exotic cocktails!!!
- Excerpts from legendary 80s "vending machine" magazine Heaven!!!
- Review of Antony and the Ohnos performance!!!
- Chaos Lounge!!!
- Art world gossip!!!
- Review of "Everyday Life/Another Space" exhibition!!!
- Gallery ads!!!
4/12/10
Time Travel
I'm saving this for real this time is a frequently updated tumblr site of great images by Emma Cooper. I had been checking the site some and was surprised to find on it a photo I took in 2008 of a t-shirt I bought in 1990. I bought the shirt at Spike Lee's 40 Acres and a Mule store in Brooklyn, which I journeyed to from Andover, Massachusetts, where I was attending boarding school. It was my second year living away from home, which was in Tokyo. The t-shirt somehow found its way back to me on the Internet 20 years later. I'm not sure what this has to do with art, but it has something to do with how images circulate. Reference Library is also a great archive/diary by Andy Beach.
先日、I'm saving this for real this timeという、面白いtumblrサイトをみていたら、自分が20年前に買ったT-シャツの写真が上がってた。僕がアメリカに留学して2年目のとき、ブルックリンにあったスパイク・リーのお店で買ったものだった。店には遥々ボストンの郊外にあった高校から行った。それを2年前に実家で見つけて写真に撮った。そして最近、インターネットを通してT-シャツがまた僕を見つけた。アートとは関係ないが、イメージの流通の仕方に関係する話だと思う。Reference Libraryも面白いアーカイヴだ。
先日、I'm saving this for real this timeという、面白いtumblrサイトをみていたら、自分が20年前に買ったT-シャツの写真が上がってた。僕がアメリカに留学して2年目のとき、ブルックリンにあったスパイク・リーのお店で買ったものだった。店には遥々ボストンの郊外にあった高校から行った。それを2年前に実家で見つけて写真に撮った。そして最近、インターネットを通してT-シャツがまた僕を見つけた。アートとは関係ないが、イメージの流通の仕方に関係する話だと思う。Reference Libraryも面白いアーカイヴだ。
3/15/10
A Book Attacking Capitalism Gets Sales Help From a Fox Host
By Noam Cohen NY Times Published:
March 14, 2010
“Revolutionary movements do not spread by contamination but by resonance,” write the anonymous authors of “The Coming Insurrection,” a call to overthrow capitalism that first appeared in France in 2005 and was recently published in translation in the United States.
Writers, however, do not get to pick how and where their work resonates: Among the first in America to be stirred by the manifesto’s explosive words was a Fox News host, Glenn Beck.
In July, Mr. Beck introduced the book to his three million or so viewers, accompanied by video of burning cars and swarming protesters. “Here is the one thing everyone seems to be missing. The extreme left is actively calling for violence,” he told his audience. “It calls for violent revolution. An anonymous group from France, of all places, called the Invisible Committee, penned it. They want to bring down capitalism and the Western way of life.”
This month, Mr. Beck proclaimed it “the most evil book I’ve read in a long, long time.”
The next day, “The Coming Insurrection,” whose authors call themselves the Invisible Committee, rose to No. 54 on Amazon’s best-seller list. In July, the book briefly reached No. 1. And even this weekend the book remained around No. 240.
Sylvère Lotringer, a professor emeritus of French language and philosophy at Columbia and the general editor of Semiotext(e), which translated and published the book, said there was no doubt that Mr. Beck was feeding what had been “in a short duration, the most books we have ever sold.”
He did not provide a sales number.
As for trying to play to Mr. Beck or the book’s other critics on the right, Mr. Lotringer said he was torn.
“I would be willing to come on the show if he had read the book, but he has never read it,” he said. “Nothing that he has said shows that he read it. He is incapable of reading it.”
Christopher Balfe, a spokesman for Mr. Beck, said, “Glenn read this book because he believes it is important for people to read everything, especially the titles they disagree with, so they can clearly understand all points of view and have open and honest debates.”
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