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Hall of Fame Your Powers Are Useless The Clowns Are On My Side

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:45:00 -0600

Your Powers Are Useless The Clowns Are On My Side

"Buddy Guy’s live shows used to involve much leaping off amplifiers; playing guitar with his feet,..."

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:29:47 -0600

“Buddy Guy’s live shows used to involve much leaping off amplifiers; playing guitar with his feet, teeth, a handkerchief or a drumstick; playing guitar behind his back; playing guitar while hanging from the rafters by his ankles; and going on a walkabout into the audience on the end of a 150 foot guitar cord: cordless guitars were not yet available. Guy would sometimes begin his sets from inside the men’s washroom, all the while shaking up the house with his wild multi-fret bends and piercing, string-snapping attack. He would then get on stage and dive into his solos, maybe capping a run by flipping his guitar backwards and sliding the pickups over his T-shirt, laughing all the way.”

- Buddy Guy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:53:19 -0600

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"The Prada sculpture is the work of the Berlin artists Michael Emlgreen and Ingar Dragset. It was..."

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:15:07 -0600

“The Prada sculpture is the work of the Berlin artists Michael Emlgreen and Ingar Dragset. It was produced by Yvonne Force Villareal and Doreen Remen through their nonprofit Art Production Fund, and they said last week that they intended to forgo maintenance and let time ravage the $80,000 sculpture so that “50 years from now it will be a ruin that is a reflection of the time it was made.””

- Vandal Hated the Art, but, Oh, Those Shoes - New York Times

"the car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel and the sewers are all muddied with..."

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:12:31 -0600

“the car’s on fire and there’s no driver at the wheel and the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides and a dark wind blows the government is corrupt and we’re on so many drugs with the radio on and the curtains drawn we’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine and the machine is bleeding to death the sun has fallen down and the billboards are all leering and the flags are all dead at the top of their poles it went like this: the buildings tumbled in on themselves mothers clutching babies picked through the rubble and pulled out their hair the skyline was beautiful on fire all twisted metal stretching upwards everything washed in a thin orange haze i said: “kiss me, you’re beautiful - these are truly the last days” you grabbed my hand and we fell into it like a daydream or a fever we woke up one morning and fell a little further down - for sure it’s the valley of death i open up my wallet and it’s full of blood”

- dead metheny - monologues - the dead flag blues (intro)

“Here’s Miles Davis talking shit, probably about...

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:26:49 -0600

“Here’s Miles Davis talking shit, probably about some chick, to Steve McQueen backstage at the Monterey Jazz festival, 1963” (via Miles Davis and Steve McQueen, Monterey, CA 1963 | Jim Marshall

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Brad Elterman - Photography Take a close look at the guy on the...

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:52:00 -0600

Brad Elterman - Photography

Take a close look at the guy on the left of the photograph walking towards the girl. That is Burt who was and still is, almost thirty years later, a permanent fixture on the party circuit. I am sure that he was on his way to get this girl’s telephone number. Back then, I did not think it too much of a big deal going to a Mega Mansion party in Beverly Hills with nude girls because I attended three or four of these a week! This was the only photograph worth taking at the party and now is one of my favorite photos. It truly captured a moment from that incredible era that I will never see again.

"Perhaps even more intriguing to some, Google has theorized about powering these ocean data centers..."

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:30:10 -0600

“Perhaps even more intriguing to some, Google has theorized about powering these ocean data centers with energy gained just from water splashing against the side of the barges. “In general, computing centers are located on a ship or ships, which are then anchored in a water body from which energy from natural motion of the water may be captured, and turned into electricity and/or pumping power for cooling pumps to carry heat away from computers in the data center,” Google writes in the patent application.”

- Google’s Search Goes Out to Sea - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com

The Triumph of Bullshit

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:51:08 -0600

The Triumph of Bullshit

List of animals by number of neurons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:38:04 -0600

List of animals by number of neurons - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Paul McCarthy’s Complex Shit, a giant inflatable dog turd,...

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:02:46 -0600

Paul McCarthy’s Complex Shit, a giant inflatable dog turd, escaped from its moorings at the Zentrum Paul Klee last week and brought down a power line and broke a window before landing on the grounds of a children’s home 200 meters away, the Guardian reports. Although the unintended flight happened on July 31, details emerged only yesterday. (via McCarthy Dogshit Work Wreaks Havoc in Switzerland - ARTINFO.com

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"What does love feel like? Like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of..."

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:28:33 -0600

“

What does love feel like?

Like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

”

- Q&A: Slavoj Zizek, professor and writer | Life and style | The Guardian

"But the basic work is built around the sentence. This is what I mean when I call myself a writer. I..."

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:18:01 -0600

“But the basic work is built around the sentence. This is what I mean when I call myself a writer. I construct sentences. There’s a rhythm I hear that drives me through a sentence. And the words typed on the white page have a sculptural quality. They form odd correspondences. They match up not just through meaning but through sound and look. The rhythm of a sentence will accommodate a certain number of syllables. One syllable too many, I look for another word. There’s always another word that means nearly the same thing, and if it doesn’t then I’ll consider altering the meaning of a sentence to keep the rhythm, the syllable beat. I’m completely willing to let language press meaning upon me. Watching the way in which words match up, keeping the balance in a sentence—these are sensuous pleasures.”

- rodcorp: How we work: Don DeLillo, author

"The subjects of Prince’s rephotographs are the photos of others. He is merely photographing the..."

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:52:56 -0600

“The subjects of Prince’s rephotographs are the photos of others. He is merely photographing the works of other photographers, who in the case of the cowboys, had been hired by Marlboro Cigarettes to create images depicting cowboys. Prince describes his process in a 2003 interview with Artforum International Magazine’s Steve Lafreiniere as, “I had limited technical skills regarding the camera. Actually I had no skills. I played the camera. I used a cheap commercial lab to blow up the pictures. I made editions of two. I never went into a darkroom.” Prince was a spectator to the imagery of others and decided to approach it in a new manner, interpret it in his own way, while challenging the socially accepted.”

- Richard Prince - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Richard Prince at the Guggenheim Museum - Fall Preview 2007...

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:52:00 -0600

Richard Prince at the Guggenheim Museum - Fall Preview 2007 — New York Magazine

via gallery.photo.net

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:52:00 -0600

via gallery.photo.net

"The strait derives its name from the dangers attending its navigation, or, according to an Arab..."

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:41:04 -0600

“The strait derives its name from the dangers attending its navigation, or, according to an Arab legend, from the numbers who were drowned by the earthquake which separated Asia and Africa. In the Arabic translation of Jules Verne’s book Around the World in Eighty Days (page 30), it is referred to as the “Bridge of Tears”.”

- Bab-el-Mandeb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Roller Metal (via Malcolm Elijah)

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:44:03 -0600

Roller Metal (via Malcolm Elijah)

Benedict Redgrove (via Benedict Redgrove – today and tomorrow )

Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:10:09 -0600

Benedict Redgrove (via Benedict Redgrove – today and tomorrow

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"He further notes that the reason working class Americans did not by and large join in the 1960s..."

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:05:02 -0600

“He further notes that the reason working class Americans did not by and large join in the 1960s protest movements and subcultures was they had entry into meaningful labor as an effective rite of passage out of adolescence, while both the very poor on welfare and the affluent are, in his words “prevented from having a share in the world’s work and of proving their manhood by doing a man’s work and getting a man’s pay” and thus remained in a state of extended adolescence, lacking in necessary self-esteem, and prone to joining mass movements as a form of compensation”

- Eric Hoffer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia