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i am a director. i travel around the world telling stories. i am fan of the underdog and the spotty dog alike. i enjoy working with my hands and have been a metal-smither for four years. i have a healthy sense of curiosity, but not entitlement.
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August 2008 Archives
| Date: | Thursday, September 4, 2008 |
| Time: | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
| Location: | Yvon Lambert Gallery |
| Street: | 550 W. 21 Street (btw. 10th and 11th Ave.) |
| City/Town: | New York, NY |
This is from my favorite stylist, Ondi:
The photograph on the invitation is titled,"Hieronymus Bosch Shit".
Taoists say that "god is in our bowel movements, if not we'd be in real trouble". The Greeks (my peeps) gave us "democracy, scientific method, philosophy, art, literature.....and skatology! Shit is a serious topic. Remember "The Last Emperor"? Ancient doctors examined feces for health and were NOT paid if patients was sick! Elvis died with a swollen colon stuffed to the max with white chalklike feces......if on exhibit at the "Bodies", it would outsell all Cirque de Soleil shows and be sold-out until the end of days ---2012! Come see "SHIT" before Fashion Week bullshit starts! When inviting your more discriminating guests, use more the polite title "Sugar Honey in Tea" or "Sugar Honey Iced Tea". Btw, I have it on good authority that one luminary named "Luther" will be attending opening. Here's a riddle for you: Luther is not a man or a model but he is in the photographs!-Susan
"Serrano's work as a photographer tends toward relatively large prints of about 20 by 30 inches (51 cm x 76 cm), which are produced by conventional photographic techniques (as opposed to digital manipulation). He has shot a vast array of subject matter including portraits of Klansmen, morgue photos, and pictures of burn victims. He went into the New York subways with lights and photographic background paper to portray the bedraggled homeless as art objects, as well as producing some rather tender but sometimes decidedly kinky portraits of couples. One of these last shows what Adrian Searle of The Guardian described as "a young couple, she with a strap-on dildo, he with a mildly expectant expression."[2]
Many of Serrano's pictures involve bodily fluids in some way--depicting, for example, blood (sometimes menstrual blood), semen (for example, "Blood and Semen II" (1990)) or mother's milk. Within this series are a number of works in which objects are submerged in bodily fluids. Most famous of these is "Piss Christ" (1987), a photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of his own urine. This caused great controversy when first exhibited. The work was sold for $162,000 in December 1999 in London, which was far beyond the estimated $20,000 - $30,000.[3] Serrano, alongside other artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, became a figure whom some attacked for producing offensive art while others defended him in the name of artistic freedom (see the American "culture wars" of the 1990s).
Taoists say that "god is in our bowel movements, if not we'd be in real trouble". The Greeks (my peeps) gave us "democracy, scientific method, philosophy, art, literature.....and skatology! Shit is a serious topic. Remember "The Last Emperor"? Ancient doctors examined feces for health and were NOT paid if patients was sick! Elvis died with a swollen colon stuffed to the max with white chalklike feces......if on exhibit at the "Bodies", it would outsell all Cirque de Soleil shows and be sold-out until the end of days ---2012! Come see "SHIT" before Fashion Week bullshit starts! When inviting your more discriminating guests, use more the polite title "Sugar Honey in Tea" or "Sugar Honey Iced Tea". Btw, I have it on good authority that one luminary named "Luther" will be attending opening. Here's a riddle for you: Luther is not a man or a model but he is in the photographs!-Susan
"Serrano's work as a photographer tends toward relatively large prints of about 20 by 30 inches (51 cm x 76 cm), which are produced by conventional photographic techniques (as opposed to digital manipulation). He has shot a vast array of subject matter including portraits of Klansmen, morgue photos, and pictures of burn victims. He went into the New York subways with lights and photographic background paper to portray the bedraggled homeless as art objects, as well as producing some rather tender but sometimes decidedly kinky portraits of couples. One of these last shows what Adrian Searle of The Guardian described as "a young couple, she with a strap-on dildo, he with a mildly expectant expression."[2]
Many of Serrano's pictures involve bodily fluids in some way--depicting, for example, blood (sometimes menstrual blood), semen (for example, "Blood and Semen II" (1990)) or mother's milk. Within this series are a number of works in which objects are submerged in bodily fluids. Most famous of these is "Piss Christ" (1987), a photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in a glass of his own urine. This caused great controversy when first exhibited. The work was sold for $162,000 in December 1999 in London, which was far beyond the estimated $20,000 - $30,000.[3] Serrano, alongside other artists such as Robert Mapplethorpe, became a figure whom some attacked for producing offensive art while others defended him in the name of artistic freedom (see the American "culture wars" of the 1990s).
The most famous and notorious of Serrano's work plays on the relationship between beautiful imagery and vulgar materials, his subject matter often drawing from the potentially controversial and, perhaps, the willfully provocative. Guardian art critic Adrian Searle was not impressed in 2001: he found that Serrano's photos were "far more about being lurid than anything else... In the end, the show is all surface, and looking for hidden depths does no good."[2]
Serrano's work "Blood and Semen III" is used as the cover of heavy metal band Metallica's Load, while "Piss and Blood" is used on ReLoad. Serrano also directed a video for industrial metal group Godflesh, "Crush My Soul"." (Wikiwikiwiki)
Check it out, if you're into this kind of shit.
This hilarious marketing stunt for Krispy Kreme donuts comes from one of my favorite UK PR companies, Mischief.
Mischief (the name says it all) launched the organic, grass growing flip flops in order to help Londoners "reduce stress by taking a walk in the park." Oh, and why not have a donut while you're at it.
Visually, I think it's very funny. Realistically, I think it would be annoying to have grass growing flip flops under my toes, but it says a lot for a brand that's willing to have a sense of humor about itself. And, that's really what we're talking about here... perception.
I guess if the concrete jungle gets to be too much for some, you can take your "mobile meadow' with you.
1,000 Essential Recordings You Must Hear.
I heard about this book on NPR today as I was driving down clogged Melrose Ave. I have to say I was taken in and completely lost my growing anger, hatred and resentment toward people making left hand turns when it is not permitted.
Leaning on the horn and flipping off various drivers was replaced by a true intrigue into the music selections of Tom Moon. How do you pick only 1,000 songs anyway?
NPR finally stopped blabbing about how fabulous the book is and played a few of the authors favorite tracks as well as his favorite songs that reminded him of summer.
It was great.
One of my favorites on his list:
Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing: But Not For Me.
Amazing.
I have to say, I'm not really into the Olympics this year. Except for a few interesting, underdog characters that have caught my attention.
One of them is Ronda Rousey. She's overcome personal , physical and emotional limitations to become the underdog favorite to win Judo in the Olympics.
At 21 she's lived quite a full and interesting life which she writes about in her straight forward, down to earth blog. It's an interesting and entertaining read.
Definitely worthwhile watching...Steven Sebring's eleven year documentary odyssey on the Godmother of Punk, Patty Smith, finally hits the screens.
Like the Smith herself, it's an impressionistic portrait of a 'dream life.'
Check it out.
Patti Smith, Dream of Life.
(see NY listings)
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