the superior

the superior
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mp3s for pleasure and for pain

whip to the beat of a jazz pianist. via show and tell (the al wilson song has been going through my head today. maybe this is why.)

mix pleasure with a different kind of pain: chipmunk drag via copy comma right (it leaves a vision of Alvin as Marlene Dietrich that will not soon wash from the brain).

for pleasure without pain, hear trains of winnipeg. via zombizi

the dukes of hazzard want YOU

seeking vice president, cmt dukes of hazzard institute

The job responsibilities for the Vice President, CMT Dukes of Hazzard Institute are:

* watch The Dukes of Hazzard every weeknight on CMT;
* know the words to The Dukes of Hazzard theme song, 'Good Ol' Boys,' written and performed on the series by the legendary Waylon Jennings;
* serve as media expert on The Dukes of Hazzard for the CMT Dukes of Hazzard Institute: must be available for TV, radio and newspaper interviews to share passion for The Dukes of Hazzard on CMT;
* write the CMT Dukes of Hazzard Institute online blog for cmt.com;
* be passionate about The Dukes of Hazzard on CMT;
* make appearances at special events such as Dukesfest 2005 in Bristol, Tenn., (June 4-5, 2005).

who among us is not passionate about the dukes?
via kittytext

how do you say "duh!" in german

Bush in Germany: With a Hush and a Whisper, Bush Drops Town Hall Meeting with Germans

During his trip to Germany on Wednesday, the main highlight of George W. Bush's trip was meant to be a 'town hall'-style meeting with average Germans. But with the German government unwilling to permit a scripted event with questions approved in advance, the White House has quietly put the event on ice. Was Bush afraid the event might focus on prickly questions about Iraq and Iran rather than the rosy future he's been touting in Europe this week?

via the washington monthly

i am horribly bored

i am horribly bored
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

feel alright

ridiculous trio play stooges

I make music that is simple, direct, but layered with subtext. I aim to bring challenges and rewards back to the listener, through subtle melody and explosive energy. Free of irony, innocence is restored, reverted to its primal state, and any further notion of style or genre is flushed away.'

via cake and polka parade

under the tuscan sun

under the tuscan sun
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hillbilly l. supine
weeknight t. staff
myopia v. dynamica
silverfish f. checkup
earthling u. outrigger

britney

britney
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An Early Magic Lantern in a vintage Dutch Conjuring book. (1781)
from early visual media: conjuring arts

light slams like a pound of bacon

walker evans
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ed ruscha lecture @ national gallery of art 2/13/05

notes towards almost timely art blogging.

Ruscha drolly commented on slides of his own work and work that's inspired him.

some names are approx.

A slide of what looked like a chrome sphere on a stick was projected on the screen while we waited. Ruscha began his talk from that slide, which after the lights dimmed he id'd as the gearshift of a 1950 Ford. Contrast that with the next slide, the gearshift of a 1950 chevy - a knobbier shape painted off-white, that doesn't strike him the way the ford does. Either pic could be considered boring (Rushca's one of the inspirations for my foray into boring photography) but at the macro level they're practically abstracts.

A bottle of higgins india ink. He admired it as much for the bottle design as for the versatile substance inside it: good for fine lines, dripped into blotches, poured on so thick it cracks, etc.

Spike Jones. Ruscha was a gofer for Jones and his City Slickers when they'd come through Oklahoma. They might send him to buy a dozen eggs, which he'd bring back for Spike and Co. to hurl at each other.

Arthur Dove's 1925 abstract Goin Fishin.

Kurt Schwitters (one gripe I have with the new Moma is that some walls are hung so densely that a Schwitters collage is placed at eye-level to a giant)

A dada ink drawring by Johnannes Barguild. Ruscha admired the mystery of it - that there was no answer to the questions posed: is it a musical score? bugs at the gate? this drawring inspired his own bugs at the gate, in the form of automobile parking lot lines (a theme he'd pick up again in his photographic studies of parking lot oil stains and sundry).

Jasper Johns flag 1958 (Ruscha is a distinctly American artist, and many of his signposts, from auto design to the 20th Century Fox logo to word drawings like BABYCAKES, are very American).

Walker Evans, cars parked on a residential street. (When I saw the Ruscha and photography show at the Whitney last year, it occured to me that Ruscha was the source of banal, deadpan photography, but the lines seem to come from Walker Evans, and maybe Atget before him). For Ruscha, Evans's pictures are completed by the viewer's sensual experience, adding sound and smell (which distinguishes him from some of his odorless successors).

Edgerton's picture of a bullet going thru an apple. Made for scientific purposes but also = art.

Imperial war museum object: a bedpost? Bertelli's "Endless Mussolini." It "broke the sound barrier for me."

ANVIL! "It's American," a theme he brings up again. "It's what people ask you to carry upstairs. Endless Dumbo."

Ali by Kersh - American hero.

Clark Beyers "Barnyard Rembrandt" - painted advertisements on roofs. "never passed up a good roof."

Marilyn Reese - designed clover leaf interchange.

Lichetenstein sneakers. Showed a "total disrespect for aesthetics." "it was repulsive, then appealing, then profound - it made a convert out of me."

word paintings: BOSS HONK OOF ICE

"Course of Empire" Thos. Cole, a series of paintings that charted the rise and fall of a civilization, marked by the same mountain peak in the distance; reminds me of a sequence of drawings in CRUMB where the artist traced the devolution of a country lane into succesive layers of "progress" that ended in a horribly homogenous (yet darkly beautiful) array of chain stores and telephone wire.

zoom of fox logo as train photography: standard gas -- > zoom painting, lower left to upper right diagonal.

1850 Millet's Ophelia--> LA museum on fire: tragedy in serene setting. as opposed to Guernica, all tragedy (he didn't denigrate Picasso but that hit on why I find that the more Picasso I see the more he annoys me)

Urich - Withdrawal from Dunkirk?

clinical "little military figures ... frozen in an landscape: ENGINEER SURGICAL HYDRAULIC

broken glass - a 2-d taxidermy

organic paintings - stained moray and satin

SHE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THAT (blood on satin)

'39 ford=elephant climbing up hill fuzziness, out of focus

AN EXHIBITION OF GASOLINE POWERED ENGINES: the light comes through a window at such a hard angle it "slams like a pound of bacon."

mountain backdrops: BLAST CURTAIN, PORCH CROP (palindromes)

paintings of ideas of things rather than things themselves.

CLARENCE JONES 1906-1987 REALLY KNEW HOW TO SHARPEN KNIVES (from dream)

redesigned US currency. Andrew Jackson's face was one of historical dignity; now he looks like he could be somebody "babbling on his cellphone in starbucks"

the perfect face of contentment: Mr. Maple.

THE END

attorney general

attorney general
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child watching ball

the kinetic sculpture of arthur ganson.

alf (season one)

alf (season one)
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sexy-mini-super-flower-pop-op-cola

momus writes of the strange commercial in design observer:

Eventually all advertising will seem strange. Brad Stockshot and Cindy Clipart, modelling chunky knitwear on the beach, will look like absurd freaks. The 2005 Audi A6, as sleek as an arrowhead up on that billboard, will seem as archaic as a crossbow. When the endless repetition of these images stops, when the things they're referencing are forgotten and arcane, their power to define what's normal will stop too, replaced by an intriguing quirkiness. As they slip further away from their original purpose, the distinction between these commercial images and art will start to decompose. They'll hang in museums alongside art. Their power to evoke a lost Pompeii will be just as great, sometimes greater. And they'll seem as strange as art, sometimes stranger.

lip balm babylon

Cheetos LipBalm
Originally uploaded by fortune cookie.

Bagels och lemonad is an Icelandic (?!) site that catalogues lip balms of the world. Dig the bib record:

Märke: lotta luv, Cheetos
Lukt: Cheese
Vikt: 4,2 g
Inköpsdatum: 2004-04-12
Pris: 17 kr
Inköpsställe: Claire's Boutiques, Middlesboro, USA

the hearth

the hearth
Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

Originally uploaded by a nameless yeast.

file magazine : a collection of unexpected photography

today's featured file.

wheels of steel and string

"sound/visual" artist kitundu's phonoharp is a turntable rigged to play strings. listen.
via music thing.

stereo kafka

vladimir creates her own viewmaster or vladmaster reels based on original stories and the works of kafka and calvino. dag. via boing boing