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Your morning knockout: Down for The Count
07.20.2010
11:52 am
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I’m assuming this is an Anti-Twilight inspired piece by poopbear. BTW, Count von Count totally rules in my book! 
 
Down for the Count

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.20.2010
11:52 am
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A history of the Beatles as told by their hair
07.19.2010
10:37 pm
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Amusing Beatles drawing by mozzarellapoppy over at deviantART.
 
(via Daily What)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.19.2010
10:37 pm
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Devil with the blue dress on doll
07.19.2010
08:34 pm
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Here’s a cute and delightful devil doll in a little blue dress. The one-of-a-kind handmade doll is designed by CrateBeforeTheHorse and can be purchased on Ebay.
 
(via Super Punch)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.19.2010
08:34 pm
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Tom Waits portrait made of coffee and cigarettes
07.19.2010
07:21 pm
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Tom Waits: Coffee and Cigarettes by Etsy seller MikeOncley. View a bigger and higher resoultion jpeg here
 
(via Das Kraftfuttermischwerk)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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07.19.2010
07:21 pm
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Hermann Nitsch: Das Orgien Mysterien Theater 1970 (NSFW!)
07.16.2010
04:49 pm
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Oh dear me. Hermann Nitsch‘s bloody/Dionysian/biblical/medical performance art rituals have haunted me since I first learned about them via my high school library’s unusually well-stocked art book section (thanks Mr. Allen !) so I’m amazed to finally see great quality footage of an aktion that I’d previously only seen hazy stills of. I think it’s the combination of the studious manner of the participants and observers and the all out bloody fucking (literally) insanity taking place that unsettles me the most. This stuff causes all sorts of conflicting emotions, and that’s probably the point. See for yourself but only if there’s no kids or really anybody with delicate sensibilities around, alright ?
 
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Posted by Brad Laner
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07.16.2010
04:49 pm
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The gentle VHS madness of Robert Ashley’s Perfect Lives
07.14.2010
03:42 pm
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Electronic and text-sound music pioneer Robert Ashley‘s video opera (developed over a period of time from the mid 70’s to the early 80’s) is, in retrospect, the kind of VHS artifact you might find deconstructed at Everything is Terrible or parodied on Tim & Eric. Only thing is, this piece comes pre-deconstructed ! it’s already one of the most fragmented and inscrutable pieces of “TV” you’re ever likely to stumble upon. Following the narrative is an experience akin to being stuck inside Ashley’s mind for a long stretch. That he also happens to suffer from a mild form of Tourette’s only serves to make that mind a very interesting place.

 
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Posted by Brad Laner
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07.14.2010
03:42 pm
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Peter Tscherkassky’s Cinematic Shock Treatment
07.13.2010
11:16 pm
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If you weren’t familiar with Peter Tscherkassky’s films and just happened to stumble into a theater screening one, you might mistakenly think you’ve discovered an old surrealist film by Bunuel or Cocteau - a lost sequel to An Andalusian Dog or Blood Of A Poet. But, you’d also have to presume that the film was being projected at the wrong speed, 96 frames per second. Tscherkassky’s reconstruction of existent films is the visual equivalent of a Brion Gysin cut-up, fragments of information that operate at the borderline between the conscious mind and dream.
 
Tscherkassky, an Austrian avant-gardist, manipulates found footage, which he edits using a moviola rather than computers. In the short film Outer Space, Tscherkassky deconstructs Sidney J. Furie’s The Entity, a cheesy knock-off of Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist, and re-constructs it as a feverish, psychotic, mindfuck.  Filmmaker Guy Madden describes Outer Space thusly:

“shards of frightened eyes, trembling hands, and violent outbursts of self-defense, presented in multiple exposures too layered to count, too arresting to ignore. Each frame is further entangled with details revealed by a jittery effect (a primitive traveling matte?) which spills fluttering ectoplasmic lightpools from one cubist aspect of the woman to another. The filmmaker mimics the action of nightmares by condensing the original imagery of the feature and displacing it into a new narrative—as in dreams, a narrative not explicitly linked to actual events, but emotionally more true than any rational explanation. Tscherkassky’s shorts are actually considerably more terrifying than the original material.”

 

 
Note to B-movie fans: Barbara Hershey plays the woman under assault.
Outer Space is the second film in Tscherkassky’s Cinemascope trilogy.
 
Turn out the lights and watch.

Posted by Marc Campbell
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07.13.2010
11:16 pm
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Psychedelic Jim Steranko cover for vintage Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D comic
07.12.2010
09:53 pm
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I’ve written here before of my love for the Nick Fury comics when I was a kid, even going so far as wearing an eyepatch when I was playing (laugh if you will, I was an 8-year old at the time). Here’s another gorgeous and tres psychedelic JIm Steranko cover, this for the origins story of Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D., in issue #4, published in September 1968. There’s a mint condition of this puppy for sale on Little Green Footballs, part of Charles Johnson’s Lizard Collection.

Posted by Richard Metzger
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07.12.2010
09:53 pm
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Harvey Pekar RIP
07.12.2010
11:46 am
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A sad day for American literature, writer Harvey Pekar has passed away at age 70. My first thought is that it’s great that he lived long enough to see his work embraced by a large audience due to the success of the American Splendor film but it’s hard to swallow the loss of another singular and utterly unique American voice. Bon Voyage, Harvey.

(Cleveland) - Famed Cleveland underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar has died at the age of 70.

Cuyahoga County Coroner’s spokesman Powell Caesar confirmed the news to WTAM 1100 Monday morning.

Pekar was found just before 1:00 am by his wife, Joyce Brabner, in their home in Cleveland Heights. The cause of death is not yet known.


Coroner: Harvey Pekar dies (WTAM Cleveland)
 
thx Ned Raggett

 

Posted by Brad Laner
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07.12.2010
11:46 am
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Dolly Parton: Daddy Come and Get Me
07.10.2010
10:28 pm
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Dolly Parton’s heartbreaking Daddy Come and Get Me, a 1970 performance on The Porter Wagoner Show. Truly this woman is an all-American treasure. When most people think of Dolly Parton, they think of the hair and the boobs and the plastic surgery, but she’s one of the most talented performers who has ever lived. This performance is amazing.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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07.10.2010
10:28 pm
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