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Playstation video game based on Matthew Barney’s ‘Cremaster’
10.12.2010
11:33 pm
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Fluxlasers created this game level based on Cremaster 1 by Matthew Barney using Little Big Planet on a PlayStation 3.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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10.12.2010
11:33 pm
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Art or pornography? Jeff Koon’s ‘Made in Heaven’ returns
10.12.2010
08:14 pm
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In 1989, Jeff Koons put up a billboard (pictured above) on the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7th Street (or was it 6th St?) in New York’s East Village, of himself and his then-wife, pornstar/politician, Cicciolina, in a naked embrace. The billboard read “Made in Heaven” and indeed, the couple, who may or may not have been copulating in the photo—I’d vote “yes”—were set against a kitschy “heavenly” background.

To say it was a striking (and somewhat confusing) artistic message to see that large on a billboard is an understatement, but I recall thinking at the time that Koons was a lucky, lucky man (his post-divorce child-custody travails with his soon to be ex-wife, had not yet occurred, obviously). There may have been other billboards like it, but I walked past this particular one on a daily basis going to and from the subway and my apartment on Avenue A and 7th. It was there for quite a long time, too.

The “Made in Heaven” show at the Sonnebend Gallery (back when Soho still had art galleries instead of Banana Republic and Pottery Barn stores) featured several similar large paintings depicting Koons and Cicciolina in various positions out of the Kama Sutra. There were also porcelain statues and glass sculptures of the couple “doing it.” The show was a scandalous success—was it art or pornography?—and saw Japanese tourists, eurotrash and curious onlookers fill the gallery day after day.

Now the “Made in Heaven” work is being presented again—it’s the first exhibit of this work in nearly 20 years—at Luxembourg & Dayan gallery in New York, from October 6, 2010 - January 21, 2011.

Below, an interview with Jeff Koons.
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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10.12.2010
08:14 pm
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Indian holy man accuses Monsanto chemicals of destroying his homeland
10.12.2010
07:11 pm
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In the video below, an Indian sadhu accuses Monsanto chemicals of polluting India, resulting in the growth of large vegetables with no “power” (nutrition).

Illegal genetic modification experiments have been going on across India with the complicity of the Indian Government. Over an estimated 125,000 farmers have committed suicide as a result of the ruthless drive to use India as a testing ground for genetically modified crops. But, India’s farmers are fighting back:

“We send today, a very clear message to all those who have invested in Monsanto in India and abroad; take your money out now, before we reduce it to ashes”.
Karnataka State Farmers Association, India

Read about the farmers struggle here.

Read about Monsanto’s mission to create and own the planet’s food here.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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10.12.2010
07:11 pm
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Operation Black Storm is coming to save us from Hitler, Jimmy Carter and Obama!!
10.12.2010
06:56 pm
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Operation Black Storm is coming and they’re going to like… take back their (ours?) country from Hitler and Stalin and LBJ and Jimmy Carter and Obama and shit. I thought only idiotic white people went for this kind of thing, apparently not!

You’ll keep waiting for the punchline, but there is none.

Via Right WIng Watch/Thank you Christian Nightmares!

Posted by Richard Metzger
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10.12.2010
06:56 pm
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Fundie fail: Conservative Christian university gives freshmen students hilarious pin
10.12.2010
06:17 pm
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This year, incoming Taliban freshmen at Bob Jones University were given special pins that would indicate that they were in their 1st week around the campus. Take a close look at the pin. Genius!!!

Via Stuff Fundies Like

Posted by Richard Metzger
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10.12.2010
06:17 pm
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Alejandro Jodorowsky interview on BBC TV 1991
10.12.2010
06:13 pm
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British TV personality Jonathan Ross interviews Alejandro Jodorowsky on the BBC in 1991. Jodowsky had released Sante Sangre a year earlier and had just completed The Rainbow Thief when this show was filmed.

“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”

“I ask of film what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs.”
 

 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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10.12.2010
06:13 pm
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Sammy Davis Jr.‘s ultra-groovy Japanese whiskey commercial, 1974
10.12.2010
04:23 pm
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Sammy Davis Jr. scats for Suntory whiskey, 1974.

Adlibs followed by the final take after the jump.
 

 
Final take after the jump…

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Posted by Marc Campbell
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10.12.2010
04:23 pm
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Jaw-dropping woodcut paintings from Lisa Brawn
10.12.2010
03:48 pm
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These are just stunning! Stunning! I certainly wouldn’t mind owning one of those fantastic Zappas. From the artist Lisa Brawn:

image I have been experimenting with figurative woodcuts for almost twenty years since being introduced to the medium by printmakers at the Alberta College of Art and Design. Recently, I have been wrestling with a new challenge: five truckloads of salvaged century-old rough Douglas fir beams from the restoration of the Alberta Block in Calgary and from the dismantling of grain elevators. This wood is very interesting in its history and also in that it is oddly shaped. Unlike traditional woodcut material such as cherry or walnut, the material is ornery. There are holes and knots and gouges and rusty nails sticking out the sides.

To find suitably rustic and rugged subjects, I have been referencing popular culture personas and archetypes from 1920s silent film cowboys to 1970s tough guys. I have also been through the Glenbow Museum archives for horse rustlers, bootleggers, informants, and loiterers in turn-of-the-century RCMP mug shots for my Quién es más macho series. Cowgirl trick riders and cowboy yodelers in their spectacular ensembles from the 1940s led to my Honky-Tonkin, Honey, Baby series. Inspired by a recent trip to Coney Island, I have been exploring vintage circus culture and am currently working on a series of sideshow portraits including Zip the Pinhead and JoJo the Dog-faced Boy. There is also an ongoing series of iconic gender archetypes, antiheroes and divas, which includes such portraits as Sophia Loren, Maria Callas, Edith Piaf, Jackie Onassis, Steve McQueen, and Clint Eastwood.

Please visit Lisa Brawn’s website to view hundreds of amazing woodcuts.

(via Everlasting Blort)

Posted by Tara McGinley
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10.12.2010
03:48 pm
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Mother Superior: All female prog rock group from 1975
10.12.2010
02:05 pm
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One of the first all-girl rock groups—and they were “prog rockers” at that—the UK-based Mother Superior, recorded one album in 1975 before going their separate ways. Apparently their album was only released in Scandinavia.

Seen here on an unknown TV show, the band does an original, almost Yes-like take on the Stephen Stills classic, “Love the One You’re With.” (Here’s a link to their interesting cover of the Beatles’ “Lady Madonna.”)
 

Posted by Richard Metzger
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10.12.2010
02:05 pm
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Sun Ra: Rocket Number Nine 7” single (1968)
10.12.2010
01:19 pm
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Sun Ra’s Rocket Number Nine is an exuberant, joyfully child-like expression of excitement at the notion of space travel. It is one amongst many catchy anthems the man created during his time on Earth. This version from a 1968 self-released 7” single and compiled on the wonderful 1996 double CD Sun Ra: The Singles is probably my favorite. Slowed down to a New Orleans swagger, I could listen to that glorious Monk-esque riff all day long.
 

 
Hear a few more versions of Rocket Number Nine by Sun Ra after the jump…

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Posted by Brad Laner
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10.12.2010
01:19 pm
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