Vitro Nasu

(direct link to youtube)

Bill Murray read poetry to Manhattan Construction Workers

Meanwhile here are some photos from Arizona labor camp.

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Emily Dickinson, “I dwell in possibility” (#657)

I dwell in Possibility–
A fairer House than Prose–
More numerous of Windows–
Superior–for Doors–

Of Chambers as the Cedars–
Impregnable of Eye–
And for an Everlasting Roof
The Gambrels of the Sky–

Of Visitors–the fairest–
For Occupation–This–
The spreading wide my narrow Hands
To gather Paradise–

The house that Wittgenstein built in Vienna (is now the Bulgarian embassy)

Time to revisit Chantal Akerman

From the Other Side

From the Other Side is an unsentimental look at the plight of illegal Mexican immigrants as they attempt the dangerous crossing from Agua Prieta in Sonora, Mexico, to Douglas, Ariz.

How it is in Germany

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Mr Blank is reading
Happy birthday to Mr Blank. (Last year he was very colorful and less Blank).

Hard to see those ducks panel of 3 photos
How it was in Arizona

History of violence in Arizona

Urs Fischer

Boom, Destruction, and Austerity: Gabriel Orozco, Kitty Kraus, and Urs Fischer
John Haber from his blog

Many people have the feeling that something has gone wrong with contemporary art. They see only conceptual art and theory, when artists have moved on to more impulsive creation—and self-creation. They see only overblown installations, just when galleries and museums are cutting back.
For all that, museums still devote shows to young artists and midcareer retrospectives. With Gabriel Orozco, Kitty Kraus, and Urs Fischer, that makes one more aware than ever of the disappointments.

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Public Sculpture (thx to Marc Garrett)

Paul Brown, Untitled, Computer Assisted Drawing, 1975, detail
Furtherfield -Digital Pioneers

Digital Pioneers is a deceptively modest exhibition hidden away in two rooms upstairs at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It contains some of the earliest examples of art produced using electronic devices and computing machinery along with some creative later work.

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Escape from New York- Curator Olympia Lambert

On Saturday, May 15, 2010, New Yorkers invade New Jersey in mass exodus, leaving behind the insular art world of Manhattan for the wide open spaces of Paterson, NJ.
Running through June 19, 2010, over 30 artists will participate, including 2010 Whitney Biennial selectees Bruce High Quality Foundation and Kate Gilmore; Laurel Nakadate, Thomas Lendvai, Don Porcella, and Jeremy Earhardt, among many others. Curator – Olympia Lambert

Yoga dog by Fung Ching Kelling

This year the Winter Olympics, Chinese New Year – the year of Tiger and the Valentine’s Day all converge together on Feb 14.

Let’s pause for a history of Valentine’s day from vitro-nasu archive.

Did not use this potato heart for Valentine’s day

Potato Heart

2009 Valentine’s Day Klaus Nomi flash animation (Valentine’s Day on youtube)

2006 Valentine’s Day dedicated to Bill Evans My Foolish Heart (Youtube link usually disappears but not this link to a great master)

2007 Valentine’s Day
Kaitlyn and Spike in Hall mark moment googlized.

Congratulations to Jurgen Trautwein!

Javamueum 2010

web guru since 1996, world wide participation in shows and festivals
JavaMuseum participant since 2001

Barnett Newman Enter here

ZIPS_SOUNDS are interactive noise- color- screens.
ZIP_SOUNS is a minimal visual/acoustic game, that allows to create patterns and add or subtract sound-loops, covering a spectrum from possible silence to noise overloads.
depending on the clicking enthusiasm of the visitor ZIP_SOUNDS could become celebrations of barnett newmans zips and colorfield painting in general.

I like America, America likes me. J.Beuys multi-screen screaming.

Image sentences from 36 – 50 ( jtwinenow blog).

Photos from Tenderloin district (Jurgen’s neighborhood.)
A sawing artist talking about Tenderloin on youtube.

Cars outside our fence.

Burning cars captured on the road trip.

Tomorrow my family and I will head to the ski slope and afterward we’ll spend the evening at Grand Canyon. (Like we have no other place to go).
Last time I went skiing I saw burning cars on the road, luckily no burning men.

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History of violence in the desert
Six cops and nothingness

Border Patrol

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(Digital image by Fung Lin Hall)

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Close window and begin healing process – I am not addicted to internet.

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Look who is trapped?
Jurgen Trautwein seems to go……
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Digital image by Fung Lin Hall

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Blue Elephant
Collage by Fung Ching Kelling

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Hello
Digital image by Fung Ching Kelling

Blue Kai Poi (repost)

Happy Birthday Fung Ching! (She is my sister)

Wave Apples Digital images

Fung Ching shares a birthday with Rene Magritte Memory-Souvenir (previous post)

This clip was captured with my digital camera by filming the clip of Last Life in the Universe on youtube. It was a quick way of shortening to the length I wanted. The camera noise is left there on purpose.

A few more selections from my youtube account.

Radha’s Dance (from the film The River directed by Jean Renoir)

Dance sequence digital images

Napoleanic Soldiers Changing Hairstyles (The Duellists by Ridley Scott) Take the film quiz – whose story was it from?

Signs of Life (Werner Herzog’s first feature film)

Three digital images developed from a digital photo of lobster tank in the Chinese restaurant.

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Shabu -

Stanley

The Noodle House and the Debt to Pleasure (Story of the Chinese restaurant where they kept the lobster tank).

Driving past the Painted desert last July.

Friends from France made this neat video.
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Nod le Fou, Ivan Régina, juillet 2009

From Jurgen. Francisco 707

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Super Duty 961

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Santa Monica August 2008

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See the finished walls Walls from blu blu org.

Two delightful comic illustration from Fay Ryu.

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CHOJU GIGA (鳥獣戯画) “, the first manga in Japan. It was written 900 years ago by TOBA-SOJO. Rabits, monkeys, frogs, foxes behave like human.

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What is Choju Giga?

This youtube trailer for Choju Giga is accompanied by a sountrack from tap dancing finale of Zatoichi.
Click to see this funky Happy Geta Feet - zatoichi finale. (repost)

Thank you Tadano Kinshu for Choju Giga clip!

Angela’s Ashes
tunelight © 2001 Video: Alexander Ng, Sunghun Kang, and Damien Borowik Sound: Stuart jones

Author Peter Matthiessen, who became friendly with McCourt after “Angela’s Ashes” came out, said he was “stunned” when he read it. “I remember thinking, ‘Where did this guy come from?” Matthiessen said. “His book was so good, and it came out of nowhere.” (via Huffingtonpost obit)

Time obit

“It was only when I felt I could finally distance myself from my past that I began to write about what happened.”

Frank McCourt, rest in peace! I think his writing made me a better person. (that is a rather large order) He really could tell a story, a personal, disastrous, story and somehow guide the reader with a seamless wisdom. Paul Hasegawa Overacker

Frank McCourt

I interviewed him for an hour or so about two years ago. He was not sweet or grandfatherly or playing up his old country Irish roots — he was a driven, determined man who talked at length about how power corrupts, how authority, especially religious authority, can twist and ruin people’s lives, and how you have to find joy through decency, justice and a fiery commitment to telling the truth. I liked him immensely and reread all of his work with more attention. I realized that for all their humor, his books are intense and pointed efforts to redress the wrongs of the past and save people in the present from their desire to be told what to do. posted by Matthew Stopheles (Metafilter)