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SOPA black out protest makes history – Amy Goodman
Artists opposing the PROTECT-IP / SOPA Act
If you hate big government – no 2 SOPA
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We answer your questions during wiki black out.
See more quote from Emmanuel Levinas
R.I.P Vaclav Havel – a leader of the Velvet Revolution and the first democratically elected President of the Czech Republic… He wrote plays, Letters to Olga and many theater works..
Vaclav Havel 1936-2011
Shy and bookish, with wispy mustache and unkempt hair, Havel came to symbolize the power of the people to peacefully overcome totalitarian rule.”
A film directed by Vaclav Havel “Leaving”(via)
Based on his own play, Leaving is “about — what else? — a politician trying to adjust to a new life after leaving politics.” It “tells the story of Vilém Rieger, the former chancellor of an unnamed country, locked in a battle of wills with his successor, the unsavory Vlastík Klein. It’s a King Lear-like contemplation on a politician’s frustrating impotence at finding himself slowly being forced out of his beloved government villa, with several of Havel’s favorite actors among the cast. They include his wife Dagmar [Havlová], who plays the chancellor’s wife, Irena.”
Always the Optimist
Václav Havel’s transcendence of politics. By Stefany Anne Golberg
On the day of Havel’s death, Czech novelist Milan Kundera said, “Václav Havel’s most important work is his own life.” There’s a moral there somewhere, one that Havel would have appreciated very much indeed.
The Power and the Powerless – Obit from Artinfo
Havel was still the President when I took this photograph of the
toilet paper 
in the Prague Castle
This photo was presented as The Articles of Faith here.
Here are some photos of eleven good men whose lives were cut short with Aids. R.I.P
Klaus Nomi 
Derek
Jarman and Tony Perkins in the middle.
Klaus Nomi died on August 6, 1983 – he was 39.
Perkins died on September 12, 1992.. Berry Berenson (Perkins’ wife), was killed on American Airlines Flight 11 during the September 11 terrorist attacks in 2001.
Derek Jarman died In 1994 London, aged 52.
Paul Thek and Peter Hujar
Peter Hujar, Paul Thek and David Wojnarowicz at Mathew Marks Exhibition
Susan Sontag by Peter Hujar
Paul Thek New York City in 1988. He was 55.
Peter Hujar November 26, 1987. He was 53.
Wild Combination Arthur was an original Michel Foucault would not mind to be paired with him.
Arthur Russell died on April 4, 1992, at the age of 40
Foucault died in Paris on 25 June 1984, he was 58.
Tseng Kwo-Chi
and Herman Costa having a blast at photobooth (Thanks Herman for this photo).
Martin Wong 
with lunchboxes
Tseng and Martin – pride of Chinese Americans!
In 1990, TSENG died at age 39 in NY.
Martin Wong died on 12 August 1999 in San Francisco.. He was 53.
Nestor & 
Reinaldo Arenas
They were good friends in Cuba.
Nestor Almendros died on 4 March 1992 in NY. He was 62
Reinaldo Arenas died on December 7, 1990. he was 47.
“All these years, I’ve felt Manhattan was just another island-jail. A bigger jail with more distractions but a jail nonetheless. It just goes to show that there are more than two hells. I left one kind of hell behind and fell into another kind. I never thought I would live to see us plunge again into the dark ages. This plague — AIDS — is but a symptom of the sickness of our age.” Reinaldo Arenas
Who is Robert Hass?
Robert Hass is one of contemporary poetry’s most celebrated and widely-read voices. In addition to his success as a poet, Hass is also recognized as a leading critic and translator, notably of the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz and Japanese haiku masters Basho, Buson and Issa.
From Robert Hass interview.. we learned..
The first book that really knocked me out was the “Brothers Karamazov.”
“I Am Your Waiter Tonight, and My Name Is Dimitri”
(Robert Hass reading a poem at the 2008 Dodge Poetry Festival)
Edward Hopper Hotel Room..(Instant Librarian)
O what sadness unaware that it’s sadness! What despair that doesn’t know it’s despair.
A business woman, her unpacked suitcase on the floor, sits on a bed half undressed, in red underwear, her hair impeccable; she has a piece of paper in her hand, probably with numbers.
Who are you? Nobody will ask. She doesn’t know either.
Copyright 2007 by Robert Hass/ Czeslaw Milosz
At Queens College in New York, an audience member asked Hass what it was like spending decades translating Milosz. He answered: “Like being alive twice”.
One more poem
Heroic Smiles
“On Thursday afternoon 
when I returned toward sundown to the steps to see how the students had responded, the air was full of balloons, helium balloons to which tents had been attached, and attached to the tents was kite string. And they hovered over the plaza, large and awkward, almost lyrical, occupying the air. ” Poet Robert Hass wrote on Nov 20 NY times
Occupy lunch 
Poster for Free Lunch Served on the High Line (Union Square NY) – Photo via Herman Costa
Bart is a mass transit in San Francisco. (Photo by Jurgen Trautwein)
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas
Makana means ‘gift’ in Hawaiian.
Occupy Hilo 
Eat What You Grow
Over 40 persons showed up in Downtown Hilo to plant taro and other edible plants in the median strips on Kamehameha Avenue. What had been weeds and roundup became wonderful edible landscapes in just two hours. The vibe was so positive and the intention will reverberate and hopefully spread across the globe. (Eat What You Grow )
Beat Poet has new meaning Robert Hass
New Progressive Movement by Jeffrey Sachs
Occupy Anarchism Gift of Democracy
Death of a street poet
Occupy Poetry here
Rebecca Sonlit Building a better house
Veteran’s day is also !!/!!/!! day or Brick Eleven day! (three sets of two bricks)
The turtle in the middle was created by a 5 years old Lego artist.
Richard III & the Brick Dude Impostor were replaced.
Robert Ryan Nov 11 birthday.. (perfect for Veteran’s day)
Robert Ryan’s Quiet Furies
A longtime civil rights campaigner, Robert Ryan served in the United States Marines as a drill sergeant (winning a boxing championship) and went on to become a key figure in post WWII American film noir and western productions.
(NYtimes)
Happy birthday to Stanley Tucchi!
Stanley on Charlie Rose talking about his role as Eichmann.
Happy birthay to Neil Young! Nov 12 (Ohio here)
Kurt Vonnegut Nov 11, 1922
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Ian Hamilton Finlay
Jacket interview The Death of Piety
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Individualistic Scottish artist and poet who ran his garden at Little Sparta as a separate city state
Stuart Collection at UCSD: Ian Hamilton Finlay
1895: Auguste & Louis Lumière: Le squelette joyeux
Charles Ives “Hallowe’en”
Kabocha Kusama and Let them eat pumpkin pie.
John Berryman Dream song 63
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
and cannot be arrested and pay no tax
and, in general, bats have it made.
Henry for joining the human race is bats,
known to be so, by few them who think,
out of the cave.Instead of the cave! ah lovely-chilly, dark,
ur-moist his cousins hang in hundreds or swerve
with personal radar,
crisisless, kid. Instead of the cave? I serve,
inside, my blind term. Filthy four-foot lights
reflect on the whites of our eyes.He then salutes for sixty years of it
just now a one of valor and insights,
a theatrical man,
O scholar & Legionnaire who as quickly might
have killed as cast you. Olè. Stormed with years
he tranquil commands and appears.
Edward Gorey a Style icon?
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The Unknown Citizen by W.H. Auden
“Even the smallest of voices need to be heard” a placard held by the young Lego artist. (Scroll down..to see her with her lego towers).
Two years ago on Oct 18 Nancy Spero passed away.
As both artist and activist, Nancy Spero’s career spanned fifty years. She was renowned for her continuous engagement with contemporary political, social, and cultural concerns. Spero chronicled wars and apocalyptic violence as well as articulating visions of ecstatic rebirth and the celebratory cycles of life.
Oct 18
Birthday of James Brooks – a wonderful painter.
Whether or Not.. (Bonus + Invisiblity of the Market, etc).
Wide White Flow at Paul Cooper (short clip)
Hans Haacke News – (youtube lecture)
Star gazing by Hans Haacke
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24 January 2011 post: Hans Haacke, Selected Works & Interview
You mentioned that you’d advise students to prepare for the “long haul”–how have you sustained your work through the years?
One rule I set for myself right early on was that I should not be dependent on the vagaries of the art market. It has given me a degree of independence. I wouldn’t have dared doing certain things without that. Teaching has given me the economic base one needs. But it’s not only for the money. I enjoy teaching. I learn a lot from students.
Trickle Up
Haacke’s interest in real-time systems propelled him into his criticism of social and political systems.[2] In most of his work after the late 1960s, Haacke focused on the art world and the system of exchange between museums and corporations and corporate leaders; he often underlines its effects in site-specific ways. (wiki)
No comment and strong decisions – artists Occupy Wall Street
How they did it? From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Everywhere.
Oct 10 1945 – The Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang signed a principle agreement in Chongqing about the future of post-war China
National Day in China (see more Wang Ningde here, don’t click on dead links.)
Message from Chinese activists and academics in support of Occupy Wall Street
This letter of solidarity, signed over by 50 intellectuals and activists in China, was posted to Utopia yesterday. Thanks to everyone for the translation and editing work!
Zizek Speaks to Occupy Wall Street
He steered the discussion away from the Cold War debate between communism and capitalism, noting that former communists, particularly in China, “are today the most efficient, brutal capitalists.”
The communist revolution “failed absolutely,” he said, suggesting that “the only way we are communist is that we care about the commons,” citing the environment as an example.
Apart from that Oct 10 birthday links
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Merrill Lynch Wall Street Waltz (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)
Noam Chomsky on Occupy Wall street
Occupy Together (check the listings for your local headquarters).
I support these protests (Rootaction.com)
Take a Whiz on Wall Street: Danish Artists Move JPMorgan’s Executive Bathroom to a Lower East Side Diner
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The Market is open (Digital photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)
