They Hunt for Exiled Stars – Pad Thai & Ski Lift

They write a long conceptual poem based on Christian Bök’s tweets

Suicide Pact you first

They sell you words
They interview the “totalitarian Buddhist” who has built “Magnasanti”
They create visual poetry by permuting four dark triangles
They build a fractal pyramid
They review “How to Write” by derek beaulieu
They design an online toy that lets you write prose-poems automatically in the style of a TED Talk (More Christian Bök’s tweets)

The True History of Pad Thai –

It’s the noodle that’s the most Thai, and at the same time, the least. Before the 1940s, Pad Thai didn’t exist as a common dish. Its birth and popularity came out of the nationalist campaign of Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram, one of the revolutionary figures who in 1932 pushed Thailand out of an absolute monarchy and into a Game of Thrones-style democracy, where coups and counter-coups have become the norm.It’s the noodle that’s the most Thai, and at the same time, the least. Before the 1940s, Pad Thai didn’t exist as a common dish. Its birth and popularity came out of the nationalist campaign of Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsongkram, one of the revolutionary figures who in 1932 pushed Thailand out of an absolute monarchy and into a Game of Thrones-style democracy, where coups and counter-coups have become the norm.

The Noodle place : debt of pleasure (Hanif Kureishi on Tanizaki)

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(Sunrise Resort Ski Arizona Feb 18 photo by Fung Lin Hall)

No we did not eat Pad Thai while riding on the ski lift.

Hinamatsuri 2012 – Girls’ Day in Japan

Happy Hinamatsuri Day! (Japanese Girls” Day – March 3rd)

Three performances ” A Girl on Skype”

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Previous Hinamatsuri here.
Hinamatsuri 2010 (with Blinky Palermo)

Captive Girls (2009)

  • Update: Hirokazu Koreeda’s new film is called Air Doll or Love will Tear us Apart via (Globus Film Series)

    His 2009 film, Air Doll, examines loneliness through the eyes of a blow-up doll come to life. Bae Doona stars as Nozomi, a plastic sex toy owned by Hideo (Itsuji Itao), a restaurant worker who treats her like his wife, telling her about his day, sitting with her at the dinner table, and making love to her at night. But suddenly, one morning, Nozomi achieves consciousness, discovering that she has a heart, and she puts on her French maid costume and goes out into the world, learning about life by wandering through the streets and working in a video store, always returning home before Hideo and pretending to still be the doll.

    Still Walking – Hirokazu Kore eda (previous post)

    Go with the Flow

    Robert Rossen who directed All the King’s Men, Mambo, the Hustler and Lilith.
    Lilith – Jean Seberg, Warren Beatty and Peter Fonda here.

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    If you’re in a hurry.. here is one min. no flow state..

    On March 16 I posted Lilith and the Hustler to honor Robert Rossen on FB. Found this poem by Alan via netBehaviour a day later.

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    The Chelsea Hotel Manifesto 2011

  • Many thanks to Susan Tamanny blueshoes
    for sending her curious and talented blue shoes to Yves Kline.

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    interviewed by blue shoes at Chelsea Hotel (photo collage by Fung Lin Hall)

    Yves Klein the Chelsea Hotel Manifesto

    It is necessary to create and recreate a constant physical fluidity in order to receive the grace which allows a positive creativity of the void.

    Leap to the void animation

  • A portrait Mark&Velasquez of Philip IV by Velázquez and Mark Z. (Photo collage by Toni Dalton)

    Two Illusionists by John Haber

    The portrait of Philip IV of Spain, one of at least nine by Diego Velázquez, anchored Velázquez in New York museums here a decade ago. Now one can appreciate the distinctions between Philip’s red hair, red coat, and warm shadows on the wall—or the silvery embroidery, an illusion created entirely by dabs of white.

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  • Pacman
    Videogame Appropriation Contemporary Art Pac Man

    Like many 8-bit characters Pac-Man is well represented in street art and design. For example the American street artist Katie Sokoler staged a real Pac-Man game in her quarters.

    Congratulation to Marc Garrett –

    At last the new Furtherfield site/platform is here.
    It has taken over 9 months – so please share with us the birth of a new Furtherfield!!!

    (Furtherfiled is now under fab-portal on the right sidebar menu)

    Your noise is not just data but also a rhythm of connections!

    And don’t forget 2009 Public Sculpture – (via Marc Garrett)