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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)
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)
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)
“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
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)
Could be better 
Painting by Hans Heiner Buhr. (via Flickr)
More paintings by Hans Heiner Buhr
Hans has just created his google profile.
Linked his Art Club Caucasus in vitro-nasu sidebar menu.
Mickey Rourke 
His delightful gif animations were featured here – Gifs for Gaffe (Hillary Clinton Bosnia Gaffe)
William Lamson’s homepage – watch his amazing and amusing videos.
Work and Trade will be on view Pierogi 22 May – 22 June, 2009
Opening reception | Friday, 29 May. 7-9pm
Miranda July at Venice Biennale
Miranda July has been selected to exhibit at the 2009 Venice Biennale alongside a pretty heavy list of talent. Amazing. The show runs June 7 through November 22nd and Miranda was awesome enough to let us have a sneak peek. Behold! (We love you so)
Previous post on Miranda July here and here (see her hallway)
Sounddex from jtwine 
Jurgen has new sound works – just follow the sound and sight of one screen flickering.
The second image on his post looks like the I Ching, alas one line too many (7 instead of 6) – that is jtwine’s psychic and spiritual line drawing.
I have created bird singing (the real deal) in my garden videos for the silent twitterer whose only sound they make is by their 10 fingers. (Follow Milawaukee, follow Osaka) The twitter sounds authoritarian, a few goes to extreme of refusing to follow. The diamond heist artist follows only 10 institutions.
He twittered,
Sorry my mind has been spinning for a few months and I’m getting butterflies thinking about the auction.
The I Ching 17 is SUI the following.
Sui indicates that you should lead by example rather than just telling everyone what to do.
Get off your office chair and take a deep breath. Follow and listen to Master Birds, turn up the sound.
Masterbird on Octillo
Birds sing for Moon –
Blind following is evil – the independent minded and enlightened people hate following and followers. However, it is good to follow certain instructions – like follow the signs to the bathroom, otherwise you might get arrested for being a pervert.
Patty Hearst
(Embroidery by Ruby Khan – the Village people)
Ruby’s cross-stitch was inspired by and adapted from Craig Robinson‘s Minipop drawings on flipflopflyin.com.
Looking at Flavin’s neon wall sculpture 
(Repost)
Craig has added more minipops, check his Obama family <> <> Dalai Lama
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Smokin’Bob Marley <> <> and 
Jean Michel Jarre
Craig Robinson’s Bueller animation here
From Invisible Heroes – a sample of youtube drawing below.
Youtube drawings part 2
Note: Patty hearst image is dedicated to late and tragic Natasha Richardson.
Patty Hearst was directed by Paul Schrader
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Two police cars 
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We had no idea what they were doing in the desert.
They are making our dogs very nervous. Our dogs take their job of patrolling seriously.
Chipmunk on the bricks
We spotted Wendy’s 
ballon floating in the mountains or a chatty cowboy riding backward talking stories last year. Recently we had cops and police cars visiting the desert mountains disturbing the quails, snakes, chipmunks, rabbits and roadrunners living in the desert.
Viewing from here 
The convicts were here one day to work in the desert mountains.
The image was turn into a little fantasy piece.
(repost 4th times due to imagined popular demand)
Take heart, Obama administration may reconsider joining the court.
Tennessee’s ‘Little Houdini’ revives the outlaw legend
Supporters say Chris Gay is a modern Robin Hood. Lawmen call him “a little thief, a little con.”Mr. Gay’s much-publicized prison-break in 2007 to reach his dying mama‘s side failed, but only after he led authorities on a five-state, five-day chase that ended with him being arrested driving the country singer Crystal Gayle’s stolen tour bus in Florida.
Treat yourself a Klaus Nomi flash animation 
Klaus Nomi sings The Cold Song by Henry Purcell (six months before his death, he performed in Munich – now on youtube).
He came from outer space, to save the human race. (The Nomi Song) You can order this film at netflix for instant viewing.
After the fall <> <> Simple Man(youtube) and Wiki Klaus Nomi <> <> more links at Zabakdaz
All about his unfinished opera Valentine’s Day here.
Update:The Boom Is Over. Long Live the Art!
The best art was subversive, but in very un-’60s, nonideological ways. When, at midnight, you heard Klaus Nomi, with his bee-stung black lips and robot hair, channeling Maria Callas at the Mudd Club, you knew you were in the presence of a genius deviant whose very life was a political act. (NYtimes – Holland Cutter)
And Happy Birthday Janet! 
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Two paintings by Janet Paparelli
Ride the Flarf Fixie and visit the Snark Market.
Flarf and Snark 
My Geisha Cacti are posing as Flarf and Snark. They have been out of work and were not getting enough attention from the public. In real life they are neither flarfy nor snarky, they enjoy being competent, useful and being professional.
Flarf is in glory hole according to Gary Sullivan
Tao Lin tried to replace Flarf with something else in 2007, not too successfuly. (Previously we went Diving with Tao Lin)
Here is One dollor shark gift from Jurgen who 
has been scouting for a new funfinfin location in Potrero Hill.
Watch Charlie Rose goes beserk defending snarky Maureen Dawd from this interview with David Denby who was promoting his new book called Snark. (Skip to inaugural poem remix if you had enough of Charlie.)
Someone is trying to make noise. (Is it Kenneth Goldsmith?)
Begin Cotton Lettuce glittering edifices (Like this more than the others)
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Praise Song for tomorrow or not <> <> Take Out Your Boom <> <> Words words words
Defuge Flarf – don’t know who made this tape. Not by Alan Sondheim
The texts are mine, defuge is a concept I’ve worked with, but I have no idea who did the video – wish I did – Alan (via email)
And, of that word, defuge, he writes elsewhere:
fetishization transformed into discard, disgust, the image no longer working, _that_ body used up in masturbation. It is so common that a word is necessary here, the _defuge,_ defuse / refuge / deluge / refuse, de-light, de-flower. Rhyme patterns, frames, defuges; it is the defuge that draws the poem forward beyond return
