Vitro Nasu

Happy Birthday, Alan!(via flickr)

Alan read 12 books by Lafcadio Hearn,
Alan thought Hearn was extremely manic-depressive, accented on the latter.
Alan wished Georg Baselitz was born on Feb 3 like himself. No such luck.
Instead Alan shares a birthday with the great Austrian poet Georg Trakl who was schizophrenic and possibly incestuous.
Austrian poet Georg Trakl
Select poems by Georg Trakl

Previous birthday celebration for Feb 3 included Gertrude Stein who might have collaborated with the Vichy and Simone Weil who had eating disorders and starved herself to death.

The Saint of the Undecided The Notebook of Simone Weil (Time)

For Iris Chang a heartbreaking poem by Alan Sondheim

Kenneth Anger was born on Feb 3. Don’t mix him up with Stan Brakhage.

Rabbit’s Moon (youtube)

Shaka Brah

See another photo of Shaka Brah Obama photo here.

Shaka Brah Blog has surfing photos.

Boro boro is Japanese but it can almost pass as Hawaiian. No I am not talking about Michelle Obama’s controversial inaugural dress designed by Cuban American designer.

Ozu ozu (sheepish) is not Obama’s style. No more Mafia hiso hiso whisper. Da Kine hapa Prez talk good story and wear zori slipper like a good local boy.

The world is waku waku doki doki waiting to see what Obama will do next, our Shaka Brah President!
-waku-waku nervous, excited, trembling-
-doki doki excited, nervous, beating of the heart (esp. in romantic situations)

Obama Hindi Song (youtube) via Amitava

Update.. Obama is Ozu Ozu..(cautious and scared) and hiso hiso (whisper) secretive.

Driving to Sundance

Hitokuchi senbei

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Sundance lodge

Sundance is a small place. Not many people. We saw quite a few kids with mommy or daddy. The controlling parents all talk weird to their kids. “Do the Spaghetti”; “do the pizza”; or “do the french fry”. (different fast foods seems to mean different ski positions we guess.) Talk about the influence of the fast food culture. Such poverty of expression – so sad.

Yukiguni (Snow Country) by Kawabata Yasunai – Previous post

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All the movement is in your brain.

Joanna Mattera welcomes 2009

Happy Holidays from the Rodeo – Megan and Murray

Jurgen’s email from Germany

we’ll be here for another week and than take off for SF.
has been fun so far.

Jtwine
Niesatt ice cold

See his ice drawings here.

J. D. Salinger is 90 years old today. (Still Paging Mr. Salinger – NYtimes) If you are born on New Year’s day you might want to hide too.
While Salinger is still hiding, the self-evident is still counting – “You and blogging were made for each other.” comment from Curtis F.

Gong Li was born on New Year’s Eve. (Like Matisse and Paul Bowles) Communist China and Gong Li go their separate ways.

Aaron Hillis (Greencine daily)

I intend to find a tone and platform that not only proves it matters, but encourages curiosity, discourse, and awakens new cineastes. Just as Sean Penn channeled Harvey Milk, my name is Aaron Hillis and I’m here to recruit you.

Goodbye to bark bark W

Listen to Sad Alpha Written after seeing the Arthur Russell documentary. (Tom Moody)

Wild Combination – Arthur Russell
(I finally saw this film. It took us a week to get this film, netflix must have a short supply.
Be sure to see all the special features when you rent this film.)

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Nico Muhly, has been hired to score the new film of The Hours by director Stephen Daldry, The Reader. Based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink, the film stars Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes.

Gorgeous sushi photo taken from Nico Muhly’s fresh and wonderful blog.

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Dereliction of duty – Bush and Cheney abandon their chairs

Throw throw dodge and duck
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(Holiday double gif from Iraqi journalist to the world)

Practice Shoes Square Dance (see funny cartoons)

Juan Cole – Shoe-Thrower had been Traumatized by US Aerial Bombings

Iraqi journalist Muntazir al-Zaidi, who threw the shoes at Bush in Baghdad, shouted “Killer of Iraqis, killer of children.” while security guards piled on him.

Muntadar al-Zaidi has suffered a broken hand, broken ribs and internal bleeding, as well as an eye injury, his older brother, Dargham, told the BBC.

The Shoes We Longed For

He let the victims talk first.

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They throw beans in Japan

Throw your virtual shoe at Bush

Shoe Protest around the world – slideshow

From the Cafferty File: Watching a lame duck duck really quacked me up!

See bothBoth in color here (One with a beanie cow and another with a beanie gorilla).

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Things bought at various garage sales in the neighborhood.

Things photographed at the garage sale.
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A digitally manipulated image of a table from a garage sale photo collection.
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Happy Birthday to Fung Ching! She shares a birthday with Magritte.

it’s 110 years since Magritte was born. – Google tells me by Mark Young

It’s also 110 years plus a few months since my father was born. He used to wear hats—they were de rigeur for his times. I have a memory of seeing a photo of him in a bowler. I could be wrong. It might just be wishful thinking, an attempt to find a point of commonality.

Magritte and My father (Read the Liberator – from Series Magritte #35)

Memroy – Souvenir by Mark Young from Series Magritte.

Souvenir from Jurgen Trautwein

See also his memory paintings – 5 am rising.

Magritte Owl in the Desert Renga Magritte – Collaborative installation by Jtwine and Fung Lin Hall More yard installation with mountains in the background here.
More “Renga a Renga” a brick installation by Jtwine coming soon.

Big Heads in Asheville, North Carolina
Robert Gardner via email

Here’s an image of me and the boys spreading the joy of anarchy on
election night. My shoulders are still recovering. I built Uncle Sam, the
others were a bit less politically obvious.

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Jürgen Trautwein via email

4 nature and three noise layers, i like it
the most with noise layer 4 and 5 off. happy cricketfrog at night,
splash…

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Washington SQ. by André Kertész

And lastly visit Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night at MoMa ( The exhibition continues to Jan 5, 2009)
Update: Beauty and Justice, Van Gogh at MoMa by Nicolaus Mills (Dissent)

(Digital image by Fung Lin Hall)

Update: Tears Joy.. Not.. (Victory for the rich)
Further update: Senor Blues 2012 – V for Obama again..(Obama demolished Rom(balo)ney)

Trisha Brown
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R.I.P Madelyn Dunham (Obama’s Grandmother) – To the Mountaintop – Joe Klein

“She was a quiet hero” Obama on youtube.

Byodo (Digital image by
Fung Ching Kelling)

Byodo image is dedicated to Madelyn Dunham. Fung Ching lives in Honolulu, not too far from Obama’s grandmother’s apartment. (See Byodo Inn in Haiku village).

(Digital image by Fung Ching Kelling)

Tyler Green started an American Flag project.

Ethan Ham submitted Vito Acconci (1980)’s Instant House.

This week Modern Art Notes is featuring prominent curators identifying favorite works of contemporary art that feature the American flag.

The American flag images below are from my collection and not part of Tyler Green’s project.

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Jürgen Trautwein made an Election game for you. (Who’s afraid of red white and blue?)
Objective: remove the small red squares out of the big square. You can turn down the sound.

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Robert Gardner is a glass master from Asheville.
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Extra – Palin-Pleasure related links
Party with Palin at the white house. (Flash fun) Touch the door more than once.

“The Book Ends” or “In God we trust.” by Robert Gardner

Janet Paparelli watching Sarah Palin on TV