Category: ART

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Robert Crumb – Birthday Bean Effect

Happy Birthday Robert Crumb! – Aug 30, 1943 Philadelphia –

Last March Robert Crumb was set to publish ‘scandalous’ Bible satire.

The acclaimed satirist revealed on his personal website that he had finished the project, which is out this autumn, and which his UK publisher is predicting will “provoke the religious right”.
The famously subversive US cartoonist Robert Crumb has announced the completion of his long-awaited take on the Book of Genesis.

If you did not know, Robert Crumb explains bean effect.

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Robert Crumb Trailer here.

Robert Crumb crumb_selfportrait Self-Portrait

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Caleb Duarte & Ramiro Martinez

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Spark* Segment of Caleb Duarte (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6hK8HrZq7o)
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Thanks Ramiro Martinez for the tip.

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Vertical Snake Standalone

I collaborated with Kiel Famellos Schmidt, and a woman architect name Riitta Vepsalainen. I can’t spell her last name, but I think she was from Norway, or some other country. (from Finland) She was very supportive of my idea and this is what came out of it. I have footage of students and myself and Kiel all working on it. I call it my piece because I designed it and was there on every phase. I could send you some video of the making of it too.

See two videos about thisVertical Snake Standalone ” installation from here.

Yellow Speckramiro12 Acrylic painting by Ramiro Martinez

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I am using buildings around in fresno as possible sites for murals. This is an example. There are some who would wish the mural thing to happen in fresno, and i am interested in helping so I make these images to visualize the possibilities. After seeing Yayoi’s stuff I thought a building might look cool in polkadots. (Ramiro on FB)

Ramiro has started blogging – Arterial Destinations.

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Telescope & Flap a Phone

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Beethoven’s Trumpet John Baldessari from Tate.

Christopher DeLaurenti plays Goofus on flap a phone

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Johanna plays drum (recorded by jtwine)

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Now once more with feeling you can play both video together and let them jam. (One in Seattle and the other in San Francisco)

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Valery Grancher 2009 Space Odyesy

Is that what Jurgen is trying so hard to see?

Or a little jurgenpaper tree. ( Field work 4 – jtwine blog)

Backward Planet here New Planet found to rotate backward.

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Google did not celebrate Steve Martin, Wim Wenders and Richard Von Kraft Ebing

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Panamarenko Orbit

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Artist, Engineer, Poet, Physicist, Inventor and Visionary, and has for thirthy years pursued a singular course of exploration of space, movement, flight, energy and the force of gravity.

More images from Artnet

Web Gallery panamarenko…Thermo Photovoltaic Energy Convertor

The name Panamarenko is supposedly an acronym for Pan American Airlines and Company.

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Raven’s Variable Matrix, 2000.

Thanks to Shaahid Abdou Al Rahman for introducing Panamarenko to us.

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First Manga – Choju Giga

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!

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Goodbye Teacher Man – R.I.P Frank McCourt

Angela’s Ashes
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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

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)

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Elements, Tapestry & Lancelot


“A student shared this with me as a part of his assignment on the Bayeux Tapestry. Now if we could animate the rest of art history…”Philip Buntin

Pen and Parchment : Drawing in the Middle Ages” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Trailer Lancelot du Lac Robert Bresson.

Poem by Robert Creeley

Bresson’s Movies

A movie of Robert
Bresson’s showed a yacht,
at evening on the Seine,
all its lights on, watched

by two young, seemingly
poor people, on a bridge adjacent,
the classic boy and girl
of the story, any one

one cares to tell. So
years pass, of course, but
I identified with the young,
embittered Frenchman,

knew his almost complacent
anguish and the distance
he felt from his girl.
Yet another film

of Bresson’s has the
aging Lancelot with his
awkward armor standing
in a woods, of small trees,

dazed, bleeding, both he
and his horse are,
trying to get back to
the castle, itself of

no great size. It
moved me, that
life was after all
like that. You are

in love. You stand
in the woods, with
a horse, bleeding.
The story is true.

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Jean Cocteau Part II

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  • Two more great clips from youtube.
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    Le Testament d’Orphée (1959)

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    Max Jacob introduced Radiguet to Jean Cocteau.

    Do not accuse fate. Do not speak of injustice. He belonged to the solemn race of men whose lives unfold too quickly to their close. (Jean Cocteau, more here)

    He was hard and of a brutal force, alternately passionate and indifferent, as Cocteau said, it needed “a diamond to scratch his heart.” (via)

    Smoking a cigarette “At the Age of Fifteen”, another drawing by Jean Cocteau from Flickr.

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    Séraphine


  • (Yolande Moreau as Séraphine)

    Seraphine, a beautiful movie about an artist – Roberta

    I watched a screener and have to say its a beautiful and thoughtful movie with a sad story at its core. All movies about artists should be this lovely. (read more)

    Michael Galasso won award for the film score.

    Accented by Michael (In the Mood for Love) Galasso’s haunting score and Laurent (The Grocer’s Son) Brunet’s cinematography (via)

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    Yolande Moreau, a mature actress with a mature figure, is so beautiful as Seraphine you want to cry. She tromps through the movie like a farm hand and yet her face and body are so full of natural grace that she’s captivating. Moreau won the Cesar for best actress and it’s deserved.

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    Music: Stabat Mater of ‘Arvo Pärt

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    Pen and Parchment

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    Antiquity makes it presence felt in an illustrated copy of the plays of the Roman playwright Terence that was made in St. Albans, England, in the 12th century. Here classical motifs and details mix freely with medieval ones in plain ink and wash, which were considered appropriate for pre-Christian themes.

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    In an 11th-century French codex, the Maccabees pursue their retreating foe across the gutter of a two-page spread as over adjacent hills. Line dominates, especially satisfying in its account of the lunging horses and contrasting body language of victors and vanquished.

    “Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, features 50 rarely-seen works on view.

    Roberta Smith writes:
    The works span nearly five centuries and reveal medieval drawing to be vital, evolving, remarkably diverse and essential to the medium’s Renaissance blossoming.

    Pilgrims Progress Pilgrims' Progress (repost)

    Slow Progress Slogger's Progress Digital image by Fung Lin Hall (repost)