January 2009
iamer:
Bigfoot Encounter (1:46)
One of our...
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WatchKeep Your Mouth Shut, Norman McLaren (1944)
As of today you can watch hundreds of Canadian films online at the (Canadian) National Film Board. And no, they aren’t all wartime propoganda films — I just happened to like this one.
How To Clean Your House
southtwelfth: Tess Lynch helps you with the cleaning:
1. Pry hands away from keyboard.
2. Put away interesting things first (doodle pad, silly hats, animal friends).
3. Give yourself a really hard time about how messy it is. I like to start off with something like, “You are such a slob. Look at Georgia’s apartment. You’d rather live there, wouldn’t you? She looks like she lives like Audrey...
Is Obama President? →
(via inauguration:ramblinginsomniac)
Interactive Map of the 2009 Art Shanty Projects →
President George W. Bush’s final radio...
Vatican to Exhibit Art at the Venice Biennale →
speakingoffaith:
Andy Dayton, Associate Web Producer
In order to counteract what has been called “blasphemous” art and open a “dialogue between the Church and artists,” the Vatican is planning on showing art at this year’s Venice Biennale. Bill Viola, someone we have been pursuing for a future program, is hinted at as a potential artist to be included by the Vatican. The Venice Biennale is one...
“The president who shrank most in cartoons was Jimmy Carter. At the end of...”
– Daryl Cagle, How to Draw President George W. Bush
I would like to take this moment to apologize to any readers who don’t share my enthusiasm for celebrity (and psuedo-celebrity) twitter feeds. Or ambigram tattoos, for that matter.
AESTHETIC ECHO .COM →
another project by Rafael Rozendaal
Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s →
“I realize that I have potentially hurt the feelings of nearly 3,000 musicians, for which I apologize. By no means should you ever stop writing and recording music.”
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"Dream Song 14" By John Berryman
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly) ‘Ever to confess you’re bored means you have no
Inner Resources.’ I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature, Henry bores me,...
Who will save Iceland!? Björk will save Iceland.
Gordon Matta-Clark →
“The importance didn’t dawn on me until people started sending bottles of...”
– Minneapolitan Nick Schenk, writer of the screenplay for Clint Eastwood’s “Grand Torino”
“Perhaps there are certain ages which do not need truth as much as they need a...”
– Susan Sontag on Simone Weil.
“One thing I did notice in Miami last year is that the big galleries’ selections...”
– Dave Hickey, from ARTINFO.com, via Hrag Vartanian. (via southtwelfth)
“George Lucas ruined my life,” Ms. Fisher says, which doesn’t seem entirely fair....”
– Princess Leia and the Force of Wit
