Art + Architecture + Music posted on August 23rd, 2010

TRISA VONNA MICHELL is an artist who performs narratives and constructs installations through the layering of these narratives, photographs and mementos, presented using antiquated technologies and slide projection.

more via freize mag …

David Byrne is a musician and artist most associated with his role as a founding member and principal songwriter of the American new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1975 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo recordings and worked with various media including film, photography, opera, and non-fiction.

Nineteen Eighty Four posted on August 23rd, 2010

The exhibition entitled Nineteen Eighty Four at Austrian Cultura Centre in New York city, “examines the evolution of imagery and language in what has been described as our panoptic era. While its roots are grounded in the concepts that arose from the 1948 novel by George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, which clearly reflected the historical background of totalitarianism, this exhibition attempts to distance itself from this source by considering forms of surveillance and control today, where an all-powerful apparatus as described in Orwell’s work appears overly simplistic.” more…

read more via new york times…

Ridley Scott’s 1984 commercial for Apple.

The Dangerous Book Four Boys posted on August 23rd, 2010

The actor James Franco is making his New York debut with “The Dangerous Book Four Boys,” an exhibition of video, drawings, sculptures and installations at the Clocktower Gallery in Lower Manhattan.

more via new york times…

Swoon-ing posted on July 8th, 2010

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you should be picking me up posted on June 11th, 2010

i
i think i know how i feel
cause i
i only play it for-real
you should be picking me up
instead you’re dragging me down
flying over my head
you’re landing all over town

you
you know that i try
try to tell you the truth
oh baby don’t make me lie
you should be picking me up
instead you’re dragging me down
now i’m missing you more
cause baby you’re not around
now that you’re not around

i
i want to know how it feels
cause i
i only play act for-real
you should be picking me up
instead your dragging me down
i could be giving you love
but you’re not around
now that you’re not around
now that you’re not around
glad that you’re not around

b.j.m.

Sheharzade posted on June 7th, 2010

Syrian-Brazilian artist Hilal Sami Hilal -

“he executes it in the most extraordinary lightness. Even metal becomes a whisper in his hands.” via south/south.

“[Shahrazad (a legendary Persian queen and the storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights)] had perused the books, annals and legends of preceding Kings, and the stories, examples and instances of by gone men and things; indeed it was said that she had collected a thousand books of histories relating to antique races and departed rulers. She had perused the works of the poets and knew them by heart; she had studied philosophy and the sciences, arts and accomplishments; and she was pleasant and polite, wise and witty, well read and well bred.” Sir Richard F. Burton’s translation of The Nights.

the image makers posted on June 7th, 2010

joyce wieland

&

hollis frampton/donald richie letter circa 1972

sol brasileiro posted on June 5th, 2010

Original Photography by Agi Gutkowska. Music by João Gilberto.

Lesley Loksi Chan w/ Jon McCurley posted on May 31st, 2010

This is a bit of a walk down memory lane but a while back (2007 to be exact) Artist Bloc followed/filming six artists as they attempted to overcome their own individual artistic, economic, social, or other blocks.

Artist Bloc Profiles featuring Jon McCurley / Lesley Loksi Chan

- 20ºC posted on May 24th, 2010