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Something old, new, and potentially blue: Interviews

April 19, 2011

I’m going to begin doing interviews with artist periodically in a series called …what the f*** is a _____?

Should be a pretty cool addition to the blog, that I’m hoping to stretch out into something a bit more well rounded, but still based around music. I took the title from that line, that some nobody MC said about Jay Electronica. I figured it would be fitting because I’ll, initially, be interviewing up and coming artists in various fields – of course as time allows.

Hope you like it.

Pick of the Day – July 7th: Monokle & Galun – In Frame

July 7, 2010

Monokle & Galun – In Frame

Extra mellow, smoothed out, but dense postrock. Nice break from all of the upbeat stuff I’ve been listening to lately (but I will be back listening to shortly, I’m sure.) I know next to nothing about these cats, except that they’re Russian. It was a free album I learned about from a dope blogI frequent called Vinyl Meltdown. It can be download on their Bandcamp site. Do I have remind you that it’s free? Nothing to lose but hard drive space. Shout to the 12rec label….but shouts to all the net labels in general. The dope art work is by Brandi Strickland.

Objectified: Dieter Rams

February 4, 2010

Over the past few years, I’ve taken interest in multiple forms of design. I’m not particularly artistic in most ways….I think I just like the forms and shapes I see. From what I know, this man is a big deal. For whatever reason..I found (and lost…but I stress the FOUND part) a bootleg of a documentary of Objectified.

Very interesting…find it if you can.

provocative and on lean. sorta.

March 20, 2009

AO Building in Aoyama, Tokyo

Im thinking people are going to show up.

She is defaming the ghetto blaster. Shameless.

From a defunct Cuban art poster blog

I got my eye on.....well...

source: mostly superfuture

something new – forms and shapes and other stuffs.

March 18, 2009

i (k.) am not that “I saw this art gallery in (trendy city X)” kind of guy, but I’ve taken a liking to art/print/graphic design/architecture.

I think I like it for lot of reasons, namely for my writing. I think the visuals help me get fixed to a location in my mind…..the spacing, the form, all of that. So here are a few this art rookie likes, mainly courtesy of the imminently dope Superfuture:

dope LED wall in Beijing

Walid Raad: The Atlas Group

January 15, 2008

Walid Raad is an artist from Lebanon whose project/collaboration, The Atlas Group, has been critically acclaimed in recent years. Raad investigates and documents the history of Lebanon through the archive.

” Established by artist Walid Raad, The Atlas Group is an imaginary foundation whose aim is to research, document, study and produce audio, visual and literary artefacts that shed light on the contemporary history of Lebanon. Described as ‘re-igniting our curiosity in the truth’, the project runs a convoluted line between fact and fiction, replacing unitary power with fragmented assemblage. In part the work exploits the notional understanding of the gallery or institution as the site of venerated liberal truths. How are we meant to view the work? The multiple images of violent display are reminiscent of Gertrude Stein’s assertion that ‘ugliness repeated becomes beauty’. This leaking oil heart is now a stand-in for a struggle that is in part unknowable.” (source)

Village Voice article

FYI: For those readers in the LA area, Walid Raad will be doing a presentation from the archive Wednesday night at REDCAT, downtown LA.

Funny Stuff on the Art/Photography Tip

January 9, 2008

Cassandra actually showed this to me – it’s kinda dope. Lots of satire, irony and a bit of dark comedy…..yet it’s done in a somewhat simple, almost nostalgic light.

It’s a guy named Scott Listfield and it’s from his site astronautdinosaur.com. It’s got a two-sites-in-one thing with the Astronaut art theme and the Dinosaur photography side. Check it out, milkduds….order prints….they are actually pretty affordable for cheapskates like you.

Invisible Universe: Black Speculative Fiction

December 31, 2007 — 1 Comment

Also:

A new documentary is coming out by NYC filmmaker M. Asli Dukan. The documentary explores the relationship between speculative fiction and black identity.

I have never been a real sci-fi fan, but am finding myself continually intrigued by the genre, especially for its social implications. Science fiction has long been an imaginary space of projections into a near and sometimes plausible future. The same model of reconstructing the present in order to project to the future is fascinating in light of the current relationship between technology and thought/idea production.

Writers of black speculative fiction such as Octavia E. Butler, Samuel Delaney, George Schuyler have long been writing about the transportations of blacks into alternative environments resulting in personal and cultural transformations. As Walter Mosley write, “…the genre speaks most clearly to those who are dissatisfied with the way things are: adolescents, post-adolescents, escapists, dreamers, and those who have been made to feel powerless.” Speculative fiction allows for a space of freedom to imagine. What movements such as Afro Futurism are interested in is harnessing that space into a viable vehicle for actual social and cultural construction that is in effect “engineering feedback between its preferred future and its becoming present.”

Links:

Invisible Universe Doc site

Walter Mosley article

Afro Futurism